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Author Guidelines

The Revista de Educação do Vale do São Francisco (REVASF - ISSN 2177-8183) publishes original and unpublished articles derived from scientific research, systematic reviews, theoretical studies, and experience reports, as well as interviews and book reviews, aiming to disseminate research and studies related to the field of education from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Articles may be submitted to the following sections: Free Articles, Dossiers, Experience Reports, Interviews, and New Researchers. The policy for each section is presented on this page.

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MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION

  • In the body of the manuscript, there must not be any type of reference that allows the identification of authorship (see the item “Ensuring double-blind peer review”).
  • Manuscripts must indicate, in the first footnote, whether the research received funding, which must be specified (funding agency, type, and period).
  • The manuscript text must be formatted in Arial font, size 12, 1.5 line spacing, 2.0 cm margins, and saved in .DOC or .DOCX format. Direct quotations longer than 3 lines must be indented 4 cm from the left margin, in Arial font, size 10, and single line spacing (1.0).
  • The title is limited to 15 words or 110 characters (including spaces). Abstracts are limited to 200 words. Manuscripts must include title, abstract, and keywords (3–5) in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French.
  • Images, tables, and graphs must be included in the body of the text, accompanied by captions and full credits.
  • The author(s) grant the journal copyright over the originals and translations published therein. At the same time, the work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) License, which allows others to share the work provided that proper credit is given to the authorship and the original publication in this journal. Authors are authorized and encouraged to post their works online (e.g., institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, or personal websites) after publication. The data and concepts presented in articles and reviews are the sole responsibility of the author(s).

CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL

The manuscript submitted to the journal must not be under consideration by another publication and must be original and unpublished. To ensure this, the existence of similarity will be checked using the CopySpider software.

All manuscripts will be evaluated by two reviewers/referees, with a third reviewer being assigned in cases of divergent opinions, always adopting a double-blind peer review policy. Authors will be notified of the editorial decision regarding their respective manuscripts, which may consist of acceptance, rejection, or acceptance subject to revisions/corrections, according to the reviewers’ recommendations.

LANGUAGES

Manuscripts may be submitted in Portuguese, French, Spanish, and English. If it is necessary to submit a manuscript in another language, a prior request must be made in advance via email revasf.univasf@gmail.com

ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR PUBLICATION

The REVASF adheres to the publication ethics standards defined by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS

At the time of submission, in a file separate from the manuscript, the author(s) must include a declaration regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence tools.

 

DOUBLE-BLIND PEER REVIEW

Submitted manuscripts are initially reviewed by the Editors for compliance with the submission guidelines. If the submission is accepted, the manuscript proceeds to the second stage, Evaluation, in which it is sent to at least two reviewers/referees of the journal. Reviewers are selected to ensure their independence.

The evaluation process adopted by REVASF is double-blind peer review. To ensure this procedure during the submission process, precautions must be taken so as not to reveal the identity of authors or reviewers at any stage of the process.

Thus, authors, editors, and reviewers must observe the following precautions regarding the manuscript text and document properties:

  1. The authors have removed from the manuscript any element that could identify authorship.
  2. In Word documents (.doc or .docx), author identification must be removed from the document properties (File menu > Properties). This is done by accessing File in the main menu and following the sequence: File > Save As... > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security Options... > Remove personal information from this file on save > OK > Save.
  3. Step 2 must also be followed when reviewers send the manuscript back with suggested changes or corrections.

The REVASF reviewer board is composed of PhD researchers from Brazilian and international higher education and research institutions.

Reviewers may recommend acceptance for publication, rejection, or acceptance subject to revisions. They will use a standard evaluation form to assess submitted manuscripts, available in the journal’s own system. Final acceptance of a manuscript is only considered complete after compliance with the journal’s editorial policies and quality requirements.

The final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of manuscripts rests with the Editors, based on the reviewers’ reports. The status of submitted articles can be tracked in the system using the login provided at submission.

AFTER MANUSCRIPT APPROVAL

Once a manuscript is approved, but revisions and/or corrections are required, the author(s) will have a deadline of up to 20 days from the notification date to submit the final version.

 

Accepted manuscripts will only be published after being revised by professional proofreaders with degrees in Literature and/or Journalism. The costs of this revision shall be negotiated directly between the authors and the proofreaders.

 

After the revision, the author(s) must send, via email and through the REVASF system, the revised manuscript accompanied by a completion statement issued by the proofreader. If the editorial team identifies issues related to ABNT standards or textual errors, even after professional revision, the author may be required to carry out a new revision of the manuscript.

 

REFERENCES

The author–date system (SILVA, 2016) will be used in the body of the text, and the author–date–page format (SILVA, 2016, p. 65) will be used for direct quotations longer than three lines.

For works with more than three authors, et al. must be used in the body of the text. Example: Ferreira et al. (2020) or (FERREIRA et al., 2020). However, in the reference list at the end of the manuscript, all authors must be included.

The use of Id., Ibidem, and Op. cit. will not be accepted.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES LIST

As a standard, we will use the following general rules for the inclusion of references in the Reference List, which must be presented at the end of the manuscript. They are:

  1. Single alphabetical order, based on the author’s surname or the institution, when it is the author of the document, or on the title.
  2. Single spacing within each reference, separated by one blank line (“Enter”) between references. References must be formatted as justified text.
  3. Use capital letters for the author’s surname(s); for the first word of the title when it begins the reference; and, in the case of corporate authors, for the name of the jurisdiction (location) when it appears before a governmental body.
  4. Do not use et al. in the references; in all styles, all authors must be listed.
  5. Do not replace authors’ names with a dash (___.) when they have already been listed above.
  6. Authors’ names must be separated by semicolons.
  7. In the case of journal articles or other publications with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier System), the DOI URL must be added at the end of the reference in the format https://doi.org/10.XXXXX/odeere/xxxxxx. Do not include “DOI:” before the URL, and do not add a period at the end of the URL.
  8. Page numbering must be given in full, for example, p. 125–130, instead of p. 125–30.
  9. After the reference, it is not necessary to include “Retrieved from,” “Internet,” “Online,” or “Available at.” In such cases, only the link should be placed at the end of the reference, without using the symbols “<” (before) and “>” (after).
  10. It is not necessary to indicate page numbers for preprint articles or continuously published journal articles.

After these guidelines, we present some formats for presenting references in the Reference List at the end of the manuscript.

 

Book:

APELLIDO DEL AUTOR, Nombre. Título: subtitle (in bold). Edition. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

Journal article:

SURNAME, Name. Title of the article (in bold). Journal title in italics, volume, issue, publication period, page range, year. https://doi.org/10.22481/odeere.v6i01.xxxx (when the article has a DOI).

Chapter in edited book:

SURNAME, Name. Title of the work (in bold). SURNAME OF THE EDITOR, Name (ed.). Title of the edited collection in italics. Place of publication: Publisher, date. (Page range).

Dissertations and theses:

SURNAME, Name. Title: subtitle (in bold). Year of submission. Number of pages or volumes. (Category and field of concentration) – Institution, Place, year of defense.

Papers presented at conferences:

SURNAME, Name. Title of the paper (in bold) presented, followed by the expression. In: TITLE OF THE EVENT, event number, year of realization, place (city of realization). Title of the document (proceedings, abstracts, etc.). Place: Publisher, year of publication. Page range (first–last page).

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify compliance with all the items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the guidelines will be returned to the authors.

  1. In the research presented in the submitted text, good academic and scientific research practices were adopted;
  2. The contribution is original, unpublished, and is not currently under consideration for publication by another journal. Otherwise, please provide a justification in “Comments to the Editor.” Your justification will be evaluated by the editors for acceptance;
  3. The research presented in the submitted text falls within the field of Education;
  4. The text must have no more than five (5) authors and, in the case of an ARTICLE, at least one of the authors must hold a doctoral degree;
  5. In the submission form, all required metadata must be completed for all authors and co-authors, including full name, ORCID, and a short biography;
  6. The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors, available in the Submission menu;
  7. The file to be submitted must be in Microsoft Word format and formatted according to the Journal’s template;
  8. The text follows the required formatting and the page limit established for the corresponding section;
  9. In the references, the authors’ first and last names must be written in full;
  10. URLs have been provided in the references whenever possible;
  11. The article explicitly states whether AI was used and, if so, for what purpose(s);
  12. At the time of submission, a declaration/opinion of research approval by an Ethics Committee must be included in a file separate from the manuscript in the case of research involving human participants;
  13. At the time of submission or after acceptance, a declaration of language review must be included in a file separate from the manuscript;
  14. At the time of submission, a declaration on the use of Artificial Intelligence tools must be included in a file separate from the manuscript.

PLEASE NOTE:

a) Authors are responsible for verifying the accuracy of their authorship information at the time of submission and for keeping their contact information up to date in their profiles;

d) REVASF is an open-access journal and does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs) at any stage of the submission, evaluation, review, publication, distribution, or download processes.

Free Articles

Section for the submission of free manuscripts in the form of theoretical essays, theoretical-empirical articles, and methodological articles related to the journal’s thematic scope (texts must be between 10 and 25 pages in length and may be submitted individually [for authors holding a Doctoral degree] or in co-authorship, provided that at least one of the authors holds a Doctoral degree. Manuscripts in this section are subject to blind peer review.

Experience Reports

Space dedicated to experience reports related to the journal’s thematic discussions, developed in different times and contexts and addressing different social groups. Manuscripts must be between 10 and 20 pages and may be submitted in co-authorship, provided that at least one of the authors holds, at minimum, a Master’s degree. Manuscripts in this section are subject to blind peer review.

Copyright Notice

Upon submitting the manuscript, the author(s) transfer copyright to the Revista de Educação do Vale do São Francisco (REVASF). However, after publication, authors are authorized and encouraged to post their work online, for example in institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories (ResearchGate, Academia.edu), or on their personal website.

The article accepted for publication will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License, which allows others to share the work provided that appropriate credit is given to the authorship and the original publication in this journal.

In published articles, the following statement will be displayed:

 This article is licensed under a license Creative Commons - Atribuição 4.0 Internacional

The data and concepts presented in articles and reviews are the sole responsibility of the author.

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