Guideline for authors

1. The institutional journal of the National Association of Graduate Students (ANPG),  Journal of ANPG: Science, Technology and Educational Policy, pursuant to its charter, accepts for publication unpublished papers in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish in the form of scientific articles based on empirical research and/or theoretical reflection.
2. Anyone can submit articles, as long as they follow the present guidelines.
3.The Journal of ANPG: Science, Technology and Educational Policy publishes contributions relating to science, technology and educational policies, giving priority to the articles most relevant  for national sustainable development and for fighting social inequality, according to the following sections of the journal:
a) Section on a specific theme related to Science, Technology and National Development: the specific theme is set by the Editorial Board in the call for articles;
b) Section with a theme selected by the author that is related to Science, Technology and National Development;
c) Section on a specific theme related to educational policies: the specific theme will be set by the Editorial Board is set by the Editorial Board in the call for articles;
d) Section with a theme selected by the author that is related to educational policies;
e) Interview projects, stating the name of the interviewee and the reason for selecting the person(s) interviewed, and the script of questions, so it can be pre-approved by the editorial board before the interview is carried out;
f) Section of "events", for the review and / or disclosure of ordinances, laws, studies, innovative experiences,  etc., national, foreign or international agreements, events organized by unions, scientific or professional entities, that are found interesting for the audience of the Journal by the Editorial Board. They either can be reviewed, or just be described in full or sumarizied.
 For sections of a) to e) above, only articles that are unpublished and have not been submitted simultaneously to any other printed or electronic publication should be submitted.

4. The sending of any spontaneous contribution automatically implies the transfer of copyright to the ANPG.
5. The publication of articles is not paid; they are  allowed to be partially or totally copied, if the source is stated.
6. Signed articles  will be the sole responsibility of their authors, not reflecting, necessarily, the view of the ANPG.
7. Even though we do publish articles in Portuguese, English and French, we especially encourage the contributions in Spanish.

How to submit articles

8. The contributions should be sent to the Editor, to the e-mail address revista@anpg.org.br in the form of a file attached to the message, meeting the guidelines for submission, and mandatorily containing:
  A message containing: a) title of work, b) personal data of each of the authors (name, CPF if Brazilian, address, phone, e-mail address, the highest academic degree and current position);  c) field of the article (sociology, economics, engeenering, genetics, planning, education, etc.); d) the following statement (copy and paste): "I declare that the text of the attached article has never been published, it is not being submitted and will not be submitted, till the end of the assessment proccess, for publication in any other printed or electronic publication. I declare that all authors listed as authors agreed with the submission for this journal, and that any person summoned as a source of personal communications approved the quote. The author(s) allow(s) any small changes in the text by the staff of the journal so that the text best meets standards for publication."

 A document must be attached that contains all of the following:
a) Title of the work;
b) resumo in Portuguese up to 10 (ten) lines and 3 to 6 palavras-chave;
c) resumen in Spanish up to 10 (ten) lines and 3 to 6 palabras-clave;
d) abstract in English up to 10 (lines) and 3 to 6 keywords;
e) if the article is submited in French, we also require résumé in French up to 10 (lines) and 3 to 6 mots clés;
f) the article itself, including footnotes and references in the format below;
g) charts and graphs, if used.
The attached file must be a .doc or .odt file.
9.  Contributions will not be accepted unless they strictly meet the guidelines stated in item 8 above.
10. The text must be typed in Times New Roman font, size 12, single space and may not exceed 50 thousand characters, including spaces and references, citations and footnotes, tables, graphs, maps, etc.. Titles and subtitles should be in boldface type, with titles in the body of the text, size14 and subtitles size 12.
11. The tables, charts, maps and images must be numbered, given a title, and present indication of the sources involved.
Example:
Table 4: Evolution of the number of research groups in the 10 top ten Brazilian institutions with most research groups and their percentage of total of Brazilian research groups

Institution	1993		1995		1997		2000		2002		2004
	Groups	%	Groups	%	Groups	%	Groups	%	Groups	%	Groups	%
USP	902	20,5	1.056	14,5	1.067	12,4	1.356	11,5	1350	8,9	1884	9,7
UFRJ	246	5,6	577	7,9	520	6,0	679	5,8	750	4,9	963	4,9
UNESP	335	7,6	405	5,6	369	4,3	359	3,1	593	3,9	716	3,7
UNICAMP	153	3,5	659	9,1	816	9,5	537	4,6	614	4,1	657	3,4
UFMG	80	1,8	281	3,9	337	3,9	400	3,4	445	2,9	566	2,9
UFRGS	228	5,2	267	3,7	355	4,1	422	3,6	489	3,2	543	2,8
UFSC	126	2,9	118	1,6	190	2,2	219	1,9	350	2,3	398	2,0
UFF	98	2,2	114	1,6	111	1,3	204	1,7	236	1,6	371	1,9
UFPE	76	1,7	150	2,1	164	1,9	273	2,3	334	2,2	354	1,8
UFBA	69	1,6	67	0,9	130	1,5	200	1,7	225	1,5	348	1,8

Source: CNPq/Grupo Stela (2005)
OBS: in the references, give the full details of CNPq/GrupoStela(2005).

12. All references must meet the current standards of ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards), according to the following:
For whole books (example):
TERRA, J.C.C. Gestão do conhecimento: o grande desafio empresarial – uma abordagem baseada na aprendizagem e na criatividade. São Paulo: Negócio Editora, 2000.
Note: the title of book or articles can be in bold or italics .

For part of books:
ROMANO, G. Imagens da juventude na era moderna. In: LEVI, G.; In: LEVI, G.; SCHIMIDT, J. SCHIMIDT, J. (Org.). História dos Jovens. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996. P. 7-16.

For articles or papers:
GURGEL, C. Reforma do Estado e segurança pública. Política e Administração, Rio de Janeiro, v. 3, n. 3, p. 15-21, September. 1997.
For academic theses:

VASCONCELOS, M.C.L. Cooperação universidade/empresa na pós-graduação: contribuição para a aprendizagem, a gestão do conhecimento e a inovação na indústria mineira. Tese de doutorado. Escola de Ciência da Informação, 2000, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
For articles or papers in electronic media:
VARGAS, R.T. Reflexões sobre a integração universidade-empresa profissionalizante estudo de caso: mestrado profissionalizante. Available at www.geocities.com/anpgbr/mestp.phpl.  Accessed on: September 30. 2001.

13. Citations in the body of the text must be in the form author (year) or (AUTHOR, year).
Examples: Fischer (2002), (Pereira and FONSECA, 1997, p. 120), (BRAGA, 2001; SILVA, 1998).
14. The footnotes should be kept to a minimum and always exclusively explanatory. Todas as notas deverão ser numeradas e aparecer no pé-de-página. All notes should be numbered and appear at the bottom of the page.
15. The references must contain only the authors and texts cited and must be submitted at the end of the text, in alphabetical order.

Selection of articles
15. The articles for sections a) to d) of item 3 of these guidelines will be subject to independent assessment from at least two members of the Scientific Committee of the journal or ad hoc assessors they indicate, without identifying the author. Those peers should judge the articles regarding its relevance, technical quality, originality and structure of the paper. The contributions for section e) - interviews – must be pre-approved by the Editorial Board and then will be evaluated by the same board, once they have been carried out. The contributions for section f) will be evaluated by the Editorial Board.
16. If the article is accepted for publication, the journal is allowed to make adjustments to revise the format, spelling and grammar. Changes in structure or content, suggested by peers, will only be incorporated with the agreement of the authors.
17. Articles approved for re-submission will be forwarded to the authors, either to be revised by the authors or for the authors to justify their article if they believe that the suggested changes would be inappropriate. The Editorial Board reserves the right to refuse the article if there have been no changes made in them that meet the demands made by peers, and in case of doubt, the Editorial Board can use the assessment of one more member of scientific committee.
18. The authors should be notified of receipt of their article within a period of up to 8 (eight) days from the submission of their contribution, and should be sent the results of its evaluation within (90) ninety days from the date of confirmation of receipt. Any communication to the authors of the magazine will be made by e-mail to the first author of the article. Authors who do not receive a message from the journal in the above-mentioned deadlines should seek further contact with the Editor to find out whether there was a loss of electronic correspondence.