Soumissions

Directives aux auteurs

1. Papers, reviews, translations and interviews will be presented to Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy through the eletronic system of UFSM's Portal of Journals. Works will be evaluated under a double-blind peer review system by two external reviewers that shall make their decisions (favorable or not) with regards to the relevancy of the proposed material to the journal's profile and/or desidered Dossier, as well as with regards to the quality of the material. Contributions sent to the section Schopenhauerian Studies, of continuos flow, will be reviewed by researchers of renowned knowledge in schopenhauerian philosophy. The reviewers receive texts without identification of authorship. In cases where a work receives contradictory reviews, another evaluation by a third reviewer is requested. 

2. Authorship's identification must be removed from the file and the option "Properties" in Word, thus ensuring the journal's criterium of secrecy. Author's data must be in the system's field dedicated for this kind of information. 

3. Each author can only have one published article per edition and should not be able to publish in consecutive editions (of the same volume or not). That is, after publishing at Voluntas, the author must wait a year for submitting a new text. This rule does not apply, however, for translations and reviews. 

4. Theses, ideas, opinions, and concepts presented in the manuscripts are the sole responsibility of the authors.

4.1 In the case of translations of works that are not in the public domain, specific and express prior authorization from the author is required.

5. In publishing in this journal, the authors accept that:

5.1 Your copyrights will be maintained, granting the journal the right of first publication;

5.2 They may publish the same text in other vehicles (such as book chapter, for example), with reference to the first publication in Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy;

5.3 Papers may be printed as long as the source (edition data) of this journal is informed and authors are duly credited.

6. Papers sent for evaluation that do not comply with the norms and guidelines of submissions will be returned to the authors. 

6.1 Only files in Microsoft Word ("doc." or '.docx') will be accepted;

6.2 Each paper should have a bold and centralized title, an abstract of a maximum of 15 lines and 3 to 6 keywords in single spacing. Keywords must be separated by a semicolon and with the initials capitalized. For articles written in Portuguese, its title, abstract and key-words must be translated into English. For articles written in the journal's other languages (see section 6.3), title, abstract and key-words must be translated into English and, optionally, into Portuguese; 

6.3 Papers may be published in Portuguese, English, German, Spanish, Italian or French;

6.4 The following technical guidelines shall be followed:

- Apply the work to this Template (mandatory).

- Typeface: Open Sans, 12 point font unless otherwise indicated.

- Spacing: 1,5.

- Upper left margins: 2 cm; right and bottom margins: 2 cm.

- Extension of papers, translations and interviews: maximum of 10.000 words.

- Extension of reviews: maximum of 5.000 words. 

- Citations greater than 3 lines must be highlighted in the text body with a 4 cm indentation, 11 point font, single spacing, without the use of quotation marks at the beginning and at the end.

- Use italic and non-bold for highlights of words or sentences throughout the text.

7. Quotation references throughout the text (direct or indirect) should appear in text, in brackets, according to the Author and date system: AUTHOR'S SURNAME in capital letters, comma, date of publication, comma and page. Example: HÜBSCHER, 1973, p. 71.

8. References to the quotations of Schopenhauer's works should also appear in parentheses in the body of the text, with the following components: abbreviation of the work cited (according to the list of item 10 of these Guidelines), comma, possible paragraphs, chapters or sections, comma, edition page that is being used. Do not mention "Schopenhauer". Example: (W I, § 55, p. 350).

9. The complete bibliographic references should appear only at the end of the article in the item References, and must comply with the standards of ABNT / NBR 6023. Do not use the term "Bibliography" but "References".

Examples of References:

- Book: CACCIOLA, M. L. M. O. Schopenhauer e a questão do dogmatismo. São Paulo: Edusp, 1994. If necessary, indicate "Transl" followed by the translator full name.

- Book Chapter: SURNAME, N. Chapter title: subtitle. In: SURNAME, N. (org. or ed.) Title of work in bold: subtitle. Number of the edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, year of publication. Initial and final page of chapter.

 - Article: SEGALA, M. Between science and magic: the case of Schopenhauer. Voluntas: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, Santa Maria, v. 11, n. 3, p. 3-16, 2020. DOI 10.5902/2179378663686. Available at: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/voluntas/article/view/63686. Accessed on: 6 Oct. 2021.

10. For quotations from Schopenhauer's works, the abbreviations listed below will be adopted. These are the abbreviations adopted by Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft (Germany) in his journal Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch. For citations of other editions that are not included in the list, the complete title of the work must be cited (without abbreviations).

List of Abbreviations:

G = Ueber die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde

F = Ueber das Sehn und die Farben

W I = Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung I 

W II = Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung II 

Ν = Ueber den Willen in der Natur 

Ε = Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik 

E I = Ueber die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens 

E II = Ueber das Fundament der Moral 

P I = Parerga und Paralipomena I 

Ρ II = Parerga und Paralipomena II

A = Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

HN = Der Handschnftliche Nachlaß. 

HN I = Die frühen Manuskripte 1804-1818 

HN II = Kritische Auseinandersetzungen 1809-1818 

HN III = Berliner Manuskripte 1818-1830 

HN IV (1) = Die Manuskripte der Jahre 1830-1852 

HN IV (2) = Letzte Manuskripte/ Graciáns Handorakel 

HN V = Arthur Schopenhauers Randschriften zu Büchern 

GBr = Gesammelte Briefe 

Gespr = Gespräche 

Bildn = Schopenhauer-Bildnisse