Submissions

Author Guidelines

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

 

Types of documents accepted

 

• Unpublished and Original Articles: All articles published by Kriterion are subject to double-blind peer review. Submissions must be prepared by authors for this type of review process. The text must be prepared in ANONYMOUS and IMPERSONAL format, meaning that there should be NO information about the author's identity or any reference that could identify them. The article must be unpublished, both in print and digitally. ‘Digitally’ means an indexed/ISSN article, either in an electronic journal or in conference proceedings.
• The topic must be relevant and current in the philosophical area of interest of the submitted work. The objectives must be clearly stated, the argumentation solid, and the conclusion must reflect the initial purposes.
• The bibliography must be up to date and demonstrate a thorough knowledge of current research in the field. The main works discussed must be referenced in their original language.
• Contributions that are merely a re-description of results, theses, or ideas from previous publications (by others) will not be accepted.
• According to SciELO, preprints from the following servers are acceptable for submission: SciELO Preprints, arXiv, bioRxiv, and medRxiv. The acceptance of preprints from other servers will be reviewed by the journal's editors.
• Kriterion does not accept more than one submission from the same author per year, nor does it publish articles by the same author at intervals of less than two years.
• Reviews and translations are not currently published by the journal.

 

Contribution of Authors

As Kriterion is a philosophical journal, it is understood that the maximum number of authors is two (2), both of whom must actively participate in the entire process of writing the text. Articles with more than two authors will not be accepted.

Authors must be PhDs or PhD candidates.

 

Manuscript Preparation

A work suitable for publication in Kriterion Magazine must have a relevant and current theme in the philosophical area of the submitted work. The objectives must be clearly stated, the argumentation solid, and the conclusion must reflect the initial purposes.

The article must be unpublished, both in print and digitally. By ‘digital’ we mean an indexed/ISSN article, either in an electronic journal or in conference proceedings.

The bibliography must be up to date and demonstrate a thorough knowledge of current research in the field.

The main works discussed must be referenced in their original language.

Contributions that are merely a re-description of results, theses, or ideas from previous publications (by others) will not be accepted.

 

Article Submission Format

• Articles must be submitted via the journal's platform (OJS), preserving anonymity. The following information must be provided:
• Title
• English title
• Abstract in Portuguese and English, or in the language in which it was written, if different from English. Abstracts should be clear, easily readable, and provide the central argument of the text in 200 words.
• Article length: minimum of 5,000 and maximum of 10,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, and bibliography.
• Languages accepted by the journal are Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian.
• Keywords in Portuguese and English (between 3 and 6 words)
• Articles must be in Word (doc; docx) or Rtf format, typed in Times New Roman font (size 12), with 1.5 spacing between lines.
• Published articles will receive a DOI identification.

 

Required data to be entered in the journal’s online registration form:

• Name of the author or authors (when using a compound surname, create a clear identification [uppercase, bold, and/or hyphen]) (Metadata, including the title, abstract, and keywords, must be provided in English when the language of the text is not English).
• Authors (maximum of two) with full affiliation
• Authors' ORCID
• Authors' email
• Information on the funding of articles, when applicable, must be provided
• Where applicable, a statement must be provided stating that the research has been approved by an institutional ethics committee.
• A conflict of interest statement must be submitted
• Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement of availability of the data used and generated in the research underlying the texts. Research data refers to the content (numerical data, texts, computer programs, images, audio, videos, etc.) used or generated in the research and underlying the texts of the articles organized in files.

 

Digital Assets

Tables, charts, figures, illustrations, maps, diagrams, and other digital assets present in the documents must be indicated separately in PDF or Word format for publication in the journal.

No drawing or table may exceed 1/3 of the page, must have a minimum resolution quality of 250 DPI, and show a balance between definition and size.

 

Ethics and Misconduct

Suspected misconduct should be reported to the editor-in-chief or another member of the editorial board.

 

 

Citations and References

Once accepted for publication, the article must be standardized according to the following standards:

 

References

1. The works referred to throughout the text should be listed at the end of the article, as shown in the examples:

EARMAN, John. “Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology”. In: P. Horch (ed.), 1993. pp. 9-36.  [Ver abaixo mais informações sobre este padrão.]

GRICE, P. “Studies in the Way of Words”. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

HART, H. L. A. “The Concept of Law”. 2ª ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

HUME, D. (1777). “Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals”. 2ª ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.

MONTAIGNE, M. (1580). “Les Essais”. Ed. Pierre Villey, 3 vols. Paris: Quadrige/ PUF, 1992.

PASCAL, B. “Pensées in OEuvres completes”. Ed. L. Lafuma. Paris: l’Integrale/ Seuil, 1963. Tradução para o português de Mário Laranjeira, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2001.

RUSSELL, B. “On Denoting”. Mind, 14, 1905, pp. 479-93.

WITTGENSTEIN, L. (1921) “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”. Trans. D. F. Pears and B. F. McGuinness. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.

 

2. For reissued works, details about the original edition must be provided, but it is permissible to use the pagination of the reissue:

WALZER, Richard Rudolf. “New Light on the Arabic Translations of Aristotle”. In: Oriens. Vol. 6, Nr. 1. Leiden: Brill, 1953. Reprinted in: Greek into Arabic: Essays on Islamic Philosophy. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 1962. pp. 142-163.

 

3. Articles published in books should add a separate reference to the latter:

EARMAN, John. “Carnap, Kuhn, and the Philosophy of Scientific Methodology”. In: P. Horwich (ed.), 1993. pp. 9-36.

HORWICH, P. (ed.). “World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science”. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993.

 

Citations

1. Works cited, referred to, mentioned, etc., must comply with the following standards:

References to works (and their details) should, whenever possible, appear in the BODY OF THE TEXT (not in footnotes), according to the following format:

Author followed by date in parentheses. For example:

Comte (1929)

or

(Comte, 1929).

There should be a comma after the date when referring to pagination:

“Foucault (1975, pp. 90-99) announces a kind of decalogue, with which reformers attempt to influence social behaviors in criminal policy with universal  effectiveness.”

or

“Foucault announces a kind of decalogue, with which reformers attempt to influence social behaviors in criminal policy with universal effectiveness.” (Cf. Foucault, 1975, pp. 90-99).

 

2. Short and long quotations:

Short quotations (up to three lines) may appear in the body of the text, but must always be enclosed in double quotation marks.

Long quotations should be indented, preceded and followed by a line space, and should not be enclosed in quotation marks. Reference information should appear at the end of the quoted text, as in the example:

"Just as commodities are the immediate unit of use value and exchange value, the production process, the process of producing commodities, is the immediate unit of the labor process and the process of valorization. As commodities, that is, as the immediate unit of use value and exchange value, as a result, as a product, they emerge from the process {aus dem prozess herauskommen}, and thus as a constituent element of it.” (Marx, RuP, p. 11).

 

3. Citations from classic works:

For classic works, authors may use an abbreviation instead of the date. For example, when referring to Karl Marx's “Das Kapital,” one could write “According to Marx (RuP, p. 11) ...”. This should be made clear in the final list of references, as in:

Marx, K. “Resultate des unmittelbaren Produktionsprozess.” In: Das Kapital. I. Buch. Der Produktionsprozess des Kapitals. VI. Kapitel, Archiv sozialistischer Literatur, 17. Frankfurt: Verlag Neue Kritik, 1970.

 

4. Classic works can be cited in the body of the text by their title in quotation marks:

Kant, in “The Critique of Pure Reason,” establishes the difference between synthetic judgments and analytical judgments.

 

5. Citations from electronic journals should follow the example below:

Stevenson, Olive. “Genericism & specialization: the story since 1970.” British Journal of Social Work, 35, July 2005 [Online]. Available at: http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/ (Accessed on September 5, 2008).

 

Quotation marks

Single quotation marks should be used to refer to a word or symbol, as in:

By ‘Cicero’ I mean the man who denounced Catiline.

Double quotation marks should only be used to quote or suggest special uses (irony, etc.).

Please place punctuation marks outside the quotation marks.

 

Footnotes

To insert notes, footnotes (numbered with Arabic numerals) should be used, but not endnotes. Citations within footnotes follow the above conventions.

Footnotes should not be used for normal citations.

 

Foreign words

Foreign words should be italicized.

 

Supplementary documents

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement of availability of the data used and generated in the research underlying the texts. Research data refers to the content (numerical data, texts, computer programs, images, audio, videos, etc.) used or generated in the research and underlying the texts of the articles organized in files.

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a Conflict of Interest statement (if there is a conflict, specify the type).

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement of approval from the ethics committee, if applicable.

 

Funding Statement

If applicable, authors must disclose sources of support for the work, including the names of sponsors, contract numbers, and explanations of the role of these sources.

 

Additional Information

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The names and addresses provided in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

 

Contact

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