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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.
  • Articles submitted are original and unpublished, and not currently under assessment for publication by another journal, otherwise this must be justified under “Comments to the editor”.
  • A doctor´s degree is required for submission of contributions.
  • The file submitted is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format.
  • Quotations and references must be made according to the regulations set by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT). Articles which instead follow the regulations set by the American Psychological Association (APA) will be returned. We suggest consulting the examples available on the journal’s “Submissions” page. The PDFs of articles published in the journal’s most recent edition may be consulted for reference as to the ABNT’s regulations.
  • All URLs referred to must be provided, whenever possible.
  • 1.5 line spacing and font size 12 must be used, as well as italics instead of underlining (except for URLs). Figures and tables must be inserted into the body of the text and not added at the end of the document by means of annexes.
  • Submissions to sections with peer review (such as articles) must adhere to the instructions available on Ensuring approval in the blind-peer review process.
  • A short author bio (4 - 5 lines) must be provided during the submissions process.
  • Links to author profiles on the Currículo Lattes platform must be provided during the submissions process. International authors who are not registered on the platform must instead provide a link to their institutional homepage.
  • An Orcid ID must be provided and validated during the submissions process.

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors  

REGULATIONS FOR PUBLICATION

 Authors:

All authors must hold a PhD. Articles and drafts sent to Passages. International Review of Political History and Legal Culture will be submitted to the Editorial Board and reviewers on an ad hoc basis. The Editorial Board reserves the right to suggest modifications in format, with the aim of ensuring the articles are compatible with the journal’s dimensions or its publication standards. Footnotes and bibliographical references must be limited to the absolute minimum. The publication of an article does not represent the Board’s endorsement of the views expressed by the authors. Articles must contain 20,000 to 50,000 characters, including spaces, with the approval of articles containing a total number of characters slightly exceeding or falling short of this range left to the editors’ discretion. All articles will be submitted for assessment by two (double-blind) reviewers. In case of disagreement between the assessors, the article will be submitted to a third assessor.

Only articles in strict compliance with these regulations will be assessed.

Regulations:

  1. How to submit articles

We invite all authors to consult the About the journal section and to read the policies in the sections available, along with the Guidelines for authors. Authors must register on the system before submitting an article; all those already registered must instead sign in to the system and begin the 5 steps of the submissions process.

1.1.   All work must be submitted in electronic format, processed in Word for Windows, or RTF

1.2.   Arial font, size 12, 1.5 line spacing

1.3.   Margins: upper 2 cm; left 2cm; lower 2cm; right 2 cm.

1.4.   Use bold for titles and subtitles and italics for book titles and words in foreign languages

1.5.   Works must include:

  • title in the author’s working language (Portuguese, Spanish, English, or French)
  • name(s) and surname(s) of author(s)
  • brief author bio(s)
  • full address and email address
  • All authors of the article must be registered on the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) system, which provides authors with a persistent digital identifier, just like the DOI for a digital document. ORCID is a 16-character alphanumeric code launched in October 2012. ORCID registration is free and may be carried out by individuals or their institution via http://orcid.org/
  • Abstract in the article’s original language (Portuguese, Spanish, English, or French). The abstract must consist of a text 150 to 200 words in length.
  • Key words (maximum of 5) in the article’s original language (Portuguese, Spanish, English, or French).

NB.: author details (name, institutional affiliation, address, email address, ORCID number) must be added at Step 3 in the online submissions process and not to the articles themselves.

1.6.   Footnotes must be included at the end of the page, ordered by Arabic numerals and in font Arial size 10. Reference notes are not allowed. These will be included in a list at the end of the article;

1.7.    Article pages must not be numbered

1.8.    Supplementary to their submission, authors must send (Step 2 of online submissions) a letter in which they assume responsibility for the ethical aspects of the article, as well as for its authorship. The letter must also state that the author is aware that, upon submission, the article must not be submitted for consideration to another journal or publication (see model below). 

  1. Quotations

2.1.    Direct quotations of up to 3 lines must be inserted using quotation marks into the body of the text, while direct quotations over 4 lines in length must be separated from the text in a font size smaller than that of the main body of the text, without quotation marks, at an indentation of 4 cm from the left margin.

2.2.   Quotations in the body of the text must be placed in parentheses, in compliance with the ABNT’s NBR 10520:2023 standard.

Exemples: (Ginzburg, 1989, p. 15)

(Oliveira, 2003, p. 21-36)

(Neder; Cerqueira Filho, 1997)

(Brasil, 1986, p. 4)

(Dye, 2009, p. 117)

 

  1. References (only those cited in the body of the text): must be listed at the end of the text, in compliance with the ABNT’s NBR 6023:2002 standard. For example:

 

  • Article in scientific journal:

CERQUEIRA FILHO, Gisálio.  Euclides da Cunha e a psicopatologia: um indício para abdução. Revista Latino-Americana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, São Paulo, v. 11. n. 3, p. 380-391, 2008.

  • Book chapter:

BATISTA, Vera Malaguti. O medo na história do direito penal brasileiro. In: NEDER, Gizlene (Org.). História & Direito: jogos de encontros e transdisciplinaridade. Rio de Janeiro: Revan, 2007. p.141-148.

  • Book (1 author):

NEDER, Gizlene. As reformas políticas dos 'homens novos": (Brasil Império: 1830-1889). Rio de Janeiro: Revan, 2016.

            (up to 3 authors)

CHATELET, François; DUHAMEL, Olivier; PISIER, Evelyne. Dicionário das obras políticas. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1993.

            (more than 3 authors)

MICHILES, Carlos et al. Cidadão constituinte: a saga das emendas populares. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1989.

  • Thesis or dissertation:

SILVA, Daniella Amaral Diniz da. Alteridade e idéia de nação na passagem à modernidade: o círculo Rio Branco no Brasil -“Ubique Patriae Memor’. 2008. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) – Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Filosofia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 2008.

  • Journal article

FRAGA, C. Avaliar é preciso. Correio Brasiliense, Brasília, DF, 8 maio 2004. Opinião, p. 19.

  • Legal documents

BRASIL. Presidência da República. Casa Civil. Subchefia para Assuntos Jurídicos. Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil de 1988. 1988. Disponível em: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicaocompilado.htm. Acesso em: 16 jun. 2017.

BRASIL. Presidência da República. Casa Civil. Subchefia para Assuntos Jurídicos. Lei nº 8.069, de 13 de julho de 1990. Dispõe sobre o Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente e dá outras providências. 1990. Disponível em: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L8069.htm. Acesso em: 17 jun. 2017.

  • Electronic documents

QUEIRÓS, E. de. A relíquia. São Paulo: USP, 1998. Disponível em: http://www.bibvirt.futuro.uso.br/textos/autores/ecadequiros/reliquia-texto.html. Acesso em: 2 maio 2002.

  • Work presented at an event

BARCELLOS, Daniela Silva Fontoura de; SGANZERLA, Rogério. O papel dos atos institucionais na privação de garantias fundamentais durante o período da ditadura militar no Brasil. In: CONGRESSO NACIONAL DA FEPODI, 4., 2015, São Paulo. Anais... São Paulo: FEPODI, 2015. p. 115-123. Disponível em: http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/dspace/handle/10438/24027. Acesso em: 20 mar. 2019.

  1. About the contents

4.1      Responsibility for the contents of articles lies with their authors

4.2     The Passages. International Review of Political History and Legal Culture Editorial Board reserves the right to make any changes necessary to works to adapt them to our editorial standards and according to their potential for publication. Any cases involving substantial alterations will be requested of the authors

4.3      Articles may be republished as long as a note is inserted stating that they were originally published in Passages

  1. Frequency and timeframe for submitting material to the journal for publication

5.1     Passages: International Review of Political History and Legal Culture is published once every four months (January, May, and September) and receives articles on a continuous basis. 

  1. Material selection

6.1 The originality and relevancy of the subject will be assessed, as will the quality of the methodology used, the textual clarity, and compliance with the journal’s editorial standards

6.2 All material submitted is reviewed by at least two anonymous (double-blind) reviewers. The estimated timeframe for concluding the assessment process of articles submitted is six months. The journal’s editors will send the assessors’ recommendations to the authors.

6.3 Material sent to the journal must be entirely unpublished.

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