Submissions

Author Guidelines

Important

• For the submission of works in any section, the use of the template document is mandatory.

• Do not write titles with all capital letters.

• Inclusion of the ORCID ID or link to the Lattes curriculum is mandatory in the field indicated as URL on the form.

• The inclusion of a description for each image included in the work is mandatory.

• Delete the names of the authors from the document before submitting.

Please read carefully all the points in the guidelines before starting to fill out your five submission steps. Inadequacy to any of the items below, present in the submitted document and/or in the submission form, will result in the rejection of the material.

Submissions from undergraduate and graduate students, master's and doctoral professors, independent researchers, and artists are accepted.

The Colóquio Journal accepts proposals in five modalities: (i) article, (ii) experience report, (iii) visual essay, (iv) review, (v) translation.

Proposals can be originally composed in the following languages: (i) Portuguese, (ii) Spanish, (iii) French, or (iv) English. In the case of works in English or Spanish, the Colóquio Journal may publish both the original and the Portuguese translation.

The Editorial Committee reserves the right to redefine the section of submissions. Proposals submitted for the next issue of the journal that are not accepted will be archived for possible future publications, with the agreement of the authors.

Submission of one proposal for each modality per submitting person is allowed.

Submissions for more than one modality with the same title or content will not be accepted.

Authors of submitted works cannot be identified in the body of the text, in compliance with the adopted blind evaluation requirement. Notes and citations that may refer to the identity of the authors should be excluded from the text.

Submitted proposals must follow the rules for each category, as listed below:

Articles

The article should be composed in Times New Roman, 12, and should contain:

Title in bold, centered; Title in English in the same format; abstract in up to 10 lines, justified, and with single spacing, followed by up to 5 keywords; abstract, in the same format as the abstract, in italics, followed by up to 5 keywords, in italics; justified body text, with 1.5 line spacing and paragraph at 0 pt;

Page breaks or section breaks should not be inserted;

Footnotes should be in font size 9, single-spaced, left-aligned, and numbered with Arabic characters;

Figures should be placed in the body of the text, in jpg format, at 300 dpi, with a smaller side of up to 10 cm; they must be accompanied by technical specifications (title, author, year, and source) and numbered (figure 01, figure 02…);

For screen reader accessibility, each image caption must contain an objective and functional description of the figure.

The page should have margins of 2 cm at the bottom and right and 3 cm at the top and left;

References must follow the latest ABNT standard;

Only foreign terms should be marked in italics;

Only subchapter and article titles must be marked in bold;

The article must be between 10 and 15 pages from the title to the last reference;

Experience Report

The experience report must follow the same specifications as the Article, but is limited to 10 pages from the title to the last word of the text and does not require bibliographic references (if presented, they must follow ABNT standards);

Visual Essay

The Visual Essay must contain: Title in bold, centered; presentation of the proposal in up to 1000 words, justified; content of up to 12 images;

It must be sent in doc or docx format, A4, with top and left margins of 3 cm and bottom and right margins of 2 cm;

All text must be in Times New Roman, 12, spacing 1.5, paragraph at 0 pt;

Images should be in jpg format, at 300dpi, obeying the size limit of the margins;

The measurements of the images may be altered in the layout process for publication;

Images must also be attached as supplementary documents, separate from the text file;

Reviews

The review must follow the same specifications as the articles, but is limited to 5 pages from the title to the last word of the text and does not require bibliographic references beyond the reviewed book (if presented, they must follow ABNT standards);

Only reviews of books published up to four years before the submission of the work will be accepted.

Translations

The translation must follow the same specifications as the articles but is limited to 5 pages from the title to the last word of the text and does not require bibliographic references beyond the translated text (if presented, they must follow ABNT standards); Only reviews of books published up to four years before the submission of the work will be accepted. It is emphasized that, for the publication of translations, it is necessary for the translator to present authorization from the vehicle that published the original text and/or from the author.

Critique

Texts must combine solid theoretical foundations with a rigorous interpretative approach, promoting original reflections on contemporary works and exhibitions, whether individual or collective. Analyses that engage with interdisciplinary references, covering fields such as philosophy, anthropology, art history, cultural studies and image theory, are welcome. The writing must value argumentative clarity and academic rigor, in addition to respecting the journal's citation standards and avoiding superficial judgments and merely descriptive treatments.

The critique must follow the same specifications as the articles, however, it is limited to 5 pages from the title to the last word of the text and does not require bibliographical references (if presented, these must follow ABNT standards).

Only critiques of exhibitions held up to one year before the submission of the work will be accepted.

The use of the template document is mandatory for submissions in any section.