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Author Guidelines

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES – ANUÁRIO DE LITERARURA JOURNAL

Anuário de Literatura welcomes contributions from authors who hold MA and PhD degrees. MA candidates may co-author pieces submitted by authors with a PhD. The following editorial guidelines are required for the submission of original articles, essays, reviews, interviews, and translations.

The journal reserves the right not to accept more than one unpublished work per author per year.

Contributions are accepted in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

I – Regarding Contributions:

Each volume will feature the following submission types:

Article: between ten and twenty pages;

Essay: between ten and fifteen pages;

Review: between two and four pages;

Interview: up to four pages;

Translation: up to fifteen pages, besides the original text;

1. Contributions must be original and unpublished.
2. Contributions from PhD holders, must be submitted through the section “Faculty Researchers”, except when contributing to “Theme Section” or “Dossier”.
3. The Journal will privilege manuscripts that are in accordance with the featured “Theme Section” and/or “Dossier”.
4. The Journal will privilege manuscripts submitted by authors who are regularly enrolled in a graduate program, and authors who have recently obtained their MA and/or PhD degrees.
5. Contributions must be sent exclusively via the SEER platform.
6. When submitting a manuscript through the SEER platform, a link to the author’s CV (Curriculum Lattes, when appropriate) must be included in the field named “Author’s Comment”.
7. The contributions that do not follow this procedure, as well as the guidelines specified below, will not be submitted for analysis by the Advisory Board.
8. The contributions received will be submitted to the review of at least two members of the Advisory Board, according to their specialty.
9. Authors of both accepted and rejected manuscripts will be communicated via e-mail, in order to guarantee anonymity from the peer evaluators.
10. The Journal’s Advisory Board and the Editorial Team reserve the right not to comment on the reasons in case of rejection.
11. The Editorial Team also reserves the right to return originals, when necessary, for corrections or modifications of thematic and/or formal order.
12. Book reviews submitted must discuss books that were recently published. (Two years in the case of books released by national publishers, and three years, in the case of books released by international publishing companies.).
13. The diversity in institutional representation in every issue is ensured by the Journal.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject submissions by authors who had articles published in Anuário in an issue immediately previous to the current one.

II – Text Length (OU Style and Format)

The manuscripts submitted must follow the style and format that fit the following sections of Anuário de Literatura:

A – Article –research-oriented manuscript (bibliographical, documental, experimental…) highlighting the theoretical and methodological basis, research procedures and results achieved – maximum of 20 pages.

B – Book Review – Manuscripts that present a critique of books published in the previous two years, in the case of national publications, and three years in the case of foreign publications. highlighting both strong and weak points, and the contributions made to its respective field of knowledge,– maximum of 04 pages.

C – Interview – A text that transcribes an interview about a subject of interest to the field of literary studies – maximum of 04 pages.

D – Translation –Translation of fragments or complete literary or theoretical texts, as long as authorized by the author and/or pertaining to public domain. The original versions must accompany the translations.

III – Formatting:

1. The texts in Portuguese must follow the standards by Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas – ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards) – NBR6022 of May of 2003.
2. Texts must  be formatted in .doc or .docx extensions.
3. Texts must be typed with the following configuration:

• Top left margin: 3cm; bottom right margin: 2cm;
• A4 paper format;
• Font: Times New Roman, size 12;
• Justified alignment;
• Paragraph indentation: 1,5cm

1. The presentation of the articles must obey the following order:

• TITLE: Bold, Centered, Calibri font, size 24;
• LINE SPACING: single, size 12, between the title and the author’s name;
• AUTHOR’S NAME: centered, italicized, Calibri font, size 20;
• NAME OF INSTITUTION: in full, centered without highlight, Calibri font, size 14;
• LINE SPACING: single, size 12, between institution and abstract;
• Abstract ranging from 150 to 350 words. Key-words (maximum of five), separated by periods.

• Texts must contain an introduction, body and conclusion. Subtitles must have upper and lower case, and must be unindented, unnumbered, and in bold.
• Tables, graphics, and images must be accompanied by captions or explanatory header. Images must be listed in a separate reference, at the end of the text, right after general references, titled “Image Credits”.
• Quotes must be indicated in the text, providing the last name of the author(s) mentioned, (Author, year, page), when the quote is an integral part of the text, and (AUTHOR, year, page), when indented. Quotes may be:

-       Indirect quotes – present the author’s ideas, without actually transcribing the author’s words.

-       Short direct quotes (up to three lines) – Inserted in the text, between quotation marks, not italicized. 

-      Long direct quotes (longer than three lines) - 4cm indent, Times New Roman font, size 10, simgle spacing. The space between text body and long quote is that of an enter? 

-       Footnotes must be at the end of each page; the use of footnotes, quotes, graphics, tables, images, charts, pictures, among others, should be limited to a minimum.

• If necessary, include “ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS” after the text and before References, listing the name(s) of the person(s) that in some way helped be it in data collection, illustrations, or even with the use of laboratories mentioning.
• The originals must numbered on bottom right corner.

References – must be in accordance with NBR 6023.

Title, abstract, and keywords in Portuguese must always be included.

Important informations

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows you to share the work with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.