ISSN 2525-5061 printed version
ISSN 1984-5987 on-line version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• author guidelines
• authors’ rights and responsibilities
• submission preparation checklist
• copyright notice
• privacy statement

childhood & philosophy is a juried publication, and does not accept previously published contributions. all submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two members of our board of editorial consultants (blind peer-reviewed). authors receive communication on the reviews issued, guaranteeing the confidentiality of the referees. if the two reviewers disagree on their judgment the paper will be send to a third. the final decisions on submissions, including requests for revisions, are the responsibility of the editors.

submissions (free) may be sent in english, portuguese, spanish, italian, german, or french. all submissions should, if possible, be prepared as word files, and must be “camera ready”—i.e. appropriately formatted, without grammatical mistakes, carefully spell-checked, and ready for uploading into the journal.
submissions should follow the abnt rules (nbr 6023, brazil). Submissions should not exceed 60,000 characters in length. a 200-400-word abstract, 3-5 key words, and a brief autobiographical statement should be included with each submission.

authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process, and to assure the editors that all authors have contributed to the research involved in their submission. they are also responsible for and are obliged to provide a list of references as well as acknowledgements of financial support or potential conflicts of interest. authors are forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal. they are expected to confirm that all the work in the submitted manuscript is original and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. they are also expected to acknowledge and cite content reproduced from other sources. where appropriate, they are expected to obtain permission to reproduce any content from other sources that overlaps with published or submitted content, and to acknowledge and cite those sources. they may be asked to provide the editors with a copy of any submitted manuscript that might contain overlapping or closely related content. finally, authors are expected to notify the editors if a significant error in their publication is discovered, to provide retractions or corrections where mistakes have been identified, and to cooperate with the editors in publishing an erratum, addendum, or corrigendum notice, or to retract the paper where this is considered appropriate.

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.

1. the submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in comments to the editor).
2. the submission file is in Microsoft Word (97-2003), RTF, or OpenOffice document file format.
3. all URL addresses in the text (e.g..: http://www.ibict.br) are activated and ready to click.
4. the text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. the text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. in the case of submission to a peer-reviewed section (eg articles), the instructions available under Ensuring Blind Peer evaluation are followed.

Copyright for each article published in childhood & philosophy belongs to its author(s). childhood & philosophy has the right of first publication. permission to reprint any article that appears in childhood & philosophy MUST be obtained in writing from the author(s). in addition to any form of acknowledgement required by the author(s), the following notice must be added to the statement of copyright permission made in the reprint (with the appropriate numbers replacing the ellipses): [Article Title] was originally published in childhood & philosophy, volume ..., number ..., pp. ...-...

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. when necessary, authors are responsible for ethical aproval of their texts.