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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 available in the author guidelines were followed.
  • All authors participated in the work, partially or in its entirety.
  • The text is original and unpublished and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal. The manuscript will also not be submitted to another journal while it is under evaluation by Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia.
  • The text is in the journal template and follows all its guidelines.
  • The "publication data" template is duly completed with the signature of all authors of the manuscript.
  • The authors acknowledge that their work contains no plagiarism, research fabrication, or data falsification or manipulation.
  • Authorship identification of the work has been removed from the file, the text, and the properties option in Word (or in the software used), thus ensuring the journal’s confidentiality criterion for compliance with peer review.

Author Guidelines

Articles submitted to Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia must be original and may not be and/or remain under submission to any other journal during the editorial process. Authors must ensure that the article falls within the journal’s focus and scope and that they are aware of the peer review policies and the ethics and good publication practices policies.

Manuscripts may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. After acceptance of articles written in Portuguese, the journal invites authors to translate the text into English, with translation costs being the sole responsibility of 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.

The same person may have a maximum of one article published per year in Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia. This rule applies regardless of the authorship position in the articles.

At least one of the authors must hold a doctoral degree if the submission is intended for the articles section.

Papers previously published in conference proceedings are not accepted.

About the submission

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

Authors must complete the information in the journal 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 process.

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

  • The text to be evaluated, in .docx format, formatted according to the author guidelines described here and following the journal template according to the section to which it is being submitted, without authorship identification in the body of the text or in the file properties. [mandatory]
  • The publication data file completed and signed by all authors (electronic signature). It must be submitted separately from the article in the system, with one signed PDF version and another editable .docx version 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, when applicable, may be submitted as supplementary documents in the system. [optional]
  • Permissions for the use of any copyrighted material, such as illustrations, graphs, translations, and/or any other sources, with authorization issued by the rights holder or publisher. [when applicable]

Text preparation

Authors must classify the submission under one of the journal sections: articles, book review, interview, or translation. The description of what each journal section includes is available at the end of this author guidelines page.

Original articles and translations must contain a minimum of 40,000 and a maximum of 55,000 characters (including spaces) and include abstracts in Portuguese, English, and Spanish (in this order), in addition to the article title and five keywords in these same languages.

Interviews must contain a maximum of 30,000 characters, with abstract and keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. They must be accompanied by a photograph of the interviewee, with proper credits.

Book reviews must be limited to a maximum of 8,000 characters including spaces, with abstract and keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Books and reference works that are the subject of reviews must be recent, with a maximum of two years since publication. Book reviews must be accompanied by the book cover as a supplementary file.

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

The use of the journal templates is mandatory at the time of submission, following the formatting described therein.

The editorial team reserves the right to make formal modifications to the text whenever necessary to adapt it to the journal’s graphic design project.

Templates

The following models detail the styles adopted by EJM and provide guidance on the formatting of the text and graphic elements.

Please note: do not modify headers and footers, as these will be updated by the editorial team during the article production stage. Click on the template corresponding to the section you intend to submit to Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia to download it:

Template for articles

Template for book review

Template for interview

Template for translation

Publication data

Authors must submit the publication data document as a supplementary document at the time of submission. The information must be completed according to the model available for download below.

Publication data template

Citations and references

Citations and references must comply with the standards of the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT). Articles submitted following other standards will be rejected.

All cited works must be referenced, and all works listed in the references must be cited in the body of the text, indicating the correct correspondence between the parts.

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

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

For the reference list, follow NBR 6023/2025. Include in the reference list 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, in single spacing, left-aligned, and with one blank line between each reference.

Do not use underlining (______) to replace authors’ names, 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 templates, but they do not replace consultation of the full ABNT standards.

Articles

Texts resulting from completed research or research at advanced stages of development, highlighting the theoretical-methodological foundations, procedures employed, and analyses of the results achieved.

Articles presenting critical analyses of issues related to journalism and its relationships with society, the market, and academia will be welcomed, as well as matters related to information, media communication processes, and technological, cultural, and social innovations.

EJM prioritizes the publication of articles that offer original theoretical approaches or new frameworks, as well as texts supported by updated, unpublished empirical data that contribute to scientific advances in the field.

Interviews

Texts resulting from the collection of statements for publication, based on concrete case studies and comments of interest, conducted with prominent figures in research, thought, and journalistic practice, seeking to contribute to dialogue in the field and to document experiences.

Interviews must have been conducted within a maximum period of one year in order to preserve the originality of the statements and their contextual relevance.

Book Reviews

Unpublished texts containing critical and analytical commentary on relevant works in the fields of journalism and communication published within the last two years. Book reviews submitted to the journal must provide comprehensive and in-depth readings of the works and situate the books within broader contexts of academic debate. Reviews are also expected to emphasize relevant theoretical as well as methodological aspects presented in the commented texts.

Book reviews consisting exclusively of book summaries are not accepted.

Translations

Portuguese versions of relevant and foundational texts in the field of journalism, written by renowned authors and still unpublished in Brazil. The texts to be translated must provide unequivocal contributions to journalism studies, whether conceptual, practical, reflective, methodological, or ethical. Translations must be accompanied by contextual notes and must be formally authorized by their original authors, publishers, or copyright holders.

Copyright Notice

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

Upon submitting their work, authors grant Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia 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 non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work in this journal (for example: depositing it in an institutional repository, making it available on a personal website, publishing translations, or including it as a book chapter), provided that authorship and the initial publication in Estudos em Jornalismo e Mídia are acknowledged.