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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Editorial policies and guidelines for authors were read and accepted.
  • This contribution is original, unpublished, and has not been published in books, magazines, or journals
  • The contribution is not currently being evaluated for publication by another journal, nor will it be submitted until Bras-J's final answer
  • All graphs, charts, table and figures include the original primary source
  • Metadata has been removed, following available instructions to ensure blind review
  • The submission file is in .docx or .odt format
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  • I agree to the terms of the copyright license and the privacy statement

Author Guidelines

BraS-J publishes original research dealing with Brazil’s politics, sociology, economics, communications, and international relations. Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that fall within this focus and that are not under current consideration by other publications or have been published elsewhere and/or in another language, with the exception of congress annals which do not hold rights to the publication. BraS-J does not publish translations of previously published materials.

Submissions must be made through this website, following the guidelines described below. Any copyrighted material must have a signed permission of the owner to be published in the article and must be submitted with the manuscript. All authors should follow the style guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. Citations and references can be made automatically using Citation Machine

Feel free to message an editor if you have any queries. 

Blind Review

BraS-J performs double-blind reviews. To ensure this process, authors are asked to delete any information that may be used for self-identification. This includes multiple self-citations or citation of unpublished material as monographs and dissertations. All acknowledgement to colleagues and institutions should be deleted, as previous versions of the same work. All of these may be included after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Article types

  1. Research articles
  2. Book reviews
  3. Dossiers

Structure

All manuscripts should be in a .doc format. Articles should be limited to a maximum of 10,000 words, including all elements: citations, references, notes, tables, appendices, or any other material included. Book reviews should have a limit of 3,000 words. Manuscripts that exceed the referred length will be returned to the authors to be shortened. 

Title 

The title should be written in English and it should not contain more than 20 words and may include expressions in other languages in extraordinary cases.

Abstract

The abstract must include the main arguments, methodology used and conclusion in the main text and it must not be longer than 200 words and it should be written in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Five different keywords should be added under the abstract, after “Keywords:”. Choose the words that reflect the area, theory, the object or any other that will improve the search for your work.

Main text

Headings and subheadings should be written in bold or italics and in a different font size.  They should not be numbered.

Acknowledgments 

Acknowledgments should be sent only after the article has been accepted for publication. This aims at securing a blind peer review process.  

Competing interests

Any competing interests should be declared when submitting an article for review. 

Notes

All noting should be used for further information and not for referencing and must be done using the tools of your manuscript software. All citations of relevant bibliography written in notes should also be included under References. 

References

All references used during the article or review must be at the end of the manuscript, under “References”. We discourage self-citation. Please keep in mind that the final list of references is destined exclusively to the ones mentioned throughout the text, and our editorial team may ask to reduce a disproportionate number of references.  

Citing and references examples:

1. Single Author or Editor

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Year of Publication. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher’s Name.

Gladwell, Malcolm. 2000. The Tipping Point: How Little Things an Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown.

Citation in text: (Author’s Last Name Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Gladwell 2000, 64–65); Gladwell (2000)

2. Multiple Authors

For a book with two authors, use the following pattern: Author #1’s Last Name, Author #1’s First Name, and Author #2’s First and Last Names. Year of Publication. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication Publisher’s Name.

Morey, Peter, and Amina Yaqin. 2011. Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Citation in text: (Author #1’s Last Name and Author #2’s Last Name Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Morey and Yaqin 2011, 52)

For a book with three authors, adapt the pattern as follows: Author #1’s Last Name, Author #1’s First Name, Author #2’s First and Last Names, and Author #3’s First and Last Names. Year of Publication. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication Publisher’s Name.

Soss, Joe, Richard C. Fording, and Sanford F. Schram. 2011. Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Citation in text: (Author #1’s Last Name, Author #2’s Last Name, and Author #3’s Last Name Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Soss, Fording, and Schram 2011, 135–36)

For a book with four or more authors, adapt the parenthetical citation pattern only as follows: (Author #1’s Last Name et al. Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Bernstein et al. 2010, 114–15)

3. Author(s) Plus Editor or Translator

For a book with an author plus an editor, use the following pattern: Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Year of Publication. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Edited by Editor’s First and Last Names. Place of Publication: Publisher’s Name.

Austen, Jane. 2011. Persuasion: An Annotated Edition. Edited by Robert Morrison. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Citation in text: (Author’s Last Name Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Austen 2011, 311–12)

If a book has a translator instead of an editor, substitute the phrase Translated by and the translator’s name for the editor data in the reference list entry.

4. Single Chapter in an Edited Book

Chapter Author’s Last Name, Chapter Author’s First Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Chapter: Subtitle of Chapter.” In Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, edited by Editor’s First and Last Names, YY–YY. Place of Publication: Publisher’s Name.

Ramirez, Angeles. 2010. “Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: The Persistence of Subaltern Images.” In Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality, edited by Faegheh Shirazi, 227–14. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Citation in text: (Chapter Author’s Last Name Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Ramirez 2010, 231)

5. Journal Article in Print

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Article: Subtitle of Article.” Title of Journal Volume Number, Issue Number (Additional Date Information): YY–YY.

Bogren, Alexandra. 2011. “Gender and Alcohol: The Swedish Press Debate.” Journal of Gender Studies 20, no. 2 (June): 155–69.

Citation in text: (Author’s Last Name Year of Publication, XX–XX)

(Bogren 2011, 156)

For an article with multiple authors, follow the relevant pattern for authors’ names in template 2.

6. Journal Article Online

For a journal article consulted online, include an access date and a URL. For articles that include a DOI, form the URL by appending the DOI to http://dx.doi.org/ rather than using the URL in your address bar.

Author’s Last Name, Author’s First Name. Year of Publication. “Title of Article: Subtitle of Article.” Title of Journal Volume Number, Issue Number (Additional Date Information): YY–YY. Accessed Date of Access. URL.

Kiser, Lisa J. 2011. “Silencing the Lambs: Economics, Ethics, and Animal Life in Medieval Franciscan Hagiography.” Modern Philology 108, no. 3 (February): 323–42. Accessed September 18, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/658052.

(Author’s Last Name Year of Publication, xx)

(Kiser 2011, 340)

 

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1. The ideas and opinions expressed in the submitted manuscript are the sole responsibility of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the journal

2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after the publication acceptance, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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