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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

  1. Submissions are accepted in the following categories: Dossier, Guest Authors, Articles, Short Papers, Review, Interview, and Video-Essay, and in 5 languages​​: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and Italian.
  2. The journal accepts articles written by doctors, and co-written with doctoral and/or master’s students, as well as undergraduates and/or undergraduate students.
  3. The submission file must be in A4 page format, justified alignment, and use font Gill Sans Nova, body 12, line spacing of 1.5cm.
  4. Margins should be 2 cm on top and at both sides, and 1.5 cm at the bottom. Highlighted words must appear in italic, bold is to be avoided. Use bold only for the sub-sections of the article and for the references.
  5. The abstracts must be single line spaced and accompanied by at least three keywords. The same goes for its version in a different language.
  6. In-text citations must follow ‘AUTHOR’S SURNAME, date, page(s)’, ex.: (WILLIAMS, 1977, p. 185).
  7. Citations with more than three lines, should be separated from the main text, maintaining the following formatting: left margin 4 cm, font size 11, single line spacing and without the use of quotation marks or italics.
  8. There must not be extra spaces between sentences.
  9. The references should be listed at the end of the text, font Gill Sans Nova, body 12, with single line spacing between lines, justified alignment, separated by one space only. Formatting example: DUCCINI, Mariana; GUIMARÃES, Pedro; SUPPIA, Alfredo (Orgs.). Gêneros cinematográficos e audiovisuais: perspectivas contemporâneas (vol. 3). Bragança Paulista: Margem da Palavra, 2021.
  10. Essays should be approximately 5000-9000 words; short papers, interviews and book/media reviews should be 2000-4999 words, including notes, tables, charts and/or references.
  11. The texts must be submitted in the journal's system, after the author establishes, as Author, a login and a password. The use of the journal's template is encouraged. In any case the (s) author (s) must be identified (s) in the text.

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1. Proposed Policy for Journals That Offer Open Access

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. 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.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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