Submissions

Author Guidelines

Requirements regarding the form and preparation of manuscripts

The requirements regarding the form and preparation of the manuscripts below apply in full to Brazilian and foreign authors.

OBS: Due to technical problems on the server, All articles should be submitted through the e-mail: modernos.contemporaneos@gmail.com

- General rules

The article should be unpublished, both in print and digital.

Digital means an indexed paper/ISSN, either in some electronic journal or in congress minutes.

The paper must contain at least 10 pages (Times New Roman,12, single space, bibliography and abstracts included).

The subject must be pertinent and current in the area of interest of the work submitted.

The objectives must be clearly stated and the conclusion must contemplate the initial purposes.

The bibliography must be updated and demonstrate a deep knowledge of current research in the area.

Contributions that are only a reminder of the current stage of research will not be accepted.

Requirements for submissions Articles may be written in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Japanese.

- File format:

The originals, in open Word format (doc, docx), should be typed with Times New Roman font size 12.

The right and left margins should respect the distance of at least 3 cm.

- Title, abstract and keywords:

The article should present the title and a short abstract of its content in the language in which it was written and in English.  

Abstract in Portuguese with 10 lines, and/or 125 words, and/or 855 characters (with spaces).

Abstract in English with 10 lines, and/or 125 words, and/or 855 characters (with spaces).

Right below the abstract, the key words should be indicated (between three and six).

These keywords should follow the language in which the abstracts were written.

Requirements for publication

- Standard of references :

The Modernos & Contemporâneos journal follows the technical standards determined by the Chicago Author-Date Style.

Manual in English available at : http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

Manual in Portuguese available at : http://libguides.fe.up.pt/ld.php?content_id=22767850.

Therefore, the text, once accepted for publication, should be standardized as provided below:

- Citations:

The citation should always be inserted next to the cited text - and not in the footnote - in curved parentheses and present the author's last name, the year of publication of the work and the page; these elements should be separated by a space.

Example :  (Soares, 2012, p.23)

If the original source does not indicate the date, the acronym n.d. can be used instead, remaining (Author n.d.).

If the date of the original source can be established by approximation, an approximate date can be indicated, remaining (Author [2001?]).

- Bibliographical Reference

The works referred to in the text must be listed in the Bibliographical Reference.

This must come at the end of the text, and not as a footnote, adopting the formats required by the Chicago Author

-Data Style

- Formats for books:

*With 1 author:Last name, First name(s). Year. Title. Edition number. Place of publication: Editor.Note: The edition number should be indicated, except if it is the 1st edition.

Example:Sommerville, Ian. 2011.Software engineering. 9th ed. Boston: Pearson.

*With 2 or more authors:

Last name, First name(s), Surname. Year. Title: Pearson.

*With 2 or more authors:Last name, First name(s), Last name. Collection. Place of publication: Editor.

Exemple : Barros, Helena Maria e Joaquim Francisco de Azevedo Figueiras. 2010. Tables and abacus for the sizing of concrete sections requested for bending and axial forces according to Eurocode 2. Collection Technical Documents. Porto: FEUPedições.

*Book title: Last name, First name(s). Year. "Chapter title. In Book title, series of pages. Place of publication: Editor.

Example: Cardoso, Henrique Daniel de Avelar Lopes and Eugénio da Costa Oliveira. 2005. "Virtual enterprise normative framework within electronic institutions". In Engineering Societies in the Agents World V, 14-32. Heidelberg: Springer.

*Ebook:Last name, First name(s). Year. Title. Place of publication: Editor. Date of access. doi: or URL.

Example:Donaldson, Kenneth and Paul Borm. 2007. Particle toxicology. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group. Accessed June 8, 2016. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781420003147.

- Format for scientific journal articles (print or electronic): Last name, First name(s). Year. "Title. Title of magazine volume (issue): series of pages. Date of access. doi: or URL.

Example:Gunerhan, H., A. Hepbasli and U. Giresunlu. 2009. "Environmental impacts from the solar energy systems. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects 31 (2):131-138. Accessed 8 June 2016. doi: http:dx.doi.org/10.1080/15567030701512733.  

- Format for Theses and Dissertations: Last name, First name(s). Year. "Title. Type of thesis, Faculty, University. Date of access. URL.

Example:Körber, Hannes. 2010. "Mechanical response of advanced composites under high strain rates". PhD, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. Accessed June 02, 2016. http://digitool.fe.up.pt:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?custom_att_2=simple_viewer&metadata_request =false&pid=234533. 

- Other reference standards It is noted that when a research group or the scientific community adopts another reference standard - which may notably occur with so-called "classical" works - this standard will be adopted in the text, provided it is internationally recognized, but secondary references remain in the Chicago Author

-Date Style standard. In addition, the author must create a note describing this reference standard.