Submissions

Author Guidelines

Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas) welcomes unpublished work from a variety of theoretical perspectives, prioritizing the publication of empirical, historical or documentary research. It includes book reviews and, exceptionally, essays and interviews.

To submit a manuscript to Cadernos de Pesquisa  (Fundação Carlos Chagas), it is necessary to register at http://publicacoes.fcc.org.br/index.php/cp/user/register. All authors must register at the Portal Periódicos e Séries FCC and, when the manuscript has two or more authors, it is necessary to indicate, at the end of the text, the contribution of each author to its preparation.

Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas) recommends the CRediT taxonomy. Articles must meet two minimum authorship criteria: a. Actively participate in the discussion of results; b. Review and approval of the final version of the work.

A maximum of four keywords (descriptors) of the text content must be indicated, which must be searched in the Thesaurus Brasileiro de Educação, in the UNESCO – IBE Education Thesaurus or in the European Education Thesaurus.

The references, restricted only to the works cited in the text, must come at the end of this and be guided by the 7^th edition of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), following the alphabetical order of the first author's surname. For more information, see https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples

For the submission of a manuscript, Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas) requests that the instructions contained in the document Norms for the presentation of manuscripts be followed strictly. We also provide a template for the formatting of the manuscripts.

When submitting, authors are asked to provide: full name; institutional affiliation or last professional occupation; city, state and country of the institution; title (graduate, specialist, master's/master's student, doctoral/doctoral student), address, telephone and cell phone number, contact email and ORCID registration number. The authors are also requested to insert a biography of up to five lines, to indicate how their names should appear in the publication and which email should be disclosed.

Two files of the manuscript must be sent: one in an anonymous PDF version and the other in ".doc" or ".docx" format, identified. As Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas) uses the double-anonymous system of evaluation, no authorship must be identified in the body of the text or in footnotes, nor in the properties of the PDF file.

In the case of a manuscript already published in a preprint repository, the author must inform the name of the repository, URL and the DOI of the preprint.

In case of approval, a DOI number will be assigned to the article published in Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas). Thus, all published articles receive a DOI number.

The texts will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0).

The author must access the system, click on the New submission link and fill in the necessary information in the five steps, namely:Step 1. Start. These fields are mandatory: Submission language; Section; Submission requirements; and Acknowledge the copyright statement. Comments for the editor are optional.

Step 2. Upload submission. In this step, the manuscript in PDF format must be sent first: this version is intended for evaluation, with all tables and figures in the position where they should be published, and without any information that allows identifying authorship.

Then, the COMPLETE manuscript in ".doc" or ".docx" format must be transferred/sent: this mandatory version must contain all information about authorship and affiliation, in addition to the tables and figures in the appropriate positions in the text.

Still at this stage, tables and figures must be sent in open and editable files, separated, in Word or Excel, and numbered with Arabic numerals.

Step 3.  Enter metadata. Inclusion of article data such as title, subtitle, abstract, contributors, source (funding agencies, if applicable), copyright, languages, keywords, and references cited in the text. Co-authors must also be registered in the system. At this stage, fill in the authors' biographies in no more than 5 lines.

Step 4.  Confirmation. In this step the author must click on "Finish submission".

Step 5.  Next steps. In this last step the submission is completed.

To access the detailed step-by-step, click here.

After completing the submission in the system, the author must fill out the Research data availability form, indicating whether the data used in the research will be available. To access the form, click here.

To follow the submission status, the author must access the system → menu → login  and password.

For information about Focus and Scope, click here.

Cadernos de Pesquisa  (Fundação Carlos Chagas) accepts for consideration texts in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English, in a continuous flow, throughout the year.

Submission to Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas) must be exclusive, i.e., the texts cannot be submitted to other journals simultaneously.

Proposals for dossiers on featured topics must involve prior consultation with the editors. In case of acceptance, the texts must be submitted by the respective authors and sent to double-anonymous peer review. Articles approved in the evaluation process will be published together within the corresponding section, and not in a specific section. The identification of the dossier will be given by the use of a title common to the articles, followed by subtitles referring to the specificity of each one. The presentation text will be the first of the set, and must meet the requirements of a scientific article.

Every manuscript submitted to Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas) is analyzed using an anti-plagiarism software before being sent to evaluation. The purpose of the procedure is to identify plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered to be the copy of someone else’s intellectual work, whether. the entire production or a fragment of that work, without being given due credit. Self-plagiarism is the reproduction, in whole or in part, of a work of one's own authorship, previously published, without its proper identification. Situations of self-plagiarism occur when, for example, research reports, theses and/or dissertations and papers presented at scientific events are published literally in article format. In such cases, the journal will accept the manuscript, provided that there is an investment of authorship in order to reformulate the previous version, including a clear mention of the original production.

The inclusion of new authors after the approval of the article is prohibited. All authors must be indicated at the time of submission.

A minimum interval of six months will be observed for the publication of articles by the same author.

The ideas and opinions expressed in the published articles are the sole responsibility of their authors, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the journal.

During the review process, the journal reserves the right to make small formal changes in the text, while respecting the authors’ opinion and style.

The published texts are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which allows them to be shared.

Other forms of publication of the work may only occur twelve months after its publication in this journal, provided that they are requested from the Scientific Editors and their source is explicitly indicated.

For information on the evaluation process, click here.

Research ethics

The ethical procedures established for scientific research must be informed whenever human beings are involved. The anonymity of research participants must be guaranteed, except in cases in which the identification has been allowed. Both the authorization and the restriction on the identification of the subjects must be informed in a footnote in the body of the article. The dissemination of images of people or institutions must follow the same principle.

Conflicts of interest

Conflicts of interest may occur between authors, reviewers or editors. The act of the submission implies the absence of any conflict of interest of a financial, commercial, political, academic or personal nature. If there is any potential conflict of interest related to the research or publication of the manuscript, the authors must inform, in a footnote, the relations with funding agencies, as well as with commercial and political institutions. Authors must make it clear that the financial or material support received is clearly stated in the submitted manuscript.