Submissions

Author Guidelines

There are no costs to the authors when submitting and publishing their articles in Domínios de Lingu@gem.

Please be advised that all texts submitted to the Domínios de Lingu@agem journal are scrutinized for the prevention of plagiarism.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Articles must be submitted by PhD and Master researchers or by graduate students;

2. Domínios de Lingu@gem publishes only original and unpublished articles in the following areas: studies in descriptive and applied linguistics, linguistic theories, language teaching, and reviews on works related to language sciences in general. Articles must be submitted to the special sections proposed by the journal (in the case of thematic sections), according to the topics defined for publication;

3. Domínios de Lingu@gem accepts electronic articles in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, which must regard to the specific spelling patterns of each language. Articles must provide an abstract and keywords (in the language of the article), and an abstract and keywords in English. All articles must be formatted according to the journal style sheet, available here;

a. If relevant, authors may indicate (in the final and approved version) to each scientific project the article is related: a masters thesis, doctoral dissertation, or if it related to a research project with financial aid, etc. In case the article is related to the author’s masters thesis or doctoral dissertation, they must indicate (in the final version) the title of the thesis or dissertation, institution and date of defense;

b. The translation into another language of the articles published in Domínios de Lingu@gem is not allowed without previously permission of the Board of Editors.

c. When sending articles for publication, authors keep their copyrights (see Copyright Police section), based on Creative Commons policies adopted by the journal; authors agree with the journal submission guidelines and they are aware of the detailed revision applied to his or her text;

d. Two members of the Scientific Committee (or ad hoc reviewers, in case the topic of the article needs a specific knowledgeable reviewer) will review the article, and approve it or suggest modifications they deem necessary. In case discrepancies, the article will be sent to a third member of the Scientific Committee or to an ad hoc reviewer;

e. After the evaluation process, articles will be sent back to the authors, along with a copy of the reviews. Papers requiring modifications will be sent to authors who must modify and revise them within a period of 30 days. After applying all modifications, authors must send articles back to the journal;

f. There will be a second (or third) evaluation round(s) for all modified articles;

g. Each author or co-author may only publish one article per year in the journal;

h.The journal will accept articles with a maximum of three authors;

i. The guest editors of a thematic section cannot publish articles of their own; they shall only write the foreword of the thematic section in the format of an article, describing the state of the art in the subject and presenting the articles in the section;

j. To avoid endogeny, the journal will not publish a percentage higher than 20% of the articles of each issue from authors affiliated with Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. If this percentage is reached, priority will be given to the received and approved articles.

4. Article Submissions

The article should be submitted in .doc format, .docx. or .rtf through the journal website. Authors need to firstly create an account.

 The submitted articles must contain between 5.000 and 15.000 words, including title, abstracts, references, appendix, etc.

 Pages should be formatted as follows (download the style sheet here):

Paper Size: A4

Margins: top and bottom (3cm), right and left (2.5cm)

Font: Palatine Linotype, 12

Line spacing: 1.5

Quotations (longer than three lines): indentation 4cm, font size 11

Abstract: in columns (according to style sheet), bold titles, font size 11

Footnotes: default formatting, font size 10

Footnotes must be inserted at the bottom of the pages where their numerical indices appear.

5. Structure of the article

 Articles must follow the following order:

a) Title in bold, centralized, in low case; in a line below it, the title of the article in English (in case of articles written in English, the title in Portuguese must appear below it);

b) Name of the author (s) in full, two lines below the title, aligned to the right and in italics; the name of the author(s) must be added only in the final version of the article, after final approval by reviewers;

c) Marked on the authors’ name with an asterisk, the scientific affiliation must be written in a footnote at the bottom of the page, with the highest authors’ degree, name of the university or institute to which they are affiliated with, their ORCID code and e-mail; these information must also to be added only in the final version of the article, after final approval by reviewers;

d) Abstract, in the language of the text (between 300 and 400 words), two lines below the name of the author, with no indentation and in simple spacing; the abstract must contain the objective, method, results and conclusions of the article; it must consist of a sequence of concise sentences in a single paragraph; authors should use verbs in the active voice, and in third person singular.

e) Keywords (up to five), one line below the abstract, separated by period;

f) An abstract and keywords must be included in English side by side to the abstract and keywords in the language to the article (according to the style sheet), following the same abstract and keyword guidelines (above);

g) Text: authors must start their text two lines below the keywords, using 1.5 spacing between lines and with no spacing between paragraphs; the subheadings corresponding to each part of the text should appear on the left, in bold and with no indentation. Subheadings should be numbered since the first section (excepting References);

h) References: references must be included two lines below the text, with no indentation or numeration, in alphabetical and chronological order, indicating the works cited in the article. After references, a bibliography might be included, indicating other consulted or recommended texts which are referenced in the article. It must be included in alphabetical and chronological order. References should be arranged in alphabetical order by the author's last name and initials, according to the NBR 6023: 2018 and NBR 10520:2023 (ABNT) patterns. The title of the publications should be written in bold. DOI code, if available, must be provided (search at CrossRef);

Examples of NBR 6023:2018 (ABNT):

Books

HALL, G. Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action. New York: Routledge, 2011. DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203827840.

ORTIZ ALVAREZ, M. L.; HUELVA UNTERBÄUMEN, H. (org.). Uma (re)visão da teoria e da pesquisa fraseológicas. Campinas: Pontes, 2011.

Book chapters

MOITA LOPES, L. P. Afinal, o que é Linguística Aplicada? In: MOITA LOPES, L. P. Oficina de Linguística Aplicada: A Natureza Social e Educacional dos Processos de Ensino/Aprendizagem de Línguas. Campinas: Mercado de Letras, 1996. p. 17-25.

HUNT, A.; BEGLAR, D. Current Research and Practice in Teaching Vocabulary. In: RICHARDS, J. C.; RENANDYA, W. A. (ed.). Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511667190.036.

PIRES DE OLIVEIRA, A. M. P.; ISQUERDO, A. N. Apresentação. In: PIRES DE OLIVEIRA, A. M. P.; ISQUERDO, A. N. (org.). As ciências do léxico: lexicologia, lexicografia, terminologia. 2. ed. Campo Grande: EdUFMS, 2001. p. 9-11.

Dissertations and thesis

GRAMA, D. F. Uma análise lexicográfica dos elementos coesivos sequenciais do português para a elaboração de uma proposta de definição: um estudo com base em corpus. 2016. 371 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos Linguísticos) – Instituto de Letras e Linguística, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, 2016.

Articles in journals

GOATLY, A. Green grammar and grammatical metaphor, or Language and the myth of power, or Metaphors we die by. Journal of Pragmatics, v. 25, p. 537-560, 1996. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(95)00057-7.

BORBA, L. C. Lexicografia e ensino: o auxílio dos dicionários gerais de língua espanhola disponíveis na internet. Linguasagem, São Carlos, v. 25, n. 1, 2016. Disponível em: http://www.linguasagem.ufscar.br/index.php/linguasagem/issue/view/8/showToc. Acesso em: 30 abr. 2017.

Papers published in congress proceedings

MARIN, A. J. Educação continuada: sair do informalismo? In: CONGRESSO ESTADUAL PAULISTA SOBRE FORMAÇÃO DE EDUCADORES, 1, 1990. Águas de São Pedro. Anais […]. São Paulo: Unesp, 1990. p.114-118.

Newspaper texts:

VERÍSSIMO, L. F. Um gosto pela ironia. Zero Hora, Porto Alegre, ano 47, n. 16.414, p. 2, 12 ago. 2010. Disponível em: http://www.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default.jspx?uf=1&action=flip. Acesso em: 12 ago. 2010.

i) Quotations:

Authors should be quoted in parentheses by their surname (in capital letters), separated by a comma from the date of publication, for example: (Barbosa, 1980). If the author's name is quoted in the text, only the date between parentheses should be included: "Morais (1955) claims that ...". When necessary, pages should follow the date, separated by commas and preceded by p., for example: (Mumford, 1949, p. 513); quotations of more than three lines should be inserted in a separate paragraph, indent 4cm, single spacing, font size 11. 

EVALUATION

Articles will be evaluated according to the following criteria: type of article (research, opinion, descriptive analytic), rationale, clarity, adequate methodology, conclusions in relation to the arguments, innovative or non-innovative theme, new approach to a non-innovative theme, new methodology or technique, adequacy of the title, clarity of the writing, adequate length, and relevance of the bibliographical references.

Research involving Human Beings

Papers involving human beings must mention the authorization for disclosure of those involved or approval by the Ethics Committee of the institution where the work was carried out.