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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 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, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

From Research to Practices: Studies of an Educational Nature accepts articles in Portuguese (European or Brazilian variety complying with the current orthographic agreement), English, French, and Spanish.

We invite you to contribute to the journal by submitting an original article. The article may be theoretical, methodological, empirical, or historical in nature and may relate to any area of education.

Submission Conditions
Collaborations (articles, reviews, etc.) must be submitted in Word format via the journal’s platform under the “Submissions” tab.

Review Process
All texts submitted for publication will be reviewed by at least two experts in the relevant field. Authors will receive feedback, and revisions may be requested if deemed necessary by the reviewers.

Length
Texts must not exceed 25 A4 pages, numbered sequentially. The first page should include only: article title, author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation(s), postal addresses, and contact details. ORCID and role contributions using the CRediT taxonomy must also be provided. The corresponding author should indicate: department, university, country, and email address. Authors must not be identified on the remaining pages.

Collaboration conditions

Collaboration proposals (articles, reviews, etc.) must be sent in electronic form (Word) on the platform of the magazine in the submissions tab.

Abstracts
Must not exceed 1500 characters including spaces.

Text: Calibri 12, multiple line spacing at 1.15, 6 pt after paragraph, justified.

Keywords: 3 to 5 words separated by commas.

Footnotes
Should be numbered sequentially and placed on the relevant page.

In-text References
Should be cited in the text (not in footnotes), indicating the author(s) name(s), followed by the year of publication (in parentheses) and page numbers if applicable. For two authors, both names should be mentioned. If citing more than one work by the same author in the same year, use letters a, b, c, etc. after the year.

Final Reference List
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the text, following the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020, 7th edition) guidelines.

Examples:
Ball, D. L. (1990). Prospective elementary and secondary teachers’ understanding of division. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 21(2), 132–144.
Jonassen, D. (2007). Computadores, Ferramentas Cognitivas: Desenvolver o pensamento crítico nas escolas. Porto Editora.

Notes
Published texts are the sole responsibility of the authors. Unpublished manuscripts will not be returned unless expressly requested. Accepted texts may not be published in the immediate next issue, depending on the review process.

Plagiarism Prevention
Preventing plagiarism in submitted articles is essential to ensure academic integrity and scientific credibility. Authors must strictly follow citation and referencing standards, properly acknowledging all sources used.

The journal From Research to Practices: Studies of an Educational Nature, in line with its Ethics and Best Practices Statement, will monitor for signs of plagiarism and comply with legal requirements regarding defamation, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

Ethical practices strengthen responsible and transparent scientific production.

Research Data Policy
The journal encourages responsible sharing of research data, promoting transparency, reproducibility, and scientific integrity. Authors should deposit the data underlying their articles in appropriate repositories for their scientific field, ensuring long-term access and preservation.

We recommend consulting the resources Polen – FCCN and the Toolkit for Data Policies for Publishers and Scientific Journals, which provide guidance on data management and deposit.

Preprint Acceptance
The journal accepts manuscripts previously made available on preprint servers. The existence of a prior version on a preprint server does not exclude or condition the editorial or scientific evaluation of the article.

Authors must indicate the electronic address (URL) or persistent identifier (DOI) of the corresponding preprint at the time of submission, ensuring that the submitted version reflects any revisions or updates resulting from received feedback.

If the manuscript is accepted for publication, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record with the bibliographic reference and DOI of the published version in the journal, ensuring traceability and transparency between versions.

The journal promotes the responsible use of preprints as an open science practice, in accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Articles published in From Research to Practices: Studies of an Educational Nature are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License  (CC BY 4.0).. Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. Articles are simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows sharing of the work with proper attribution to the author and the initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted to make the published version of their article available free of charge in institutional repositories or other academic distribution platforms (e.g., ResearchGate), with appropriate citation of the original work.

The journal does not accept articles that are already published (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a thesis), submitted, or being submitted to other journals or publications during the editorial process. Once published, the article may not be submitted to another journal or publication, in whole or in part, without authorization from the editorial board of From Research to Practices: Studies of an Educational Nature.

Copyrights of all articles published are retained by authors with first publication copyright granted to the journal.

Privacy Statement

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