Submissions

Author Guidelines

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture is published under the Open Access model and is therefore free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 policy. 

APCS (ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES) AND SUBMISSION CHARGES

Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture is free of any kind of submission/publication fees, thus the authors are not charged to publish with us.

POLICIES AGAINST PLAGIARISM AND BAD CONDUCT IN RESEARCH

In the wake of our tradition in excellence, we would like to inform collaborators on editorial improvements that foreground the integrity of articles published by the Acta Scientiarum. Following guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) stimulating the identification of the practice of plagiarism, bad practices, frauds, possible violations in Ethics and indicting, we would like to recommend the following:

1. Authors are invited to visit the COPE website http://publicationethics.org for information on authors and editors on Ethics in research;

2. Prior to submission of scientific articles, authors should follow the criteria below:

- Considering the need for constant improvement of the editorial quality of our journal as a function of evaluating bodies, the authors should be aware of possible changes in the norms for the submission of articles, which will henceforth be negated and with the dates from which they should be followed.

- articles that contain data acquisition or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications should refer to the latter explicitly and directly;

- articles with a critical review on the intellectual contents of other authors should duly quote the latter authors;

- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;

- the definite approval of the article is the role of the respective editors and of the editorial board.

3. So that the above criteria could be complied with, the following procedures will be taken:

a)  Editors will evaluate manuscripts by CrossCheck system immediately after submission. Contents of the scientific articles will be evaluated to identify any sort of plagiarism, double submissions, already published articles and possible frauds in research;

b)  With these results in hand, the editors and the editorial board decide whether the manuscript is sent for the review of peers, who will also make their own evaluations;

c) After acceptance and prior to publication, the article may again be assessed.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1.  Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, ISSN 1983-4683 (online), is published four times a year by the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá PR Brazil.

2.  The scientific journal publishes general and specific articles in Linguistics, Literature and Culture, which may be classified as follows: a) articles (report of research; review of literature; theoretical study; report on professional experience and debate) and b) critical review of recently published books. As a reference publication on its field, our journal requires the minimum degree of Ph.D (Doctorate) for the authors interested in publishing with us. In case of collective authorship, at least one of the paper's authors must have that degree.

3.  Author(s) should state that the manuscript, reporting original work, was not sent, in part or in whole, for publication to another scientific journal. This statement may be found at http:// periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/about/submissions.

4.  Author(s) is (are) accountable for data, ideas, opinions and suggestions exposed in the articles and the preciseness of the references. Papers are expected to be based on the most advanced theories and research. When applicable, a certificate by the Committee for Ethics and Bio-security is mandatory.

5. The submissions can be made in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian. For submissions starting after January 16, 2018, the authors must provide a detailed grammatical revision of the article in the respective language, which must be certified by a digital declaration (sent as a supplementary document).

6.  Articles, concise and consistent in style, may be published in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

7.  Articles shall be analyzed by referees specialized in the research’s area of knowledge and hailing from Brazilian or foreign higher research institutions. After due corrections and insertions of possible suggestions (when applicable), the article shall be accepted for publication when there are two favorable opinions on the article; it will be rejected when two referees give unfavorable opinions. In case of ties, the article shall be sent to another referee. In this case the Editorial Board’s decision will be final.

8. The Editorial Board reserves the right to not publish papers of the same author(s) within an interval lesser than two issues. Authors may not submit a new paper if a paper is still being evaluated for publication.

9.  Articles are to be sent via Internet through the ACTA homepage at http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/

10. Authors must send a text, as a supplementary file, between 150 and 200 words, addressed to the Editor (it will not be published) informing about the relevance of their work.

11. Declaration of Importance:  Authors must mandatorily send a brief declaration of importance about the meaning of their research. It must be written for readers in a graduation level, up to 120 words. It will be check by the evaluators combined with the article and will be included in the first presentation. The declaration must attend the aspects: the originality and the meaning of the work in relation to existing literature; scientific impact and to create interest for the readers.

12.  Details of a style sheet used in Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture are given below:

a) Articles must include: Abstract, Keywords, Conclusion/Final considerations and References/ Works cited. These items should not be numbered. Other items should follow their specificity according to 2.

b) A running (short) title (up to six words) should be provided. c) Full name of author(s), address(es) and the author for correspondence (with e-mail) should follow the title.

c) In the submission process, the ORCID identification number (ID), institutional address (es), and the e-mail address of the author (s) indicated for correspondence. Up to four authors are accepted in the article.

d) The abstract should not exceed 200 words and should provide a brief information on the theme(s), aim of research, theory applied, methods, results and conclusion. Six key words in both languages may finalize the abstract. Translations made by computers or machine devices shall be discarded. 

e) Papers should not exceed 20 pages, including figures, tables and list of references.  Pages should be numbered and main text in 1.5 cm-line spacing. Articles should be formatated in 1½ cm and pages numbered. Article should be edited in MS-Word, in Times New Roman, font 12, on A4 paper, with text margins at2.5 cm.

f)  Tables, figures and graphs should be inserted within the text immediately after being mentioned. Figures and tables should be preferentially7.65 cm in width and not exceed16 cm. Digital figures should have a resolution of 300 dpi and recorded in jpg or png. Permission to use any copyrighted illustration should accompany the article.

g) Annexes and foot notes should be avoided.

h) File containing the article to be transferred during submission should not exceed 2MB, and should have no identification label of the author, including in the option properties of Word.

i)  Scientific articles in English are given priority in publication. They should comprise at least 20% of articles in each number.

j) Citations should follow the examples below, based on norms by the American Psychological Association (APA). For citation within the text, insert surname and year: Baltar (2006) or (Baltar, 2001); for two authors: Angelo and Menegassi (2008) or (Angelo & Menegassi, 2008); for three or more authors cite the first author followed by et al.: Swami et al. (2008) or (Swami et al., 2008).

SELF-CITATION

The journal accepts a maximum rate of 5% self-citations.

REFERENCE MODELS

References should be listed alphabetically, with left alignment, according to the examples below, based on norms by the American Psychological Association (APA). List all authors. All titles of journals should be given in their entire, without the place of publication.

ARTICLES

One author

Schneider, L. (2015). Abjection and violence in Monoceros, by Suzette Mayr. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 37(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v37i1.24579

Two to twenty authors

Angelo, C., & Menegassi, R. (2008). Desempenhos em leitura nas séries finais de ciclo. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 30(2), 129-137.

Gomes, L., Cárdenas, C., Alves, V., & Lopes, C. (2008). Reflexões sobre a imagem da velhice mostrada no filme “Elsa e Fred. um amor de paixão". Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 30(1), 25-34.

Swami, V., Malpass, F., Havard, D., Benford, K., Costescu, A., Sofitiki, A., & Taylor, D. (2013). Metalheads: the influence of personality  and individual differences on preferences for heavy metal. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7(4), 377-383. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034493

Twenty-one or more authors

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

BOOKS

Gettleman, M. E., Franklin, J., Young, M., & Franklin, H. B. (1995). Vietnam and America: a documented history (2nd ed.). Grove Press.

Wilson-Tagoe, N. (2007). Representing culture and identity: African women writers and national cultures. In C. M. Cole, T. Manuh, & S. F. Miescher (Ed.), Africa after gender? (p. 223-238). Indiana University Press.

MONOGRAPHS, DISSERTATIONS, THESES

Alves, E. R. F. (2007). Outremização e revide de colonizado e colonizador em The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee (1974), de J. M. Coetzee [Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Estadual de Maringá].

Magnabosco, G. G. (2011). A construção do texto opinativo no hipergênero blog: análise de comentários do blog papo de amiga da Revista Capricho. [Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Estadual de Maringá]. Biblioteca Digital da Universidade Estadual de Maringá. http://nou-rau.uem.br/nou-rau/document/?code=vtls000190562

PROCEEDINGS

Fuzza, A. (2006).  A escrita no livro didático [Apresentação de trabalho]. Anais do 1º Congresso Nacional de Linguagem em Interação, Maringá, PR.

NEWSPAPERS

Silva, M. (2005, 6 de março). O espaço da leitura na sala de aula. Jornal do Povo, Caderno D, p. 4.

Ministério lança dados sobre Prova Brasil. (2005, 3 de dezembro). Folha de S. Paulo, p. 15.

ELETRONIC DOCUMENTS

Ribeiro, G. (2007). O afro-descendente no livro didático de Língua Portuguesa. Retrieved from http://www.escrita.uem.br/story.jsp?id=911

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

We recommend reading this article for more information on how to cite this type of content:

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

Average time between submission and publication of articles published in 2024: 6 months.