ISSN 0103-7307 printed version
ISSN 1980-6248 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Sending of manuscripts

Pro-Posições Journal aims at publicizing the academic production in the area of Education. It publishes unpublished articles, essays, reviews, documents and texts from out of print publications.

General rules for sending the manuscripts for publication

DIRECTIONS – The papers must be sent to the journal administration – in printing form and on a CD or diskette – in Word for Windows format, mentioning, in a letter, the complete title, the author’s name, a detailed position in the institution where he/she works (department, faculty or institute, programs, campus, etc.), address, electronic address and telephone numbers for contact (include an electronic address which can be published with the article). The papers will be received for evaluation, assumed to be unpublished and to have never been sent to other periodicals.  

LANGUAGES – Pro-Posições receives texts in Portuguese and in the following languages: German, Spanish, French, English and Italian. Except for the articles in Spanish, the texts will be translated into Portuguese and also published, in the online version, in its original language.   

BLIND REVIEW SYSTEM – The complete title of the article, the author’s name and the name of the institution where he/she works must be only on a front page, in order to assure his/her anonymity in the evaluation process of the article. The first page of the article itself must include its title and omit the author’s name as well as his/her workplace, in addition to avoiding any mention of possibilities of their identification in the text body. After the article being approved for publication, necessary information can be added.

LAYOUT AND EXTENSION – The papers must be presented on A4 sheets (297 x 210mm), double-spaced, with minimum 3-cm margins. They must be typed in Times New Roman, font size 12. The articles must contain a maximum of 25 pages, and the reviews, a maximum of five pages. Highlights must be made with quotation marks and italics, rather than bold face or underline.

TITLES, ABSTRACTS and KEY WORDS – The titles, regardless of the original language, must have an English version and must be concise and clearly specify the subject contained in the article. Each article must present an abstract of 150 words maximum, with up to five key words, always accompanied by a an English version  (abstract and key words).

QUOTATIONS and REFERENCES – The short literal quotations shall be integrated to the paragraph, in quotation marks (do not use italics) and followed by the  surname of the author of the referred text, the year of the publication as well as the page or pages of the quoted text, in parentheses (author’s surname, year, p.xx-xx). When the quoted author integrates the sentence, only the year and the page shall be placed in parentheses (year, p. xx). The quotations (year, p. xx) of more than three lines shall be highlighted in the text in a special paragraph, leaving a 4-cm space on the left. The references without a literal quotation must be incorporated into the text, in parentheses, indicating the author’s surname and the year of the publication (author, year).   

ILLUSTRATION, FIGURES and TABLES – The illustrations, figures and tables must be in the printed text body and contain legends (figures and illustrations) or statements (tables). The figures must be accompanied, whenever possible, by the originals, or else scanned at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and saved in separate files.

CLARIFYING NOTES – The clarifying notes shall be numbered consecutively inside the text, in footnote form.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES – At the end of the paper, only the bibliographic references mentioned in the text must be included, in alphabetical order, in compliance with ABNT norms (NBR 6023/2002), as in the examples below.

“The accuracy of the references contained in the listing and the correct quotation of the texts are a responsibility of the author(s) of the papers”. 

a) One-author books:

SURNAME, Name. Title in italics. Edition. Place of edition: Publishing company, edition year, number of pages.

b) Two-author books:

SURNAME, Name; SURNAME, Name. Same as in the first example.

c) Three-author books:

SURNAME, Name; SURNAME, Name; SURNAME, Name. Same as in the first example.

d) Books by more than three authors:

SURNAME, Name et al. Same as in the first example.

e) Chapters/Article from a book:

SURNAME, Name. Title of article. In: SURNAME, Name (Ed./Org.). Book title in italics. Same as in the first example.

f) Articles and Journals:

SURNAME, Name. Article title without quotation marks or italics. Journal Name in italics, place, volume, issue, page(s), date (month and year).

g) Dissertations and Theses:

SURNAME, Name. Dissertation or thesis title. Year. Number of pages. Dissertation/Thesis (Master’s Degree/Doctorate in xxx [area]) – Institution name (Faculty, University), place.

h) Journal articles:

SURNAME, Name. Article title without quotation marks or italics. Journal name in italics. Place, date, Part/Section, page(s).

i) E-publications:

SURNAME, Name. Text or article title. Publication title (site, magazine), place, issue, date (month and year). Available at: <http://www._______> (electronic address). Access on: (date).

EVALUATION PROCESS – After the preliminary formal review, the editorial staff forwards the paper to the autonomous judgement of referees or evaluators, whose competence areas are related to the theme of the text. Their evaluation, partially or completely, may be, as determined by the Editorial Commission, sent to the authors, being the identification of the appraiser kept confidential.

The sending of any collaboration automatically implies the entire cession of its copyrights to Pro-Posições, who is not obliged to return the originals of the examined collaborations.

IDEOLOGICAL RESPONSIBILITY – The articles whose authors are identified represent the expression of the point of view of their authors, rather than the official position of Pro-Posições Journal or the Faculty of Education of Unicamp.

RECEIVING ADDRESS:

Faculdade de Educação – Unicamp
Revista Pro-Posições
Av. Bertrand Russell, 801 – Bloco C – 1º piso
Caixa Postal 6120 – Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz
13083-970 – Campinas – SP
e-mail: proposic@unicamp.br