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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Guidelines to authors

1. The journal publishes quarterly manuscripts in the sections of articles, theoretical essays, reviews, interviews, abstracts of dissertations and theses, translations, experience reports and entity documents.

2. Submissions and publications are free of charge, the latter being conditional on approval* by reviewers and compliance with recommendations that may be indicated.

* The texts submitted to the sections of the journal are reviewed regarding form, policy of plagiarism and merit. Read about in: PEER REVIEW PROCESS - http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistaeducaopoliticas/about

3. The manuscript submitted for review must meet the following guidelines:

a) conform to the focus and scope of the Journal;
b) result from research or theoretical studies or polemic debates or experiences linked to the field of educational policies;
c) have a maximum of 4 (four) author(s) and co-author(s), and at least one of them must have a doctorate degree;
d) comply with the minimum gap of one year between the publishing of one and other manuscript by one of the authors or co-authors in the journal;
e) excel in strictness, clarity and argumentative density;
f) comply with the templates of the sections of the journal.

4. The article must be submitted by one of the author(s) on the journal page: http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistaeducaopoliticas/about/submissions

5. In view of the issue of endogeny, a maximum of one article per issue of the journal will be allowed, by an author linked to the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia).

5.1. In view of the submission and approval of more than one article, the following criteria for the definition of the scale of publication will be followed, in this order:
a. Priority for one of the organizers of the dossier, in case it is linked to UFU. 
b. Longer timelapse form the last publication by the author in the journal.
c. Progressive order of the submission date.

6 - The text must be submitted with the prior realization of spelling and grammar review and adaptation to the following standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT, Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas):

ABNT NBR 6022:20218 - Information and documentation - Technical and/or scientific periodical publication - Presentation
ABNT NBR 6028:2021 - Information and documentation - Summary - Presentation http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistaeducaopoliticas/about/submissions
ABNT NBR 10520:2023 Information and documentation - Quotes in documents - Presentation
ABNT NBR 6023:2020. Information and documentation - References - Elaboration
ABNT NBR 6024:2012 Information and documentation - progressive number of the sections of a document - Presentation

7 - Papers submitted concurrently to more than one journal will not be accepted. Articles published in other countries and relevant to the Brazilian educational context may be translated and published as indicated by the Editorial Committee.

8 - TWO files of the article are requested to be submitted:

- “Version with identification” of all authors, according to the order of authorship and co-authorship, with the respective identification data in footnote (see template): major degree; current institutional link in full, city in which the institution is located, state, country, email; curriculum address on the Lattes platform; ORCID. This version will be considered by the editorial team at the 1st stage of the review.
- “Version without identification" of the authors, which will be reviewed by the ad hoc referees, thus guaranteeing the policy of anonymity. It is recommended that all the data that might identify the authorship of this version are supressed.

9. The journal accepts the submission of texts in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English.

10. The author(s) of the article approved for publication, must submit the full version of the text translated into English, for the bilingual publication. In case of texts originally written in English, Spanish or French, the full version of the text in Portuguese.

11. Formatting: the manuscript must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF electronic file format, written in Bell MT font, size 12, with line spacing of 1.5, justified on A4 sheet. Upper and left margins of 3 cm, and lower and right margins of 2 cm. Specific formatting for:

a - Article/Theoretical Essay/Experience Report/Summary of Theses and Dissertations
b - Review
c - Interview

a) Guidelines for Artilcle, Theoretical Essay, Experience Report and Summary of Theses and Dissertations:
Manuscripts for this section should be 15 to 20 pages long, references included. It is suggested that the introduction contains the theme; the delimitation of the subject studied; the justification for the choice of the theme; the problem and the general objective of the study. It should also present, briefly, the methodology and synthesis of the results. (Text Structure - Template)
Abstract and keywords of the manuscript should be written in Bell MT font, size 12, with single line spacing; the text should be justified, without paragraph indentation. It must contain between 100 and 250 words, with the words "Abstract" and "Keywords" in bold. The number of keywords listed must be between three (3) and five (5). The keywords should appear just below the abstract, preceded by the expression Keywords, followed by a colon, separated by a semicolon and ended by a period. They must be written in lower-case initials, except for proper nouns and scientific names. They are recommended to identify the content of the manuscript and, whenever possible, be looked up in the educational thesaurus.

The abstract of the article, written in Portuguese, should present title, summary and keywords translated into English and Spanish. In the case of articles written in English, French and Spanish, the title, summary and keywords should also be translated into Portuguese.

b) Guidelines for Review:
Reviews for classical and contemporary works, as well as doctorate theses, are accepted.  The review should be 5 to 8 pages long, present a description of the content of the work, elucidating the main assumptions and theoretical-methodological foundations of the original text; also, it should contain the position of the reviewer before the theoretical and social contributions of the study reported, in addition to possible appreciations of other natures and criticisms of the approach sustained by the author(s) of the original work. (Text Structure - Template)

c) Guidelines for Interview:
The interview should be 8 to 15 pages long. It is suggested that they begin with a brief introduction, in which the interviewee is presented, indicating the main objectives for which the interview was carried out, in addition to the place and date of its realization. (Text structure - Template)

12. ILLUSTRATIONS (ABNT NBR14724/2011) - Whatever the type of illustration, the identification must appear at the top, preceded by its designation (drawing, scheme, graphic, frame, photograph, image, figure, among others), order number (arabic numerals), indent and title. It must be inserted next to the excerpt which refers to it. The title and the source of the illustration should be aligned to the left margin of the illustration. At the bottom, the source (even if it is a production of the own author(s)), caption and notes should be included. The source should be reported in citation format, font size 11, if applicable, with the full reference mentioned in the reference list.

13. Citations (ABNT NBR10520/2002) - citations must comply with the form (author's LAST NAME, year) for indirect citations or (author's LAST NAME, year, p. xx) for direct citations. Different titles by the same author, if published in the same year, should be differentiated by adding a letter after the date (author's LAST NAME, year a, p. xx) and identically in the references. Each citation must correspond to a full reference in the list of references at the end of the paper.

14. FOOTNOTES – these should be restricted to explanatory notes, presented at the bottom of the pages, written in Bell MT font, size 10, single line spacing, with justified alignment. Succint texts (maximum 500 characters, considering spaces) are suggested. In the case of more than one footnote on the same page, it appears in sequence, without identation or space between them.

15. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF REFERENCES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BRAZILIAN ASSOCIATION OF TECHNICAL STANDARDS - ABNT

The references must appear in alphabetical order (ABNT NBR 6023/2018, items 6.3 and 6.7). They should still be organized in simple space between the lines, aligned to the left margin of the page and separated from each other by a blank line of single space. They should be ordered in a single list, standardized as to the typographic resource used to highlight the title* and be uniform in all references as to the indication of other surname(s) and first name** (abbreviated or not) of the authors.