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Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Imagem: Revista de História da Arte adopts the American Psychological Association (APA) style as its formatting standard. Please pay close attention to the APA’s author–date citation system when submitting a text.

Submitted manuscripts must contain between 4,000 and 10,000 words.

Texts may be submitted by holders of a master’s degree, doctoral candidates, or PhDs. Master’s students must submit papers in co-authorship with a PhD.

Artists’ texts may be submitted by anyone engaged in artistic practice and must present a thorough reflection on that practice.

Full texts may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, or Italian. Regardless of the language, the manuscript must also include an abstract and keywords in English.

Articles must be submitted in MS Word (.doc) or OpenOffice format.

Article titles must appear in both the original language of the text and in English.

Manuscripts must include an abstract (150 words) and 3 to 5 keywords in the original language and in English.

All author information — including name, ORCID, institutional affiliation (Department, School, and University where the author teaches or is enrolled in graduate studies), and funding information — must be provided at the time of submission through OJS.

Direct quotations of more than four lines must be indented 4 cm.
Direct quotations must include the page number, while indirect citations do not require it.

All bibliographical references must be included at the end of the document under the subtitle “References.”
The reference list should only include works that are explicitly cited in the text, and vice versa.

Footnotes should be explanatory only and numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals.

Terms in languages other than the language of the text must be written in italics.

Images and figures must be accompanied by a title, number (e.g., Figure 7), and source (see Template).

TEMPLATE FOR SUBMISSION

Template

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • For the submission of open-topic articles or Dossiers, a minimum academic degree of a Master's is required. This requirement does not apply to artist texts.
  • The use of generative AI tools must be explicitly disclosed in the manuscript, clearly describing which resource was used and to what extent it contributed to the text. Presenting as one’s own authorship content generated entirely by AI is prohibited. The author(s) remain fully responsible for the rigor, originality, and integrity of the submitted work.

Thematic Dossier

For each edition of Imagem: Revista de História da Arte, a dossier may be prepared, consisting of papers related to a predetermined theme, coordinated or not by a responsible researcher. The texts in the dossier must respect the same guidelines as the item "paper". Each dossier may contain a minimum of 3 papers and a presentation text in the same guidelines as a paper.

Articles

– Imagem: Revista de História da Arte receives submission of  articles in continuous flow;

– Articles submitted for publication must be original and unpublished, and their simultaneous presentation in another national journal is not allowed;

- Submitted articles are initially evaluated by the Editors, who analyze their adequacy to submission guidelines, the scope of the journal, and the adopted evaluation criteria. Imagem's editorial team reserves the right to reject papers that do not meet the adopted qualitative standards or comply with the journal's editorial guidelines.

- Articles approved in this first stage are then submitted to ad hoc reviewers (in a double-blind peer review system), who can accept, refuse or suggest changes to the author;

– In the case of articles with multiple authorship, only those who performed all of the following functions may be listed as co-authors: substantial contribution to the conception or elaboration of the paper, writing of the initial draft or content review of the final version and approval of the submitted version. All co-authors assume responsibility for the data and information in the paper. Supervisors, when they do not fulfill the functions outlined above, should not be listed as co-authors;

– Multiple submissions by the same author or the same article will not be sent for evaluation, and the author is responsible for ensuring that there is only one current submission in the system at a time;

– If the reviewer recommends that the article be adequate and resubmitted to the journal, the author must make the necessary adjustments and submit the text again within 3 (three) months from the date of receipt of the decision. Submissions that exceed this period will be canceled;

– The author must wait a period of 1 (one) year, from the date of publication of a paper, to submit a new text. Papers submitted before this period will not be considered for evaluation. This clause is also valid in cases where one of the co-authors has published for less than 1 (one) year in Image;

– Authors who have had their work published in Imagem: Revista de História da Arte are expected to contribute by providing reviews periodically. The journal reserves the right not to forward for evaluation papers by researchers who have repeatedly refused requests for a review.

Artist Texts

This section is dedicated to experimental writing by Brazilian and international artists. Texts must be up to 6,000 words and may be preceded by an introduction of up to 2,000 words. They must have a title, abstract, and keywords in English, followed by the "paper" format.

Publications Reviews

Reviews must cover national and foreign publications launched in the last 24 months. They must have up to 3,200 words, present a brief title and the complete technical file of the reviewed work. Quotations must be accompanied by the respective page number of the base publication reviewed. Except for the above, reviews follow the rules of papers and must present an abstract, keywords and title version in English.

Exhibition Reviews

Exhibition reviews must address national or international exhibitions that took place in the last 24 months. It must have up to 3,000 words, present the title, technical file, location and institution. For virtual exhibition, it must mention address/link, date and time of access. It is essential to quote artworks correctly.

Interviews

Interviews must follow the "question-answer" format and contain a maximum of 7,000 words. They must have a title, abstract, keywords and follow the paper submission rules.

Translations and Documents

Translations will be evaluated according to the importance and relevance of the translated text and must have a maximum of 9,000 words. For the rest, they follow the rules of the papers. They must also be accompanied by authorization from the author and the original text and source. In addition, translations or documents may contain a presentation by the translator or publisher with a maximum of 2,000 words.

Gallery

It is a unique place to explore, relate, comment and explain images presented by the authors. Papers for this section with a maximum of 5,000 words will be accepted. The included images must not exceed 8 (eight) - preferably in color, with a resolution of 300 dpi, saved in jpeg or tiff (vertical image: 24 x 18 cm; horizontal image: 24 x 36 cm).

Copyright Notice

It is the authors' responsibility to obtain written permission to use copyrighted material in their papers. Imagem: Revista de História da Arte is not responsible for copyright infringements made by its contributors.

The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0):

Attribution (BY): Licensees have the right to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, and to make derivative works of it, provided they give due credit to the author or licensor, in the way specified by them.

Non-Commercial Use (NC): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as do derivative works from it, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes.

 

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