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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • 1. The authors did not exceed the limit of two article submissions per year.
  • 2. Authors do not have another article in the editorial process in this journal at the time of submission.
  • 3. The contribution is original and unpublished and is not being evaluated for publication by any other journal.
  • 4. The authors inform, in a comment to the editor, if the article was published in an event, national or foreign, and – when applicable – if it was awarded.
  • 5. To guarantee the state of the art, the authors, in their theoretical framework, prioritized references of up to 5 years, extracted from scientific journals - nationals and internationals - recognized by CAPES Qualis or with a JCR or ISI impact index.
  • 6. The identification of authorship of the work was removed from the document using the Properties option in Word, thus guaranteeing the journal's secrecy criterion, in the peer review. See technical support instructions for Office: Find and remove hidden data and personal information with the Document inspector.

  • 7. The maximum limit of five (5) authors per article is respected.
  • 8. At the time of submission, all authors guarantee that they are registered as users of the journal's electronic platform and that they have completely filled in their institutional identification data:
    - ORCID (in the 'ORCID iD' field, preceded by 'http: //' and not 'https:');
    - summary of the biography, with last formation/title;
    - current institution / affiliation.
  • 9. If the article is approved for publication, the authors with doctoral degrees undertake to integrate the database of scientific reviewers to, when requested, review new articles submitted to the journal.
  • 10. The authors agree to provide and pay for the mandatory professional translation into English of the final version of the accepted articles, with a declaration attesting to the quality of the translation, if they have been submitted in Portuguese or Spanish.
  • 11. The submitted articles are the sole responsibility of the author (s). The Rights, including translation rights, are reserved. It is allowed to quote part of articles published without prior authorization, as long as the source is identified.
  • 12. The authors are aware and agree with the following good practices:
    - The journal will verify plagiarism and self-plagiarism with the licensed use of applications with Internet access, capable of recognizing the degree of similarity between the submitted article and works already published;
    - All authors contributed significantly to the research;
    - All authors agree to provide retractions and error corrections;
    - The authors provided the names of the institutions that provide financial support for the research;
    - Authors have not published the same research completely or partially in another journal.
  • 13. In the case of more than one author for the same article, the author responsible for the submission guarantees that:
    - Thoroughly verified the correctness of the metadata of the other authors;
    - Will pass all the present conditions to the other authors, in a timely manner.

Author Guidelines

ARTICLE SUBMISSION:

With annual editions and articles published in continuous flow from 2020, Contextus – Contemporary Journal of Economics and Management, linked to the Faculty of Economics, Administration, Actuarial and Accounting of the Federal University of Ceará (FEAAC/UFC), publishes unpublished scientific articles in Administration, Economics, Accounting and related areas, preferably by authors linked to other institutions.

Each author can submit up to two articles per year, regardless of their position in authorship (author or co-author).

FORMAT

(1) Templates

Articles can be submitted, at no cost, in Portuguese, English or Spanish. They must use our templates below and be forwarded to the editors in accordance with our standards. If submitted articles do not use our templates or strictly follow the journal's formatting standards, they will be archived.

  • Download mandatory template for articles written in Portuguese;
  • Download mandatory template for articles written in English;
  • Download mandatory template for articles written in Spanish.

ATTENTION: Starting from 2020, the authors of articles accepted for publication must provide a translation into English, accompanied by a quality certificate of the final version of the articles, in case they have been submitted in Portuguese or Spanish. All articles will be published in both languages (original and English), except for articles submitted in English, which will be published only in this language.

Following is an explanation of the formal standards used in the models. A file from the Microsoft Word program for Windows will be used, in .docx format.

(2) Text

  • Title: in the first line of the first page, with up to 140 characters, in size 15 (Portuguese), followed by titles in English and Spanish, these in size 12 and in italic format;
  • Abstract, resumo and resumen: below the titles, in Portuguese, in English and in Spanish, each with a maximum of 300 words, justified alignment, containing background; purpose; method; results; and conclusions (structured model);
  • Palavras-chave, keywords, palabras clave: a total of five (5), right below each abstract, aligned to the left; and
  • Size: articles between 10 to 20 pages are recommended, including illustrations and references.

(3) Quotes

They will follow the author-date system of the norms of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020). They must be made in the body of the text, without the use of footnotes, indicating the surname, year and, when relevant, the publication page.

(4) References

They will follow the author-date system of the norms of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020), using the style presented in the templates. They must have justified alignment and simple spacing between lines, being presented in alphabetical order at the end of the text. When the listed publication has a DOI identifier, it must be informed, as indicated in the template. In addition, the authors' first names will always be replaced by their initial letters.

 

(5) Charts, tables, figures and graphs

They will follow the norms of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020). Are mandatory features:

  • only the nomenclatures of tables or figures should be used, being considered as figures: illustrations, graphs, photographs, maps and organization charts.
  • tables must not have internal or external vertical borders, with identification at the top containing the word Table in bold, followed by its order number in the text, in Indo-Arabic numerals, with the respective title being presented below, without bold;
  • figures must have an identification at the bottom, containing the word Figure in bold, followed by their order number in the text, in Indo-Arabic numerals, period, and the respective title on the same line, without bold;
  • indication of the source in tables and fugures must be at the bottom, even if it is by the authors themselves (use the expression "own elaboration" in these cases).
  • captions, notes and other information necessary for understanding (if any) must also be inserted at the bottom.

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Copyright Notice

The authors, while doing the submission, accept the notice below:

We authors hold the copyright related to our paper and transfer Contextus journal the right for the first publication with a Creative Commons’ international license of the modality Attribution – Non-commercial 4.0, which in turn allows the paper to be shared providing that both the authorship and the journal’s right for initial release are acknowledged.

Furthermore, we are aware of our permission to take part in additional contracts independently for non-exclusive distribution of the version of our work published in this journal (e.g. publishing it in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), while acknowledging both the authorship and the journal’s initial publication.

We also certify that the paper is original and up to this date has not been released in any other journal, Brazilian or of another nationality, either in Portuguese or another language, as well as it has not been sent for simultaneous publication in other journals.

Last, we not only know that plagiarism is not tolerated by Contextus but also certify the paper presents the sources of passages from cited works, including those authored by ourselves.

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