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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 text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • There is no conflict of interest.
  • No data falsification/fabrication.
  • No citation manipulation.
  • I have attached the cover letter to this submission.
  • I have included all the authors who collaborated in the manuscript' formulation (name, e-mail, institution, ORCID).

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to Revista Brasileira de Cartografia – Brazilian Journal of Cartography – shall be formatted according to the template document available (instructions in portuguese) on the website (template). Submissions should be made in docx format (Microsoft Word). Manuscripts that are not formatted according to this template will be rejected during editorial screening. Figures and tables should be inserted throughout the text, not at the end of the document in the form of attachments.

 

Manuscripts submitted to RBC will be subject to double-blind peer review. Submissions undergo editorial screening prior to peer review. Editors may discard manuscripts that do not meet the journal minimum requirements. The criteria cover the following aspects:

  • overall content quality;
  • language usage;
  • plagiarism;
  • formatting;
  • author identification (name, email, institution, ORCID)
  • works involving human subjects should present the approval of an Ethics Committee (at institutional, regional or national level), in accordance with resolutions 466/2012 and 510/2016 of the National Health Council of Brazil;
  • submissions having a single author must be accompanied by a letter justifying this condition.
  • the submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter (download)
  • an author/co-author may have only 2 manuscripts under review at the RBC simultaneously.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see "The Effect of Open Access").