Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Originality

• Submitted articles, reviews, and translations should be original, unpublished, and cannot be under evaluation by other journals.
• Once published in Suprema, articles may only be republished after prior consultation with the journal's Editorial Team.

2. Author's degrees

• The articles may have up to three co-authors, requiring, primarily, the title of doctor. Exceptionally, papers may be accepted from authors holding a Master's degree, or who are studying for a Doctoral or Master's degree, provided that there is at least one co-author with a complete Doctoral degree.
• In the case of research groups, the names of the participants must be listed in a footnote, indicating the task performed by each member.

3. Languages
   • Papers will be accepted in Brazilian Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
   • For Brazilian Portuguese written texts, the title, the abstract, the keywords, and the summary must also be translated into English and Spanish. For texts in other languages, the title, the abstract, the keywords, and the summary should be translated into Brazilian Portuguese, English, and Spanish, in case these last two are not the original languages. 
4. Metadata
   • At the time of article submission, the metadata must be filled in accordance with the following guidelines, under penalty of outright rejection of the submission.
     • Authorship
       • First and last name: Indicate eachauthor’sfull name, with only the initials of each surname in capital letters. In the case of co-authorship, the authors’ names must be listed in the order that they shall appear at the time of publication.
       • E-mail: Indication of each author’s e-mail, which will be mandatorily disclosed in the published version of the article.
       • ORCID iD: Indication of the ORCID identification number of each author. The ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at https://orcid.org/register. The author must accept the standards for the presentation of ORCID iD and include, in the registration, the complete URL accompanied by the expression "http:///" (for example http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097).
       • URL: Indication of the link for each author’s complete resume. In the case of Brazilian authors, a link to the Lattes Curriculum must be indicated.
       • Affiliation: Indication of the main institutional affiliation or the two main ones, in case the status with both is equally important. The affiliation refers to the institution to which the author is associated as a professor or a student. If the author is neither a professor nor a student, the institution where he/she obtained the highest academic degree, such as a doctorate, master's degree, specialization, etc., should be informed. The institution’s name must be written out in full in its original language, followed by its country of origin in parentheses. If the author is a professor pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in another institution, the main affiliation will be the institution in which the author is a master's or doctoral student.
       • Country:The country of the main institutional affiliation of each author.
       • Biography:A brief biography of each author, beginning with an indication of the institution that he/she is a professor, with reference to the respective city, state abbreviation, and country in parentheses, followed by an indication of his/her academic degrees (beginning with the highest), then other links to scientific associations, profession, etc.
     • Title and Abstract
       • Title: In the original language of the article, with only the first letter of the sentence capitalized, containing up to 10 words (check the complete information below in "Presentation of the text").
       • Abstract: In the original language of the article, up to 150 words, without paragraph formatting, citations, or references.
     • Indexing
       • Keywords: Up to 5 terms in the article's original language, in lowercase letters and separated by semicolons.
       • Language: Must be indicated by using an abbreviation corresponding to the language of the article (Português=pt; English=en; Français=fr; Español=es).
     • Funding: Indication of the research funding sources, if applicable.
     • References:Complete list of references mentioned in the article with a space between each one.

5. Presentation of the text
   • Submissions must be sent in a ".doc" or ".docx" file, using Microsoft Word for typing. The font is Times New Roman, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing, and justified paragraphs should be used (except for citations, footnotes, references, and figure descriptions, which should be per ABNT standards). The space in the first line of paragraphs should be 1.25 cm or 1 TAB. The page setup should be A4 (210 mm x 297 mm), with top and left margins of 3 cm and bottom and right margins of 2 cm.
   • The texts’ length, in the case of articles and translations, is a minimum of 7,000 and a maximum of 10,000 words. For reviews, the minimum is 4,000 and the maximum is 7,000 words. Longer texts may be published, at the discretion of the editors, if their length is justifiable.
   • The initial and final sections of the article should be titled Introduction and Conclusion, respectively.
   • Submissions must contain the following items:
     • Title: Should have no more than 10 words, including the subheading (if any). The title in the original language of the article should be written in Times New Roman font, size 14, highlighted in bold, and in centralized alignment. Titles in other languages should be written in Times New Roman font, size 14, italicized, also centered. The title and the subheading of the article should only have the first letter of each phrase capitalized, except in cases where the use of capitalization is mandatory. 
     • Abstract:Should be concise (up to 150 words each), written in a single paragraph, highlighting the objective, the main subject of the article, the used methodology, and the main conclusions. The enumeration of topics should not be used in this item.
     • Keywords:Up to five terms that classify the work with adequate precision for its indexation, separated by semicolons. 
     • Summary:Must display only the number and name of the main sections that compose the article. 
   • Footnotes should not be numerous and should only contain information that is complementary to the body of the text. They should not be very long nor contain direct citations. They must be formatted in the same font as the article (Times New Roman), size 10, single line spacing, and justified alignment.
   • If it is necessary to indicate information about the article (funding by financing agencies, acknowledgments, translations, etc.), a footnote with an asterisk (not a number) should be inserted to the right of the title in the original language of the article.
   • Tables, charts, figures, images, and graphs, when present, should be part of the body of the text, and not be at the end of the document as attachments. They should be inserted with due care as to good resolution. To do so, they must present a maximum width of 10 cm; open and editable vector format; short and self-explanatory captions. Images (bitmap) must be at least 12 cm wide and have a resolution of at least 300 ppi.
6. References
   • References must complywiththeBrazilian standard NBR 6023 - Informação e Documentação - Referências - Elaboração/Nov. 2018, of ABNT. References must contain all data necessary for the identification of the papers and be arranged in alphabetical order. The distinction of different papersfrom the same authorship will be made considering the chronological order, per the year of publication. Works of the same authorship that werepublished in the same year will be differentiated by adding a letter at the end of the year (i.e., 2019a, 2019b). All references used in the text should be indicated at the end of the document, with information on the URLs when possible. Foreign authors may, in the submission, follow another models.
7. Citation
   • Citation throughout the text must follow the Brazilian standard ABNT's NBR 10520 - Informação e Documentação - Citaçõesemdocumentos - Apresentação/Ago. 2002, and adopt the author-date system, according to which authors’ last name or entity’s name must be cited, accompanied by the date, and the pages of the publication from which the transcribed text was taken. Foreign authors may, in the submission, follow another models.
   • Indirect or direct citation without the name of the author expressed in the text must present, in parentheses, with the complete author-date reference. Examples: A differentiated model for understanding the nature of rules and principles is necessary, even if, in this differentiated model, the distinction of the prima facie character of rules and principles is maintained (ALEXY, 2008, p. 104). The comparison between working women and those who came from the middle class was also present, so that "the former certainly had more legitimate reasons to compare themselves to slaves" (DAVIS, 2016, p. 46). 
   • The indirect or direct citation with the author’s name expressed in the text must present, in parentheses, the year and pages of the publication. Examples: Herbert L.A. Hart (2011, p. 185) points out that in any community there is a partial overlap of the contents of legal and moral obligations, even if the requirements of legal rules are more specific and detailed than moral rules. According to Ronald Dworkin (2010, p. 127), his argumentation "presupposes no mechanical procedure for demonstrating what the rights of the parties are in hard cases." 
   • Citations up to 3 lines must remain in the body of the text, without indent or emphasis, highlighted by quotation marks. Citations longer than 3 lines should be separated from the text with a 4 cm paragraph indentation, 11 points, single line spacing, and justified text, without the use of quotation marks. 
   • Highlights from the original work should be reproduced identically in the citation. If there are no highlights in the original work but the author of the article wishes to highlight some information, the following rules should be observed:
     • Highlights from the author of the article: after transcribing the citation, use the expression "emphasis added" in parentheses. 
     • Other highlights in passages of the text should only occur in italic font style and only in the following cases: a) expressions in foreign languages; and b) highlights of expressions, if strictly necessary for the understanding of the text. 
   • Foreign language citations should always be translated into the predominant language of the article in the footnotes, accompanied by the term "translation added" in parentheses.
8. Funding
   • Authors must inform the editorial team of any funding, research grants or benefits received for the development of the work and declare that there is no conflict of interest that would compromise the submitted manuscript.
   • If it is possible to identify the author, the information should not be included in the submitted file, so as not to prejudice the blind peer review. The inclusion should be done in the final stage before the publication of the article after the editorial team has contacted the author.
9. Guarantee of double-blind review
   • Authors must take every precaution to eliminate any kind of authorship identification from the document to be submitted.
   • Elements such as a biography under the title of the article, footnotes with authorship data, references to previously published works in the body of the text that refer to the authors in any way other than in the third person should not be included in the body of the text.
   • The paper's authorship identification must be removed from the Properties option in Word, in accordance with the guidance available on Microsoft's webpage (insert link: https://support.microsoft.com/pt-br/topic/remover-dados-ocultos-e-informações-pessoais-inspecionando-documentos-apresentações -or-workbooks-356b7b5d-77af-44fe-a07f-9aa4d085966f).
10. Term of Commitment and Copyright
    • To publish the article, the authors must sign the Term of Commitment and Copyright, to be sent by the editorial team, in which they declare that the text is unpublished and original, that there is no infraction of academic ethics, and that they agree to publish the manuscript free of charge, under the Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International License - CC BY 4.0.