ISSN 1415-2150 printed version
ISSN 1983-2117 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Types of documents accepted
• Authors' contribution
• Manuscript submission
• Manuscript structure
• Digital assets
• Citations and references
• Supplementary documents
• Financing statement
• Contact

Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's website in docx or doc (Word) format, or a compatible format. The document must be an original, unpublished article and cannot be under review in another publication (book or journal). Conference papers may be submitted provided they are revised and expanded, avoiding repetitions of works published in conference proceedings or significant similarity to such works. The same applies to those publicly available on preprint servers, whose DOI must be provided at the time of submission to the journal for validation by the adopted peer review policy.

Considering the double-blind peer review process, the manuscript text should not contain any clear or indirect indications of authorship, in order to allow for blind peer review. In the case of open review, authorship is revealed to the reviewers at the end of the arbitration process, when the work is approved. It should be noted that preprint articles will undergo anonymous peer review (and not double-blind review).

The journal Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Furthermore, after approval, articles may be published in two or three of these languages, provided the authors cover the costs of translation and revision. From 2022 onwards, multilingual versions of the same article each receive their own DOI identifier. Even when referring to the same intellectual work, the DOI functions as a citation identifier. Because an article in one language is cited differently from the same article in a different language, each has its own DOI.

If more than one person is an author, the contributions of each person to the manuscript must be reported in the journal's system, in the PRESENTATION LETTER submitted with the manuscript. The contribution of each person involved in the manuscript's production must be recorded according to the criteria of the CRediT (The Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

• The article should have a maximum length of 25 pages, including references.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The document has to follow the layout:  TEMPLATE.

• A clear and objective title without abbreviations, parentheses, or formulas that hinder understanding of the article's content.
• Abstract in the language of the respective article (100-150 words).
• Title and abstract in English and Spanish.
• Three keywords in the original language, in English and in Spanish.
• Text.
• Bibliographic references.

Authorship details:

• Author names, institutional affiliation, ORCID, and email addresses should NOT be included in the file being evaluated, only in the metadata to be filled in on the journal's submission system.
• For preprints, authorship information must be included in the file being evaluated.

Tables, charts, figures, illustrations, maps, diagrams, and other digital assets present in the documents should be included in the body of the text. Include the title and source. Images should be in tif or jpg file format with a resolution of 300 dpi. The use of images is the sole responsibility of the author.

The required presentation standards for bibliographic references, citations, tables, notes, abstracts, graphs, etc., contained in the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition (Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2019, 7th edition) must be observed.

Examples of how to use these patterns for different types of documents can be found at: Exemplos APA Style.

PRESENTATION LETTER

• Information regarding adherence to the open science policies adopted by the journal
• A declaration that the authors demonstrably accept responsibility for the content of the manuscript.
• Record of the contribution of each person involved in the production of the manuscript.
• Statement regarding the ethical principles and procedures adopted in the research (approval by an ethics committee)
• Information on the use of generative AI tools in the production of manuscript content 

Information regarding funding sources should initially be provided only in the metadata to be filled out in the journal's submission system, and not in the manuscript itself. At the end of the evaluation process, before the article is published, this information should be included in the body of the article.

Revista Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências
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