ISSN 0101-465X printed version
ISSN 1981-2582 on-line version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Author Guidelines
• Evaluation Process

• Education magazine uses the American Psychological Association – APA (6th edition) as a reference. For a quick conference guide, see www.apa.org. APA - General Rules
• Files submitted for submission are in open text format (Word).
• The text must contain title, abstracts and keywords in the languages indicated by the journal.
• In the case of texts originally written in a foreign language, they should contain title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese and other languages of the magazine's interface.
• The author must keep his registration profile updated and, for submission of a new text, fill out the information items below under “Conditions for Submission”
• Information about the authors should contain the following data: full name with the correct spelling; ORCID (see: orcid.org); affiliation: institution, city, state and country (in no case should affiliations be accompanied by the authors' titles or mini-curricula). These, when present, should be published separately from affiliations as author's notes). email; complete physical postal address of the corresponding author, which may be the institutional one, provided at the end of the article; research funding source (if any); potential conflicts of interest (if any).
• Optionally, the authors may indicate at the end of the article: a) acknowledgements; b) mini curriculum: academic and professional training.
• The place of figures and tables should be indicated in the text, and these should be sent in separate file, with program identification and version.
• The bibliographic information is correct and in accordance with the standard adopted by the journal.
• The contribution must be original and unpublished and may not be evaluated for publication by another journal; if not, justify in “Comments to the editor” when submitting the text in the portal.
• Publication of papers is subject to approval by reviewers. The originality of the treatment of the theme, the consistency and rigor of the approach and its contribution to the thematic line of the publication are taken into account. The names of the reviewers will remain confidential, and the names of the authors before the reviewers will also be omitted.
• Spontaneous submission of articles and subsequent acceptance for publication automatically implies the assignment of the rights of the first publication to the Journal. Intellectual copyright remains with the author. Any subsequent reproduction, by any means, may be made only by prior agreement between the Journal and the author and with proper citation of the source.
• The concepts issued in the works are the sole responsibility of the authors, not necessarily reflecting the opinion of the Editorial Board or Editorial Council.

The evaluation process of articles sent to Education follows the following flow:

• a) Analysis of the form: at this stage, the articles are read by the editorial team and evaluated for their suitability to the journal's general criteria. The articles that are rejected are: 1) configured as a bibliographic review only or presented as a simple clipping of a dissertation or thesis, without proper adaptation; 2) correspond to the form of project or research report; 3) do not present theoretical or methodological consistency in the research described; 4) they are merely descriptive and do not present an analysis of the problem addressed; 5) do not have the area of Education as the central axis of the discussion; 6) do not comply with the rules of Revista Educação for the submission of articles (metadata, formatting, citations, references ...); 7) do not present results, formulations or conclusions that point to advances for the proposed theme; 8) do not present empirical elements or sufficiently developed arguments to support the conclusions. Such works will be returned to the authors. Papers with any of the characteristics mentioned above will not be considered fit for the next phase.
• b) Peer review of merit: In this second phase, the Education Journal editorials forward the article without the author's identification to at least two referees from the specific thematic area of the work (members of the editorial board or ad hoc guests). For the selection of the referees and thematic areas, the CNPq area table classifications and the information available in the Lattes Platform are considered. The referees can fully accept the article, accept it by requesting reformulations or reject it. Either hypothesis is justified by a descriptive opinion. When the two referees refuse the work, the article is returned to the author. When both reviewers accept the work, it goes to the next phase. Finally, when one or both referees request reformulations, the work is returned to the author, who should consider the opinions and reformulate the article within 30 days. When the author resubmits the reformulated text according to the reviewers' suggestions, it is reevaluated and goes to the final phase.
• c) Review and adaptation of the work to the rules of Revista Educação: once accepted for publication, the work is submitted to a language revision and a standardization. The paper is sent to the author with suggestions of corrections and adjustments so that, finally, the editorial team can forward it for publication.

The magazine adopts the Turnitin system for plagiarism identification.