Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Guidelines for Authors

Manuscripts submitted to the journal RACE (Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia) must strictly follow the following guidelines:

1. Each author and co-author can submit only one article per year to the Journal;
2. The maximum number of authors per article is five;
3. Articles must be original, unpublished, must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal and must be written in Portuguese or English;
4. Articles must meet the Journal's Focus and Scope;
5. The originality of the ideas expressed and/or defended in the texts, as well as the accuracy of the use of the references are the sole responsibility of the authors. When submitting the manuscript, the authors must accept the Copyright Declaration, certifying that they do not incur any type of plagiarism;
6. Authors must exclude any characters such as name, nickname, entity or other characteristic in the file properties, before submission;
7. The text must undergo a linguistic review before being submitted, regardless of the language in which it is written;
8. The Scientific Editor of the Periodical and Editora Unoesc are not responsible for the loss or eventual loss of material, and the author must keep copies of the original;
9. Papers can be submitted at the Journal's electronic address in ".doc" or ".docx" format;
10. RACE uses an anti-plagiarism service and establishes as a limit for similarity with other texts a text of 5% of the manuscript. In case of prior identification or subsequent accusation of plagiarism, the Journal undertakes to assess the situation, prioritizing not providing texts with dubious originality;
11. Manuscripts must comply with the American Psychological Association (APA) standards;
12. RACE Magazine does not only accept literature review or bibliometric manuscripts, and the submitted texts must be characterized by dense theoretical studies or theoretical-empirical studies that contribute to the area of ​​Administration, Accounting and/or Economics;
13. If the authors, at the time of initial submission, do not fill in their data correctly and completely, the manuscript will be rejected and archived. All authors must register the ORCID;
14. Author information in works in a foreign language must be in the same language as the text;
15. All authors undertake to register as reviewers of other texts submitted to RACE. It is up to the Editors to assign evaluations to them or not;
16. During the evaluation process, if necessary, the editors and evaluators will propose changes to the authors, aiming at the evolution of the manuscript, with the objective of publishing it. If the changes are not carried out satisfactorily and within the stipulated period, the Editors may reject the article;
17. After the evaluation, the articles will be sent to the Publisher for the review, standardization and layout processes, according to the APA rules. The work of authors and consultants will not be remunerated.

2. Submission Rules

a) Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the following general rules:

1. On A4 size sheet, top and left margins 3 cm, bottom and right margins 2 cm, line spacing 1.5, Times New Roman or Arial font, size 12, with the exception of illustrations, tables, notes and direct quotes in 1 indent, 3, whose fonts must be size 10 and single-spaced;
2. The text must be justified, except for the references, which are aligned to the left margin;
3. Manuscripts must be 15 to 25 pages long;
4. Pages should be numbered at the top right margin;
5. For tables and figures (in the APA, what is not a table is considered a figure) if it is not possible to accommodate them in a visible and organized way in the text, we recommend that supplementary files be sent separately in good visual and organizational quality. Digitized images must have a resolution of 300 dpi. Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively in the body of the text, and titles must be written without abbreviations, presenting the reference font in size 10 and single-lined. Avoid using words like “below” and “above” to refer to tables and figures;
6. All tables and figures must present the source of the data.

b) Manuscripts must be guided, in terms of pre-textual elements, from the following rules:

1. Title and subtitle (if any): must appear on the initial page of the text, separated by a colon and in the language of the rest of the text. The title must contain a maximum of 12 words and the use of abbreviations must be avoided;
2. Abstract in the language of the text: it must be presented in the third person singular, in the active voice and written in a single paragraph, with a length of 100 to 250 words. It must contain: the context, objective, methodology and main results of the study;
3. Keywords in the language of the text: words that represent the main subjects dealt with in the text (between three and five words), must appear below the abstract, preceded by the expression "Keywords", separated by a semicolon and finalized also by point. Whenever possible, frame the keywords in the Unesco descriptors (http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/help.html);
4. Note: the name(s) of the author(s), accompanied by the two highest titles of the author(s), employment relationship, full professional postal address and e-mail should not be placed in the text, must be posted in full in the authors' register.

c) Manuscripts must be guided, in terms of textual elements, from the following guidelines:

1. It must contain, at least, the following sections: a) Introduction: presents the delimitation of the subject, research objectives and other elements on the explained topic; b) Development: main part of the text, which presents the subject addressed in an orderly manner. It can be divided into sections and subsections, according to the topic addressed; c) Conclusion: addresses the research results in order to answer the questions presented in the introduction; the word Conclusion is used as title;
2. Ideally (but not necessarily) the text should contain the following sections: a) Introduction: containing general aspects of the study, helping the reader to understand the relevance, pertinence and quality of the study; b) Theoretical framework: containing the literature relevant to the study, developed in order to lead the reader through the theme and express the theoretical base assumptions that the manuscript has; c) Methodology: containing details about the procedure performed to access data, treatment, organization and interpretation of them in the light of the theoretical framework; d) Presentation and analysis of data: prioritizing evidence generated by the collection in favor of the arguments of the text, as well as argumentative-theoretical articulations that favor the intended contribution; e) Conclusions and/or final considerations: containing logical assertions derived from the conduct of the study, in view of the theoretical assumptions, the empirical findings and the analyzes performed;
3. In all cases of structure of textual elements, it is essential to ensure the quality of the manuscript that there is a logical numbering of titles and subtitles that favors the understanding of the study.

d) Manuscripts must have, in terms of post-textual elements, the following elements:

1. Title and subtitle (if any), in English;
2. Abstract in English with the same characteristics and elements (context, objective, methodology and main results) of the abstract in Portuguese;
3. Keywords in a foreign language: version in the text's language in the same foreign language as the abstract (in English Keywords);
4. Footnote(s): should be used only for comments and/or explanations that cannot be included in the text, not for references;
5. References: The list of references with the complete data of the authors cited in the body of the text must be presented in alphabetical order at the end of the text, according to APA rules. They must be prepared using: double line spacing, separated by a double space, with a displacement of 0.75 cm in the second line and left alignment;
6. In case the submission was originally sent in English, authors are requested to send the title and abstract in Portuguese.

d) Manuscripts must follow, in terms of references, the following general guidelines:

1. For citations, the APA rules must be observed.
2. The author-date system must be observed for citations, that is, author's surname, comma and year of publication. Page numbering is only included when there is a direct quote. In this case, use the surname of the cited author, comma, the year, comma, followed by “p.” and the page number.
3. The basic citation models are:
   1. textual transcription of part of the work of the consulted author;
   2. text based on the work of the consulted author;
   3. direct or indirect reference to a text in which the original was not available.

Some references examples:

Printed book:

Shotton, M. A. (1989). Computer addiction? A study of computer dependency. London, England: Taylor & Francis.

Eletronic journal paper:

Clay, R. (2008, June). Science vs. Ideology: Psychologists fight back about the misuse of research. Monitor on Psychology, 39(6). Retrieved from http://www.apa.org.monitor/

Encounters and symposia: 

Herculano-Houzel, S., Collins, C. E., Wong, P., Kaas, J. H., & Lent, R. (2008). The basic nonuniformity of the cerebrla cortex. Proceedins of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 12593-12598. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805417105

Masters dissertation:

McNiel, D. S. (2006). Meaning through narrative: A personal narrative discussing growing up with an alcoholic mother (Master´s thesis). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis database.

More than six authors:

Picton, T. W., Benton, S., Berg, P., Donchin, E., Hillyard, S. A., Johnson, R. J., … Taylor, M. J. (2000). Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study cognition: Recording standards and publication criteria. Psychophysiology, 37, 127-152.

Source:

American Psychological Association. (2012). Manual de Publicação da APA (6 ed.). Porto Alegre: Penso.