Submissions

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• The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not under consideration for publication by another journal.

  The Journal publishes ONLY unpublished articles. Articles already published or submitted to another journal will not be considered.

  We submit all files to anti-plagiarism software to detect whether the article has already been published in full or in part in another journal or event proceedings. Articles that have been made available in any electronic medium are also not considered unpublished. Therefore, we recommend that authors do not submit articles that are available in institutional databases of course completion papers, event proceedings, academic social networks etc.

• The names and data of all authors were entered into the journal's system.

  We DO NOT ACCEPT THE POSTERIORI INCLUSION of authors who were not mentioned in the initial submission of the article. If you have any questions, please contact the journal.

• The submission file is in Microsoft Word format, WITHOUT identification of the authors in the body text and/or file properties.

  This information should be only in the registration of the authors in the Journal system.

• The submitted file uses the formatting template for articles and reviews available for download in the top menu of the Journal's website (GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS). All submitted articles that do not use the template will be rejected.

  The article must come with all formatting, including headers and footers, as shown in the template. The guidelines for citations, references, and preparation of the abstract and introduction must also be observed.

  Template

• All recomendations from "ensuring blind peer review" were followed.

  The file must not contain any identifying information about the authors (check the Word document properties).
  

• There was full completion of the metadata requested on the online article submission (SEER) homepage: link to the Lattes resume in the URL field; link to ORCID registration (mandatory); summary of biography (undergraduate, master's, doctorate); and affiliation (current institution of affiliation).
• The minimum elements for an abstract (problem, objectives, methodology, conclusions of the article), according to the Guidelines for Authors, were observed. The guidelines with more details are in: https://www.ufsm.br/cursos/pos-graduacao/santa-maria/ppgd/wp-content/uploads/sites/563/2020/04/modelo-revista-.doc.
• DEADLINES ADOPTED BY THE JOURNAL (during the deadline described below we ask authors to avoid contacting us demanding information).

  I AM AWARE OF THE DEADLINES and PROCEDURES adopted by the journal in receiving and forwarding articles for evaluation, in particular:

  • the average deadline for desk review of submitted articles is UP TO 12 months.

  Articles that meet the criteria required by the journal and described in the guidelines for authors, after the above deadline, will be forwarded to two ad hoc reviewers.

THE DEADLINES INFORMED ABOVE REFER TO THE MAXIMUM TIME FOR EACH PHASE. Normally we are able to forward the articles and return to the authors in less time, but our commitment is to observe the time limit of 12 months at each stage, which is why we request the agreement of those interested in submitting. Only when the above deadlines have been exceeded will we respond to e-mails inquiring about the progress of the evaluation.

Phase 1: desk review - DEADLINE: up to 12 months after submission. Phase 2: peer review - DEADLINE: up to 12 months after submission.