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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and editorial policy
• Presentation of manuscripts
• Submission procedures and assessment of manuscripts
• Copyright
• Contact

Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) is a quarterly publication of the Post-graduate program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, which issues are composed of a generalist section and a dossier section. It publishes non published works in psychology and related areas, which fall into the following categories: (1) reports of research based on empirical data, (2) theoretical studies, (3) critical reviews of literature, and (4) book reviews. In cases of real academic and/or scientific innovation, reports of professional experience (description of procedures and strategies, or case studies) and technical notes (description of instruments and original techniques research) are also accepted.

Manuscripts submitted to the Generalist section should be submitted through the internet, directly at the Magazine's website (http://www.epsic.psicologia.ufrn.br). All and any submission will be received under the condition that the material was never published, nor is under evaluation by another magazine. The submissions will be initially examined by the Editorial Committee. If they are in accordance with the rules for publication and are considered as potentially publishable by Estudos de Psicologia (Natal), they will be forwarded for peer review.

The dossier section is organized by a guest editor of an area of expression within psychology, and it receives articles directed to the subject or to the dossier area, also submitted through the website. What differs from the Generalist section is the thematic specificity and, in some cases, the way of submission - spontaneously or by invitation.

The double blind review process (which preserves the identity of authors and consultants) will be the same for both sections, whether the manuscript proceeds from any way of submission.

The collection of articles already published in Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) is available, in full text, at the electronic library SciELO (http://www.scielo.br/epsic) and they must be consulted by authors who plan to submit their production for the first time.

1. The manuscripts should be written preferably in Portuguese, as editorial standards established in these "rules", which are adapted from the 6th edition of the Publicação Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2010. As an alternative to the original query of this manual, we suggest the Manuais de Normalização de Trabalhos Científicos, available at the Virtual Health Library website (BVS-Psi ULAPSI Brazil). The file of the manuscript should include: heading in Portuguese, shortened heading, abstract and keywords, text of the work organized into sections (with respective subheadings), followed by the list of bibliographical references. After these, if any, tables, figures, notes and appendices. The file of the manuscript must be uploaded at the Magazine' website, after having met the requirements for registration of the submission indicated there. This file must be in the format of any word processor convertible to Word for Windows standard. Files containing special edition features such as tags, revision control, hyphenation, or macros will not be accepted. Below are the items for the submission of the manuscript:

• Formatting:

  A4 sheet

  Margins: left 3.0; other sides 2 mm;

  Number of pages in the upper right corner in Arabic numerals. Note: numbering from the cover sheet.

  Font: Times New Roman, 12

  Double line spacing throughout its length.

It is crucial that the material does not contain any form of identification of authorship, which includes reference to previous work of the author (s), method details that allow the identification/location of origin, as well as information contained in document properties (for author information in the document properties go to "file"-> "Properties" for versions prior to Microsoft Office 2007, and "file"-> "Prepare"-> "Properties" to Microsoft Office 2007)

2. The initial pages should contain:

(a) title of the manuscript;

 

(b) suggestion of short title;

 

(c) summary in Portuguese, with a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 150 words in the case of reports of research, theoretical and critical reviews; and 50 to 100, in the case of reports of professional experience and technical notes;

 

(d) indication of three to five keywords in Portuguese, in lowercase, separated by semicolons.

 

(e) title of the manuscript in English (translation of the title in Portuguese);

 

(f) abstract (summary translation into English);

 

(g) indication of three to five keywords (keyword translation into English), lowercase, separated by semicolons. Note: Pay attention to the quality of keywords and do not include phrases.

3. The limits of pages listed below include cover sheet, summary, abstract, text, pictures, tables, references, notes and appendices:

(a) 25 pages for reports of research, theoretical and critical reviews of literature;

 

(b) 15 pages for reports of professional experience and technical notes;

 

(c) 5 pages for reviews

4. Figures and charts should be included in separate files and registered in the field for "additional documentation", identified by number and title, and prepared according to the following standards: in black and white or color, font 10, simple line spacing and may not exceed the size 17.5 x 23.5 cm. As they must be registered in separate documents, it is necessary the indication in the body text of the approximate location where each them should be included. The final use of such material may be conditioned to sending the file in special formats of the matching software, such as may occur in the case of certain graphics, scanned copies, photographs and other illustrations.

5. Bibliographical references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the text, by the names of authors and chronologically per author, as standards of the 6th Edition of the Manual Publication of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2010. Examples of most common cases for guidance are presented, including characters in italics and retreat approximately 5 spaces from the second row, under formatting that should be employed in the manuscripts submitted to the Magazine.

5.1. Books and works taken in full:

Chauí, M. (1984). Repressão sexual: essa nossa (des)conhecida. São Paulo: Brasiliense.

Moura, M. L. S., & Correa, J. (1997). Estudo psicológico do pensamento: de W. Wundt a uma Ciência da Cognição. Rio de Janeiro: EDERJ.

Conselho Federal de Psicologia. (Org.). (1988). Quem é o psicólogo brasileiro? São Paulo: Edicon.

Sabadini, A. A. Z. P., Sampaio, M. I., & Koller, S. H. (2009). (Orgs.). Publicar em Psicologia: um enfoque para a revista científica [versão em PDF]. Recuperado de http://publicarempsicologia.blogspot.com/

5.2. Chapters of compilations:

Frigotto, G. (1998). A educação e a formação técnico-profissional frente à globalização excludente e o desemprego estrutural. In L. H. Silva (Org.), A escola cidadã no contexto da globalização (pp. 218238). Petrópolis: Vozes.

Grimm, L. G., & Yarnold, P. R. (1995). Introduction to multivariate statistics. In L. G. Grimm & P. R. Yarnold (Orgs.), Reading and understanding multivariate statistics (pp. 1-18).Washington: American Psychological Association.

Rocha, N. M. S., & Alencar, M. A. (2009). Pioneiros da Psicologia brasileira: diversidade e ética. In M. A.

T. Ribeiro, J. S. Bernardes, & C. E. Lang (Orgs.), A produção na diversidade: compromissos éticos e políticos em Psicologia (pp. 207-230). São Paulo: Casa do Psicólogo.

5.3. Articles in scientific journals:

Sawaia, B. B. (2009). Psicologia e desigualdade social: uma reflexão sobre liberdade e transformação social. Psicologia & Sociedade, 21(3), 364-372. doi: 10.1590/S0102-71822009000300010

Mello, S. L. (1992). Classes populares, família e preconceito. Psicologia USP, 3, 123-130.

Nicolaci-da-Costa, A. M., Romão-Dias, D., & Di Luccio, F. (2009). Uso de entrevistas on-line no método de explicitação do discurso subjacente (MEDS). Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, 22(1), 36-43.

Yamamoto, O. H., Koller, S. H., Guedes, M. C., LoBianco, A. C., Sá, C. P., Hutz, C. S., ... Menandro, P.

R. M. (1999). Periódicos científicos em Psicologia: uma proposta de avaliação. Infocapes, 7(3), 5-11.

5.4. Dissertations and theses:

Ferreira, J. H. B. P. (2009). Sócio-sexualidade e Desconto do Futuro: mecanismo de alocação de investimento e tomada de decisão (Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo).

Paiva, I. L. (2008). Os novos quixotes da Psicologia e a prática social no âmbito do "terceiro setor" (Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal). Recuperado de http://bdtd.bczm.ufrn.br/tedesimplificado//tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1982

Note: In case of dissertations and theses accessed in digital databases, inform website

5.5. Non-publishedd works or in press:: Ting, J. Y., Florsheim, P., & Huang, W. (2008). Mental health help-seeking in ethnic minority populations: a theoretical perspective. Manuscrito submetido para publicação.

Goulart, P. M. (no prelo). Adaptação do Questionário sobre Significados do trabalho - QST à cultura brasileira. Estudos de Psicologia (Natal).

5.6. Works presented at scientific events and published in annals:

Meneghini, R., & Campos-de-Carvalho, M. I. (1995). Áreas circunscritas e agrupamentos sequenciais entre crianças em creches. In Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia (Org.), XXV Reunião Anual de Psicologia. Resumos (p. 385). Ribeirão Preto: Autor.

Trzesniak, P. (2009, maio). 23 anos de Psicologia: o acervo digital científico e administrativo da Anpepp. Comunicação apresentada no 6º Congresso Norte Nordeste de Psicologia, Belém. Resumo recuperado de http://www.conpsi6.ufba.br/

5.7. Works presented at scientific events and non-published

Haidt, J., Dias, M. G., & Koller, S. (1991, fevereiro). Disgust, disrespect and culture: moral judgment of victimless violation in the USA and Brazil. Comunicação apresentada em Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico.

5.8. Old work and re-edited much later in date and translations

Piaget, J. (1973). A linguagem e o pensamento da criança (3^a ed., M. Campos, Trad.). Rio de Janeiro: Fundo de Cultura. (Texto original publicado em 1956)

Note: in the body text, the notation should be the following: Piaget (1956/1973).

5.9. Institutional authorship: American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual (6^a ed.). Washington: Autor.

5.10. Legislative documents:

Decreto n. 3.298. (1999, 20 de dezembro). Regulamenta a política nacional para a integração da pessoa portadora de deficiência, consolida as normas de proteção e dá outras providências. Brasília, DF: Presidência da República.

Lei n. 9.394, de 20 de dezembro de 1996. (1996, 23 de dezembro). Estabelece as Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional. Diário Oficial da União, seção 1. Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil. (1988, 5 de outubro). Recuperado de http://www.senado.gov.br/sf/legislacao/const/

5.11. Personal Communications:

Cartas, conversas (telefônicas ou pessoais) e mensagens de correio eletrônico não devem ser incluídas na seção de Referências, mas apenas no texto, na forma iniciais e sobrenome do emissor e data (S. L. Mello, comunicação pessoal, 15 de setembro de 1995).

5.12. Secondary Citations:

When it is absolutely inevitable, one can mention a text in another publication queried with no consulting to the original. In this case, in the References section it should be mentioned only the works consulted and in body text, it should be indicated the authors of the two texts, as for example: "Piaget (citado por Flavell, 1996)."

5.13. Material obtained from the internet:

The examples below illustrate the most common cases. For a more complete treatment, see the APA Manual, and/or to information available at the website of APA: http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html. Associação de Moradores de Vila Real. (2002). Carta aberta à Prefeitura Municipal. Recuperado de http://www.amvr.atas/cartaaberta.html

Precisamos vencer a dengue agora (s/d). Recuperado de http://www.ansp.campanhas/saude/docs/

6. Bibliographical references without the exact quote must be incorporated into the text in brackets and in alphabetical order, following the pattern:

(a) up to two authors, surname (s) and year of publication in all the citations;

 

(b) three to five authors, authors ' surname is quoted in the first and, from the second time on, only the first author' surname followed by "et al." and year of publication;

 

(c) six authors or more, the surname of the first author followed by "et al." and year all citations.

7. In case of exact quote as well as the excerpt of interview, the excerpt must appear in quotation marks, with indication of -shortly after citation-the page (s) where it was withdrawn. Excerpts with more than 40 words should be placed in a separate block, without quotation marks, nor italics, 5 spaces indentation in relation to the left margin of the paragraph (equivalent to 0, 5 cm of the paragraph). Pay attention to the notations for presentation of citations in the Publication Manual of the APA. See example:

Keller (2002) states that the first task of child development consists of developing learning relationships with primary caregivers, and conceptualizes learning as: a development process, guided by epigenetic rules that direct the attention of babies to their social partners and allow an easy learning of the parameters that define relations within a specific context and, consequently, the development of a contextual self (p. 217).

To explain the epigenetic rules, Keller (2002) uses two concepts created by Mayr (1988): fixed programs and open programs.

8. Footnotes should be confined to complementation of information that, considered relevant, do not fit into the logical sequence of the text. Bibliographical notes are not recommended.

9. Any additional material considered essential for the understanding of the text (questionnaires, interview protocols, tests, etc.) or very long tables should be presented in the Appendix, under a new page, identified by capital letters (Appendix A, Appendix B, etc.). The numbering of each table presented in the appendix should be preceded by the letter identifying the Appendix (Table A1, Table C4, etc.). For details, consult the Publications Manual of APA.

The manuscripts that fit into the working arrangements specified above and that follow strict rules of presentation of the manuscript, will go through the following steps:

1. Preliminary evaluation -the quality and relevance of the content of the manuscript to the thematic areas of interest will be evaluated, considering the originality and theoretical-methodological consistency, depending on the section in which the manuscript is submitted. Such evaluation shall be performed by the Publisher of Estudos de Psicologia (Natal) and, eventually, by a member of the Editorial Committee or of the Scientific Council of the Magazine and may result in refusal of the process.

2. Initial Verification - it will be checked if the manuscript meets satisfactorily the requirements of:

a) not having any form of identification of authorship;

b) being fully appropriate to the rules of the 6th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 2010;

(c) having the number of pages within the limits stipulated for the section in which it was submitted. The breach of any of these three items is sufficient for the initial refusal of the material, which is why we recommend to authors to make a thorough check-list of their manuscripts before submission. We emphasize that manuscripts rejected twice for the inadequacy of these items will not be received again.

3. Evaluation by peers - forwarding for a minimum of two opinions by members of the Scientific Council of the Magazine and/or ad hoc consultants, with the possibility of recommendation for acceptance, redrafting or refusal of the manuscript.

4. Notification to authors:

a) Preliminary editorial Decision - notification of recommendation for redrafting as soon as possible and providing integral copies of opinions, preserved the identities of consultants. The manuscripts reformulated will be examined by the Editorial Committee, which will decide, based on the recommendations of the consultants, for the acceptance for publication, for the need for additional redrafting or for the refusal. In case of acceptance for publication, the Editorial Committee reserves the right to make minor changes for standardization as the Magazine's editorial parameters;

b) editorial Decision - notification of the final decision regarding publication or manuscript, always by the publishing trade.

We re-emphasize that the process of evaluation by peers uses the double blind system review, preserving the identity of authors and consultants. For that reason, not identifying the authorship of the manuscript is an essential criterion for the beginning of the process of evaluation.

The approval of the texts implies the immediate transfer and without charge of the publication rights in the Magazine Estudos de Psicologia (Natal), which will have the exclusivity of publishing them first hand. The author will continue, nevertheless, to hold the copyrights for later publications. In case of republication of articles on other vehicles, it is recommended the reference to the first publication in Estudos de Psicologia (Natal).

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