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Editorial line and judgment criteria
Avaliação Psicológica Journal is a semester publication of originals manuscripts: research reports, theoretical studies, literature critical review, brief communications about researches, professional experience relates, technical norms, summaries, news about psychological assessment area and other interdisciplinary reviews on subjects related to assessment. Avaliação Psicológica Journal has as a goal, theory, research and pratice advances in Psychology, Education, Counseling, Organizational Behavior, Humans Resources and other assessment, and other related disciplines, and its editorial process aims to present to the Scientific Community a text that reflects a meaningful, original, and up to date contribution. The Avaliação Psicológica journal´s Publication Guide is based on Publication manual of the American Psychological Association – APA (2001, 5ª edição), concerning to the manuscript presentation style and to the ethics aspects inherent to the scientific work accomplishment. Avaliação Psicológica uses the Manual adaptations made by Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica journal, for fitting portuguese language. For example, the use for the expressions: -“and
colls.”, instead “et al.” in the text; |
Before submiting a manuscript Follow the steps below in details, reminding that a good presentation, besides assuring the credibility of your study, will make the editorial process faster: - Ask one
of your area or department colleagues, to appreciate your manuscript and
to make critical comments about it; |
The submissions must be guided by mail or electronic mail. Manuscript by fax won´t be accepted. If the guiding was by mail, the envelope addressed to the Avaliação Psicológica Journal must contain: - Original manuscript in two (2) printed copies; - Guiding Letter indicating the category in which your manuscript inserts in: researches reports, theoretical studies, literature critical review, brief communications about researches, professional experiences relates, technical norms, summaries, and news. - Floppy disk (MS WORD or WP), with figures and tables in different files.
If the manuscript was submitted by e-mail, the guiding letter to the editor
authorizing the manuscript editorial process, noticing that all ethical
procedures demanded were attempted and granting the copy right to Avaliação Psicológica with all authors study signatures must be sent by mail.
The editorial process will not be started without this letter receiving. |
Editorial comission procedures
The editorial review process will only begin if the manuscript submission follows the conditions above. If not, the authors will receive letter or e-mail asking for the adequacy to the guides, copies, letters or signatures inclusion. The manuscript received are, initially, appreciated by the Editor, who will send it to the authors letter or e-mail telling about the beginning of the editorial process. Papers that are in agreement to the guides above and that are considered potentially publishable by Avaliação Psicológica will follow to Ad Hoc consultants. The originals submitted and floppy disks won´t be given back. The Ad hoc consultants will be chosen by Editor between competence-known researchers in area. The authors can help in editorial process indicating possible consultants (qualified researchers affiliated to institutions, other than the authors) in submitting letter. Avaliação Psicológica encourages this procedure but the consultants choice will be always made by the Editor, who can or not make use of the authors suggestions. The authors identity and their institutional affiliation won´t be informed to the ad hoc consultants. The consultants identity won´t be informed to the manuscript authors. If a consultant has any obstacle in analyzing a manuscript, he/she must turn it back, immediately, to the author. The consultants, after analyzing the manuscript, reject, recommend changes or accept the manuscript to publication. Authors will receive complete statement copies from consultants. Avaliação Psicológica considers that authors have the right to know all possible reactions that their work can generate in scientific community, during the editorial process. Avaliação Psicológica counts on consultants who are qualified colleagues and look for a best quality of the published texts by critics and constructive statements. In case the manuscript was rejected, authors could be encouraged to submit it again. In these cases, Avaliação Psicológica recommends a careful review on the manuscript, giving attention to the consultants statements, before restarting the process. Generally, manuscript submitted after a first rejection, besides a new date for editorial process beginning, will be directed to the same consultants who first reviewed the work. The recommendation for publishing associated to suggestions doesn´t mean, necessarily, the the manuscript will be accepted. The suggestions aim at, in general, to improve the clearness or the precision on the text. Rarely a submitted article can not be improved. It´s important that the authors understand that changes requests on an article are common and routine in every high quality papers. The consultants suggestions aim at work improvement to meet the scientific community and the journal requirements and should not be considered as personal critics. The authors whose manuscript was recommended, but that have changes to be made, must reformulate their work, in order to get final acceptance. They also must highlight in red the changes that have been made in the text. If authors don’t agree with any of the consultants suggestions, they must include this information in the letter to the editor, so that the reformulated version can be set in motion, information about the changes that were made and justifications to those that were not made. This letter and the reformulated manuscript will be guided to one of the Editorial Counselors, attached to the ad hoc consultants statements and the initial version of the manuscript for final analysis. In this procedure step, the Editorial Counselor will know the author’s and the consultant’s identity. The counselor´s task will be to analyze the reformulated version of the manuscript, helping the editor to take the final decision about its publication. In his analyze, counselor could reject the manuscript, suggest new alterations (as many times he considers enough), or accept the reformulated version that he considers ready to be published. The final decision about a manuscript publication, however, will always belong to the editor, who will appreciate the counselor statement e will notify the authors, as quickly as possible, about his decision, indicating the previewed date, volume and number of the journal, in wich the article will be published. During the
journal graphic edition process, the editor has the right to make small
modifications in the authors text, to make the publication process faster.
Before sending the manuscript to final printing, editor will send a graphic
test for a last review by authors. This review will be made in 5 useful
days and be sent back to the journal by Sedex or fax. If authors don’t
give indicating corrections back, the manuscript will be printed according
to the test. Authors will receive one copy of the Avaliação Psicológica journal by published article. |
| Avaliação Psicológica Journal has the copyright of every article published in it. Total reproduction of this journal articles in other publications, or by any other end, by any means, require editor’s written authorization. Partial articles reproductions (abstracts, over 500 words, Tables, Figures and other illustration) must have editor’s and author’s written permission. Authors agree with abstract spreading by index services or similar, according to the journal’s judgement. |
Other publication reproduction
| Citations (over 500 words), one or more figures reproduction, tables or other illustration, must have the written permission of the copyright owner of the original work for the specified reproduction in Avaliação Psicológica. The permission must be addressed to the submitted work author. The rights gained after that won’t be handed to somebody else under no circumstance. |
Manuscript formal apresentation script
| To make electronic edition services faster use WordPerfect or MSWord fo PCs and don’t use lots of commands. Use always the same font (Time New Roman, 12), don’t use bold, quotation marks, water marks or other resources that could make the text visually more attractive, but would make the edition process more difficult. Word or expression that may be emphasized in printed text must arrive to edition in italic already, and this will be the only emphasis allowed in texts. |
1. Identified title page - Title
both in Portuguese and in English (maximum of 15 words). Title must be
pertinent, clear and can be creative. Must inform the reader about the
article aim. It should not include cities names, countries, or other geographic
information. 2. Non-identified title page - Complete title both in Portuguese and in English 3. Abstract - Abstract in Portuguese, with 100 to 150 words. In case
of brief relates or researches communications, abstract must present shortly
aims, methods, results and study discussion. 4. Text body This manuscript part must start in a new page, numbered as page three (3). It’s not necessary to put the manuscript title in this page. Every page from this part must be numbered. Don’t start a new page for each subtitle. Separate them using a blank line. When the manuscript is a research report, the text must present title pages, abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion and References. These subtitles must appear centered in the text, preceded and followed by a blank line. If necessary, other subtitles, such as Conclusion or Final Considerations may be added. In some cases, Results and Discussion can be presented altogether, although this strategy isn’t recommended as a general rule. It’s recommended that the text doesn’t have over 25 pages. Footnotes must avoided. However, if another possibility was not available, they must be indicated by Arabic number in the text, and also listed after the References, in a separated page, entitled Notes. Never use your text processor to generate footnotes 5. Reference List Start a new page for this session. Use double space, with no space between citations, that must follow the alphabetical order, by author’s last names. Use chronological order for a same author study. If author and date coincides, use the first letter of the title. Each reference must appear as a new paragraph, with five spaces from the left margin (use tab). Use only italics in this session. 6. Attachments Attachments must be presented in a new page, after the references, which must be consecutively numbered. They must be indicated in the text, identified by capital letters (A, B, C and so on) and entitled appropriately. Use attachments only when it is absolutely essential for the text comprehension. 7. Tables and Figures They must be presented with the respective subtitle and titles, one at each page, they should be presented in black and white and they shouldn’t exceed width 17,5 cm by length 23,5 cm. They must be, preferentially, made in MSWord. Table’s titles must be presented on their tops and must indicate their contents, up to 15 words. The first letter of each word in the title must be a capital one. Don’t use capital letters, bold or italic inside the table. Figure’s titles must be presented under them, always in small letters. When informing the results and analyzes on tables and text, avoid using more than two nums. 8. Notes about authors Include a brief description about authors’ current activities and their formation. |
Citation examples in the text body
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examples below help in the organization of your manuscript, but, certainly,
don’t limitate the possible citations of your work. Use Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association (2001, 5th Edition) to
verify the guides demanded for other spreading vehicles that don’t
make part of the list bellow.
Text with more than one author - two authors: cite both names every time that the article was referred in the text, with date between parentheses - three to five authors: cite all of them in the first citation, followed by the date between parentheses. From second citation, use the last name of the first author followed by “and collaborators” and date. - Six or more authors: cite only the first author’s last name, followed by “and collaborators” and date. But, in the reference session, every author must be related. Old and reedited publication citation Secondary
citation |
Citation example in the reference list
Scientific
Journal Article Scientific
Journal Article paged by fascicles Scientific
Journal article in press Text published
in Commercial Spreading Magazines Book with
only one author Book organized
by an editor Book Chapter Chapter or article
translated to Portuguese from a multiple volumes series Book translated to
Portuguese Text published in
Encyclopedia Work presented in
Congress, but not published Work presented
in congress with abstract published in annals Old publication and
reedited in posterior date Unpublished manuscripts Institutional Author Personal Communication Web site or home page Articles consulted
in Eletronic Index Abstract consulted
in electronic index |
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