Guidelines for authors

Publication rules for the journal Temas em Educação

  1. Revista Temas em Educação is a journal of the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Paraíba. It is an online, open-access, continuous-flow journal that publishes original and unpublished articles in the field of Education, the result of scientific research, as well as book reviews.
  2. The original and unpublished article (Portuguese, Spanish and English), between 20 and 25 pages long, must include abstracts in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The 3 abstracts (in the original language of the article, followed by the translations in the other 2 languages) must be placed before the beginning of the text and must have between 100 and 150 words and 3 keywords. The article must be submitted exclusively in the format of the journal's template, available at the following link: Template RTE
  3. The article must be submitted via the Revista Temas em Educação website https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/rteo/login.
  4. Texts that do not comply with the journal's submission rules and text settings will be automatically rejected.
  5. The period for submitting articles and reviews to Revista Temas em Educação is from January 5th to September 1st, with the exception of submissions aimed at calls for dossiers with specific deadlines.
  6. Authors must fill in their profile correctly and completely in the system, including their degree, work institution, link(s) with a postgraduate program and/or research group, e-mail and Orcid.
  7. Quotations ipsis litteris of up to 3 lines must appear within the text, in quotation marks, followed by identification of the source (author's name, year of publication and page number).
  8. Only authors cited in the text of the article should be included in the references, writing the full name of the author and translation of the reference cited.
  9. Notes - only endnotes will be accepted - should be explanatory and appear before the references.
  10. Figures and images in the article must be high resolution and numbered. The title in font 11 must appear at the top of the figure or image. Below the figure or image, its source must also be indicated in font 11.
  11. In the article, tables and graphs should be numbered and in 11-point font, single-spaced. The title should appear at the top; the source should appear below, in the same way as the figures and images.
  12. The article may have up to 2 (two) authors, preferably from research groups. One (1) author must have a doctorate.
  13. An article derived from a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation must have a maximum of two (2) authors and must be mentioned in the endnote.
  14. If the production is a review, it must be unpublished and the result of a critical study of a recently published text or work, taking into account the maximum publication time of three years. It must include the full bibliographical reference and an evaluation of the ideas expressed in the work, highlighting the relevance of the theme and approach to the field as well as the author's position in the academic discussion.
  15. The review may be in Portuguese, English or Spanish. It can be submitted by 1 (one) author or up to 2 (two) authors, at least one of whom is a doctoral researcher. The text must be between 3 (three) and 5 (five) pages in length and in accordance with the format of the journal's template, available at the link:
  16. The review will be submitted for evaluation, which will observe its informative, critical and critical-informative clarity; the presentation of the knowledge produced for the area of Education; the consistency of the synthetic exposition of the knowledge of the book reviewed; the adequacy of the writing to the cultured norm of the Portuguese language and, also, compliance with the "Guidelines for Authors" of the Revista Temas em Educação.
  17. The article and review are assessed using the double-blind method, by two (2) referees. If there are conflicting opinions, the article will be sent to a third reviewer.
  18. The article and review submitted to the Revista Temas em Educação will first be assessed by the Editorial Board, which will analyze their suitability for the "Guidelines for Authors" and the Journal's Editorial Policy (including the originality and novelty of the article) and decide whether to send them to the reviewers for blind evaluation or return them. All stages of the submission process and the evaluation of the article and the review can be monitored by the Editorial Board, which decides on possible cases of divergence from the Journal's Rules.
  19. Texts submitted for evaluation will undergo a rigorous and thorough linguistic-grammatical and technical standards review, failure to comply with which will render them liable to non-publication.
  20. The originality of the article and review will be analyzed using the Ithenticate anti-plagiarism tool.
  21. The opinions issued by the evaluators must be assessed by the members of the Editorial Board of the Revista Temas em Educação, who will then inform the author(s) of the evaluators' decision.
  22. The expected publication of the article and review will depend on the flow of submission, evaluation and editing. It also takes into account the time taken in the processes involving the return of articles by the authors and reviewers.
  23. Article and review submissions to Revista Temas em Educação can be monitored at all stages by the author who submitted the text: immediate acceptance or rejection; sending to referees; opinions issued and sent to the authors, as well as publication on the UFPB Electronic Journal Portal website.
  24. The policy on ethics and good practice in the production and publication of Revista Temas em Educação takes into account: i) The Code of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines); ii) The Basic Guidelines for Integrity in Scientific Activity of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), 2011 (http://www.gov. br/cnpq/en-br/composicao/comissao-de-integridade/diretrizes); iii) E-books Ethics and Research in Education and texts published by the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education - ANPEd (http://www.anped.org.br/site/etica-na-pesquisa); iv) National Health Council Resolution No. 510, of April 7, 2016 - provides for standards applicable to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - (http://conselho.saude.gov.br/resolucoes/2016/Reso510.pdf); and v) The Research Assessment Statement - DORA (https://sfdora.org/read/pt-br/).
  25. The Journal Temas em Educação reserves the copyright to all articles published in it. The journal uses the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License, which allows the text to be shared with acknowledgement of authorship.
  26. The author(s) of articles and reviews published in Revista Temas em Educação will have an interstice of 1 (one) year to submit new works for publication.
  27. Mentions of authors in the text will be subject to ABNT Technical Standards - NBR 10520 (second edition) of July 19, 2023. Examples: Ferreira (1952, p. 70); (Ferreira, 1952); (Ferreira, 1952, p. 71).
  28. References comply with ABNT Technical Standards - NBR 6023 (second edition) of November 14, 2018 Examples:

 

REFERENCES

Bibliography reference in ABNT:

Author. Hierarchy. Title: Subtitle. Edition. Place: Publisher, Year. Page. Volume.

Reference example:

BRAZILIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS. -. Brazilian Bibliography of Information Science: 2000/2003. Rio de Janeiro: Pacto, 2000. 90 p.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (2000)

In Brackets: ... (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, 2000)

CONGRESS

Bibliographic Reference of Congress in ABNT:

Name of the congress, Number, Year of the event, Place of the event. Title of the document. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Page. Volume.

Example of Reference:

CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE SOFTWARE: TEORIA E PRÁTICA, 12., 2017, Salvador. Proceedings... Salvador: ACM, 2017. 200 p

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Brazilian Software Congress: Theory and Practice (2017)

In parentheses: ... (Brazilian Software Congress: Theory and Practice, 2017)

PERIODICAL

Bibliographic Reference of Periodical in ABNT:

Author. Title of the article: Subtitle of the article. Title of the journal, Place, Volume, Number, Pages, Date.

Reference example:

BARBOSA, Kelly Santos. Literature review on software modeling techniques. Revista da Informática, Florianópolis, v. 12, n. 14, p. 11-29, nov. 2017.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Barbosa (2017)

In parentheses: ... (Barbosa, 2017)

CONSTITUTION

Bibliographic reference of Constitution in ABNT:

Geographical area. Constitution (Year of Constitution). Title: Subtitle. Responsible. Edition. Place: Publisher, Year of publication. Page. Volume (Series).

Example of Reference:

BRAZIL. Constitution (1992). Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil: promulgated on November 9, 1992. Organization of the text: João da Silva. 5. ed. Rio de Janeiro: cultura, 1995. 200 p. (Brazilian Legislation Series).

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (1992)

In brackets: ... (Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, 1992)

DICTIONARY

Bibliographic Reference of Dictionary in ABNT:

Author. Title: Subtitle. Edition. Place: Publisher, Year. Page. Volume.

Reference example:

BASTOS, Almeida. Dictionary of the English Language. 5. ed. São Paulo: Cosmos, 1990. v. 8.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Bastos (1990)

In parentheses: ... (Bastos, 1990)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

Bibliographical reference of an encyclopedia in ABNT:

Title: Subtitle. Edition. Place: Publisher, Year. Page. Volume.

Reference example:

A NOVA Enciclopédia Brasileira: áreas geográficas. São Paulo: Impacto, 2015. 344 p. v. 12.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... A Nova (2015)

In parentheses: ... (A Nova, 2015)

JOURNAL

Bibliographic reference for newspaper in ABNT:

Author. Title of article: Subtitle of article. Title of the newspaper, Place, Date of publication. Section, Page.

Reference example:

MELO, Walter Pires. Programming: the art of creation. Folha de São Paulo, São Paulo, April 11, 2007. New technologies section, p. 10.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Melo (2007)

In brackets: ... (Melo, 2007)

LAW OR DECREE

Bibliographic reference of Law or Decree in ABNT:

Geographical area. Law or Decree. Number, Date. Title of decree. Title: Subtitle. Person responsible. Edition. Place, Volume, Number of publication, Pages, Date of publication. Description.

Example of reference:

BRAZIL. Decree No. 83.221, of November 8, 1990. Provides for documents and procedures for dispatching ships on national service. Lex: Collection of Legislation and Jurisprudence. Rio de Janeiro, v. 43, p. 1-7, Jan. 1990. Federal and marginal legislation.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Provides for documents and procedures for dispatching ships on national service (1990)

In brackets: ... (Provides for documents and procedures for dispatching ships on national service, 1990)

BOOK

Bibliographic Reference of Book in ABNT:

Author. Title: Subtitle. Edition. Place: Publisher, Year. Pages. Volume.

Reference example:

TANENBAUM, Andrew. Computer networks. 5. ed. São Paulo: Elsevier, 2016. 900 p.

Example Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Tanenbaum (2016)

In parentheses: ... (Tanenbaum, 2016)

Example of a citation with more than 3 authors:

Bibliographic Reference of Book in ABNT:

BOOK: LAST NAME, First Name; LAST NAME, First Name; LAST NAME, Author's First Name. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

LOVELOCK, Christopher H.; WIRTZ, Jochen; HEMZO, Miguel Angelo. Services marketing: people, technology and strategy. 7. ed. São Paulo: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.

Example citation:

Part of the Narrative:... Lovelock, Wirtz, Hemzo (2011, p. 69)

In parentheses:... (Lovelock; Wirtz; Hemzo, 2011)

PATENT

Bibliographic Reference of Patent in ABNT:

NAME and address of applicant, inventor and owner. Title of the invention in the original language. International patent classification. Symbol of the country and filing number. Date of filing, date of publication of the patent application.  Indication of the publication in which the patent was published. Notes.

Example reference:

SILVA ALBUQUERQUE. Ricardo Batista. Automatic device for organizing letters. Int CI3B22D34/44.Den.PI 9009080.5 Apr. 1990, 2 Dec. 1990. Revista do Produtor, São Paulo, n. 321, p.12.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Silva Albuquerque (1990)

In brackets: ... (Silva Albuquerque, 1990)

ACADEMIC WORK

Bibliographic Reference of Academic Work in ABNT:

Author. Title: Subtitle. Year of defense. Sheets or pages. Work (Title and course) - Faculty, University, Place, Year of publication. Volume.

Reference example:

DOMINGOS, T. B. A Process for Software Security Analysis. 2000. 156 f. Dissertation (Master's in Computing) - Department of Computing, Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió, 2000.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Domingos (2000)

In parentheses: ... (Domingos, 2000)

SITE

Bibliographic reference of website in ABNT:

Author. Title: subtitle. edition. year. Available at: Website link. Accessed on: date of access.

Reference example:

PEREIRA, Alberto Ramos. Software Security: An analysis of techniques. 2016. Available at: http://www.abc.com.br. Accessed on: Aug. 3, 2018.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Pereira (2018)

In parentheses: ... (Pereira, 2018)

MOVING IMAGE

Bibliographic Reference of Moving Image in ABNT:

Title: Subtitle. Direction: Director. Production: Producer. Location: Producer, Year. Number of videocassettes.

Reference Example:

AGROTOXICS in Orange Production. Production: Maria José Ferreira. Rio de Janeiro: AGOR, 2000. 1 dvd.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Devc (2000)

In parentheses: ... (Agrotoxics, 2000)

SOUND DOCUMENT

Bibliographic Reference of Sound Document in ABNT:

Interpreters. Title: Subtitle. Place: Record company, Year. Number of disks or CDs.

Example reference:

ARAGÃO. Que rei sou eu. Porto Velho: Apta productions, 2016. 1 Sound disk.

Example of Citation:

Part of the Narrative: ... Aragão (2016)

In parentheses: ... (Aragão, 2016)