Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política
Brief Background
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Lua Nova is published by the Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea (CEDEC; Center for Contemporary Culture Studies) and was founded in 1984 as a journal for debate and intervention on the major issues mobilizing Brazilian society during the period of redemocratization. From 1988 onwards, starting with issue 15, it adopted its current format, organized around thematic sections and individual articles. It is aimed at in-depth reflection, encompassing both empirical analysis and theoretical frameworks, on issues related to three basic fields: democracy, citizenship, and rights. Currently, it is a top-tier publication in the academic field, with high evaluations from research funding agencies and national and international indexing. In the latest Qualis Periódicos [Brazilian journal ranking system] classification (2021-2024), Lua Nova is listed as A2 in the area of Political Science and International Relations. Lua Nova is published every four months. The abbreviation of its title is Lua Nova, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, and bibliographical references and legends. |
Open Access
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This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (without any financial or other access restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY ), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, process them as data using software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. |
Open Science Compliance
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Lua Nova fosters Open Science practices, such as transparent management and the provision of data underlying the articles. The journal also promotes transparency through the gradual opening of the manuscript evaluation process and the public dissemination of research findings. Manuscripts deposited as preprints must be reported using the Open Science Compliance Form at the time of submission to the journal. |
Ethics in Publication
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We follow the “Guide to Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing,” which establishes ethics and integrity standards for academic publishing. We adopt the “Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing,” recommended by COPE, as an integral part of our editorial practices. |
Focus and Scope
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Founded during the period of Brazil's redemocratization, Lua Nova prioritizes in-depth reflections, both in empirical analysis and theoretical foundations, on issues related to three basic fields: democracy, citizenship, and rights. Lua Nova focuses on fostering reflection that provides foundations and depth to substantive contemporary issues, seeking what is public within them and their insertion into the international panorama, with an emphasis on the position of Brazil and the Global South. It also gives special attention to both national and international theoretical perspectives. The journal accepts only original, unpublished manuscripts that provide substantial analytical contributions aligned with its scope. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Digital Preservation Policy. All issues of Lua Nova, since its first volume, are fully available on SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online). |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
Preprints
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Articles previously published as preprints may be submitted for publication in Lua Nova, with their evaluation conditional upon editorial analysis, observing the journal’s focus and scope and criteria. Manuscripts deposited as preprints must be reported using the Open Science Compliance Form at the time of submission to the journal. |
Peer Review Process
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All contributions sent to Lua Nova will be submitted to the journal’s Editorial Board. In line with its editorial policy, they initially undergo a preliminary analysis by the Board, aimed at verifying their suitability to the journal's focus and scope. Once approved at this stage, the editorial team will forward the manuscript for peer review, conducted by two external reviewers. The Board holds the final decision on publication, reserving the right to suggest modifications to the author(s) to align the manuscript with the journal’s scope and editorial standards. It is therefore recommended that the Focus and Scope and Instructions to Authors be observed before forwarding manuscripts to the journal. The final approved article will include the name(s) of the editor(s) responsible for its evaluation. |
Open Data
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In accordance with Open Science procedures, manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement of availability of the research data underlying the texts, both used and produced. Authors must therefore complete and submit the Open Science Compliance Form at the time of submission. |
Fees
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Authors do not incur any fees for submission, peer review, or publication of their articles. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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Lua Nova follows the Guide to Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing . These guidelines strengthen the journal’s editorial mechanisms to prevent, identify, and address potential ethical deviations in scientific publishing. As part of this commitment, the journal uses similarity detection tools to ensure the originality of submissions.
The peer review process is conducted with technical rigor and observance of the principles of confidentiality, impartiality, and integrity, with editors and reviewers responsible for issuing substantiated and respectful reviews. In situations raising doubts about methodological consistency or the authenticity of data, images, or results, information and supporting documents may be requested from the authors. Confirmed cases of irregularities are handled according to SciELO protocols (Guidelines for Correction , Retraction and Addendum ), which may result in the publication of an erratum, addendum, expression of concern, or retraction, in whole or in part, duly justified and linked to the original article. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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A conflict of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. Upon submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is a conflict of interest, even potentially, the author(s) must state it in a specific signed document attached to the submission platform. For additional information, visit: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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The journal Lua Nova reserves the right to submit the article to peer review requesting extra attention regarding plagiarism detection, as well as to check for possible instances of plagiarism with the help of specific software such as Turnitin. The journal reserves the right not to accept articles with a high level of self-plagiarism for evaluation. It is the authors’ duty to guarantee the originality of the manuscript, as well as, in the case of using excerpts from other articles, to provide the proper citations. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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Lua Nova declares that it does not use Artificial Intelligence tools for editorial decision-making. Authors must be fully responsible for the conception, writing, analysis, and interpretation of the submitted content. If AI tools have been used to support linguistic revision or formal enhancement of the manuscript, this use must be declared at the time of submission. Consulting the Guide to the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools and Resources is also recommended. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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The editorial team of Lua Nova, in addition to the authors publishing in the journal, must always comply with the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines. The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. Moreover, Lua Nova observes a gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board. |
Ethics Committee
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Authors must attach a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research, whenever applicable. |
Copyright
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Authors of articles published by Lua Nova retain the copyright of their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is correctly cited. In exchange, authors grant the journal the right of first publication under the same license. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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Since August 2015, Lua Nova has adopted the Creative Commons BY attribution license, which authorizes the free redistribution and reuse of published content, including for commercial purposes. It is mandatory to credit the original authors and the publication source in accordance with SciELO standards. For articles published until July 2015, the Creative Commons BY-NC license applies. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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The publication receives funding from:
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Editor-in-Chief
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Editorial Board
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Assistant Editor and Editorial Production Editor
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Assistant Editors
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Technical Team
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The publication of an article is the sole responsibility of the author, and therefore does not express the endorsement of the Editorial Board. All approved works, upon their final publication in Lua Nova, will receive their Digital Object Identifier (DOI). |
Types of Documents Accepted
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Only original and unpublished articles that are not currently being evaluated by another journal will be accepted for submission. Articles previously published as preprints may be submitted for publication in Lua Nova, with their evaluation conditional upon editorial analysis, observing the journal’s focus and scope and criteria. Manuscripts deposited as preprints must be reported using the Open Science Compliance Form at the time of submission to the journal. |
Authors' Contribution
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Lua Nova accepts articles with a maximum of three authors. Authors do not incur any fees for submission, peer review, or publication of their articles. |
Manuscript Preparation
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Manuscripts submitted to Lua Nova must explicitly engage with the journal’s central axes—democracy, citizenship, and rights—presenting in-depth reflection, theoretical and/or analytical density, and a substantive contribution to public debate. Careful reading of the “Focus and Scope” section of Lua Nova is recommended prior to submission, in order to ensure the thematic, theoretical, and methodological suitability of the work to the journal’s guidelines. |
Article Submission Format
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1) Succinct and precise title, avoiding exceeding 1.5 lines. Title also in English. 2) Abstract in Portuguese and English, not exceeding 10 lines (about 1,000 characters with spaces), with four to five keywords. 3) Manuscript file in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx extension) and, except in exceptional cases, not exceeding 25 pages or about 53,000 characters with spaces (configuration: 1.5 spacing; standard margins, A4 paper size). 4) Supplementary document with a brief biographical note of the author(s) not exceeding three lines, indicating current activity and the institution to which they belong; email, contact phone numbers, and ORCID number. (This note does not include previously published works, nor the author’s educational background) 5) Cited sites and links checked, with the access date informed and updated. 6) Tables, charts, graphs, etc., in the body of the text and not at the end of the document as attachments. Moreover, so that they can be edited, send them in the program that generated them, in a separate file(s), for example, in Excel, identifying these files with the title of the article and Table 1, Graph 2, etc.
7) Ensure blind peer review: b. In Microsoft Office documents, author identification must be removed from the document properties (in the File > Properties menu), starting at File on the main menu, and clicking in sequence: File > Info > Check for Issues (or Options on Mac) > Inspect Document... > Remove Document Properties and Personal Information from the file upon saving > OK > Save. Note: Failure to comply with these conditions creates difficulties for submission and obstacles to the publication of the articles, which will thus be returned to their authors and may not be published. |
Digital Assets
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Tables, charts, graphs, etc., must be inserted in the body of the text, and not at the end of the document as attachments. Moreover, so they can be edited, they must be sent in the program in which they were generated, in a separate file(s) (for example, in Excel), identifying these files with the title of the article and the corresponding indication (Table 1, Graph 2, etc.). For color or grayscale figures: minimum quality of 300 dpi. Preferred format: .tiff or .png. For graphs, diagrams, and tables: minimum quality between 600 and 1200 dpi. Preferred format: .eps or .pdf. Colors (for all): RGB mode. It is recommended that tables be editable in Word or Excel, and not as images. If they are in image format, they must follow the same minimum resolution indicated for graphs. |
Citations and References
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1) Lua Nova publishes texts in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Citations in a foreign language must be translated in the body of the text into the language of the article. If it is a free translation, indicate, and, if necessary, insert the original in the footnote. Emphases in the citations must also be clarified as to whether they are from the original author or the author of the article. 2) All citations, however small, must contain their source (author or publication, year, and page); the use of idem and ibidem is not permitted. See Item 11. Citations occupying more than 3 lines in the text must be highlighted in a smaller font size in a separate paragraph. 3) All sources cited in the text must have complete bibliographical information at the end of the article – and NOT as footnotes, according to ABNT Standards adapted to the journal’s standard. See examples in Item 13 or in previous issues of Lua Nova. 4) If in an electronic publication, the cited link or site is no longer accessible, keep the date it was accessed and insert a note regarding it; if in the bibliography, put this information in brackets. 5) Footnotes only complement some information in the text, NEVER insert in them bibliographical references of authors or works that are being discussed, unless it is a secondary citation. 6) All acronyms must be expanded upon their first occurrence in the text. Their meaning, that is, the spelled-out acronym, is repeated throughout the text only if necessary. 7) Underlining and boldface highlights are not used. Italics are reserved mainly for foreign words. Use it sparingly in other situations. Quotation marks are for concepts, citations, ironies, assumptions. 8) Foreign institutions are written in standard font, not in italics, accompanied by their Brazilian Portuguese translation if it is not common knowledge. 9) Avoid word repetitions and language vices, such as “through,” “from,” “crucial” etc.
10) The sources of citations or cross-references to works made in the text follow the author/date system – the author’s name ONLY with the first letter capitalized. Examples: “[…] according to Romano (1996)”; “<quotation or text referring to the author/work>” (Gurgel, 1997, p. 17) or (Vieira and Lopes, 1994), if there are two authors (note that the ampersand “&” is not used), or further (Barbosa Ribeiro, Gomes, and Moreira Jr., 2011). If there is more than one work by the same author in the same year, they are identified both in the text and in the bibliography by the addition of lowercase letters to the date. Example: 11) The indication of the date of an original text or of the 1st edition is not mandatory, only if it suits the clarity of the text or if doing a bibliographic survey. And, in the bibliography, “common” first editions are not annotated. Thus, he asserted, “it falls to the legislator [i.e. the crowd] to correct governments or to change them completely, just as it does to establish them” (Marsilius of Padua, 1956 [1324], p. 87; emphasis added). Marsilius, in fact, transformed the act of appointment into an act of foundation, thereby introducing the idea of sovereignty in terms of a productive multitude, “a universal active causality” that “forms,” “establishes,” and “differentiates” the parts of the state (Marsilius of Padua, 1956 [1324], pp. 26, 63–64). 12) Examples of bibliographical standards and notations:
Book by an author:
Book by two authors or organizers:
Book with more than three authors:
Book chapter or collection article:
Articles in journals:
Paper presented at a conference
Digital publication SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa. 2012. “Oitava carta às esquerdas: as últimas trincheiras”. Carta Maior, ago. Available from: <http://www.cartamaior.com.br/templates/colunaMostrar.cfm?coluna_id=5737>. Accessed on: Jan. 10, 2013. |
Supplementary Documents
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A supplementary document must be submitted containing a succinct biographical note of the author(s), with a maximum of three lines, indicating current activity, the institution to which they belong, email, contact telephone number, and ORCID number. (The note must not include previously published works or academic background.) In the same document, the Funding Declaration must be included. The author(s) must also fill out and attach the Open Science Compliance Form at the time of submission. |
Financing Statement
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State sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations regarding the role of these sources. |
Additional Information
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Authors must take additional care to ensure blind peer review. To ensure the integrity of the evaluation, every possible care must be taken not to reveal the identity of authors and evaluators to each other during the process. This requires that authors, editors, and evaluators (who may upload documents to the system as part of the evaluation process) take some precautions with the text and document properties: a. When citing works of their own authorship, authors must remove any information from the manuscript that identifies them, replacing their names with “Author” (or “Authors”) and indicating only the year of publication in the references and footnotes, instead of the full name, the title of the work, or other identifying data. 2. In Microsoft Office documents, author identification must be removed from the document properties (in the File > Properties menu), starting at File on the main menu, and clicking in sequence: File > Info > Check for Issues (or Options on Mac) > Inspect Document... > Remove Document Properties and Personal Information from the file upon saving > OK > Save. |
Contact
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Centro de Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea (CEDEC; Center for Contemporary Culture Studies), Rua Pedro Américo, 32, 19º andar, República, 01045-010, São Paulo/SP, Brazil, nmello@pucsp.br |
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