About the Journal

The InterCultures Journal (RICS) is a semi-annual academic journal, created and directed by researchers from the Research Group on Intercultural Mediations, Negotiations, and International Negotiators in the World (MINNI Mundo - UFPB/CNPq), of the Department of Intercultural Mediations (DMI), of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters, and Arts (CCHLA), of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB).

 

FOCUS AND SCOPE

RICS accepts articles, essays, reviews, poems, translations, interviews, and artistic productions linked to the following areas of knowledge: Intercultural Mediations, International Negotiations, Applied Foreign Languages (Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and German), Interculturality, Internationalization, Foreign Trade, and related fields, providing space for the intellectual productions of scholars from both the country and abroad, associated with the field of Language Sciences and its multiple manifestations, as well as interculturalism, exchange, internationalization, and international business and its applications.

RICS accepts contributions on a continuous basis, except for thematic dossiers. In these cases, there will be a deadline for submission, operating with open access and no financial cost for contributors to publish their texts.

InterCulturas Magazine accepts works from undergraduate and graduate students (provided they are co-authored with Masters and/or Doctors and/or Doctoral students) and postgraduate stricto sensu (with a minimum Master's degree), linked to the aforementioned areas of knowledge, provided they are affiliated with the field of Language Sciences and its multiple manifestations, as well as interculturalism, exchange, internationalization, and international business and its applications.

InterCulturas Magazine prepares thematic dossiers that fit the proposed theme, also welcoming articles on free topics, provided they are in line with its focus and scope.

InterCulturas Magazine welcomes works written in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and German, assigning each of these publications a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which is a standard of numbers and letters identifying publications in the virtual environment, giving the object uniqueness and recognized permanence on the web. RICS generates DOIs from the free repository Zenodo.

As mentioned above, articles and essays submitted by undergraduate and graduate students must be co-authored by at least one Master's and/or Doctoral researcher/professor. For Master's students, co-authorship with Masters and/or Doctors and/or Doctoral students is also required. Reviews, interviews, and artistic productions do not require co-authorship. Only reviews related to texts published in the last 2 (two) years prior to the submission date of the review will be accepted. The number of authors should not exceed three.

Works must be structured and formatted according to editorial guidelines, and for this purpose, the Publication Standards must be consulted. The magazine has a plagiarism tracking policy, using CopySpider or Plagius as tracking software. Works flagged by the tracker as suspicious of plagiarism or with partial or total probability of having been elaborated by AI will not be accepted.