Submission Guidelines for Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário

General rules

Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário only accepts unpublished contributions of an academic-scientific nature, authored by PhD holders or coauthored by PhD holders and Master’s degree holders (master’s and doctoral students). Submissions may be written in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, or Italian. An article is considered unpublished when it has not been published in any national or international journal, book collections, conference/seminar proceedings, or virtual Internet platforms intended for the dissemination of scientific works.

Article submission

Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário is focused on postgraduate studies and accepts single-authored or coauthored articles; however, it is required that the author or at least one of the coauthors hold a PhD.

Original manuscripts must be submitted to the journal through the access functionality or sent by e-mail to: phs@catolicosnaciencia.org.br.
For submission, the file must be sent in Word format and must not contain any identification of the author(s) in its body. However, a short curriculum vitae must be sent together with the submission e-mail, including full name, academic degree, academic institutional affiliation, Lattes platform link, and e-mail address.

Note: ORCID (http://orcid.org/) is mandatory, as well as title, abstract, keywords, and references.

Article Formatting

The article must comply with the journal’s standards, as exemplified below in the references section, and must have a minimum of 6 pages and a maximum of 30 pages, including title, abstract, biographical summary, keywords, references, illustrations, charts, and tables. The file must be in “.doc” or “.docx” format (text document) and follow these formatting requirements:

• A4 paper;
• Times New Roman font, size 12 for the body text;
• The title, abstract, and keywords must precede the article and be presented in three languages: Portuguese, English, and Spanish;
• When the article is written in one of the other languages accepted by Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário (other than Portuguese, English, or Spanish), it must obligatorily include the abstract in the original language, in Portuguese, and in English;
• Justified alignment throughout the text, including references, with single line spacing;
• Line spacing: 1.5.

3.1 Title

The article title must be in bold, size 14, lowercase (e.g.: The flight of migratory birds). Subtitles and internal sections must be size 12, bold, and lowercase (e.g.: Pandemic challenges: covid-19 and its variants considered “of concern”).

3.2 Abstract

• The abstract must be size 12 and must not exceed 1,500 characters (excluding spaces), formatted with single line spacing;
• 3 to 5 keywords are required, starting with a capital letter and separated by periods, size 12.

3.3 Citations

• Quotations longer than three lines must be size 11, single-spaced, and indented 4 cm from the left margin;
• Margins: 2.5 cm (top, bottom, left, and right).

3.4 References, in-text notes, and footnotes

• References: maximum of 30, with up to 10% being self-citations, and at least 40% from the last 5 years;
• Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário accepts both types of notes: in-text (SOUZA, 2020, p. 220) and/or footnotes (SOUZA, R., Homeless population, p. 220);
• In final references, em dashes are not accepted; the author’s surname must be repeated if more than one work by the same author is cited.

3.5 Recommendations

• Italics should be used only for foreign words and expressions;
• The use of apud should be avoided;
• The use of id., ibid., ibidem, and op. cit. is not accepted;
• Annexes and appendices should be avoided;
• Acronyms must be spelled out when mentioned for the first time in the article.

Notes

a) The text must include: introduction, objective, methodology, results, conclusion, and references;
b) The responsibility for translating the title, abstract, and keywords into a foreign language lies exclusively with the author(s);
c) If the article is accepted, a signed letter from the author(s) will be required, stating authorship and authorizing publication, granting copyright to the journal.

Funded research

In the case of funded research, the Funding Agency field must be completed on the article information input page (metadata) and indicated in a footnote in the document.

Reference standards

Citations and references must necessarily be current, relevant, and pertinent. Articles with an excessive number of citations will not be accepted.

References must be listed at the end of the article, following the journal’s standards, in alphabetical order (AUTHOR’S SURNAME and initials; in some cases, entry by institution or title), and include only works cited in the text.

Multiple works by the same author must be listed in chronological order, from oldest to most recent, without substitution by dashes.

5.1 Reference examples for books:

COSTA JÚNIOR, P. J. Title: subtitle. City: Publisher, year. (Series)

CRUZ, A. C.; PEROTA, M. L. L. R. Title. Edition number. City: Publisher, year.

MARUJO, M. P. et al. (more than three authors). Title. City: Publisher, year.

GONZAGA, W. Chapter title: subtitle. In: SOUZA, J. C. (Ed.). Book title. City: Publisher, year. Initial–final pages.

BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL (Brazil). Title. City: Publisher, year.

5.2 Reference examples for journals and events:

SÁ, S. M. P. Article title. Journal name, city of publication, volume number, issue number, initial–final pages, month/year.

FELIX, R. A. C. Paper title: subtitle. In: EVENT TITLE, number (if any), year, host city. Proceedings…. City of publication: Publisher, year.

5.3 Reference example for dissertation and/or thesis:

SOUZA, P. Title. Defense year. Number of pages. Dissertation/Thesis (Master’s/Doctorate in …) – Institution name, city, year.

5.4 Reference example for legal documents:

BRAZIL. Provisional Measure no. …, full date. Summary (if possible). Publication title, city, year. Additional publication data.

5.5 Reference examples for digital documents:

QUEIROZ, F. R. Title: subtitle. [S.l.], 1999. Available at: <http://www.nome.br>. Accessed on: Aug. 9, 2016.

Self-citations

Self-citations must be limited to three. In the case of coauthored articles, the total number of citations must not exceed 10%.

Tables, charts, graphs, maps, and images

These must have a title, source, and year of insertion or creation; be numbered; and, when applicable, include reproduction rights information.

Anti-plagiarism policy

Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário reserves the right, before submitting the article for blind peer review, to scan manuscripts using PlagScan and CopySpider software to check for possible plagiarism.

The journal also reserves the right not to accept for evaluation articles with a high level of self-plagiarism.

Authors are responsible for ensuring the originality of the manuscript and for properly citing any reused material from other works.

Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário condemns plagiarism in all its forms and will question authors whenever similarity rates with other texts reach high levels.

In cases of confirmed plagiarism, the journal will not accept the manuscript under review and will no longer accept submissions from the individuals involved.

Article evaluation

Submitted articles are evaluated under a double-blind review system, in which two reviewers, members of the Editorial Boards or ad hoc collaborators from different institutions, assess the relevance of the contribution to the existing knowledge in the field.

If the reviews differ, the journal will appoint a third reviewer, a specialist in the subject, to resolve the evaluation.

Articles are sent to reviewers only after compliance with the above requirements, via the journal’s e-mail, without author identification. Likewise, reviewer identities are not disclosed to authors.

9.1 Possible requests for revision

After evaluation, the author receives the reviewers’ reports, which may request changes or adaptations aimed at improving the text.

The article must be revised and resubmitted within the deadline set by the editors, counted from the date of the revision request.

All changes must be highlighted/shaded in yellow.

The editors reserve the right to reject articles whose requested revisions were not fulfilled or were submitted after the deadline. The final decision on publication rests with the editors.

If the article is not approved for publication, the journal will inform the author of the editorial process by e-mail.

9.2 Upon approval

In the final approved version, the author must include the name of the author and coauthors (if any), information on the highest academic degree of each, full institutional affiliation, and research grants, if applicable. Finally, the electronic address and ORCID must be provided. Additionally, a complementary document must include e-mail addresses and telephone numbers for contact.

Articles approved by the same author or in coauthorship will be published in different volumes, with one article per year.

Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário adopts the advanced publication model (Ahead of Print – AOP). Ahead of print refers to the early publication of articles approved by the Editorial Board, contributing to faster dissemination of research. The article is published in its final form and may be cited according to the model below:

CHIAPPE, Andrés; ADAME, Silvia Irene. Open educational practices: a learning path beyond open access knowledge. SBCC: xxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. [online]. In press. [cited on xxxx-xx-xx]. Available at: http://www.xxx.xxx. Epub xx xxxx 2020. ISSN xxxx-xxxx. http://dx.doi.org/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Book Review

Texts providing an objective overview of a work/topic may be published in the review section, containing 3 to 5 pages. In this case, texts must comply with the requirements set forth in items 1 to 9.

Interview

Texts providing a reflective view on a specific work/topic of common interest may be published in the interview section, containing a maximum of 6 pages and complying with the requirements of items 1 to 9.

Agenda

Texts providing guidance or information on a work/topic of common interest may be published in the agenda section, containing 1 page and complying with the requirements of items 1 to 9.

Possible conflicts of interest

Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário is not responsible for the concepts or ideas expressed in signed articles. Authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing conflicts of interest of any nature: personal, commercial, financial, academic, or political.

The journal also reserves the right not to publish articles of conflicting nature or that may cause harm to its image or to others and will notify the authors involved.

Right of reply

The policy of comments and replies to articles published in Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário is encouraged, following ethical criteria, and will be published on the journal’s website.

Copyright

The submission of any contribution automatically implies the full transfer of copyright to Pesquisas em Humanismo Solidário, which adopts the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC).

This license allows others to adapt and build upon the work published in the journal, provided proper credit is given to the original article and that it is not used for commercial purposes. For more information, see:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (Accessed on: 03/09/2020).

When the text is published in the printed journal, in an extraordinary and/or commemorative edition, the author will receive three copies of the issue containing the article, at no cost.

Signed articles reflect the opinions of their authors and not those of the Editorial Board or the Brazilian Society of Catholic Scientists. Articles are made freely available electronically on this website.