Submissions

Author Guidelines

Good publishing practices

This journal follows good publishing practices recommended by COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics.

Guidelines on texts

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify submission compliance with all items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the rules will be returned to the authors. The contribution must be original and unpublished, and cannot be evaluated for publication by another journal.

Sections of Agora Journal

1) General papers

2) Papers in dossiers

The Agora Journal receives proposals for dossiers following editorial guidelines:

• with one or two proponents, both doctorate degrees, recognized experts in the subject of the Dossier and preferably from different institutions, with one of them foreign;
• Proposals must be submitted in Portuguese, English, or Spanish;
• Proposals must be sent to the journal's e-mail address (revistaagoraufes@gmail.com), containing:
  
  1. Dossier title and institutional affiliation of the proposing editors;
  2. Presentation of the proposal (2 to 4 paragraphs);
  3. all proposed texts for the dossier must be submitted by their respective authors on the Journal's page for the corresponding dossier;
  4. the approval of the dossiers is reserved to the Editorial Board, whose decision will be communicated to the proposers/organizers as soon as the decision is made.

3) Reviews of Books

4) Transcripts of documents

Guidelines

1. Text formatting

Manuscripts should be typed in Word for Windows, Times New Roman 12, spacing 1.5, 6pt paragraph spacing, A4 format. Articles will have a minimum length of 26,400 characters and a maximum of 66,000 characters (without spaces), including bibliography and footnotes. The reviews will have a minimum size of 600 words and maximum of 2.000 words.

2. Authors

Each paper or review can be written by four authors at the most. To submit a text, the authors must have a condition of master degree student at least. The contributions will be original. However it is allowed to publish in Portuguese a translation of an article issued in a foreign language.

3. Originality

Contributions must be original and unpublished. Alternatively, authorized contributions in Portuguese from articles originally published in a foreign language are accepted.

4. Book Review

The book Reviews must be about books whose first publication in the original language does not exceed three years. Reviews will have a minimum length of 600 words and a maximum of 2,000 words.

In the part of the abstract required on the Ágora platform, the author must proceed the following template (in Portuguese, English and Spanish):

Review by: PEZÉ, W.; ROJAS, D.R. (eds.). International recognition: a historical and political perspective. Tübingen (DE): Mohr Siebeck, 2022. 260 p.

On the Agora platform, the author must enter at least three keywords in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Reviews must:

• Have a title different from the title of the reviewed work.
• Synthesize the central ideas of the work.
• Present the methodological perspective and, when applicable, the theoretical precepts that the Author adopts to develop the central ideas of the book.
• Situate the position of the work in the academic field in which it is inscribed, mentioning, if possible, its main Authors and critics.
• Carry out a critical balance of the three previous points.
• Present the references at the end of the text.

5. Anti-plagiarism

The submitted text is similarity checked by TURNITIN. If similarity greater than 3% is found, the submission is rejected.

6. Manuscripts

All information related to the manuscript (Title, keywords, language and abstract, in Portuguese, English and Spanish) must be filled in the Journal's system by the corresponding author at the time of submission. It is also required to fill in all fields related to the co-authors: Full Name, E-mail, lattes, Orcid,, Institution/Affiliation and Brief Biography (From Lattes, for example). All authors must be registered.

In order to reduce publishing costs, we ask the authors to undertake a spelling and grammar review of the material being presented. In this sense, the lack of revision detected by the Advisory Board and or the Editorial Board will be issue for refusal of the manuscript in question.

Expressions in an alien language and titles of manuscripts must be typed in italics, thus avoiding the use of bold and reserving quotation marks for citations of other authors.

The illustrations should be scanned in .jpg or .png with a resolution between 100 and 150 dpi and inserted into the body of the text itself. In all images must present title, positioned above the image (Ex.: Figure 1 - mosaic found in the city of Antioch, fourth century), and below this, the source (Source: Author. Book's title. City: Publishing Company: 2016. p. 5).

7. Abstracts

Just below the title, will a abstract in the original language of the article and a translation to English, Portuguese, and Spanish , explaining the main subject of the article.

Abstracts should be 100 to 150 words long.

8. Keywords

After each abstract, should be mentioned three keywords in the original language of the text, three in Portuguese, three in English, and three in Spanish.

They must be separated from each other by a semicolon (;) and ended with a period (.)

They are spelled with the initials in lowercase, with the exception of proper nouns and scientific names.

9. About quotations

Revista Ágora is based on NBR 6022/2018 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards - ABNT to organize citations. Thereby, the editorial board decided on the following citation rules:

• Less than three-line quotes should come within quotation marks. Otherwise, indent them 4 cm on the left and Times New Roman 10, spacing 1.5 (no quotation marks).
• Bibliographical references will be made in a footnote, containing the name of the author followed by the work publication, city of publication, publisher, year and page number, separated by commas, as follows:

1. Books: ARIÈS, P. O tempo da história. Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Alves, 1989. p. 56.
2. Electronic books: DÂNGELO, N.; SOUSA, S. S. G. (org.). Noventa Anos de Rádio no Brasil. Uberlândia, MG: Edufu, 2016. E-book. Disponível em: http://ebooks.pucrs.br/edipucrs/projetosdefilosofia.pdf. Acesso em: 8 ago. 2020.
3. Digital books: GODINHO, T. Vida organizada: como definir prioridades e transformar seus sonhos em objetivos. São Paulo: Gente, 2014. E-book.
4. Journals: TERÁN, O. Carlos Octavio Bunge: entre el científico y el político. Prismas, Revista de História Intelectual, Quilmes (AR), v. 2, nº 1, p. 95-110, 1998. p.97.
5. Eletronic journal: DANTAS, J. A. et al. Regulação da auditoria em sistemas bancários: análise do cenário internacional e fatores determinantes. Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, São Paulo, v. 25, n. 64, p. 7-18, jan./abr.2014. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-70772014000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso. Acesso em: 20 jun. 2014. p. 22.
6. Thesis and Dissertation: AGUIAR, A. A. de. Avaliação da microbiota cucal em pacientes sob uso crônico de penicililina e benzatina. 2009. Tese (Doutorado em Cardiologia) - Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2009. p. 27.
7. Annals or Summaries of Events: BRYNER, A. R. A.; MEDEIROS, C. B. Incorporação do tempo em SGBD orientado a objetos. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE BANDO DE DADOS, 9., 1994, São Paulo. Anais [...]. São Paulo: USP, 1994. p. 16-29.
8. Annals or Summaries of Events in electronic media: PALETTA, F. A. C. et al. Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da biblioteca do Conjunto das Químicas/USP: digitalização retrospectiva: estudo de caso. In: SEMINÁRIO NACIONAL DE BIBLIOTECAS UNIVERSITÁRIAS, 16.; SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL DE BIBLIOTECAS DIGITAIS, 2., 2010, Rio de Janeiro. Anais [...]. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ; São Paulo: CRUESP, 2010. 1 pen drive [ou] 1 CD-ROM [ou] Disponível em: http://aps.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DPR462DE12F4BB03_1.pdf. Acesso em 3 maio 2013.
9. Documents under archival custody : PORTUGAL. Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino. Conselho Ultramarino. PT/AHU/CU/001. p. 2 e 3. [COUNTRY. Archive. Section. Reference, p.]. Available at: https://digitarq.ahu.arquivos.pt/details?id=1120403. Accessed on: 22 mar. 2022. [If the document is available online]. 

The notes an explanatory nature, should be placed as footnotes, never to the end of text.

10. References

Revista Ágora is based on NBR6023/18 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards - ABNT. The references should come at the end of the article. The list of references must be aligned to the left margin, with single spacing, both for the data and for the references cited in the paper. 

References must have up to two items.

1. The first item is "Sources", which are the documents used.

2. The second item is "General Works", which are all the bibliography used.

From the second reference of the same work, the identification must be made, in a footnote, as follows:

1. ARIÈS, 1989, p.56. 
2. TERÁN, 1998, p. 98.

References must be listed in alphabetical order, arranged as follows:

A. Complete work

ARIÈS, P. O tempo da história. Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Alves, 1989.

B. Chapterwork

DARNTON, R. História da leitura. In: BURKE, P. (org.). A escrita da história.  São Paulo: Editora da Universidade Estadual Paulista, 1992. v. 1, chap. 7, p. 199-236.

Obs. Chapters of books must contain the pages and volumes of the part.

C. Papers

CHARTIER, R. O mundo como representação. Estudos Avançados, São Paulo, v. 5, n. 11, p. 173-91, 1991.

OBS. Register the electronic address in addition to the essential and complementary elements for online documents by the expression Available at:, and the date of access, preceded by the expression Access at:.

D. Collections

Terms such as coordinator, organizer and editor must be abbreviated, with the initial in lower case and inserted in parentheses, for example: (org.).

E. Proceedings 

After the event title, add  ellipsis added inserted between square brackets:

Ex. PALETTA, F. A. C. et al. Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da biblioteca do Conjunto das Químicas/USP: digitalização retrospectiva: estudo de caso. In: SEMINÁRIO NACIONAL DE BIBLIOTECAS UNIVERSITÁRIAS, 16.; SEMINÁRIO INTERNACIONAL DE BIBLIOTECAS DIGITAIS, 2., 2010, Rio de Janeiro. Anais [...]. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ; São Paulo: CRUESP, 2010. 1 pen drive [ou] 1 CD-ROM [ou] Disponível em: http://aps.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DPR462DE12F4BB03_1.pdf. Acesso em 3 maio 2013.

F. Reference with more than three authors

It is recomended indicate all authors. It is allowed to indicate the first author along with et al. 

G. Works referenced successively

Do not put a dash to replace the indication of repeated authorship, that is, the author's name must appear in all references.

H. Titles too long

The last words can be deleted, as long as the meaning is not changed. Deletion must be indicated by ellipsis between square brackets [...].

I. URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Do not indicate the URL with < > signs. If the electronic resource has DOI (Digital Object Identifier), it must be mentioned, regardless of the URL indication.

J. Latin expressions

The Latin expressions In, et al., [s. l.], [s. n.] are highlighted in italics.

K. The Tables

The tables must follow the IBGE's (1993) tabular presentation rules, according to ABNT (NBR 14724/2011, item 5.9): "It must be cited in the text, inserted as close as possible to the passage to which they refer and standardized according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)."