Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Presentation

Revista Desenvolvimento Social (RDS) is a biannual publication of the Graduate Program in Social Development of the State University of Montes Claros (PPGDS / Unimontes).

2. Editorial policy

2.1. A complete master's degree is the minimum degree required for authors. Exceptionally, collaborations sent by master's students will be accepted (when co-authored with masters or doctors).

2.2. In addition to works in Portuguese, the magazine also accepts contributions in English, Spanish and French.

2.3. The magazine receives only texts from a maximum of 2 co-authors.

2.3.1. Any submissions by authors / co-authors who had been published in the RDS in the two years prior to the current issue will not be evaluated.

2.4. Each author / co-author may submit only one text at a time to be evaluated. In case of submission of two or more proposals, only the first will be considered for evaluation purposes.

2.5. RDS accepts unpublished works in the form of articles, essays and book reviews. Priority will be given to the publication of contributions from research developed within the scope of the Interdisciplinary area of ​​CAPES. Submissions from disciplinary areas are also accepted, especially based on investigations on themes that are dear to the Human and Social Sciences.

2.6. Papers should be originally presented to the magazine.

2.7. The decision on publication is the responsibility of the Editorial Committee, which will preliminarily refuse works that do not fit the scope and standards of the magazine. Those who meet these requirements will be sent to external reviewers, following the double-blind system, in which the identities of the author and the reviewers are mutually omitted.

2.8. The referees may indicate:

a) the publication of the work in its current form;

b) the publication with suggested modifications;

c) refusal of publication.

2.9. Additions or modifications will not be allowed after the works are delivered for composition.

2.10. Copyright rights and responsibility: with the submission of their works, the authors fully assign their copyright to Revista Desenvolvimento Social. The magazine is not obliged to return the originals received. The statements and concepts issued in the signed works are the responsibility of the authors.

3. Submission of papers

3.1. The work must be submitted through the Revista's website. In this case, the author must follow the instructions contained in “Online Submissions”.

4. Formatting the works

4.1. Collaborations must be typed in Word or a compatible program.

4.2. The texts must have a space of 1.5, font Calibri, size 12. Notes must be in footnotes (not at the end of the text), and in font Calibri, size 10. Direct citations with more than three lines, in the text, should be highlighted with indentation 3, size 11, without quotes, in space 1.15.

4.3. Figures and tables must be inserted in the text, not in the form of attachments.

4.4. Articles must contain between 6,000 and 10,000 words (including title, footnotes and bibliography). Book reviews must be up to 3,000 words (including title, footnotes and bibliography).

4.5. Articles and essays must contain versions of the title in Portuguese, English and Spanish, accompanied by a summary containing between 150 and 200 words, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, clearly containing a summary of the purposes, methods employed and the main conclusions of the paper. work, in addition to five keywords in Portuguese, English and Spanish (separated by semicolons).

4.6. Articles, essays and reviews must also contain information about the authorship of the article (such as the following metadata: full name without abbreviations, academic title, institutional affiliation, stricto-sensu graduate program to which it is linked, position occupies, email and ORCID registration number).

4.7. Bibliographic citations in the text must follow the form (Author, date, page).

4.8. At the end of the article, bibliographic references should be listed, in alphabetical order, observing the rules exemplified in the models below:

Book:

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. The elementary structures of kinship. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1982.

Book chapter:

JOSEPH, Isaac. "Regarding the good use of the Chicago School". In: VALLADARES, Lícia do Prado (Org.). The Chicago School: impact of a tradition in Brazil and France. Belo Horizonte / Rio de Janeiro, Ed. UFMG / IUPERJ, 2005 [1998], p. 93-128.

Journal article:

FELTRAN, Gabriel de Santis. “Government that produces crime, crime that produces government: the homicide management device in São Paulo (1992-2011)”. Brazilian Journal of Public Security, v. 6, p. 232-255, 2012.

5. Formatting model

5.1. Click here to download the text formatting template.

6. Other considerations

6.1. Articles, essays or reviews outside the rules stipulated above will not be accepted. It is recommended to follow the model provided in topic 5.1.