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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The instructions provided in the author guidelines have been followed.
  • All authors participated in the development of the article, either in part or in full.
  • The manuscript is original and unpublished, and it is not under consideration for publication in any other journal. It will not be submitted elsewhere while under review by ethic@.
  • The authors acknowledge that the manuscript does not contain any plagiarism, research fabrication, or data falsification/manipulation.
  • The manuscript has been prepared using the journal’s template and complies with all formatting requirements.
  • The “publication data” template is duly completed with the signature of all authors of the manuscript.
  • Authorship details have been completely removed from the manuscript, including the text and document properties (in Word or the software used), thereby ensuring adherence to the journal’s confidentiality requirements for double-blind peer review.

Author Guidelines

Articles submitted to ethic@ must be original and may not be and/or be under submission to any other journal during the editorial process. Authors must ensure that the article fits within the journal’s focus and scope and that they are aware of the peer review policies and of ethics and best practices for publication.

Manuscripts may be submitted in Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Those whose original language is Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian, or Spanish must include an abstract. If the original text is in English, it must also include a resumo in Portuguese.

After acceptance of articles written in Portuguese, the journal invites authors to translate the text into English, with translation costs borne by the authors. The translated version of the article will only be published upon submission of a statement from a professional reviewer or translator.

Authors with accepted articles may be invited to act as reviewers for the journal, thus contributing to the peer review process.

At least one of the authors must hold a doctoral degree.

The same individual may have at most one article published per year in ethic@. This rule applies regardless of authorship position in the articles.

The journal does not accept the submission of works previously published on preprint servers or in conference proceedings.

About submission

All files must be submitted through the journal’s platform: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/about/submissions

Authors must complete the information in the journal’s system, ensuring the completeness of the data.

All authors must provide their ORCID registration number. If they do not have one, they must register free of charge at https://orcid.org/ before starting the submission.

At the time of submission, the following documents must be provided:

  • The manuscript to be evaluated, in .docx format, formatted according to the author guidelines described herein and following the journal’s template according to the section to which the manuscript is being submitted, without identification of authorship in the body of the text or in the file properties. [mandatory]
  • The publication data template, completed and signed by all authors (scanned or electronic signature). It must be submitted separately from the article in the system, with one signed version in PDF and another editable version in .docx containing only the information. [mandatory]
  • Copy of the approval opinion from the Research Ethics Committee, submitted as a supplementary document in the system. [when applicable]
  • Datasets, if applicable, may be submitted as supplementary documents in the system. [optional]
    Permissions for the use of any material protected by copyright, such as illustrations, graphics, translations, and/or any other sources, with authorization issued by the rights holder or publisher. [when applicable]

Manuscript preparation

Authors must classify manuscripts into one of the journal’s sections: articles, reviews, translations, and interviews. A description of each section is provided at the end of this author guidelines page.

Texts submitted for evaluation may not exceed 10,000 words.

Abstracts must contain between 100 and 250 words and clearly express the content of the article, summarizing the aims, method, and conclusions of the work.

Use of the journal’s template at the time of submission is mandatory, complying with the formatting described therein.

Citations and references

Citations and references must follow the standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT). Articles submitted by foreign authors may, exceptionally, use the Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition).

All works cited must be included in the reference list, and all works listed in the references must be cited in the body of the text, ensuring proper correspondence between them.

For citations, NBR 10520/2023 must be followed, using the author–date system, including the author’s surname and the publication date in the body of the text, with page indication when applicable. Indirect citations do not require page numbers.

Avoid the use of citation of citation (apud). Do not use source indications in footnotes or endnotes. Only sources cited in the text should appear in the reference list.

For the reference list, follow NBR 6023/2025. Include only works cited in the body of the text.

The reference list must be presented at the end of the article, organized in alphabetical order, single-spaced, left-aligned, and with a blank line between each reference.

Do not use underlining (______) to replace authors, nor the symbols < > to indicate links.

When the cited source has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), it must be included in the reference.

Examples of citations and references are available in the journal’s template, but they do not replace consultation of the ABNT standards in full.

Articles

Text resulting from completed research, highlighting the theoretical-methodological framework, procedures employed in the research, and analysis of the results obtained. Articles presenting a critical analysis of topics related to the field of Modern and Contemporary Moral Philosophy are welcome.

Translations

Translations into Portuguese will present versions of classical texts of academic interest in the field of ethics and moral philosophy. They must have authorization from the original author or publisher, or be in the public domain. Translations of articles recently published in another journal will not be accepted.

Book Reviews

Original texts containing critical commentaries on relevant works in the field of Philosophy published within the last two years. Book reviews submitted to the journal must be critical, provide an analysis of the work, and situate the book within a broader context of academic debate, emphasizing its theoretical and methodological implications. Reviews that consist exclusively of a summary of the book are not accepted.

Interviews

Text resulting from the collection of statements with the aim of reproducing a discussion held with philosophers and specialists in the field of ethics and moral philosophy who seek to contribute to dialogue and debate in this area.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and publication rights over their works, without restrictions.

Upon submitting their work, authors grant ethic@ the exclusive right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License. This license allows third parties to remix, adapt, and build upon the published work, provided that proper credit is given to the authorship and to the original publication in this journal.

Authors are also permitted to enter into additional contracts, separately, for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work in this journal (for example: deposit in an institutional repository, make it available on a personal website, publish translations, or include it as a book chapter), provided that authorship and the initial publication in ethic@ are acknowledged.

Privacy Statement

The personal data provided to this journal will be used exclusively for the services offered by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties, in accordance with Law No. 13,709, of August 14, 2018, the General Data Protection Law (LGPD), in compliance with the provisions of Articles 3 and 23.