RULES FOR PUBLICATION

No payment whatsoever will be required for the edition or publication of your articles.

The works can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English, French or Italian, and they must, necessarily, meet the following specific rules:

1. The articles must be inedited, destined exclusively to this magazine. Its republication will only be authorized in foreign journals and in books.

2. The articles must be written on Microsoft Word, using Times New Roman, size 12, lines spacing 1.5, justified alignment, margins (superior and left 3.0 cm, inferior and right 2.0 cm), paragraphs with a 1.0 cm indentation, items aligned to the left, in the formats RTF, Word for Windows or Word Perfect.

3. The maximum length allowed for articles is 20 pages or 8,000 (eight thousand) words, including references and attachments.

4. The submission of originals must be done via complete online form at www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/sig/login .

5. The originals must also contain the following information, obeying the following sequence:

a)    title in Portuguese, with its translation into English and Spanish; or in the foreign language the article is written on and its translation into Portuguese and English or Spanish. The titles must stay close to the abstracts of their respective languages.

b)    To ensure the integrity of the blind revision by peers, to submit to the magazine, we must take all possible precautions to avoid revealing the identity of authors during the process. This demands that the authors take some precautions with the text and the properties of the document: 1) the articles must be sent without the name of the author and without biographical or explanative notes that can allow the identification of the author. 2) When the article makes references to works of the author proper – allowing therefore, their identification – the citations in the body of text and in Bibliographical References must come as in the following examples. Example: AUTHOR (2004); AUTHOR (2009). 3) In a Microsoft Office document, the identification of the author must be removed from the properties of the document (in the menu File > Properties > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security Options or Details > Remove personal information from the file when saving > OK > Save. In PDFs, the names of the authors must also be removed from the Properties of the Document, on File in the main menu of the Adobe Acrobat.  

c)      abstract – the text must be accompanied of na abstract (at least 50 words and no more than 100 words) in Portuguese, just after the title. And it also must contain, inserted between the end of the text and the bibliographic references, an abstract (at least 50 words and no more than 100 words) in English and another one in Spanish. The abstract must be single-spaced.

d)    keywords – in Portuguese, in English and in Spanish (no more than five). The keywords must come at the end of the abstract in their respective language, separated by a period.

6. Presenting the bibliographic reference according to ABNT NBR 6023, in alphabetical order, at the end of the text, according to some examples:

a)    Book with one author: LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR, Name of the author. Title of book in italics. City of the publisher: publisher, year.

b)    Book with two authors: LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR, Name & LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR, Name. Title of the book in italics. City of the publisher: publisher, year.

c)     Book with 03 or more authors: LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR, Name et al. Title of the book in italics. City of the publisher, publisher, year.

d)     Book Chapter: LAST NAME OF AUTHOR, Name. Title of chapter. In: LAST SURNAME OF THE AUTHOR, Name. Title of the book: subtitle if any. Edition number. City: Publisher, year of publication. Number of page or interval utilized. – in case the author is the same of the book and the chapter: LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR, Name. Chapter title. In: _______. Title: subtitle if any. Edition number. City: Name of Publisher, year of publication. Number of page or interval utilized.

e)    Articles from journals: LAST NAME OF AUTHOR, Name. Title of article (no highlight), Title of journal (in italics), volume and number of journal, number of pages, date of publication.

f)     Annals: LAST NAME OF AUTHOR, Name. Title of article: subtitle if any. In: NAME OF EVENT, number of the edition of the event, year of realization of event, city of realization of event. Type of publication (Annals or Abstracts or Proceedings, in italics), City of publication: Publishing institution, year of publication, p. (first – last page of article).  

g)    Internet: LAST NAME OF AUTHOR, Name. Title: subtitle if any. Available at: <complete URL>. Access on: day, month (abbreviated until the third letter, except for May), year.

h)    Thesis: LAST NAME OF AUTHOR, Name. Title: subtitle if any. Year of defense. Total number of pages. Thesis (Doctorate in ‘area of study’) – Name of College, Name of University, city of Institution, year.  

7. The bibliographic indications in the body of text must be only the last name of the author, the date of publication of the work and the page, when necessary, as per the example: (NUNES, 2008, p. 32). If the name of the author is mentioned in the text, it must be indicated, between parentheses, only the date and the page.

8.  The citations with more than 3 lines must have a left indentation of 4.0 cm, size 11, and simple spacing, separating them from the body of text with one space before and one after. The citations with fewer than three lines must be incorporated into the text, between quotation marks: “….” .

9. The illustrations involve graphs, formulas, slides, figures (drawings, engravings, maps, pictures, photographs, or other pictographic forms needed for the complementation and better visualization of text, their identification must appear in the superior part, followed by their number of order of text in Arabic digits (highlight in bold is optional), dash and the respective title. Below the illustration, indicate the word source (highlight in bold is optional) followed by the information consulted and the year. Example:

Figure 1 – informational literacy.

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Source: Signótica (2017, p.10)

10. Using italics for expressions being highlighted, foreign words and titles of books and journals.

11. The notes must at the end and inserted between the abstracts in foreign languages and the references of the article. The remissions for the footnotes must be done by numbers, in the superior line spacing.

12. All works sent for publication must be submitted to the appreciation of the Editorial Board, which disposes of plain authority to decide about the convenience or not of its publication, being able to suggest alterations.

13.  The concepts emmited in the works are the sole responsibility of their authors.

14. As part of the submission process, the authors must verify the conformity of the submission in relation to all the items listed above. The submissions that are not in accordance with the rules must be informed to the authors as well as the works that are not approved by the peers for publication.