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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Publication Rules
• Article Submission
• I. Kind of Accepted Collaboration
• II. Appreciation by Editorial Committee
• III. Manuscript Presentation Format

Temas em Psicologia is a Brazilian Psychological Society publication. This magazine is destined to divulgation of original articles related to Psychology in work categories following presented.

Temas em Psicologia magazine, publication of Brazilian Psychological Society, started in 1993. It had the year meeting of Brazilian Psychological Society to get articles that time. However, since now the magazine accepts articles directly submitted to Editorial Committee.

1. Research Report: investigation based on empiric data by using scientific methodology. It is limited to 30 pages in the total at the submission moment.
2. Theoretical/conceptual historical study: analysis of themes that lead to asking about concepts/existent models and/or to the elaboration of hypotheses for future researches, evidencing the used method. It is limited to 30 pages in the total at the submission moment.
3. Professional experience analysis: exam either of conceptual implications, procedure description, or intervention strategies, containing appropriate methodological evidence to the evaluation of effectiveness. It is limited to 30 pages in the total at the submission moment.
4. Critical review of literature: analysis of an embracing body of investigation, relative to interest subjects to Psychology's development. It is limited to 30 pages in the total at the submission moment.
5. Technical note: description of original research instruments and techniques. It is limited to 10 pages in the total at the submission moment.

The manuscript is accepted for analysis presupposing: (a) the work was not published, and it is not being submitted for publication in any other newspapers; (b) all listed authors as authors have approved for publication in this magazine; (c) anybody mentioned as source of personal communication has approved the citation.

Sent works will be appreciated by Editorial Committee who will fall back upon external consultants. Authors will be notified for acceptance - with reformulated request or not - or for refuses of their articles. Original manuscripts will not be returned.

Editorial Committee can make small modifications in the text. Substantial change request - in the acceptance with reformulation suggestion - should be done by authors in a maximum period of a month of postage date/e-mail contact.

Temas em Psicologia adopts APA publication norms (4^th edition, 1994), except in those specific situations there is conflict to assure blind revision for colleagues, Portuguese language rules, ABNT norms, or internal magazine procedures. Manuscripts should always be written in Portuguese.

Original manuscripts can be sent for evaluation by electronic or mail way.

Manuscript should be sent accompanied by signed letter/electronically sent by the main author, whose work submission intention is clearly for publication. When there was more than an author, the final work version should be accompanied of agreement publication letter signed for all authors, according to model supplied by magazine to the main author, when there is reformulation request.

Manuscript typing: The article should be typed in compatible word processor with the standard Word for Windows 6.0 or superior, in Times New Roman font, size 12, not exceeding 80 characters for line, and the maximum page number established. The page should be A4, with at least 2.5 cm of superior and inferior margins, and 3 cm of left and right margins, with pagination from personalized title page (page 1). It is not requested the use of special edition resources (justification, retreats, hyphen use, bolds, italics, etc.), just indicating the paragraph change (do not use tabulation key). Reformulated version should be sent also in floppy disk, and in 3 printed versions, following these same instructions.

Electronically manuscript sent: the manuscript should be sent by e-mail, as an attaching of authors' letter requesting its evaluation.

Mail manuscript sent: the manuscript of the article should be sent in 03 printed versions, and in floppy disk.

Work presentation should follow the following order:

1. Personalized title page containing:

1.1. Portuguese full title, not exceeding 15 words.

1.2. Suggestion of abbreviated title to header, not exceeding 4 words.

1.3. English full title, translated from Portuguese.

1.4. Each author's names and their institutional affiliations.

1.5. Address Indication for correspondence to Editorial Committee, including Fax, phone, and e-mail.

1.6. Author's Indication to whom readers should send correspondence and its full address (Include e-mail).

1.7. Identification of kind and title of Annual Meeting activity of Brazilian Psychological Society, whose work was presented, when it is the case.

1.8. When necessary, paragraph recognizing financial support, friends and technicians' cooperation, and other ethically necessary facts.

2. Personalized title page without identification

2.1. Portuguese full title.

2.2. Suggestion of abbreviated title.

2.3. English full title.

3. Page containing Portuguese abstract

Abstract should have from 100 to 150 words, following from 3 to 5 keyword for work indexation. Keyword should be with precision to classification, allowing the work is recovered with similar works. Keyword would probably be evoked by a researcher making bibliographical survey.

4. Page containing English abstract

Abstract should be compatible with Portuguese Abstract, obeying the same Portuguese version specifications. Keywords compatible with Portuguese keyword should be either presented.

5. The text

This manuscript part should began in a new page, following the initiate numbering in the title page, containing an easy recognizable organization, signaled by titles (centralized) and subtitles, when necessary. Suggested places for figures and tables insertion should be clearly indicated in the text.

Footnotes should limit to complemented information that, judged relevant, does not fit in logical sequence of the text; they should be reduced to a minimum. Footnotes should be presented at the end of the text in page apart.

Bibliographical notes should be avoided. Footnotes should be presented at the end of the text in page apart.

Authors' citations should obey APA norms. In the complete passage of transcription case, the transcription should be delimited by quotation marks, and the author's citation should be following by the number of the mentioned page. Literal citations with 40 words or more should be introduced in own block, beginning in new line, with 0.5 cm of retreat in each margin, in a new paragraph position. The same font size (12) should be used.

6. Figures

They should be presented, one in each paper page and for computer file, including legend, at the end of the text. To assure reproduction quality, figures, which contain drawings, should be done in photo quality. As there are limits for figure width in published version, the author should care for legends to keep the reading quality, in the case it will be necessary a reduction.

7. Tables

They should be presented, one in each page and for computer file, including title, at the end of the text. The author should limit its width to 60 characters, for simple tables that occupy a printed column, including three space characters between columns, and to limit its width to 125 characters, for tables that occupy two printed columns. The length of tables should not exceed 55 lines, including title and footnotes. For anomalous cases, APA Manual should be consulted.

8. Attached

They should just be presented when they contain important, original information, or indispensable relief for understanding the work. It is recommended to avoid attaches.

9. Bibliographical References

Bibliographical References should be inserted in a new page, ordinate in agreement with general rules that are followed.

• Works of a same author's authorship are ordered by publication date, the oldest comes first.
• Works of single authorship precede works of multiple authorships, when it is the same surname.
• A same first author's works, but different joint authors, are ordered by the joint authors' surnames.
• Works with the same multiple authorships are ordered by date, the oldest comes first.
• Works with the same authorship and the same date are ordered alphabetically by the title, disregarding the first word if this is an article or pronoun, except when the title has order indication.
• In case of more than a work of the same authors and year, this is followed immediately by small letter.
• When the same author is repeated, its name should not be replaced by dash or other signs.

Reference list should also be formatted in double space, with normal paragraph and retreat in the first line, without margin displacement, and without additional space between references; underscores should be indicated for underline (paragraph formatting with retreat and underscores in italic is reserved for the final editorial article phase).

For definition of other reference characteristics, APA Manual of Publication should be consulted.

9.1. Common kinds of citation

a) Citations of article with multiple authorships

Two authors: the authors' surnames are written in all citations. For instance:
Those attributes are called risk factors (Ramey & Finkelstein, 1981), but ...
Ramey & Finkelstein (1981) denominate those attributes as risk factors.

From three to five authors: all authors' surnames are indicated in the first citation, as following. From second citation on, only the first author's name is indicated, following by "and cols." as well as the year, if it is the first reference citation in a same paragraph. For instance:
Blechman, Kotanchi & Taylor (1981) have verified ... [first text citation].
Blechman and cols. (1981) have verified ... [subsequent citation, first in the paragraph].
Blechman and cols. have verified ... [Omit year in subsequent citations inside the same paragraph].

If abbreviated form generates apparent identification of two works in which the joint authors differ, the joint authors' sequence is explicit until the ambiguity is eliminated. In Reference section all names are listed.

Six or more authors: since the first citation in the text, only the first author's surname is mentioned, following by "and cols.", except in cases this generates ambiguity. In such a case the same indicated rule in previous item is applied. In the Reference section all names are listed.

b) Citations of work discussed in a secondary source

When the original work was not read, it should be avoided, and it goes referred by another source, it comes in original author's text following by a bracket in which read author is referred, preceded by "mentioned for" expression. For instance: Silva (mentioned by Souza, 1969). In Reference section just the secondary source is listed.

c) Citations of republished old works

In the text, the dates of original publication and consulted edition should be presented in this order, and separate for bar.

d) Citations of personal communication

This kin of citation should be avoided. If inevitable, it should appear in the text, but not in the reference section: afterwards author's name, in brackets, communication date should be indicated preceded of "personal communication" expression. For instance: Silva (personal communication, June 20^th, 1996).

e) Work citations in printing press

Include references to works in printing press just if it is possible to give to readers indications about publication title, and, in periodicals, volume and number in which the mentioned material will be published.

9.2. Examples of Common Types of Reference

a) Technical Report

Maioto, P. L. e Silva, A. M. (1996). Medidas de eficiência em avaliação de treinamento (processo 94-1642). São Paulo, SP: Associação de Pesquisadores em Psicologia.

b) Work presented in Congress with summary published in regular serial publication (periodicals)

Silva, A. A. e Engelman, A. (1988). Teste de eficácia de um curso para melhorar a capacidade de julgamentos corretos de expressões faciais de emoções [Resume]. Ciência e Cultura, 40 (7, Suplemento), 927.

c) Work presented in Congress with summary published in special publication

Todorov, J. C.; Souza, D. G. e Bori, C. M. (1992). Escolha e decisão: a teoria da maximização momentânea [Resumo]. Em Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia (Org), Resumos de Comunicações Científicas. XXII Reunião Anual de Psicologia. Resumos (p.385). Ribeirão Preto: SBP.

d) Theses or dissertation

Lampreia, C. (1992). As propostas anti-mentalistas no desenvolvimento cognitivo: Uma discussão de seus limites. Tese de Doutorado, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.

e) Books

Pavlov, I. P. (1927). Conditional reflexes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

f) Translated Book, in Portuguese language

Salvador, C. C. (1994). Aprendizagem escolar e construção do conhecimento. (E.O. Dimel, Trad.) Porto Alegre: Artes Médicas (Original work published in 1990).

g) Book Chapter

Feyerabend, D. (1992). Mental events and the brain. Em D.Rosenthal (Org.), The independence of consciousness and sensory quality (pp. 53-97). New York: Villanueva.

h) Article in scientific newspaper

Sidman, M. (1953). Two temporal parameters of the maintenance of avoidance behavior by the white rat. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 46, 253-261.

i) Old works with re-edition in very subsequent date

Franco, F.de M. (1946). Tratado de educação física dos meninos. Rio de Janeiro: Agir (Originally published in 1790).

j) Work in the press

Vasconcelos, C. R. F., Amorim, K. S., Anjos, A. M. e Rossetti-Ferreira, M. C. (no prelo). A incompletude como virtude: Interação de bebês na creche. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 16 (2).

l) Institutional Authorship

Conselho Federal de Psicologia (1988). Quem é o psicólogo brasileiro? São Paulo/Curitiba: EDUCOPS/ Scientia et Labor.