Submissions

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

The journal Psicologia em Estudo is an international bilingual journal. Texts by national authors will be accepted in Portuguese. Texts by foreign authors will be accepted in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish, duly revised. It is also noted that only one article of the same authorship will be published per year.

At the time of submission, it is also mandatory to send, duly signed: the Submission Letter (declaring that the present work is unpublished and original, strictly followed all ethical procedures, and is not submitted to another journal for publication. In addition, authorizing language reformulation, if necessary, to meet the standards of the journal Psicologia em Estudo); the Editoral Commitiment Letter (in which authors assume the commitment and responsibility to issue two reviews/evaluations of manuscripts directed by the journal Psicologia em Estudo. In addition, they commit to providing the name and data of three possible reviewers); the Open Science Compliance form (already mentioned previously).

All approved works, upon their final publication in Psicologia em Estudo, will receive their Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Types of accepted documents

Original texts that fall into the following categories are accepted:

Research report: synthesis of original research (minimum 20 and maximum 25 pages);

Literature review/Theoretical study: articles resulting from theoretical elaboration, critical review of bibliography and/or specific theme (minimum 20 and maximum 25 pages);

Professional experience report: article presenting description of individual or collective experience of a specific intervention proposal, establishing theory/practice contrast and precisely indicating the conditions under which the reported experience was carried out (minimum 10 and maximum 15 pages);

Debate: essayistic, opinion-based material on topics of current controversy or proposed for debate. Replies to previously published material are included here. Evaluation is carried out by the Editorial Board and Executive Team (minimum 10 and maximum 12 pages);

Interview: report of an interview conducted with National and International researchers of great scientific relevance to the field of Psychology. Evaluation is carried out by the Editorial Board and Executive Team (minimum 10 and maximum 15 pages);

Special Section: in this occasional modality, texts not fitting the journal modalities may be selected, bringing relevant contribution to readers and the scientific community such as: management reports, lectures by nationally or internationally renowned authors presented at scientific events, translations of articles or texts by international authors unpublished in Portuguese, among others defined by the journal Editorial Team. Texts in this modality are evaluated only by the Editorial Board and executive team regarding their scientific merit (minimum 15 and maximum 25 pages).

The journal Psicologia em Estudo accepts publication of articles on the SciELO Preprints server. Authors must disclose details of preprint posting, including DOI and licensing terms, upon manuscript submission or at any other point during the editorial process of this journal.

Author Contribution

All those who contributed to conception, development, and analysis of the presented data are identified as authors. Thus, after manuscript approval, the corresponding author will be asked to inform each author’s contributions for one of the roles: Problematization and Conceptualization; Analysis; Writing; Final approval. This information will be inserted in the “Author contribution” section at the end of the manuscript.

SciELO recommends the use of the Credit Taxonomy (Contributor Role Taxonomy).

Manuscript Preparation

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check submission compliance with all items listed below. Submissions not in accordance with the standards will be returned to authors. The following aspects are considered at this screening stage:

• Mandatory documents (Manuscript; Approval by the institution ethics committee, under Resolutions 466/12 and 510/16 of the Conselho Nacional de Saúde, when necessary; Open Science Compliance Form; Submission Letter; Editorial Commitment Letter);
• The contribution is original and unpublished and is not under evaluation by another journal; or, as a special case, is a text already published in a foreign journal and accompanied by authorization signed by the editor of the journal where it was originally published. An attached letter must include: authorization to begin editorial process and language review, transfer of copyright to the journal, signed by all authors, indicating the modality in which the text fits;
• The text strictly follows journal standards, such as: page quantity according to modality; double spacing; citations according to APA standards; abstract; three keywords according to Psychology terminology available in three languages in BVS-Psi; abstract; keywords; resumen; palabras-clave; full title in Portuguese, English, and Spanish; short title in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Or, the modality of my text does not require abstracts and keywords;
• References comply with APA standards, do not exceed the limit of 30 (thirty), including up to 10% self-citations. Of these, at least 40% refer to the last 5 years;
• Strict observation of journal and APA standards regarding: footnotes, annexes, figures, tables, and graphs;
• There is no authorship identification in the text. It was also removed from file properties in Word, thus ensuring journal anonymity criteria for peer review;
• All Internet page addresses (URLs) included in the text are active and clickable;
• Submission files are in Microsoft Word format (Word for Windows 6.0 or later), double-spaced (all manuscript parts), Times New Roman font, size 12, not exceeding page limits for the category. Page setup must be A4, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides. Do not use Word “track changes”;
• All supplementary documents must be attached in the electronic system in Word or PDF format. The total size of electronically submitted files must not exceed 3MB;
• Maximum of six authors allowed per article;
• One author holds a doctoral degree.

Article Submission Format

Texts must be presented in the following order:

1. Title page containing:
   Full title in Portuguese, between 10 and 12 words.
   Suggested short title in Portuguese for header, not exceeding 4 words.
   Full title in English, compatible with Portuguese title.
   Full title in Spanish, compatible with Portuguese title.
   Suggested short title in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.
2. Page(s) containing:

Abstract in Portuguese.
Texts in categories 1 to 3 must contain abstracts with 150 to 250 words. Other categories do not require abstracts. The abstract must be followed by 3 keywords (first starting with uppercase and others lowercase separated by semicolon).

Abstract and keywords, translation into English.

Resumen y palabras clave, translation into Spanish.

3. Annexes and/or Appendices, only when containing important original information or indispensable highlight for understanding a section. Avoid annexes and appendices.
4. Page containing titles of all figures, numbered as indicated in the text.
5. Text must present: introduction, method, results and discussion, and final considerations/conclusion – not mandatory to use these terms as headings. Footnotes (maximum 5), if indispensable, must appear at page bottom, ordered by Arabic numerals immediately after the text segment referenced. Suggested insertion locations for figures and tables must be indicated in the text. Do not use apud, op. cit., id., ibidem and others (not part of APA standards).

Note: Only the title page is not counted in total manuscript pages.

Digital Assets

Figures, tables, and graphs must also consider that a maximum total of 5 (five) will be accepted, considering the sum of these categories.

1. Figures, including caption, one per page, placed at the end of the text in the same file after references. To ensure reproduction quality, figures containing drawings must be submitted in photographic quality (minimum 300 dpi). As the published version cannot exceed 11.5 cm width, authors must ensure caption readability if reduction is necessary.
2. Tables, including title and notes, must be presented one per page, placed at the end of the text in the same file after references. In publication, tables cannot exceed 11.5 cm width x 17.5 cm length. Table length must not exceed 55 lines, including title and footnote(s). For further details, especially in cases not covered here, consult the APA manual.

Citations and References

The journal Psicologia em Estudo uses APA standards.

1. References must not exceed 30 (thirty), including up to 10% self-citations. At least 40% must refer to the last 5 years. Unless justified, these limits will be reviewed by the Editorial Board, for example in historical review articles. Authors are advised that text updating will be evaluated by reviewers.

Funding Statement

Acknowledgments for financial support received from funding institutions for research and/or manuscript preparation must be informed, if applicable. The funding agency name must be written in full followed by grant number.

Additional Information

Upon manuscript submission, the responsible author must obligatorily inform in designated submission system fields the following data of all authors: Full name, ORCID, institutional affiliation, e-mail, mini CV indicating degree. Submissions with incomplete data will be immediately rejected.

Manuscripts must be sent through the journal electronic address:
http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/PsicolEstud/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions