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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Submission preparation checklist
• Author guidelines
• Copyright notice
• Privacy statement

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.

• Instructions for organization and submission of dossiers

  1. A Dossier is the organization of a collection of original papers resulting from research, articulated under the same area of interest to the field of Special Education and their interfaces.

  2. The responsibility of organization of a dossier should be left to burden exclusively of a doctor professor, belonging to a department of the Education Centre. In the case of co-authorship, one of the authors should have this titration.

  3. The request should be sent, via letter, to the Editorial Board with the following: title of the Dossier, justification and name of the authors with respective themes and home institutions.

  4. A Dossier must be compose of a minimum of ten (10) and a maximum of twelve (12) papers by authors from various states of the federation, avoiding endogeny. Till two (02) articles must be written by foreign authors, written in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English.

  5. The papers must strictly follow all norms of Special Education Journal, available in printed numbers and the websitehttp://www.ufsm.br/revistaeducacaoespecial.

  6. The dossier must be submitted mandatorily by the Electronic System for Journal Publishing (SEER):http://www.ufsm.br/revistaeducacaoespecial.

  7. The deadline for the organizer send the papers to the Editorial Board is the first fortnight of May for that it may be published in the third issue of the same year. This material will be submitted to ad hoc evaluators.

  8. A same organizer only can publish a new dossier with an interstice of six issues.

  9. The omission cases shall be evaluated by the Editorial Board.

• Instructions for submission of review

  1. The review should be about 1200 words.

  2. The author must introduce the field of the book, the main ideas of the author of the title and a critical appraisal regarding its contribution to the theoretical and practical context of Special Education.

  3. The other instructions for publication must be observed.

• Submission instructions
• Terms of use
• Ethics statement

Declaration of originality

We declare that all articles present in the journal Revista Educação Especial (UFSM) are originals and were not submitted for publishing on any other publication, as a whole or a fraction.  We also declare that, after being published by Revista Educação Especial (UFSM), a paper will not be submitted to another journal within two years. After this time, our journal transfers the publishing rights to the authors, with a permit granted by the Editorial Council.

We also acknowledge that the originals’ submission to Revista Educação Especial (UFSM) implies on a transference of copyright for physical and digital publishing to the journal. In case of noncompliance, the violator will receive sanctions and penalties predicted by the Brazilian Copyright Protection Law (n. 9610, dated 19/02/98).

The names and addresses informed in this journal will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be available for other objectives or to other parties.