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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.
  • Only Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF file types will be accepted (as long as they do not exceed 2MB)
  • URLs for the references must be provided if available.
  • The text must be 1.5-spaced; use a 12-point font; use italics rather than underlining (except in URLs); figures and tables must be included in the text, and not in the appendix.
  • The text must follow the style and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors, in the About the Journal’s section.

Author Guidelines

General recommendations to authors

  • Journal Template
  • The submission and eventual publication of papers are free of charge.
  • All papers, reviews and research notes must be submitted without citing the authors in the text or filename. Articles that do not comply with the following rules will be rejected and must be adapted for submission.
  • Papers from undergraduate students will not be accepted. We do not accept papers derived from undergraduate courses.
  • Authors cannot publish more than one article in Geografares every three years.
  • Plagiarism and self-plagiarism (when authors change some superficial aspects of texts already published in other journals to republish them) are prohibited. If we do, the authors will no longer be eligible for submissions to the journal.
  • All articles must indicate in the authors' section of the submission whether the article presents partial or final results; identify any associated research groups and/or laboratories; indicate whether they are publicly funded; and whether they are derived from master's or doctoral theses. Submissions will be rejected if they do not follow these rules.
  • Authors must provide their ORCID number. ORCID is a non-profit organization that enables everyone involved in research and innovation to be uniquely identified and connected. To obtain your ORCID number, visit the link https://orcid.org/register
  • Biographical information is required in the metadata for authors. The biography must include information about the author's education and institutional affiliations, as well as any previous or ongoing research.
  • Titles, abstracts and keywords in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French must be included in the metadata when submitting papers.
  • Titles must be in lowercase except at the beginning of a sentence, with proper names, and acronyms.
  • Figures, maps, photos, graphics and flowcharts included in the body of the text must be sent separately at a minimum quality of 300 DPI.
  • Geografares is a geography journal that is in dialog with other fields of study. Its scope is focused on discussing territorial and spatial issues, so the articles should focus on these categories. Papers from other fields that do not meet these requirements will be rejected.
  • The normal time for reviewing an article is up to 6 months from receiving to approval.
  • -Contributions are accepted in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
  • Guidelines for the English version of the approved papers: Authors who have their paper accepted by the journal may provide an English version, at their own expense. These translations must be done by professionals appointed by the journal, who must certify the paper's conformity in English. The author must send it along with the translation by the deadline specified by the editors.

Papers

a-Must be a maximum of 10,000 words and up to 25 pages in 1.5 spaced paragraphs, including figures (maps, illustrations, photos, graphs, etc.), tables, notes, bibliography, and abstracts, written in Word for Windows type file, body 12, and Times New Roman font.

b-Papers must be submitted with properly corrected Portuguese. We will reject those do not meet this requirement.

c-The first page of the paper must include the title and subtitle (if any). The text may be structured with an introduction, development, conclusions, and references. The specificity of the different types of research, however, will be respected.

  • The texts must be accompanied by an abstract in Portuguese of no more than 150 words and 3 keywords identifying the content. English, Spanish and French versions of the same abstract and keywords must be provided with appropriate revisions. Abstracts and keywords must be placed at the beginning of the paper, immediately after the title of the paper. The Portuguese paper title must be followed by the English, Spanish, and French titles.
  • Titles and abstracts in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French must also be included on the journal page when submitting the article.

d-The journal's metadata must be completed in four languages (Portuguese, English, Spanish and French) when the paper is submitted.

e-Photos, drawings, maps, and graphs must appear inside the work with the generic denomination of figure, numbered with Arabic numerals. Tables must also be numbered in the same way.

f-Footnotes should be avoided as much as possible, and only those that are necessary should be used. They must be numbered consecutively and throughout the text. Only up to 10 footnotes per article will be accepted, and each of those should be no longer than 50 words.

g-References must appear at the end of the paper, in alphabetical order.

For more information visit the seção de normas or contact the editores.

Interviews

a-They must follow the same recommendations for articles, plus the date and location of the interview, the interviewee's information, and there should be an introduction indicating the interest in publishing the interview.

b-The initials of the interviewer and interviewee must precede questions and answers.

For more information visit the seção de normas or contact the editores.

Translation

 

Proposals will be accepted for translated versions of papers that are important contributions to geographical thought and are unpublished in Portuguese. Translations must be accompanied by permission from the authors of the original articles, if applicable.

For more information, contact the editores

Reviews

A - For this section, informative reviews of works (book, book chapter, specialized magazine, specialized magazine article, theses and dissertations, among others) of interest to geographic science, with or without critical appreciation, will be accepted.
B - They must follow the same recommendations for articles.
C - Complete data of the reviewed work must be sent. It is also requested to send a digital copy (with good quality) of the cover / cover page of the reviewed work. For more information visit the standards section or contact the editors.
For more information visit the seção de normas or contact the editores.
 

Research notes

This section is intended to publish texts and preliminary technical notes on ongoing research.

a-For this section, texts on scientific events that have taken place, reports on fieldwork, communications on ongoing research, etc. will be accepted.

b-They must follow the same recommendations for papers.

Thematic dossier proposal

The proposal must indicate the person in charge of the dossier, who must make the selection of the articles, the organization of the number and point out its objectives. Together with the proposal of the dossier, the list of the proposed reviewers must be submitted.

For more information, contact the editores

Copyright Notice

Copyrights Declaration

Authors who publish in the journal agree with the following terms:

  1. Authors retain their copyrights and grant the journal the right of first publication. At the same time, it is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows the sharing of their work with authorship credit and first publication through this journal.
  2. Authors may separately sign additional agreements to share a non-exclusive version of the paper published in this journal (e.g., publication in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with credit to this journal for the first publication. 
  3. Authors are encouraged to publish and share their work online, including institutional repositories and personal websites.

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