Online Submission

Education and Research publishes only previously unpublished articles in the field of education and does not consider manuscripts concurrently submitted for publication in books or other periodicals in Brazil or abroad. Manuscripts are assessed first by the members of the editorial board. The manuscripts which do not comply with the editorial criteria of the journal are returned to their authors. The others are assessed by reviewers appointed by the editorial board. Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal's page in SciELO publishing system (http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php).

The time frame necessary for submissions to complete the review process - and be selected or rejected - varies according to the complexity of the reviews and possible changes suggested and implemented. The dates of receipt and approval of each article are stated in the published text. For each of the journal's volume, the editorial board establishes the criteria of organization of the articles approved.

Education and Research is published under the Open Access model (CC BY-NC ) therefore free for download  and to disseminate for educational purposes. It is also free of submission charges.

Guidelines for manuscript submission

Upon submission of an article, authorship and the author’s institutional affiliations must be filled out in proper spaces in SciELO System and should not be mentioned in the text, which will be submitted to blind peer review. Any references that enable reviewers to infer indirectly the authorship of the work are not accepted either. Authorship information is recorded separately, as metadata, and it is accessed only by the editors.

When preparing the manuscript, the following guidelines should be followed:

• The manuscript can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Articles should be submitted in .DOC or .DOCX (Word for Windows) Times New Romanfont, 12-point font size, 1.5 line spacing. All the manuscript pages should be numbered sequentially. The body of the manuscript should have a minimum length of 35,000 and a maximum length of 50,000 characters, including spaces, references and not including the abstract.

•The title of the manuscript should have no more than 15 words and reflect its purpose and content.

• The abstract should contain between 200 and 250 words and describe, in an informative manner and without listing topics, the following items: general theme and research problem; objectives; methodology; main results and conclusions. It is recommended that the abstract should be written as a single paragraph, in the active voice, in the third person of the singular, in concise and affirmative sentences. The following items should be avoided: neologisms, bibliographical citations, symbols and abbreviations except those in common use, as well as formulae, equations, diagrams etc., unless absolutely necessary. The journal require an Portuguese version of the abstract along with the original text.

• The article should have 3 to 5 keywords.

• Possible acknowledgements should be cited in a footnote, and without any direct or indirect reference to the authorship.

• Tables, charts, graphs, and figures (photos, drawings and maps) should be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they appear in the text and should include appropriate headers. Legends should appear right below each figure. Maps should contain graph scales and legends.

• Images must be in JPG format with 300 dpi or higher resolution and have dimensions that allow reducing or enlarging them without impairing their readability. All images must be submitted as separate files and named according to their references in the text (e.g., Graph 1).

• Explanatory footnotes can be used when necessary for understanding the text. Notes should be numbered in Arabic numerals according to the order in which they appear in the text.

• Citations in the text should meet the following criteria:

a) quotations of up to three lines should be run in – integrated into the text in the same font size as the text - enclosed in quotation marks and be followed by the following information in parentheses: last name of the author of the quote, the year of publication and page numbers;

b) quotations longer than three lines should be set off as block quotations – that is, in a new paragraph with a hanging indent of 4 cm on the left, 11 point font, without quotation marks;

c) if there is no quotation, but just a reference to some work, the author’s last name should be cited in parentheses in capital letters along with the year of publication.

• References must conform strictly with the technical standard NBR6023 of August 30, 2002 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT). Only works cited in the text should be included in the reference list, under the heading References, at the end of the article and on a separate page.

Statistical methods

When employed, statistical methods must be described in sufficient detail to allow a competent reader access to the original data and verification of the results presented, whilst avoiding excessively technical language and presenting results with enough clarity so as to facilitate their understanding by a non-specialized reader. This guidance to authors requires steps such as: seeking, as much as possible, to quantify the results and present them with corresponding indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (for example, confidence intervals); avoiding relying solely on statistical inference tests that convey no relevant quantitative information; discussing the eligibility of the experimentation units; supplying detailed information about randomization and about the observations; discussing the reasonableness of the results, as well as the possible limitations of the method used; specifying the software employed; restricting tables and graphics to the amount necessary to explain the foundations of the article and their robustness; avoiding tables with too many topics and duplication of data; defining statistical terms, abbreviations and symbols used in the article.

Guidelines on Authorship

Author is defined as the person who has effectively contributed to the conceptualization of the study, the development, the analysis and interpretation of data, as well as the final version of the text. It is recommended that the article should have no more than four authors. In case the article is written by more than four authors, the contribution of each author must be detailed to the editor-in-chief and the Secretariat. If any kind of incompatibility emerges with regard to the number of authors and the final results presented in the article, the Editorial Committee may either question the authors' participation or reject the manuscript submitted, at its own discretion.

Copyright Statement

When submitting an article for publication in the journal Educação e Pesquisa, the author agrees with the terms below.

1) The author(s) is/are the owner of the article copyright, but its publication in the journal automatically implies in the integral and exclusive transfer of copyright to the journal for the first edition of the publication, with no payment involved under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Unreported CC-BY-NC 3.0, which allows the sharing of the article provided the proper credit is given to its author(s), and that the article is firstly published in this journal.

2) The ideas and opinions expressed in the article are the author's exclusive responsibility, and do not necessarily reflect the journal editors' viewpoints.

3) Following the first publication of the article, the author(s) is/are allowed to sign contracts elsewhere, in order to disseminate their article through other means (e.g., publishing it in institutional repositories or as a chapter of a book), provided it complies with the terms of the current license by the time of the first publication and also that this publication includes the full citation indicating the name of the author(s) and information about the first publication.

4) The author(s) of a published article is/are encouraged to disseminate their work online, always including the citations of the first edition.

Research Ethics

Should human beings be involved in the research (through interviews, experiments etc), the author(s) must follow the ethical procedures established for scientific research. Unless there is specific permission for identification, the anonymity of the participants of the research - and, if necessary, of the institutions - must be ensured. The authorization or the restriction to the identification must be stated by the author(s) in an in-text note. The same principle applies to the disclosure of images of people or institutions.

Anti-plagiarism Policy

The articles must be original and unpublished, and authors must make sure that all sources and references of the manuscript are indicated. The compliance to such requirements and conditions will be attentively checked through by the journal Educação e Pesquisa.

Originality and Plagiarism

Similarities between the content of the manuscript submitted with articles and chapters of books previously published will be analyzed by the editors-in-chief. Depending on the nature of the similarities, such analysis may result in the initial rejection of the manuscript, if the similarities indicate that, with regard to its theoretic and methodological basis or the results presented, the article is not original.

Conflicts of Interest

If the research undertaken or the publication of the article might raise any doubts about potential conflicts of interest, the author(s) must make a declaration stating that links to funding organizations or commercial/political institutions have not been omitted. Likewise, the institution to which authors are associated, or might have assisted in the undertaking of the study must be mentioned, making it clear that there are no conflicts of interest whatsoever with the results presented in the article.

Privacy Policy

Names and addresses informed to the journal will be exclusively used for purposes of publication and will not be made available for other purposes or shared with any third parties.

Peer-review Process

The articles submitted for publication in Educação e Pesquisa are all previously assessed by the Editorial Committee. Should an article not meet the editorial criteria of the journal, it will be sent back to its authors; the other articles will be forwarded to a blind peer-review, and not more than one reviewer can be a member of Faculdade de Educação of Universidade de São Paulo, institution to which the journal is subordinated. These reviewers must have, at least, a PhD degree, and be associated to various scientific institutions. Authors, reviewers and institutions to which they are associated will be kept confidential throughout the process. Once a year, the journal publishes the names of its ad hoc reviewers.

The reviewing process of a manuscript will be kept confidential, and under no circumstance will the disclosure of its content be allowed. Should any conflict of interest emerge in the analysis of an article, the reviewer must reject the manuscript.

Should a reviewer identify that the text being assessed is not an unpublished manuscript, partially or in its totality, he/she should promptly notify the Editorial Committee of the journal Educação e Pesquisa. 
The review of the manuscripts submitted shall be based on the following criteria: theoretical and empirical contents, author's knowledge of scientific literature, relevance of subject, the article's contribution to the specific learning area, originality in the author's approach, methodological justification, text structure and text quality. Reviewers may either recommend the acceptance of the article in its totality, reject it or suggest necessary changes so that the article may be resubmitted. The Editorial Committee may forward such suggestions to the author and, once the alterations have been made, the article may be reassessed by the Editorial Committee or by the same reviewers who suggested them.

Guidelines for procedures of the editorial team

The decision about whether to publish an article or not is based on principles of research ethics and the disclosure of information, complying with current legislation and with a proper conduct in the academic environment.

Aspects regarding political or ideological standing, ethnic, gender or religious diversity, as well as differences between theoretical and methodological perspectives, must not influence the actions and decisions made throughout the editorial process.

Manuscripts that might reveal potential conflicts of interest will not be considered for publication in the journal Educação e Pesquisa.

Authors and reviewers will be kept confidential throughout the editorial process and once this process is over.

In order to ensure transparency in the editorial process, the journal editors will be in charge of answering to questions occasionally made by authors or reviewers about the assessment of the manuscripts.

Ethical Principles

The journal Educação e Pesquisa follows principles of ethics and respect with regard to the academic culture and the intellectual production, keeping a continuous dialog with its authors, reviewers and readers concerning the need of alterations, revisions, clarifications or retractions. The journal Educação e Pesquisa guarantees the independence of its editorial process regardless of commercial or financial interests.

Manuscript Submission Requirements

As part of the submission process, the author(s) must ensure that their article conforms with the rules below. Manuscripts that fail to be in line with these rules will be sent back to authors.

a) The manuscript is unpublished and is not being simultaneously submitted to another journal.

b) The authors and coauthors declare to be aware of and agree with the editorial policy of the journal for the publication of articles.

c) The title of the article has no more than 15 words.

d) The size of the text is within the limits established by the journal: between 35,000 and 50,000 characters (including spaces and references), not considering the abstract.

e) The abstract does not exceed the limits established: from 200 to 250 words.

f)  The references conform with the publishing instructions NBR6023 and NBR10520, from ABNT.

g) The text submitted to blind peer-reviews do not contain any identification of its author, or the institution to which the author is associated. Information about the author(s) will be recorded only as metadata, to which the editors only will have the access.

h) The author(s) is/are aware that, in case the manuscript is approved for publication, he/she must send to the editors the abstract, the title of the article and its key words translated into English. The full version of the article must be sent to the journal in case it is requested by the Editorial Committee. The expenses involved with translation and proofreading of the English text will be the author's responsibility.