Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. SUBMISSION CONDITIONS

a) Only unpublished articles not submitted to other journals simultaneously will be accepted.

b) The publication of submitted articles does not involve payment to the authors. Article publication is free and openly accessible.

c) Any opinions expressed by the author in their articles are their sole responsibility.

d) Authors must provide all required information about the article (especially title, abstract, keywords, contributions, funding agencies if applicable, and bibliographic references) and authorship details (including full name, contact email, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Qualification/Institution, country, summary of biography, and Institution/Qualification - the latter consider completed courses and not those in progress. The journal reserves the right to verify the information on the candidate’s Lattes platform or to request additional details if needed.

To insert ORCID in our platform, simply remove the "s" from the HTTP protocol of the link (e.g., http://orcid.org/XXXX).

e) The article should be authored by a maximum of 03 (three) authors. If more, justification for each author's participation must be provided in the "Author Comments" section.

f) Upon approval, the author grants RCAAP the right to perform grammatical and editorial revisions as needed.

g) Remove metadata from the document (Document Properties > 'Details' Tab > In the 'Remove Properties' window, click 'Select All' > Click OK).

2. FORMATTING THE SUBMITTED TEXT

a) File in .doc format or compatible with Microsoft Word, with a maximum size of 5MB.

b) The manuscript consists of 15 (fifteen) to 25 (twenty) pages, including bibliographic references.

c) Margins: 2.5cm (top, right, bottom, left).

d) Paragraph indentation: 1.5cm.

e) Times New Roman font, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing.

f) Quotations:

• Longer than three lines: Times New Roman font, size 10, single spacing, and 4 cm indentation on the left.
• Shorter than three lines should be enclosed in double quotation marks within the paragraph.

g) Titles and subtitles in uppercase, aligned left, and in bold.

h) Abstract of up to 250 words in the article's language summarizing the problem, study object, objectives, methodology, results, and conclusions.

i) Following the abstract, provide 3 to 5 keywords, separated by semicolons.

j) Transcription of title, abstract, and keywords in a foreign language (preferably English).

k) References: Use APA author-date format for in-text citations (e.g., NUNES, 2022, p. 410). Use footnotes only for explanatory purposes. List bibliographic references alphabetically and left-aligned at the end of the text. Important: according to the ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard, citations within parentheses throughout the text should now have only the first letter capitalized, and the rest in lowercase. Examples: (Alves, 2023, p. 13), (Berns, 2022).

l) Institutions' names should be fully presented, followed by their acronym upon first insertion in the text. In subsequent mentions, use only the previously employed acronym [e.g., United Nations (UN)]. Write numbers from one to ten in full and italicize foreign terms.

m) It is desirable for works to include at least the following sections: 1) introduction, 2) development, 3) conclusions, and 4) bibliographic references.

For cases not covered by the above rules, the journal follows the norms of ABNT.