Submissions

Author Guidelines

Ensuring a blind peer review

This journal operates a double-blind review process in which reviewers are not informed who the authors of the paper are, and the authors do not know who the reviewers are. To ensure the integrity of the blind peer review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. To facilitate this, authors must ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in such a way that they do not reveal their identities to reviewers, either directly or indirectly. The key points to consider are:

1. Remove any identifying information, such as authors' names or affiliations, from your manuscript before submission.
2. Use the third person to refer to work the author have previously published. For example, write “Gonçalves (2015) has demonstrated” rather than “I/the author has/have previously demonstrated (GONÇALVES, 2015)”.
3. Don’t mention any grants or acknowledgments in the anonymous version of your manuscript. You can provide these separately during submission.

In addition, authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) will need to check that all identifiers have been removed from files, especially Microsoft Word files. Personal or hidden information is stored in File Properties, which you can edit or remove using these steps:

Word for Mac 2011 and later versions

• Under the File menu choose 'Properties'.
• Under the Summary tab remove all of the identifying information from all of the fields.
• Save the File.

MS Word 2007

• Open a document that has been saved with comments that you wish to make anonymous.
• Click the Microsoft Office button, point to ‘Prepare’  and click 'Inspect Document'.
• Click ‘Inspect’.
• Click ‘Remove All’, next to ‘Document Properties and Personal Information’. Important: do not click ‘Remove All’ next to ‘Comments, Revisions, Versions and Annotations’, as this will permanently delete all comments in the document. 
• Click ‘Reinspect’ and save the document. When reopened, the authors’ names or initials will be removed from all comments in the document. 

MS Word 2013 and later versions

• Click  the 'File' tab in the top left menu bar. 
• In the 'Info' tab, click 'Check for Issues', then click 'Inspect Document'.
• Select ‘Comments, Revisions, Versions and Annotations’ and 'Document Properties and Personal Information' and click 'Inspect'. 
• Click 'Remove All' and then ‘Reinspect’. 
• Save the document.

Author's notes

Authors submitting articles, interviews and reviews to Esboços: histories in global contexts should include the author's notes file, available for download below. All authors must complete the information required in the given fields. This content will be placed at the end of the submission, with the exception of the author' personal information that will be on the submission cover page.

• Author's notes

Publication Guidelines

1 - All submitted material should use the templates provided by the journal and present the author’s notes in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. The official language of the journal is Portuguese, but manuscripts in Spanish and English are also accepted.

2 – All manuscript should be original and not be under concurrent consideration by any another journal. Authors should not include any information that will reveal their identity in the abstract, the main text, or the footnotes.

3 - Articles should not exceed 58,000 characters (with spaces) in length, including references, notes and tables. The title page should include a short abstract, one paragraph in length (between 100 and 250 words), followed by three keywords, in English and in the original language. The abstract should not be divided into sections, nor should it contain abbreviations or footnotes.

4 - Authors are encouraged to separate their articles into sections. Section headings should be brief and self-explanatory and be presented in bold format, with only the first word capitalized (and proper nouns, when any). Under no circumstances should sections be divided into numbers. 

5 - Authors must declare all sources of research funding in the  author’s notes. To guarantee anonymity, authors should not indicate any funding source in the text submitted for blind peer review.  

6 - Book reviews should be no longer than 25,000 characters (with spaces), including references and notes. The title page should contain the title of the review and three keywords in the original language and in English. In addition, each review should indicate the author, title, place of publication, publisher, year, and number of pages of the book being reviewed.

7 - This journal publishes reviews of current books, meaning books published no more than three years prior to submission.

8 – Interviews should be 27,000 to 54,000 characters (with spaces) in length. They should include an introduction about the interviewee, a title in the original language and in English, and three keywords in both languages.

9 – The authorship of the interview, according to the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT), is shared between interviewer and interviewee because the contents of the answers are authored by the interviewee. Thus, every interview submitted to Esboços: histories in global contexts will need a written permission from the interviewee stating that he or she authorizes the publication of the interview content. The permission must be submitted as a supplementary document in the journal’s submission system.

10 - All figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. It is recommended that graphics be supplied in color. Authors are responsible for getting proper permission when using copyrighted images and should submit this permission as a supplementary document.

11 - Acronyms and abbreviations should be given in full on their first appearance, and should not be explained in titles, headings or figure legends.

12 - For quotations of three lines or less, use double quotation marks, Arial font, size 12, with punctuation falling outside the marks. Quotations longer than three lines should be without quotation marks, indented 4 cm from the left margin, with simple spacing between lines, Arial font, size 11.  The source should be cited in parentheses right after the quotation.

13– Authors should follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example: (ESPADA, 2001, p. 24). 

14- The author-date method is suitable for citing most resources, but should not be followed for citing ancient Greek and Latin primary source material, including primary sources in translation. Verse authors should be referred to by the title of the work, book or poem number (as necessary) and line number. Titles of any works are italicised, e.g. Euripides, Helen 420-422. Prose authors are referred to by title, book number (if applicable) and chapter number, e.g. Plutarch, Pericles 32. If you prefer to abbreviate the title, a list of abbreviations can be found in Liddell and Scott's Greek-English lexicon or Lewis and Short's Latin dictionary.

15- Use footnotes sparingly, and do not use them to indicate references, except for unpublished material.

16- Authors must observe the ABNT NBR 10520/2002 for the correct citation of documents. Below are some important items in a non-exhaustive way:

Emphasis in citation: use "emphasis added" to indicate when the source quoted contains an addition of emphasis (DUARTE, 2016, p. 58, emphasis added) and if the emphasis appears in the original text, include "emphasis in original" (MACHADO, 2008, p. 71, emphasis in original).

When translating an original text from a foreign language, authors must add after the page number of the citation the expression “our translation”: (BONALDO, 2004, p. 150, our translation).

Works by the same author published in different years and mentioned simultaneously should be separated by commas: (WOLFF, 2004, 2007, 2009)

Multiple works by the same author published during the same year should be identified by a letter, following the year of publication, for example: (FLORES, 1999a; FLORES, 1999b).

17- References should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript and should be prepared according to the ABNT NBR 6023/2018. A sample of the most common entries in reference lists is given below.

Book

AVILA, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Chapter in a book

CARUS-WILSON, Eleanora. The Woolen Industry. In: MILLER, Edward; POSTAN, Michael Moissey (ed.). The Cambridge Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. p. 613-690. v. 2.

Journal article

CHAKRABARTY, Dipesh. The climate of history: four theses. Critical Inquiry, Chicago, v. 35, p. 197-222, 2008.

Book edition

ALMANDOZ, Arturo. (ed.). Planning Latin America’s Capital Cities, 1850-1950. London: Routledge, 2002.

Dissertation or thesis

OTHMAN, Mohd Kamal K. Measuring visitor’s experience with mobile guide technology in cultural spaces. 2012. 343 p. Phd Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy) – Computer Science Department, University of York, York, 2012.

Newspaper article

BELLUCK, Paul. Promising Alzheimer’s drug attacks brain changes and symptoms. New York Times, New York, 26 July 2018, p. A1.

Online sources

Archival document

HINDS, Betty. Collision in the Arctic. Barbara Hinds fonds, MS-2-130 (Box 16, Folder 1) (Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax). 1964.

The following data should be included in the reference: name of the author (if applicable), document title, name of collection, document location data, name of archive, as well as city of the archive. The data on a document's location in the archive can include its call number, folder, box, etc. All data necessary for retrieving the document from the archive should be cited in the reference.

For a document that does not have an author, start the reference with its title in capital letters:

COLLISION in the Arctic. Barbara Hinds fonds, MS-2-130 (Box 16, Folder 1) (Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax). 1964.

Source with no author

FAMINE relief: Just a simple matter of supplying food. Nutrition Noteworthy, Chicago, v. 6, p. 5-10, 2002.

18 - Italicization should be used to refer to the titles of books, journals and films, and may be used for emphasis – e.g. on the first appearance of a keyword. Do not use italics in subtitles.

19 - Multiple submissions are not accepted.

20 - Papers that violate the guidelines, or which do not clearly fit the mission of the journal, will be immediately returned to authors without being reviewed.

21- Translations are acceptable and should be accompanied by the original text and the permission to translate the article for republication from the author and/or from the original Publisher.

22 - All manuscripts must go through orthographic and grammatical review before 

23 - The Executive Council reserves the right to publish or not publish the submitted manuscripts according to their pertinence to the thematic scope of the journal. The Executive Council has the right to format the manuscripts to fit the graphic patterns of the journal.

24 – Esboços: histories in global context does not charge any submission fees or article-processing charges. 

Conflict of interest guidelines

Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have conflicting or competing interests that could directly undermine, or be perceived to undermine, the objectivity, integrity and value of a publication. 

Conflicts of interest may arise from personal, political, financial, academic or even religious relationships. Some examples of potential conflicts of interest are highlighted from the CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications:

“A reviewer evaluating a manuscript reporting research results similar to results he or she is preparing to submit for publication might be tempted to delay the review until his or her manuscript is accepted or might be unduly influenced by the concepts or hypotheses in his or her ongoing and unpublished research.

A reviewer with strong feelings on a controversial topic might be partial to or biased against a manuscript on the topic and want to publish or reject it regardless of scientific merit.

An editor chairing a department might struggle to reach an objective decision about a manuscript submitted by a member of his or her faculty because of his or her commitment to the academic advancement of those researchers.

An author is being considered for a research grant and publication of an article favorable to the company reviewing the grant may influence the award”.

Editors and reviewers should avoid conflicts of interest arising from the evaluation of manuscripts submitted from their department or by research collaborators, co-authors, competitors, or those addressing an issue in which they stand to gain financially.

If there is a conflict of interest on the part of the editor, he or she should delegate their functions to another editor that is free from conflicts of interest. When the conflict of interest is on the part of the reviewer, there are two possibilities. If the reviewer believes he or she can make an objective assessment of the manuscript even when a conflict of interest is identified, they should clarify what the potential conflicts are regarding the author of the manuscript. If the reviewer believes he or she cannot make an objective assessment of the manuscript due to a conflict of interest, they should refuse to carry out the review, explaining the reason to the editor.

In order to explain every and any possible conflict of interest on the part of the authors, a statement on whether or not there is a conflict of interest is required at the time of submission to Esboços: histories in global contexts. In this sense, the author of the article must also indicate the source(s) of research funding and, if relevant, inform the editor about which reviewers are likely to have a conflict of interest regarding the manuscript. This statement is given in Step 3: Submission Metadata, in the "Conflict of Interest" field. If no conflict of interest is identified, the author shall declare the following: “There was no conflict of interest in this study”. 

The purpose of this process of recognizing potential conflicts of interest is not to eliminate them, but to allow editors to be better prepared to make decisions about them. No submission will be rejected solely because there is a conflict of interest. 

Learn more about conflicts of interest by accessing the CSE’s White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications here: http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/wp-content/uploads/entire_whitepaper.pdf

Prior Publication Policy

All manuscripts submitted to Esboços: histories in global contexts should be original and must not be under concurrent consideration by any other journal. Where there is the potential for overlap or duplication, we require that authors be transparent, declaring potentially overlapping publications under submission in the Author’s Note file. 

Preprint Servers

Esboços: histories in global contexts encourages posting of preprints of manuscripts on recognized community servers for review by other researchers before formal submission to the journal. We do support posting of research papers on not-for-profit preprint servers such as SciELO Preprints, arXiv.org, SocArXiv, LawArXiv,

and the like. Please contact the editors with questions regarding allowable postings on other servers. Posting of un-refereed manuscripts to a community preprint server by the author will not be considered prior publication. We consider a preprint the author's own write-up of research results and analysis that has not been peer reviewed, nor had any other value added to it by a publisher. The only restrictions are that authors must not transfer or assign copyright when sharing the Preprint or make the Preprint available under any exclusive license. Authors must indicate the preprint server deposition and provide the DOI in the Author’s Note.

Dissertations and theses posted in institutional archives

Esboços: histories in global contexts is happy to consider submissions containing material that has previously formed part of a PhD or other academic thesis, which has been published according to the requirements of the institution awarding the qualification. However, when there is a transfer of copyright or the adoption of any restrictive license, it will not be possible to evaluate the manuscript. When applicable, authors must provide complete information about dissertation or thesis deposit in the Author’s Notes.

Conference proceedings, posters and presentations

Esboços: histories in global contexts encourages presentation of original results prior to publication at scientific meetings. Manuscripts based on oral communication or posters that have been presented at conferences are not considered prior publication. We are happy to consider submissions containing material that has been published in conference proceedings as long as the author retains the rights to the manuscript and there is a substantial extension of results, analysis and/or conclusions over the conference proceedings paper. Authors must provide details of the conference proceedings paper in the Author’s Note.

Availability of data and materials

Although not mandatory, we encourage authors to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories or presented in the main manuscript, in machine-readable format whenever possible.

Datasets should be archived in a permanent, independent, preferably non-profit repository such as Dryad, Dataverse, or Zenodo. . Institutional repositories that provide unfettered public access and citable persistent identifiers are also acceptable. Storage services such as Google Drive that give authors discretion to alter or remove files are not acceptable. Complex databases with an interactive user interface can be made accessible through an institutional website, but an archived static version of the underlying data should be deposited in an appropriate repository such as Wayback Machine.

Options for archiving portions of exceptionally large datasets that exceed the capacity of standard repositories should be discussed with the editor-in-chief prior to publication.

Authors should declare the availability of data and materials in the Author's Notes, together with any conditions of access.