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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.
  • Texts must be original, unpublished and within the scope of the Journal. Works that have been presented at events may be accepted, as long as they are informed at the time of submission in "Comment to the editor".
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Texts must not be in the evaluation process in other journals, even if in another language.
  • Texts must be structured in accordance with the formatting standards presented in the "Submissions" section, following the Journal template
  • The texts do not contain any information about the authors and/or institutions of origin.
  • The author's data must be added in the fields provided at the time of submission and/or in a separate file, sent as a supplementary document.
  • Texts can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English.
  • The content of the manuscript is the sole responsibility of the authors, who, however, must make the editors aware of potential conflicts of interest - of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature - that may have exerted influence on the submitted material, as well as clarifying the ways in which such conflicts were resolved. Furthermore, authors must explain in the manuscript all financial support received, as well as economic or personal connections that allowed the work to be carried out. When submitting the manuscript, the authors assume that there is no plagiarism or self-plagiarism in the material sent.
  • I declare that I am aware that the Copyrights for articles published in this journal belong to the author, with first publication rights granted to the Journal. The Journal adopts the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons License – CC BY-NC.
  • It is mandatory to fill in the ORCID, the URL containing the Lattes link, as well as important information such as the author's affiliation and biography, upon submitting the text to this journal.
  • For publication, it is necessary (but not mandatory) that at least one of the authors holds a master's degree. Texts by undergraduate and graduate students may be published, provided they meet scientific quality standards and pass the editorial committee's review. The journal's focus is on the quality of the text.
  • Articles must MANDATORILY contain a minimum of 8 bibliographic references and a maximum of 18 bibliographic references. Articles with a higher number of references may be accepted, provided they comply with the article’s scientific methodology and maintain scientific quality in the text.

Author Guidelines

SUBMISSIONS - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

Manuscripts for evaluation must be submitted through the journal's system after registration. The authorship information of the text/work must be as complete as possible.

Authors and co-authors must ALWAYS include their ORCID (mandatory), URL with Lattes link (optional), institutional affiliation (mandatory), and biography. Keywords, abstract, and references must be correctly filled out when submitting via the OJS system. The text file for evaluation must be uploaded through the submission system, and the document must not contain any mention of authorship in the text or Word metadata.

The Coletivo Cine-Fórum Journal follows the standard and suggests that all texts be written according to ABNT guidelines, which is mandatory for texts written in Portuguese. Articles in English or Spanish may opt for APA formatting.

The authors' BIOGRAPHY must be as concise as possible.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Articles must contain a minimum of 12 (twelve) and a maximum of 20 (twenty) pages, A4 format, with all margins set to 3 cm.

The abstract must have single line spacing, justified alignment, Times New Roman font size 11, and a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 350 words. Keywords must include a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 terms, with only their initials capitalized and separated by a period. Compound words count as a single term. Titles, abstracts, and authors' qualifications must also be provided in a second language (English or Spanish).

The main text must use font size 12, Times New Roman, justified alignment, 1.5 line spacing, and a 1.25 cm paragraph indentation. Footnotes should be avoided; if necessary, use font size 10, single spacing, without paragraph indentation.

Quotations longer than three lines should use font size 11, justified alignment, single spacing, and a 4 cm left indentation. Use our template below to write and submit your article.

THE AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHY MUST BE AS CONCISE AS POSSIBLE – UP TO 5 LINES.

USE THIS TEMPLATE FOR WRITING AND SUBMITTING YOUR ARTICLE IN ABNT 

USE THIS TEMPLATE FOR WRITING AND SUBMITTING YOUR ARTICLE IN APA 

ESSAYS

Essays must include only the title and follow a basic structure of introduction, theoretical foundation, conclusion, and references. They must be between 6 (six) and 8 (eight) pages, excluding references. The main text must use font size 12, Times New Roman, justified alignment, 1.5 line spacing, and a 1.25 cm paragraph indentation.

INTERVIEWS

Interviews must include an introduction of no more than one page. Additionally, they must include the names of the interviewee(s) and interviewer(s), their qualifications, academic affiliations, research groups (if applicable), and contact email addresses. A simple declaration of authorization from the interviewee(s), agreeing to the publication of the work, must be submitted in PDF format, signed (either manually or via gov.br). Interviews should not exceed 10 (ten) pages. The main text must use font size 12, Times New Roman, justified alignment, 1.5 line spacing, and a 1.25 cm paragraph indentation.

REVIEWS

Reviews of books, films, and audiovisual content (short, medium, and feature-length films, documentaries, fiction, animation, music videos, series, videos, etc.) will be accepted. Reviews must be between 3 (three) and 7 (seven) pages. The review title must be original, and the author must provide a reference (bibliographic or filmographic) for the work reviewed, including the names of the authors and the publication year.

TARGET AUDIENCE AND PUBLICATIONS

The Coletivo Cine-Fórum journal targets academics, researchers, and professors in undergraduate and graduate programs within the Humanities, from various higher education institutions in Brazil and abroad.

The journal publishes scientific articles, academic reviews, translations, and interviews by Ph.D. holders, Ph.D. candidates, master’s degree holders, and master’s candidates.

Undergraduate students and graduates may publish only in co-authorship with master’s or Ph.D. holders.

Essays are exclusively published by Ph.D. candidates or Ph.D. holders.

COMMENTS TO THE EDITOR

Articles previously published in conference proceedings may be accepted if they have undergone revisions and are as original as possible. In such cases, the explanation must be provided in the COMMENTS TO THE EDITOR during submission, along with the original file.

Self-plagiarism (resubmitting previously published articles without any revisions) will not be accepted.

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

The Coletivo Cine-Fórum Journal uses CopySpider and Plagium software for plagiarism detection.

If plagiarism is identified in the submitted texts, the submission will be immediately rejected.

The Coletivo Cine-Fórum Journal complies with the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines. For more information, visit: http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct

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Copyright Notice

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