Submissions
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following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The text must be unpublished and not have been submitted simultaneously to any other publication;
- The text must be original, and will be rejected if there is conduct classified as plagiarism or self-plagiarism (greater than 30% of a text with the same authors), as described in the pre-publication policy;
- All authors must agree with the Reciis Authorship Policy;
- There must be a justification in the “comments to the editor” field if the article has more than five authors;
- All authors must be responsible for approving the final version to be published and will be liable for all legal and scientific aspects related to the accuracy or integrity of the study;
- The metadata for all authors must be correctly filled in during submission;
- The cover page must be correctly filled in and submitted through the system;
- Tables, charts and figures must be attached as a supplementary document, according to their type, during submission and also included throughout the manuscript as cited;
- References must follow ABNT standards;
- The manuscript must be in an open format and without identification — both in the text and in the file properties. (In Microsoft Office, the author's name must be removed from the document properties following the sequence: File > Save As > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security Options > Remove personal information from file on save > OK > Save).
- Ethics committee approval, when applicable, must be sent as a supplementary document at the time of submission.
Editorial
Editorials are texts that, in addition to introducing the edition, bring scientific content with the potential to receive citations and justify their indexation and publication.
Notes on current situations
These texts are meant to analyse (or comment) current situations in order to contribute to the deepening of topics related to the fields of communication, information, and health. They are limited to around 15,000 characters with spaces. By editors’ invitation only.
Dossiers
There are collections of original articles within subjects selected by editors that is insert in an edition in order to advance a debate, an idea or a field in relation to the overall aims of the journal. Limited to 40 to 60,000 characters with spaces. Seção aberta a submissões em períodos definidos em chamadas públicas. Indexed and peer-reviewed.
Original articles
These are contributions intended to disseminate original research results with the following elements: object, objective, problem, theoretical-methodological basis, and clearly described results. Limited to 40 to 60,000 characters with spaces.
Interviews
These are contributions derived from interviews with authorities, specialists, or researchers whose life history or professional achievements are relevant to the fields of communication, information, and health. By editors’ invitation only.
Essays
These are analytical or propositional contributions with theoretical constructs leading to the questioning of existing models and allowing hypotheses for future research. Limited to 40 to 60,000 characters with spaces.
Review Articles
These are contributions intended to disseminate the state of the art of specific themes based on the critical bibliographical review of other publications. Limited to 40 to 60,000 characters with spaces.
Experience reports
These are contributions that describe situations in the practice of professionals or institutions. Limited to 30 to 50,000 characters with spaces.
Reviews of books and audiovisual productions
These are contributions that present a critical analysis of books or audiovisual productions. Limited to 15 and 25 thousand characters with spaces. Section open to ongoing submissions and indexed.
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Author’s rights: The author retains unrestricted rights over his work.
Rights to reuse: Reciis adopts the Creative Commons License, CC BY-NC non-commercial attribution according to the Policy on Open Access to Knowledge by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. With this license, access, download, copy, print, share, reuse, and distribution of articles is allowed, provided that it is for non-commercial use and with source citation, granting proper authorship credits and reference to Reciis. In such cases, no permission is required from the authors or editors.
Rights of authors’s deposit / self-archiving: The authors are encouraged to deposit the published version, along with the link of their article in Reciis, in institutional repositories.
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