ISSN 1517-7076 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Target and politics
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending articles

All the articles are submitted to a careful peer-reviewing evaluation process by the journal's Editorial Board. The Editorial Board, reviewers and authors make use of a web based proprietary automated tool to deal with the reviewing procedures - the Revista Matéria's article reviewing restricted access system - SARRA. Authors are not informed about the identity of the reviewers.

Revista Matéria publishes original articles reviewed and accepted by its Editorial Board. An additional requirement for publication is to fill in and to send to the journal the Authorship Confirmation and Publication Rights form (a copyright assignment form).

http://www.materia.coppe.ufrj.br/Autorship_and_Rights.doc

Revista Matéria accepts scientific articles written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. An abstract, containing up to 300 words, is required in the original language of the article and in English.

The articles must have the following characteristics:

Text formatted in accordance with the standard-manuscript developed in MSWord, already containing the respective links in the text to the bibliography. All the formatting features are explained in this standard-manuscript.

http://www.materia.coppe.ufrj.br/Template_File.dot

Authors can send their articles formatted such as described in "formatting of the article", by two distinct ways:

By e-mail: send an email to the address: materia@labh2.coppe.ufrj.br, attaching the file containing the article.

By up-load: you must initially login in to the SARRA (the Revista Matéria's article reviewing restricted access system). In case you have still not registered yourself, click on the link "register" and fill in the form. As soon as your registration is confirmed you will have access to the SARRA. Once at your restricted area in the SARRA, choose the option "Send your Article" and follow three steps: in the first one there are a few fields to be filled; in the second step some more information and confirmation are required; in the third step you must attach and send your article. A confirmation message will be automatically sent to you right after that.