ISSN 1993-2010 printed version
ISSN 1981-8106 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Guidance to collaborators
• Peer review process
• Right of reply
• Publication standards

The Education: Theory and Practice journal is a publication of the Department of Education – IB – UNESP/Rio Claro campus, created as an instrument for dialogue and discussion between teachers, researchers, education specialists, and students. As a vehicle for scientific dissemination, it aims to disclose works and experiences that contribute to knowledge in Education. The journal publishes unpublished works related to Education, in the form of:

ARTICLES: presented in the form of a critical review of the literature, a text derived from research and/or essayistic character on current topics, including research reports and analysis of pedagogical practices (30,000-75,000 characters with space, including titles and abstracts). Replicas of previous publications that are limited to defending a certain position in the academic environment and aimed at discussing new proposals for the various sub-areas of Education can be found here. Full texts published in conference proceedings are accepted for publication, provided they are duly suitable for publication in the journal. In these cases, this information should be included in a supplementary document at the time of submission, and should be inserted only in the final version of the article, after its approval.

DOSSIERS: this is a set of articles articulated by themes that contemplate the scope of the journal, proposed by the Editorial Board or by external demand. The proponent must prepare a presentation explaining the theme and include expanded abstracts of the articles in the set. The proposal should contain between 10 and 20 articles, including the regional diversity of its authors and the institutions to which they are affiliated, with at least two of them affiliated with the non-Brazilian institution. The proposal will be submitted for evaluation by the Editorial Board; if approved, a period of 60 days will be indicated for the submission of complete articles that will be sent for double-blind evaluation by reviewers.

INTERVIEWS: the interviews should contain a presentation of the interviewer or interviewers, the interviewee or interviewees, explain the rules and theoretical/methodological assumptions that guided the work, place of occurrence of the record, and bibliography.

REVIEWS: book reviews and theses (12,000-18,000 characters with spaces);

DOCUMENTS: documents prepared by governmental, non-governmental, artistic, and academic-scientific institutions with content relevant to the educational field.

ABSTRACTS OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS: the abstracts of theses and dissertations defended each year in the Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação of do Instituto de Biociência of UNESP in Rio Claro-SP are published. Abstracts should be 1,000-2,000 characters with space.

The journal reserves the right not to accept the submission of articles that are not in accordance with its editorial line. The originals are submitted to the Editorial Board for prior consideration.

The papers submitted by Education: Theory and Practice are forwarded, without identification of authorship, to reviewers appointed by the Editorial Board. The authors are informed about the content of the opinions issued and about the possibilities and/or conditions of publication of the submitted work.

The evaluation process consists of four steps, namely:

1. preliminary analysis of the editors and editorial assistant to verify the adequacy of the general instructions defined by the editorial policy;
2. similarity analysis in all documents submitted through the Turnitin platform;
3. preliminary analysis of the editors regarding the focus and scope of the journal, as well as the relevance and contribution of the text;
4. referral for double-blind evaluation.

Articles that reach the third step of the evaluation process will be sent to the reviewers (at least two) whose names will remain confidential, as well as the names of the authors, will be omitted from the reviewers, thus ensuring the double-blind criterion (blind review). Under no circumstances may the authors be identified by the reviewers. Thus, when submitting the article to the system, it is imperative to observe the guarantee of anonymity, excluding any explicit reference to the authors, such as: citation of name, reference to published works of authorship, or co-authorship.

The reviewers, through an opinion written in the journal's own form, will recommend one of the four options:

1. full acceptance without modifications;
2. partial acceptance with modifications;
3. consent after the mandatory corrections indicated;
4. refusal of the manuscript.

Articles commenting on an article previously published in the journal, as well as a reply to the comment, are accepted for publication. Both are subject to the same peer review process, described above.

1. The texts should be sent for publication in “Microsoft Word” format, “Times New Roman”, font, in body 12, spacing 1.5, through the electronic system for editing journals with due revision of the Portuguese language. The content of the texts is the sole responsibility of their authors.

Any information that allows the identification of the authorship of the text as a link to research groups or institutions should be removed from the text and informed in a supplementary document, and can be inserted in the final version of the article, after its approval.

NOTE: articles in Spanish, French, and English are also accepted for publication.

2. In the presentation, the work should contain:

A COVER PAGE containing title and author(s)–title and institution of origin and contact address (postal and e-mail)–which must be attached as a supplementary document, separate from the text.

MARGINS: left and top: 3 cm; right and bottom: 2 cm.

ARTICLE TITLE (PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH, AND SPANISH): Times New Roman, size 16, bold, first letter of the sentence capitalized, MAXIMUM 30 words.
Skip 1 line to separate titles from abstracts.

ABSTRACT (PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH AND SPANISH): written in a single paragraph, concisely presenting the relevant points of the text. The author should emphasize the objective, method, results, and conclusions of the work (800-1,500 characters with spaces).

KEYWORDS in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, from 3 to 5, separated by full stop;
Skip 1 line to separate the abstracts between each other and the text abstracts.

SECTIONS title: bold, 16, left-aligned.
SUBSECTIONS title: bold, 14, left-aligned.
SUBSUBSECTION title: bold, 13, left-aligned.

TEXT: Times New Roman, size 12, spacing 1.5, justified.

PARAGRAPH: 1.25cm.

FOOTNOTES: presented at the end of the pages, in body 10, and may include personal communications and work in progress (maximum of 10 lines), and should not contain bibliographic references.

QUOTATION WITH MORE THAN 3 LINES: 4 cm indentation, font size 10, single spacing, 1 enter before and 1 after the quotation.

QUOTATION ACCORDING TO AUTHOR/DATE STANDARD: In the case of direct quotation, right after the quotation, the following are placed in parentheses: the author's last name in uppercase, followed by a comma, the year of publication, the letter p in lowercase, followed by a period, and the number of the page from which the quotation has been withdrawn. When there is more than one author with the same surname, it is necessary to repeat them, by informing the initials of the first names, as in: (SILVA, T. S.; SILVA, M. L., 1955, p. 35).

GRAPHICS: Must be displayed printed in the body of the text with a caption and attached as a supplementary document in a separate file. Spreadsheets compatible with “Microsoft Excel” (.xls) are accepted.

PHOTOS: Should preferably be presented in color, printed in the body of the text with a caption, and attached as a supplementary document in a separate file. JPEG or PNG extension with a resolution of at least 300 dpi is required.

REFERENCES: Left margin, single spacing, and separated by double space. The typographic resource used to highlight the TITLE element should be BOLD, according to the Standard for References of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (6023/2018). Link with standards: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1h9gCgPzciJGYGOy0DFdinc5T4rKv7Kop7E9KOaE99mo/edit#slide=id.g4c66fba24e_3_283