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 submission has not been previously published nor has it been sent to another journal or editorial body.

• Extension: the extension of the articles must be from 20 to 25 pages.

• Title of the work in the original language of the text and in English, the extension must be no longer than 15 words.

• Full name(s) of the author(s): with a footnote (with one, two or three asterisks, according to the number of authors) indicating their institutional ascriptions and e-mail addresses. Name in capitals and small capitals, surnames separated by a dash.

• Abstract in the original language of the text and in English not exceeding one hundred words.

• Key words: a listing from three to five key words in the original language and in English.

• Tables should bear a name and a source and be numbered in the Arabic numbering system. In like manner, maps, plans, figures, slides and photographs must bear a name, source and shall be numbered in Roman numerals, however.

• The text fulfills the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in Instructions for authors, which can be found in About the journal.

• If there is a submission for a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the author(s) has to make sure that the instructions in Securing a blind peer review have been followed.
• The text has a standardized bibliography in the Harvard format and contains ALL data. Bibliography will be written according to the examples specified in Instructions for authors.

• The introduction and conclusions shall not be numbered.

• The text includes at the end a brief résumé of the author and all coauthors, if any, written according to the model exemplified in Instructions for authors.