Author Guidelines

1 - Register

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2 - Procedures and precautions before submitting

• Before submitting, check the journal's focus, scope, and guidelines;
• Make sure the manuscript is original, has not been published elsewhere, and contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the field of Education.
• Do not submit your work to another journal at the same time.
• Make sure the manuscript does not contain expressions, excerpts, or information that could constitute plagiarism.
• If the manuscript is a translation of an international publication, this information should be included on the first page of the text.
• All authors must meet the criteria for original authorship of the article, and none of the researchers involved in the research may be omitted from the list of authors. Authorship must be attributed to those who contributed significantly to the conception and development of the article, limited to four authors. The authorship order must be made explicit, at the time of submission, in a supplementary document signed by all authors and available here, in which the role of each one in carrying out the study must be highlighted.
• As a reference publication in the field, the journal requires a minimum doctoral degree for authors interested in submitting articles. In the case of collective authorship, at least one of the authors must have such a degree;
• To avoid endogeneity and ensure the diversity of published authors, we require that, after publication in the journal, authors wait at least 2 years before publishing any other article in the journal.
• After submission, if you notice any inaccuracy that requires adjustment or correction, please contact the editors.
• Inform the author's ORCID registration number and institutional affiliation.
• Submission files must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format (as long as they do not exceed 2MB). When preparing the file, use the submission template, available here.
• All web page addresses included in the text must be active;
• The text must be formatted as follows; use italics instead of underlining (except in URL addresses); figures and tables must be inserted in the text itself;
• The author's identification must be removed from the file, as well as any information that may identify institutional affiliations, such as the Properties option in Word, according to the instructions available at;
• If the article is approved and selected as a featured article in the issue, the authors undertake to produce a Press Release, following SciELO's recommendations, and send it to the journal;
• In the submission process, the registration must be completed with the full name, the ORCID identification number, the institutional address of the author(s), and the author's email indicated for correspondence.
• The journal accepts a maximum rate of 5% of self-citations.

3 - Instructions for submitting articles

• The author(s) undertake to declare the transfer of copyright, that their manuscript is an original work, and that it is not being submitted, in part or in whole, for analysis in another scientific publication, under penalty of exclusion. This declaration is available at: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciEduc/about/submissions;
• When appropriate, it must be certified that the research was approved by the institution's Ethics and Biosafety Committee;
• The data, ideas, opinions, and concepts expressed in the texts, as well as the accuracy of the bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the author(s);
• Submissions may be made in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Authors must perform or arrange for an accurate grammatical review of the article in that language, which must be attested by sending a scanned statement (as a supplementary document), according to the model available here.
• Authors may not submit a new proposal while they have an article under review.

4 - Bibliographic reference

• In the submission process, the full names of the authors (maximum four), ORCID identification number (ID), their institutional addresses, and the author's email indicated for correspondence must be included;
• Articles must be subdivided with the following subtitles: Abstract, Keywords, Abstract, Keywords, Resumen, Palabras Claves, Introduction, Conclusion/Final considerations, Data availability and References;
• The title, with a maximum of twenty words, in Portuguese and English, must be precise. A short title with a maximum of six words must also be provided;
• The abstract (200 to 300 words) must contain succinct information about the article and be properly structured as follows: Sources (iconographic, printed, digital, etc.); Objectives; Methodology; Results. Up to six keywords (it is recommended not to use the same words as the title) must be added at the end of the abstract and summary;
• Keywords must be in accordance with the standard outlined in the Brazilian Thesaurus of Education — Brased | LIS — bvsalud.org and keywords. BRASED “is a controlled vocabulary that brings together terms and concepts, extracted from documents analyzed in, related to each other based on a conceptual structure of the area”. The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary with a carefully selected list of terms from the area of ​​education and organized by subject in the languages: Portuguese; Spanish; English; French; Russian. Access can be made at: “UNESCO Thesaurus”;
• Articles should be 12 to 20 typed pages long, including figures, tables, and references. A minimum of 6 different authors and their references must be cited;
• The file containing the work to be attached (transferred) during submission may not exceed 2 MB in size.
• Tables, figures, and graphs should be inserted in the text, immediately after their citation. Color illustrations will be accepted for publication;
• Figures and tables should not exceed 17 cm in width;
• Scanned figures should have a resolution of 300 dpi and, preferably, saved in JPG or PNG format;
• Citations should follow the examples below, which are based on the American Psychological Association (APA) standard. For in-text citations, use the last name and year: Garraffoni (2007) or (Garraffoni, 2007); for two authors: Virtuoso and Rabelo (2015) or (Virtuoso & Rabelo, 2015); for three to five authors (first citation): Gheorghiu, Gruson and Vari (2008) or (Gheorghiu, Gruson & Vari, 2008) and, in subsequent citations, Gheorghiu et al. (2008) or (Gheorghiu et al., 2008); for six or more authors, cite only the first followed by et al.: Cachioni et al. (2015) or (Cachioni et al., 2015);
• The sources of quotations from classical works (up to the 18th century) must follow international standards consecrated by tradition and be inserted in the footnotes, as per the following examples: Example 1 (author as part of the text): Homer exults the people: “Brave, my sons! Keep watch, always thus; let no one give in to sleep […]”¹ (Note: ¹ Iliad, X, 173); Example 2 (author not part of the text): “Brave, my sons! Keep watch, always thus; let no one give in to sleep […]”² (Note: ² Homer, Iliad, X, 173); Example 3 (textual quotation of verses — original edition): “Non iam coniugium […]”³ (Note: ³ Virgil, Aeneid, IV, 431-434). However, IN ADDITION TO THESE REFERENCES APPEARING IN A FOOTNOTE, THEY MUST ALSO APPEAR IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT FOLLOWING APA STANDARDS, as in the example: “[…] the other animals prepared the nature of the food, the clothing of the hair, the defense, such as teeth, horns, and nails or, at least, the speed to escape” (Tomás de Aquino, 1997, p. 127). IT IS HIGHLY EMPHASIZED THAT the respective references must follow the current APA standard ALSO AT THE END.
• Quotations in a foreign language, in articles in Portuguese, must follow the following procedure: in the body of the text, the citation must be in Portuguese with an indication of the authorship of the translation and the original in a footnote.

4.1 Bibliographic reference models

They should be organized in alphabetical order, with left alignment, according to the following examples, which are based on the American Psychological Association (APA) standard. Journal titles should be complete and not abbreviated, without the place of publication. References should include the DOI.

Articles

An author

Saviani, D. (2015). Historiography of Brazilian education: training and development field of the history of education in Brazil. Acta Scientiarum. Education, 37(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v37i1.23680

Two to twenty authors (all authors must be indicated separated by commas, except the last one, which must be separated by a comma followed by &)

Virtuoso, T. S., & Rabelo, G. (2015). Escolas étnicas italianas: Urussanga como principal centro ítalo-brasileiro catarinense no início do século XX. Acta Scientiarum. Education, 37(1), 65-77.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v37i1.22261

Gheorghiu, M. D., Gruson, P., & Vari, J. (2008). Trocas intergeracionais e construção de fronteiras nas experiências educativas das classes médias. Educação e Sociedade, 29(103), 377-399. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0101-73302008000200005

Twenty-one or more authors (the authors must indicate the first 19 authors' names, insert an ellipsis, and add the last author)

Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., Gandin, L., Iredell, M., Saha, S., White, G., Wollen, J., Zhu, Y., Chelliah, M., Ebisuzaki, W., Higgins, W., Janowiak, J., Mo, K. C., Ropelewski, C., Wang, J., Leetmaa, A., … Joseph, D. (1996). The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(3), 437-472. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077%3C0437:TNYRP%3E2.0.CO;2

Proceedings

Caporalini, J. B. (2005). O problema antropológico em O Nome da Rosa [Apresentação de trabalho]. Anais da 4ª Jornada de Estudos Antigos e Medievais da Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, PR.

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

Recomendamos a leitura deste artigo para obter mais informações sobre como citar este tipo de conteúdo:

McAdoo, T. (2024, February 23). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

Books

Bowman, A. K., & Woolf, G. (1998). Literacy and power in the ancient world. Cambridge University Press.

Adorno, T. W. (2003). Educação e emancipação. Paz e Terra.

Ucko, P. (1995). Archaeological interpretation in a world context. In I. Hodder (Ed.), Theory in archaeology: a world perspective (pp. 1-27). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203973288

Theses

Santos, V. S. (2007). A mediação docente na educação para mídia [Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Estadual de Maringá].

Last uptade on 01/01/2025.

Average time between submission and publication of articles published in 2024: 8 months.