Submissions

Author Guidelines

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1. At least one of the authors must have completed a doctorate. Doctoral, master's and undergraduate students, as well as masters and graduates, can submit manuscripts for evaluation as long as at least one of their co-authors has completed a doctorate.

2. Authors and co-authors who have already had an article published in Revista (Con)Textos Linguísticos must wait one year to make a new submission.

3. Authors or groups of authors must respect the limit of one submission per edition. No more than one submission from the same author or group of authors for a given edition will be accepted.

4. After preliminary analysis (desk review), in which the managing editor checks formal aspects of the submission, compliance with the rules and guidelines for authors and (self)plagiarism, each original is forwarded to the section editor responsible for monitoring the editorial flow of the double-blind peer review process. In this process, texts are evaluated, anonymously, by two evaluators who may be members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc reviewers. In the case of differing opinions on an original, a third evaluator may be consulted.

5. Once the evaluation stage has been completed, authors are notified of the editorial decision with a copy of the opinions and, if applicable, receive instructions for sending a modified version of the text. Modified texts not sent within the deadline established by the editor responsible for the editorial flow of the submission will not be published in the edition to which they were forwarded. Data and concepts contained in the texts, as well as the accuracy of bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the authors.

6. Submissions written in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French are accepted.

7. The copyright relating to approved articles will be granted, free of charge, automatically to Revista (Con)Textos Linguísticos, which will then be able to publish them based on items VI and I of article 5 of Law 9610/98.

8. Authors must attach, at the time of submission, an authorization document for the use of images (even those that are publicly available) contained in the submitted text. Otherwise, you will need to remove them and just describe them.

9. Authors must make sure that they have filled out all the information requested in the author and all co-author registration form during the submission process. They must be informed:

• full name, without abbreviations;
• e-mail;
• country;
• URL of the Lattes CV or other academic CV available online;
• Orcid;
• academic affiliation or institutional link;
• mini academic biography (data on training, professional activity and research funding body if necessary).

10. The files submitted must be formatted according to the template available for download (attention: download the template file to edit it). Authors must download the file and use it at the time of submission. To download the template file, in the top left menu of Google Docs, click File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx).

11. Submitted files must be typed in Microsoft Word, on A4 paper (21 cm X 29.7 cm), with top, bottom, right and left margins of 2.5 cm, without page numbering.

12. The text must have a minimum length of 48.000 characters with space and a maximum of 80.000 characters with space, including text boxes and footnotes.

13. The file must comply with the following structure and formatting:

• Title: centered at the top of the first page, in lower case, containing a maximum of 240 characters with spaces, in Arial font, size 12, bold.
• Title in English: one line after the title in the original language of the article, in lower case, in Arial font, size 12, without bold. If the text of the article is not originally in Portuguese, the title in Portuguese must be presented in place of the title in English.
• Abstracts: in Portuguese and English for texts written in Portuguese or in the language of the article and in Portuguese for texts written in a foreign language. Preceded by this subtitle and a colon, in a single paragraph, of a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 200 words, justified, without indentation, in single spacing, two lines below the name(s) of the author(s). Each abstract must be followed by a minimum of three and a maximum of five keywords in the language of the abstract, with capital letters, separated by periods, in justified alignment, single spacing, without indentation, Arial font, size 11.
• Article text: starting on the second page, spaced 1.5 cm. Paragraphs must be justified, with a 1.25 cm indentation on the first line and no space between them. The subtitles corresponding to the sections of the work must appear on the left, in bold, without numbering and without indentation, in lower case. The subtitle for the list of references also follows this formatting. There must be a blank line with 1.5 spacing between the last paragraph of the previous section and the following subtitle. Any highlighting made in the body of the text must be done in italics. Examples referred to throughout the text should be highlighted from the paragraphs that announce and/or comment on them and numbered, sequentially, with Arabic numerals in parentheses, within the paragraph.
• References: preceded by this subtitle, aligned to the left, without indentation, in alphabetical order of surnames and, in the case of the same author, in the chronological sequence of publication of the works cited, two lines after the text.
  • For references in general (book, author-entity, dictionary, organized book chapter, magazine article, thesis/dissertation, article/news in a newspaper, works at events, event annals, entry, from personal page), follow NBR 6023:2018 of ABNT. The electronic documents follow the same specifications required for each text genre, arranged in accordance with ABNT standards NBR 6023:2018; however, these references must be supplemented, when applicable, with the complete addresses of the virtual pages consulted and the date of access to online files that are only temporarily available.
  • For citations, follow ABNT NBR 10520:2023. It should be noted that references in the text must be indexed using the ABNT author-date system: (Silva, 2005, p. 36–37).
  • If there is a phonetic transcription and use of IPA fonts, it is necessary to use only one type of font: silDoulosIPA, size 12. The font can be obtained free of charge at: https://alib.ufba.br/content/fonte-sildoulos -ipa.
• Annexes, if any, must be placed after the bibliographic references, preceded by the word Annex, in bold, without indentation and without numbering.

14. Submission (one and only one per group or per author for each edition) must be made through the Open System Journal (OSJ)  in a digital file, in accordance with the rules published here, without any identification of its author (ensuring double-blind peer review). In “Comments to the editor”, you must specify the section to which the article will be submitted (Analytical-descriptive studies; Studies on text and discourse; or Applied linguistics).

15. Submissions that do not comply with both the editorial standards and the formatting standards presented here will be summarily rejected.