ISSN 1517-9702 printed version
ISSN 1678-4634 on-line version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and editorial policy
• Preparation of originals

Educação e Pesquisa publishes only previously unpublished articles in the field of education and does not consider manuscripts concurrently submitted for publication in books or other periodicals in Brazil or abroad. The journal reserves the right not to publish articles submitted by the same author at intervals of less than two years. Manuscripts are assessed first by the members of the editorial board. The manuscripts which do not comply with the editorial criteria of the journal are returned to their authors. The others are assessed by reviewers appointed by the editorial board. Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal's page in SciELO publishing system (http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php).

The time frame necessary for submissions to complete the review process - and be selected or rejected - varies according to the complexity of the reviews and possible changes suggested and implemented. The dates of receipt and approval of each article are stated in the published text. For each of the journal's issues, the editorial board establishes the criteria of organization of the articles approved.

Guidelines for manuscript submission

Upon submission of an article, authorship and the author's institutional affiliations must be filled out in proper spaces in SciELO System and should not be mentioned in the text, which will be submitted to blind peer review. Any references that enable reviewers to infer indirectly the authorship of the work are not accepted either. Authorship information is recorded separately, as metadata, and it is accessed only by the editors.

When preparing the manuscript, the following guidelines should be followed:

• The manuscript can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English. It should be typed in Word for Windows, Times New Roman font, 12-point font size, 1.5 line spacing. All the manuscript pages should be numbered sequentially. The body of the manuscript should have a minimum length of 35,000 and a maximum length of 50,000 characters, including spaces and not including the abstract.

• The title of the manuscript should have 15 words or fewer.

• The abstract (200-250 words) should explain the overall theme and the research problem as well as the objectives and / or hypotheses, methodology, analysis of the material and main conclusions. Authors are discouraged to write the abstract in the first person singular. The journal does not request an abstract in English from the author. Once the article has been approved, such abstract is prepared by a translator hired by the journal.

• The article should have 3 to 5 keywords.

• Possible acknowledgements should be cited with the title, but in a footnote, and without any direct or indirect reference to the authorship.

• Tables, charts, graphs, and figures (photos, drawings and maps) should be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they appear in the text and should include appropriate headers. Legends should appear right below each figure. Maps should contain graph scales and legends.

• Images must be grayscale, be scanned electronically in JPG format with 300 dpi or higher resolution and have dimensions that allow reducing or enlarging them without impairing their readability. All images must be submitted as separate files and named according to their references in the text (e.g., Graph 1).

• Explanatory footnotes should be avoided and used only when strictly necessary for understanding the text. Their maximum length should be three lines. Notes should be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the order in which they appear in the text. Citations in the text should meet the following criteria:

  a) quotations of up to three lines should be run in - integrated into the text in the same font size as the text - enclosed in quotation marks and be followed by the following information in parentheses: last name of the author of the quote, the
  year of publication and page numbers;

  b) quotations longer than three lines should be set off as block quotations - that is, in a new paragraph with a hanging indent of 4 cm on the left, 11 point font, without quotation marks;

  c) if there is no quotation, but just a reference to some work, the author's last name should be cited in parentheses in capital letters along with the year of publication.

• References must conform strictly with the technical standard NBR6023 of August 30, 2002 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT). Only works cited in the text should be included in the reference list, under the heading References, at the end of the article and on a separate page.