Information For Authors

Guidelines for authors

Revista Labor is a continuous publishing magazine, therefore authors who wish to submit papers for publication may do so at any time. Works must be submitted exclusively in paper format.

The author and co-authors, if any, when submitting articles to the Revista Labor magazine, accept to meet all the requirements below. The guidelines are as follows:

  1. Papers must be submitted exclusively online, through this website: periodicos.ufc.br/labor.
  2. Submitted papers must comply with the magazine’s Focus and Scope.
  3. Submitted papers cannot be sent to another magazine in less than six months.
  4. Submitted papers must include at least one author who is a PhD holder.
  5. Submitted papers must not contain identification of the author and co-author in the text. This information will be filled in the metadata screen, in the electronic magazine publishing system, available on the website periodicos.ufc.br/labor.
  6. The participation of each co-author, if any, must be included in the electronic system at the website periodicos.ufc.br/labor, on the option “comentários ao editor”.
  7. The mention of the article's co-authors must follow the recommendations of the CRediT specification system, which clarifies the authorship or contribution roles: Administração do Projeto, Análise Formal, Conceituação, Curadoria de Dados, Escrita – Primeira Redação, Escrita – Revisão e Edição, Investigação, Metodologia, Obtenção de Financiamento, Recursos, Software, Supervisão, Validação e Visualização. Read the SciELO Guide for Use of the CRediT Specification for more details.
  8. Submitted papers must use the Revista Labor formatting template.
  9. File must be typed in Word for Windows (.docx extension).
  10. File must be from 12 to 24 pages, including title, abstract, keywords, figures, tables, and references.
  11. Papers written in Portuguese must contain title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Papers written in a foreign language, if applicable, must contain title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese and in a different language.
  12. The abstract cannot contain more than 230 (two hundred and thirty) words.
  13. Keywords (at least three and at most five) must be entered after the summary.
  14. Articles must strictly meet the standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas, ABNT).
  15. In the references, the titles of the works and documents must be written in bold, according to the following examples:

LAST NAME, Name. Title: subtitle. Edition. City: Publisher, Year. (Collection).

LAST NAME, Name. Chapter title.  In: LAST NAME, Name. Title: subtitle. Edition. City: Publisher, Year. Pages.

LAST NAME, Name. Paper title. Periodical name, Volume number, Issue, Pages, Year.

LAST NAME, Name Title: subtitle. City, Year. (Collection). Available in: < full electronic address >. Access in: 15 dec. 2015.
LAST NAME, Name Title: subtitle. Dissertation or Thesis on (Area of Study), Instituition, City, Date.

 

  1. Quotations of more than three lines must begin on a new line, indented in 4 cm from the left margin, in font size 10, single spacing, without quotation marks.
  2. Quotations of less than three lines must be incorporated into the text, enclosed in double quotation marks.
  3. Papers written in a foreign language must meet the standards of the American Psychological Association (APA).
  4. In order to avoid identifying the author, the text must not explicitly reference the author in the body of the text, footnotes or quotations. It is recommended to use an "XXX" to replace the author's name and the title of the work. In case of approval for publication, the editorial team will add the data based on the metadata of the author registration, and for this it is essential to fill in the registration completely and correctly.
  5. Footnotes, if any, must include only absolutely necessary information and be restricted to contents, not references.
  6. The illustrations (Tables, Graphics, Figures, Pictures), if any, must be included into the body of the text, in resolution of 300 DPI. The number and title must be inserted at the top of the image (E.g.: Table 1 – Faculty Members). The source must be indicated at the bottom (E.g.: Source: Faced Museum Collection) and, if applicable, explanatory texts of at most 03 (three) lines.

 

The Copyrights for papers published in Revista Labor belong to the authors, who, when submitting the work, agree to assign the first publication rights to the magazine.

The magazine an Open Access publication, and its articles are free to use, with their own attributions, in educational and non-commercial applications.