About the Journal

Introduction

The UFC Journal of Psychology was founded in 1983 in print format and restored in electronic format in 2010, under ISSN 2179-1740. It is inserted in the Qualis/CAPES platform and in several databases (REDALYC, LILACS, Index Psi, MIAR, Sumários Org, NSD, CLASE), directories (REDIB, LIVRE, ERIH PLUS, I2OR, MIGUILIM), indexes and portals (LATINDEX, DIADORIM, ResearchBib, DOAJ, Biblat, DRJI, EZB, DIALNET, Google Scholar, LatinREV). It is published continually and has an interface between undergraduate and graduate programs in Psychology, structuring itself in accordance with its fields of research.

Scope, Nature and Objective

The UFC Journal of Psychology is a annual and continuous publication of unreleased texts written by members of the undergraduate and graduate programs in Psychology at UFC. The papers are inserted in the field of psychology or related areas, whose themes have renowned scientific relevance.

To publish unreleased texts whose themes have renowned scientific relevance to psychology across its numerous fields of knowledge, and that privileges research which agrees with the theoretical and methodological framework of the systems and theories in psychology. It also intends to publish texts about psychoanalysis and about other fields of knowledge which contribute to the progress or to the decision making of relevant issues to the progress of psychology.

Periodicity and Number of Articles per Issue

The Journal is a cotinuous publication that makes its issue available on January 1st of each year.

The number of articles published per issue will correspond to the journal's editorial flow.

Target audience

The Journal has students, professors, researchers, and professionals of psychology and related fields as its target audience.

Peer Review Process

After the desk review stage, the manuscripts will be assigned to ad hoc reviewers. The anonymity of the process (double blind review) will be preserved.

The estimated time for evaluation and publication varies from 4 to 6 months, after the initial analysis of the submitted files and documents.

Ethics Code

Articles are published by the journal only if they are in accordance with the central practices Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as the Guidelines on the theme of Ethics and Integrity in Scientific Practice developed by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Plagiarism Prevention Policy

As an editorial ethics strengthening and plagiarism prevention policy, the Journal verifies the similarity between the contents of the papers submitted by means of the plagiarism detection software CopySpider. Before any decision is finalized, the authors will be consulted and made aware of the situation. 

Data Sharing and Reproductibility Policy

In the case of the availability of data or materials from the submitted article, the authors informed the link to the datasets generated/analyzed during the present study and if they are available in any Data Repository.

Withdrawal Policy

The UFC Psychology Journal is committed to defending the integrity of scientific literature. Therefore, and if necessary, Errata, Expressions of Concern or Notices of Withdrawal will be published. This procedure will be carried out on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with COPE's Withdrawal Guidelines.

Open Access Policy

This journal offers immediate open access to its content, following the principle that providing free access to scientific knowledge to the general public enables worldwide democratization of knowledge.

The UFC Journal of Psychology does not charge any fees for the submission and processing of the papers, in other words, no costs are incurred by authors.

Financing

The UFC Journal of Psychology is developed with the human and material resources available at the Federal University of Ceará, without any external funding. 

Advertising Policy

The Journal declares that it does not have any type of partnership in the advertising field with other institutions or individuals.

Digital Preservation of Documents

The UFC Journal of Psychology is supported by daily backups of all its internal and public materials. The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system is also used.

Copyright

Creative Commons License

Works published by this journal are under the license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

The submission of any collaboration to UFC Journal of Psychology automatically implies that the authors maintain copyright and fully grant the right to first publication to Revista de Psicologia, with the publication simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International .

Thus, the author can publish the version of the work published in the UFC Journal of Psychology in another vehicle, with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are authorized and encouraged to distribute their work in institutional repositories, on their personal websites and on their social networks, with recognition of the authorship of the work and of the initial publication in this journal.

Guidelines for Authors

In order to have a manuscript submitted to the Journal, firstly, it is necessary that all authors register in the Journal of Psychology’s official website.

Texts which consist solely of a literature review on a certain subject will not be accepted, unless they consist of an unprecedented problematization of the said subject.

Manuscripts which fit in the following categories will be accepted:

  1. Research report (minimum of 10 and maximum of 25 pages);
  2. Theoretical research (minimum of 10 and maximum of 25 pages);
  3. Essay (minimum of 10 and maximum of 25 pages);
  4. Case studies or institutional experience reports (minimum of 8 and maximum of 15 pages);
  5. Review (minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 pages);
  6. Keynote addresses (minimum of 10 and maximum of 25 pages);
  7. Interview (minimum of 8 and maximum of 25 pages).

 Fundamental prerequisites in the submission process:

  1. The authors who are submitting manuscripts must not have another manuscript in the editorial process of this Journal.
  2. Having in mind the continuous nature of our Journal, the authors cannot exceed the limit of one publication a year, regardless of their position in authoring. The cases which might be characterized as exceptions will be submitted to the evaluation of the Editorial Staff.
  3. All authors must include a valid ORCID ID https://orcid.org/sites/default/files/images/orcid_16x16(1).gif in their profiles on the Journal’s website, so as to collaborate with the efforts of attribution of scientific authorship’s attribution.
  4. In case of texts with multiple authors, a maximum of four authors will be accepted, except for papers or research reports which result from partnerships established between two or more institutions and/or research centers. In this case, sending a confirmation document of the institutions/research centers will be required. It is worth mentioning that, for Reviews, multiple authorship is not accepted, but only one (01) author. And for Interviews, up to two (02) authors will be accepted.
  5. Texts which have already been published in journals from countries abroad will be accepted, as long as they represent a relevant contribution to psychology and have been submitted to the same evaluation of unpublished manuscripts. In these cases, however, the author must send the authorization by the journal’s editor where the paper was first published, duly signed, to our editors.
  6. Texts will be accepted in Portuguese, French, English and Spanish, provided that they have been duly proofread. The abstract, title and keywords must appear in the paper’s original language and in English.
  7. Texts written in foreign languages will be published in the maximum amount of three works per edition. The opinions expressed in the papers are the authors’ full responsibility. Once they submit the manuscript to the Editorial Board of the UFC Journal of Psychology, they assume responsibility for not having previously published or submitted the same paper to another national journal. Those who are accepted for publishing will become Journal’s property, unable to be reproduced without written consent, as it has been previously indicated.
  8. All papers reporting on research involving human beings must be accompanied by a confirmation document/approval protocol issued by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of the institution where the research has been accomplished, in accordance with National Health Council Resolutions 466/12 and 251/97. Such a requirement does not apply to texts addressing clinical cases resulting from treatments which have already been finished and as long as the patients’ identity is preserved in every way.
  9. If possible, authors must avoid the reproduction of pictures, tables and drawings extracted from other publications. In case one or more of these items is included, the text will only be sent to analysis by the editors if it is followed by a written permission of the holder or the original paper’s copyrights for reproduction specified in the UFC Journal of Psychology.
  10. Texts that fall into the "Review" category must be based on books that were published in the last three (03) years, but without a specific time, if it is a republished reference work. The review must contain only 1 (one) author.
  11. All documents required must be sent in Word format, except for the Recommendation Letter and the Research Ethics Committee document, which must be digitized. The aforementioned files must be attached to the Journal’s website, at the Submission section.
  12. Identified cover letter (in a separate file) containing: - full title in Portuguese or in the source language with a maximum of 15 words; - full title in English, compatible with the title in Portuguese; Full name of each author. The footnote must contain, for all authors: the institution and country of the institution to which they are linked (without abbreviations or acronyms), last training/degree; link to ORCID profile and email of each author. First author's professional mailing address. If necessary, acknowledgement notes.

 

Manuscript evaluation

 

The swiftness of the editorial process is conditional on strict observance of the Journal’s guidelines and on the manuscript’s grammatical appropriateness. All submissions are subject to an early screening process, and any papers failing this first evaluation will be promptly returned to authors and therefore not assigned to the Editorial Board for further review.

The estimated time for evaluation and publication varies from 4 to 6 months, after the initial analysis of the submitted files and documents.

Manuscript evaluation is carried out as follows:      

  1. The manuscripts received will be initially appreciated by the Editors (desk review). The manuscripts that are in accordance with the norms of the journal, are relevant to the scope of UFC Journal of Psychology and contain the framework of a scientific text will be forwarded to the members of the Editorial Board - in which international councilors and from other regions of Brazil participate - and to the body of ad hoc evaluators to issue opinions (peer review).
  2. The opinions will judge whether the texts will be fully accepted; whether reformulations will be recommended or whether they will be entirely rejected, the process being based on this Evaluation Form. (English Evaluation Form)
  3. During the entire evaluation process, the anonymity of all parties will be preserved, following the double blind review process.
  4. Authors will be informed about the result of the opinion issued, which defines the feasibility or not of publishing their text.
  5. In cases of controversy, manuscripts will be sent to a third ad hoc reviewer. If the controversy persists, the article will be evaluated by the Editorial Board.

 

Resubmission and publication

  1. In those instances where revisions are required, manuscripts should only be resubmitted if all the modifications have been highlighted in the file, and if a List of Revisions indicating the page numbers of each amendment is also submitted.
  2. The Editorial Board reserves the right to conduct a language review of the manuscript, whenever deemed necessary.
  3. If language revisions which may substantially alter the ideas in the manuscript are recommended by the Editorial Board, authors will be tasked with reformulating these sections personally and resubmitting the manuscript by a new deadline, to be established by the editors.
  4. Evaluations may be carried out by either ad-hoc reviewers or members of the Editorial Board, whenever deemed necessary. In either case, the identities of authors and reviewers alike will be withheld throughout the entire process.
  5. The recruitment of Editorial Board members will prioritize PhD-holding faculty working in graduate programs at higher learning institutions, as well as renowned members of scientific societies and/or organizations dedicated to research and knowledge diffusion.
  6. The final decision on the acceptance or rejection of a submission will always rest with the journal’s Editors.
  7. On average, the entire evaluation and publication process is completed within at least 4 (four) and up to 6 (six) months after the initial screening has been carried out, as stipulated in “Manuscript submission and evaluation”.
  8. Authors will be kept duly apprised of the entire editorial process.
  9. The number of publications per issue will depend on the Journal’s current editorial workload.

 

Style and formatting

The UFC Psychology Journal adopts the publication standards of the APA (American Psychological Association) sixth edition, for the entire document, emphasizing that the bibliographic references and the citation style must comply with these standards. The link http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/psicologiaufc/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/43 provides some guidelines for using the APA sixth edition. We suggest that authors adopt the use of a reference manager (Endnote, Mendeley, Paperpile, Zotero, among others) of their choice to write the text of their article in order to contribute to the proper and correct citation and references of the works cited in their text (https://www.ukessays.com/referencing/apa/generator/ https://zbib.org/). 

All submissions should be typeset with Microsoft Word 2007 or later versions, in Times New Roman, size 12 pt and double-spaced throughout the entire manuscript (with the exception of tables, whose line spacing may be customized to either Single or 1.5 Lines), not exceeding the maximum number of pages allowed by the manuscript’s category. The page size should be set to A4, with top and bottom page margins of 2,5 cm and left- and right-hand margins of 2,5 cm as well. Once full compliance with these typesetting requirements has been ensured, the original manuscript should be submitted through the Journal’s website, in the section “Submissions (Submissões)”.        

Supplementary documents

All submissions must be supplemented by a Cover Letter signed by all authors (see sample below). This document is designed to unequivocally state the intent to submit or resubmit a given manuscript, in addition to giving the Editorial Board full discretion over any language modifications which may be necessary in order to ensure compliance with the Journal’s publishing standards.           

No more than four authors per contribution will be allowed, with the exception of papers or research reports arising out of partnerships between two or more institutions and/or research organizations. On such occasions, proof of partnership must be submitted along with the contribution itself. It should be noted that reviews and interviews cannot exceed two (02) authors per submission.

The supplementary documentation must be uploaded to the Journal’s website in Word or (in the case of digitized documents) PDF format, along with the manuscript itself. The file in which the text will be contained must not contain any type of the author’s/authors’ identification, not even in the Word properties, to guarantee the confidentiality of the evaluation. Submissions failing to comply with the foregoing will be returned to the author(s).

 

Templates for document submission

Cover Letter Template

Fill, scan and submit along with the submission. 

Manuscript structure and formatting

Editors’ note:

The section described in item 1 below (the manuscript’s cover sheet) should be submitted in a separate file from the actual manuscript in order to prevent author identification by the Journal’s reviewers.

Likewise, the sections described in items 2-4 below should each be placed in a different page of the manuscript, in the order in which they are presented here.

All figures, tables and charts should be placed at the end of the manuscript, after the list of references, respecting the limit of one (1) figure, chart or table per page (see item 5).

  1. Identified cover letter (in a separate file) containing: - full title in Portuguese or in the source language with a maximum of 15 words; - full title in English, compatible with the title in Portuguese; Full name of each author. The footnote must contain, for all authors: the institution and country of the institution to which they are linked (without abbreviations or acronyms), last training/degree; link to ORCID profile and email of each author. First author's professional mailing address. If necessary, acknowledgement notes.
  2. Abstract: with the exception of reviews and interviews, all manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of 150 to 200 words, in Portuguese or in whatever language the submission was originally written, followed by 3-5 keywords. The initial letter of the first keyword should be capitalized, with the remaining keywords typeset in lowercase and separated by semicolons.
  3. Translated Abstract: this page should contain a translation of the abstract and keywords into English.
  4. Figures: this page should contain titles of all figures, numbered as indicated in the text. The figures, tables and graphs must, in addition to the specific instructions below, consider that: a total of a maximum of 5 (five) will be accepted, in the sum of these categories.
  5. All figures and captions thereof must appear at the end of the manuscript file, after the list of references, respecting the limit of one (1) figure + caption per page. To ensure reproduction quality, figures containing hand drawings must have their resolution set to a minimum of 300 dpi. No figures appearing in the print journal may be larger than 11,5 cm in width, so authors must ensure caption readability in case their size needs to be reduced.
  6. Tables, including all captions and footnotes thereof, must be limited to one (1) per page, appearing at the end of the manuscript file, after the list of references. No tables in the print journal may be larger than 11,5 cm in width and 17,5 cm in length. In addition, no tables may be longer than 55 lines, including captions and footnotes.
  7. With the exception of reviews, interviews and keynote addresses, all manuscripts must include the following components: introduction, methodology, results, discussion, and final considerations/conclusions. it is not mandatory to use these terms as items. Footnotes, if absolutely necessary, must appear at the end of the manuscript file, rather than in the page footers, and ordered using Arabic numerals, which in turn should be seen immediately after the text segment to which the footnote refers. In addition, the manuscript should specify the position in which each of the figures, charts, and/or tables is expected to appear in body text of the published work.

 

No fees are charged for manuscript submission and processing.

The number of articles published per issue will correspond to the journal's editorial flow.