Submission Guidelines
TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS
RTIC publishes original articles and review essays.
Manuscripts must be submitted digitally, in a recent version of Microsoft Word.
IDENTIFICATION FORM
All manuscripts must be accompanied by the Identification Form.
In the Identification Form, the corresponding author must:
- Mention all authors of the manuscript in the order they appear in the publication;
- Pay attention to the full names that will be associated with the manuscript;
- Mention the contribution of the authors;
- Present the affiliation of each author, including the University, Faculty, Department / Research Center, position, city, country, ORCID and institutional e-mail;
- The corresponding author must be properly identified and must present his/her full institutional address.
DIMENSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Articles must not exceed 8000 words, excluding titles, abstracts, keywords, bibliography, figures and tables.
FORMATTING THE MANUSCRIPTS
All manuscripts must be formatted according to the TEMPLATE made available by RTIC.
The body of the text must follow the Template.
TITLES / ABSTRACTS / KEYWORDS
The presentation of titles, abstracts and keywords (maximum of 5) in Portuguese/Spanish and English is mandatory.
Abstracts must contain approximately 200 words and must not contain bibliographical references or citations.
FIGURES
The word “Figure” includes the following types of images: maps, graphs, drawings, photographs, infographics.
The title must be in the original language of the manuscript. It must be concise and express the content of the figure.
The source must only be expressed if there has been recourse to authors other than those in the text.
All figures must be referred to in the body of the text, using the word “Figure” if it is in the middle of the sentence.
Figures must be of sufficient quality and legibility for the journal's editing process (A4). In this way, the author(s) may be asked to send them, in an individual file, referring to the surname of the first author, figure number and extension (ex: Goncalves_fig.2. jpeg).
GRAPHICS
All graphs must be in editable format in the manuscript's Word file or sent in a supplementary Excel file (or other format).
The graphics must identify the units of measure on the axes, avoid lines on the inside and have no outside line (box).
TABLES
The formatting of these tables includes horizontal lines, without external vertical limits, internal vertical lines being allowed. Tables should be simple and preferably fit on a single page, avoiding long sentences, large numbers and too many decimal places.
All tables must be referred to in the body of the text, using the word “Table”, in the middle of the sentence or in parentheses [e.g. (Table I)], followed by a roman numerical sequence.
All tables must be in editable format in the manuscript's Word file (regardless of authorship).
The title must be in the original language of the manuscript. It must be concise and express the contents of the table. The source must only be expressed, if there has been recourse to authors other than those in the text.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
The formatting of bibliographic references must comply with all requirements of the 7th Edition of the APA Standards.
Bibliographic references correspond exclusively to the works referenced in the manuscript and must be inserted at the end of the manuscript, in the “Bibliographic References” section.
Bibliographic references are organized in alphabetical order. In case there are several works by the same author, the chronological order is followed. If there is more than one work of the same year and author, the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etc. are added to the year. (e.g. 2020a).
All titles that are not in English must be translated into that language (to be placed in square brackets after the original title), with the exception of legal documents.
RTIC supports the use of bibliographic management software (Mendeley, EndNote, among others). However, authors must ensure that their bibliographic references include all the necessary elements and comply with the norms of the 7th Edition of APA.
ENDNOTES
The essential notes (maximum 10) will have Roman numerals and should be included at the end of the manuscript as “endnotes”.
Notes that are only bibliographic references are not allowed.
FOOTNOTES
Bibliographic references that appear in footnotes and not included in the list of references at the end of the article will not be taken into account and may prevent the publication of the manuscript.