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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The text follows the journal's formatting requirements according to the "Guidelines for Authors"found in the "Submissions" section.
  • It is mandatory to fill in the Article Cover, with the article information. This document must be forwarded separately at the time of submission.

Author Guidelines

  • PSICO magazine uses the American Psychological Association – APA as a reference. For a quick conference guide, see www.apa.org. APA - General Rules
  • The author must keep his registration profile updated and, for submission of a new text, fill out the information items below under “Conditions for Submission”
  • Information about the authors should contain the following data: full name with the correct spelling; ORCID (see: orcid.org); affiliation: institution, city, state and country (in no case should affiliations be accompanied by the authors' titles or mini-curricula). These, when present, should be published separately from affiliations as author's notes). email; complete physical postal address of the corresponding author, which may be the institutional one, provided at the end of the article; research funding source (if any); potential conflicts of interest (if any).
  • Optionally, the authors may indicate at the end of the article: a) acknowledgements; b) mini curriculum: academic and professional training.
  • Files submitted for submission must be in open text format (Word).
  • • The text must contain title, abstracts (maximum 250 words) and keywords (maximum five) in the languages indicated by the journal.
  • • In the case of texts originally written in a foreign language, they should contain title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese and other languages of the magazine's interface.
  • • The place of figures and tables should be indicated in the text, and these should be sent in separate file, with program identification and version.
  • • The bibliographic information is correct and in accordance with the standard adopted by the journal.
  • • The contribution must be original and unpublished and may not be evaluated for publication by another journal; if not, justify in “Comments to the editor” when submitting the text in the portal.
  • • Publication of papers is subject to approval by reviewers. The originality of the treatment of the theme, the consistency and rigor of the approach and its contribution to the thematic line of the publication are taken into account. The names of the reviewers will remain confidential, and the names of the authors before the reviewers will also be omitted.
  • • Spontaneous submission of articles and subsequent acceptance for publication automatically implies the assignment of the rights of the first publication to the Journal. Intellectual copyright remains with the author. Any subsequent reproduction, by any means, may be made only by prior agreement between the Journal and the author and with proper citation of the source.
  • • The concepts issued in the works are the sole responsibility of the authors, not necessarily reflecting the opinion of the Editorial Board or Editorial Council.

Copyright Notice

Copyright

The submission of originals to Psico implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Psico as the site of original publication.

Creative Commons License

Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.

Privacy Statement

Information submitted to Psico’s Electronic Editorial System will be exclusively used for the journal´s purposes, and it will not be made available to others. The Journal does not provide information to third parties about manuscripts which are being evaluated or which have received negative reviews regarding publication. The manuscripts submitted for evaluation are handled with maximum discretion, and are only available to the Editorial Commission.