Submissions

Author Guidelines

I – Types of collaboration:

The journal covers the following text types:

Articles
Dossiers
Interviews
Book reviews

- Texts might be submitted in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Galician, or Catalan. All texts in Portuguese must comply with the present Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement (OA). Unpublished stand pointed scientific articles based on researches or experience reports are preferable. For published texts, authors must fill the “Notes to the editor” box during the submission process, informing the name of the journal which previously published it.

- All materials must be submitted ONLY via SEER Platform. All authors must register on SEER as users.

- Submitted materials MUST NOT display any kind of authorship data from their authors. For that, one must use the submission form.

- Submissions that do not comply with such procedure or the editorial guidelines herein stated will be promptly rejected by the Editorial Board.

- Accepted submissions will be sent to, at least, two reviewers from the Scientific Board for blind-peer reviewing. The Scientific Board is composed by external scholars whose freedom regarding decisions is assured.

- Authors will be informed via e-mail whether or not their manuscripts were accepted. The reviewers' anonymity is guaranteed regardless of their decisions.

- The Scientific and Editorial Boards are granted the right of not making any comment on the motives that lead to their decisions.

- The Editorial Board is granted the right of returning manuscripts that present any formal and/or content issues for correction or modifications by their authors.

- All submitted book reviews must fit in the journal’s aim and scope. Books considered for review must have been published in the last two years, for Brazilian books, or three years, for non-Brazilian books.  

II - Authors:

Authors must fit in one of the following categories:

a. Have a PhD/Doctorate or similar degree;

b. Be a PhD/Doctorate student/candidate; 

c. Have someone with a PhD/Doctorate or similar degree as co-author (advisers and/or co-advisers are preferable).

Authors and/or co-authors must submit only one article per issue.

Published authors must wait a one-year period, i.e. two issues from the one they were published, before submitting any new material for publication.

III – Text size:

All submitted materials must formally fit in one the following sections:

a - Articles - text originally from research (bibliographical, documentary, experimental, etc.) that highlights its theoretical-methodological foundation, the procedures carried out, and the results achieved.

b – Dossier: text (article or essay) originally from research (bibliographical, documentary, experimental, etc.) that highlights its theoretical-methodological foundation, the procedures carried out, and the results achieved. Texts submitted for this section must fit within the current dossier’s subject-matter. Go to News to know the dossier’s subject-matters for the next issues.

c – Interviews: Text that transcribes an interview on a subject that fits within the journal’s aim and scope and the literary studies.

d – Book Reviews: Text that presents a critical approach on books that have been published in the last two (Brazilian books), or three (non-Brazilian books) years. The author of the review must develop a critical appreciation, highlighting the work’s strengths and weaknesses, and its contribution to the field of knowledge in which it is inserted – up to 4 pages.

IV – Formal aspects:

Texts in Portuguese must comply with the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) guidelines for articles:ABNT - NBR 6022 May 2003. All texts must be submitted in .doc or .docx format, and typedaccording to the following configuration:

Top and left margins: 3 cm;

Bottom and right margins: 2,5 cm;

Paper size: A4;

Font: Arial, size: 12;

Spacing: 1,5 cm;

Alignment: justified;

Paragraph: no paragraph indentation, and a line between paragraphs;

There is no limit for the number of pages in articles.

The article’s presentation must comply with the following order:

Pre-textual elements

- Title: Bold uppercase, centered;

- Abstract (100 to 250 words), and key-words (up to 5, each separated by a dot), font: Arial, size: 10. Both written in the language of the text.

WARNING:Submitted materials MUST NOT display any kind of authorship data from their authors. For that, one must use the submission form. 

Textual elements

- Subtitles in bold with no indentation. The first letter must be capitalized. E.g. Poetry and prose: differences and similarities

- Double-space between bibliographic citations and text;

- Images must have the necessary quality for a good graphic reproduction. Image file format must be JPG. Images must be identified by a title or caption below them (font: Arial, size: 10); and be referred as Figures in the following abbreviated form (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.);

- Bibliographic citations must be indicated by parentheses, within the body of the text, by the following information:

a) For direct quotation: author's last name in uppercase; comma; publication date; comma; page abbreviation (p.); and its number. All data must be enclosed in parenthesis. E.g. (SILVA, 1992, p 3-23);

b) For indirect quotation: the first letter of the author's last name capitalized; and only the publication date in parenthesis. Eg. Silva (1992) agrees that [...].

- Direct quotations with more than 3 lines must be separated from the paragraph, have a 4cm left indent, font: Arial 10, and single line spacing.

- Footnotes must be placed at the bottom of the page. Font: Arial, size:10.

- One must use bold for emphasis or highlights. Italics must be used only for titles of works, words or expressions in other languages cited in the text.

Post-textual elements

Follow the sequence:

1. Title of the article in English (and in Portuguese, for articles in other languages), centered, in uppercase, and no bold;

2. Abstract in English, and Keywords – each separated by a dot, font: Arial, size: 10. (and in Portuguese for articles in other languages); Attention: it is expressly important for texts in other languages to be previously proofread by qualified professionals.

3. Bibliographic references – must be placed at the end of the text and comply with the ABNT - NBR 6022standards. Eg.:

Book: author's last name, author's first name. Title of the book (italics), place of publication: publisher, date.

BERGSON, Henri. Matéria e Memória. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1999.

Article: author's last name, author's first name. Title of the article, name of the journal (italics), place of publication, publisher or entity responsible for the publication, volume, issue, initial and final article page numbers, date.

COSTA, A. F. C. Estrutura da produção editorial dos periódicos biomédicos brasileiros. Trans-in-formação, Campinas, v. 1, n.1, p. 81-104, jan./abr. 1989.

About the Book reviews:

- Book reviews must comply with the same formal aspects and textual elements. No need of abstract;

- Book reviews must have up to 4 pages. The book’s bibliographic reference must be displayed in the first page followed by the book review’s author name.

About the interviews:

- Interviews must comply with the same formal aspects. No need of abstract.

Authors are responsible for all submitted contents. Authors also grant Texto Digital the rights of first publication.

TEXTS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT PREVIOUS PROOFREADING (GRAMMAR AND SPELLING) AND/OR TEXTS THAT DON’T COMPLY WITH THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.

Click here to download a file to help you format your document.

Deadlines: deadlines are available at the News section in the journal’s website. The submission closing date for the July issue is mid-May. The submission closing date for the December issue is mid-October. 

Authors agree that

Authors who have their works published in Texto Digital agree that:

1. Copyrights remain with the authors, who grant the journal the right of first publishing their submitted manuscripts. All materials published by the journalare under an Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons License, which allows them to be shared since authorship and first publication credits are mentioned.

2. The Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons allows the copy and redistribution of the material in any medium or format, as well as its adaptation for any purpose, even commercially.

3. Authors can take additional contracts for non-exclusive distribution of the version of their works published by our journal separately (e.g. to publish it in an institutional repository or as a book chapter) with both expressed authorship acknowledgment and Texto Digital’s first publication credit.