ISSN 0103-6513 printed version
ISSN 1980-5411 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Article Review Process
• Manuscripts' form and presentation
• Submission online

The journal Produção has the aim to disseminate the knowledge in production engineering by publishing relevant articles produced by this scientific community.

The submitted papers must contain original contributions as the development of theory/concepts or results provided from empirical searches with employment of innovator methods.

The papers must have been neither accepted for publication nor in evaluation process in other periodicals.

The authors may submit papers in Portuguese, English and Spanish. However, the Editorial Committee recommends submissions in English language.

The evaluation process of submitted articles for the journal Produção obey the following steps:

1 - The submitted paper is preliminarily evaluated in aspects related to compliance of the format and rules of the periodical.

2 - For the articles in accordance with step 1, an Associate Editor will be assigned by Chief-in- Editor to examine the adequacy of the paper related to editorial's policy of the journal Produção. Additionally, the quality of presentation (clarity, style and text organization, as well as the structural aspects of a scientific article) and the adequacy of the text to the interests of the readership of the journal Produção are also examined;

3 - Articles approved in step 2 are then sent to two or more reviewers for a blind- review. The final recommendation of the paper will be decided by Editor-in-chief or Co-Editors and will be based on the opinions of the reviewers and the Editorial Board. Articles with recommendation of minor or major revision will suffer a final evaluation to verify if the requests/suggestions of the reviewers and / or Editorial Board have been met.

Submission of a paper implies that its publication has been approved by all coauthors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities of the institution where the work was developed. (by signing a term of copyright).

The author(s) is (are) responsible for the content of the article published in the journal, which must comply with the copyright and ethical principles. Production journal accepts no liability for errors or omissions that may have occurred or which may be identified.

The original declaration of responsibility and copyrights agreement form (Form_Copyrights Agreement file - attached) must be properly fulfill, signed and sent to journal Produção before the article publication.

Authors guidelines:

1. The articles should be between 4.000 and 8.000 words in length, including references.
2. First page of the submitted paper in English language must contain: title, abstract and at most 5 (five) key-words, followed by the same topics in Portuguese. The title should be concise, however informative, of not more than 15 words. The abstracts maximum is 150 words in total, stating the purpose of the study, methodological approach; findings and conclusions.
3. Format requirement: the manuscript must be typed in Word for Windows 6.0 or update version, A4 size, all margins - 2.5 cm, Times New Roman 12 point size font and 1.5 line spacing.
4. The references must follow Harvard style (ABNT-NBR-6023). References should be shown within the text by giving the author's last name followed by a comma and year of publication all in round brackets. At the end of the article should be a reference list in alphabetical order.
5. Notes/Endnotes/footnotes should not be used
6. Figures, charts and diagrams should be identified in the text by consecutive numbers with a brief title and source.
7. For photographic images, good quality original files should be separated submitted in jpg format and their position in the text should be shown.

The articles are the author(s)' sole responsibility. Ethical principles should be observed. All trademark and copyright use within the manuscript must be credited to its owner. The article copyright will be transferred to the exclusive ownership of Produção journal. See Form_Copyrights Agreement file - attached.

1 - Access the site: http://producao.submitcentral.com.br

New User: Click on Make New Registration. Complete the registration form by completing the data with the information requested. Click Perform Register

User already registered, use the login and password.

2 - Author's Panel, click Start a New Submission
3 - Five steps are required to submit an article:
Step 1: Enter Data Title / Abstract and Keywords
Step 2: Enter data of the authors and their affiliations
Step 3: Sending files (Manuscript, tables, figures, supplementary files). Note: All files should NOT contain names and affiliations of the authors.
Step 4: General Information Article
Step 5: Review and finalize the submission