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

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Manuscripts' form and presentation
• Submission online

Articles review process

Every article submitted to Produção Journal is preliminarily subject to the Editorial Board review procedures, which analyze if the article matchs the editorial policy and scope as well as if it is prepared according to the journal required format.

The selected articles are sent to double blind peer review process. The referees are selected from the Editorial Advisory Board and ad hoc referees are selected when special expertise is required.

The Produção Journal overall review process is shown in Figure 1.

The author(s) will receive the follow up of the review process by e-mail. Once accepted to be published, the article will be schedule to be published in Produção Journal by the Editorial Board.

The original declaration of responsibility and copyrights agreement form (Form_Copyrights Agreement file - attached) must be properly fulfill, signed and sent to Produção Journal 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: title, abstract and 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 should be used only if absolutely necessary, identified in the text by consecutive numbers and listed at the end of the article, before references.

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.

8. Submitted papers must be original, not being in the process of evaluation for publication by any other periodical.

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