Beitragseinreichung

Richtlinien für Autor/innen

Technical standards for the publication of scientific articles:

For writing and presenting the text, it is required to conform to the rules of the American Psychological Association (APA). See the example of how to use the APA standards:

• English version (APA)

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines

1. Technical characteristics:

- The accepted text editor is Word  (*.doc);

- Font: Arial or Open Sans, size 12, with the exception of the inner figures and tables that must use size 10;

2. Specific characteristics:

2.1 The first page of the file must include:

(a) Thematic area according to the CNPQ classification (Area: 6.00.00.00-7 Applied Social Sciences; Specialties - 6.02.00.00-6 Management).

(b) Title of the paper (in English and Portuguese);

(c) Structure Abstract (in English and Portuguese) -  (maximum 250 words in the topics bellow)

• Purpose (mandatory)
• Design/methodology/approach (mandatory)
• Findings (mandatory)
• Research limitations/implications (if applicable)
• Practical implications (if applicable)
• Social implications (if applicable)
• Originality/value (mandatory)
• Keywords - (Authors should provide appropriate and short keywords that encapsulate the principal topics of the paper. The maximum number of keywords is 5.)

Structure Abstract

2.2 The content of articles must present, whenever possible:

(a) Objectives

(b) Literature review;

(c) Methodology;

(d) Results and conclusions;

(e) Limitations;

(f) Study recommendations; and

(g) References;

2.3 Figures and illustrations must contain source, credits and be in editable format;

2.4 Bibliographic references must be presented in alphabetical order at the end of the article, in accordance with APA;

2.5 A maximum of five (5) authors are allowed per article.

2.5 A maximum of five (5) authors are allowed per article. Author contributions must comply with the CRediT taxonomy (Author Contribution Taxonomy), which is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which can be used to represent the roles normally played by contributors to academic and scientific production. Roles describe each author's specific, individual contributions to academic and scientific research.

Taxonomy provides a way to represent information about individual authors' contributions. Its purpose is to provide transparency in relation to authors' contributions to scientific works, enabling improvements in attribution, credit and accountability systems. It is important to note that more than one term can be attributed to a single contributor.

Biography and contribution of authors

2.6 The paper can have a maximum of 25 pages, including illustrations and bibliographical references.

2.7 Papers should be submitted in the English language.

2.8 It is mandatory that the authors submit, as supplementary documentation, a biographical record of all authors in Portuguese and English, informing the ORCID, name, title, institutional affiliation, city/country of origin, and titles.

Biography and contribution of all authors

2.9 The article must be unpublished in Brazil or in another country, and the inclusion of part or preliminary version of it in the proceedings of scientific congress of any nature is not considered a breach of originality;

2.10 The authors warrant, when submitting an article, that it does not contain any violation of copyright or other third party right and are responsible for its content. ReA-UFSM uses the Turnitin to fight academic and professional plagiarism and to verify the originality of submitted and published works. In case of detection of plagiarism, the article is excluded from the submission process and the authors will not be allowed to submit new articles to the journal for a period of three years.

2.11 The ReA / UFSM aligned with Open Science practices:

- Accepts the submission of manuscripts previously deposited in preprint servers, once they are stored in reliable platforms, such as Scielo Preprints, SSRN and OSF;

- Requires the citation and referencing of data, software codes and other content underlying the texts of the articles. Recommends that the cited content be made available in open access;

- Offers options for opening the peer review process.

Therefore, when submitting the manuscript, the corresponding author must inform about the alignment of the research and conformity of the manuscript with open science practices, through Open Science Compliance Form, which must be submitted as a supplementary file with the manuscript.

2.12 Copyright and Licensing: Authors of articles published by ReA/UFSM maintain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons license agreement (CC-BY 4.0), which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

Note: The REA UFSM Editor, consulting the Editorial Board when necessary, will solve any unforeseen cases in these standards.

Articles will be automatically rejected if they do not conform to the format required above.

The REA UFSM does not charge submission and article processing fees.