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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.

  • 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.

    1. 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).
    2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
    3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
    4. The text is 1.5 spaced; uses a 11-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.
    5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
    6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

General Submission Guides for Authors

artciencia.com is an open-access, peer-reviewed and independent e-Journal of Art, Science and Communication published twice a year. The journal intends to publish authors' writings or artists’ artwork if they are within the areas of art-science-communication.

Scholars, researchers, critics, and artists are welcome to submit work to artciencia.com, which is also receptive to publishing new authors' work in the intersection between the arts, sciences and communication. Work should be submitted to the related section according to the following guidelines:

  • · Essays and Articles related to Art, Science or Communication Sciences; Essays and Articles should be of at least 3000 words, including notes and bibliography. Essays, articles and thesis should include a 100-150 word abstract and four key words, at the beginning of the text, both in the original language and/or in English headed "Abstract" and indented, and should not include the author’s name or any other information about the author.
  • · Portfolios of artists (e.g. painters, photographers, designers, sculptors, directors, musicians or others), with an evident interest in the context or practices of contemporary art and culture. Portfolios should have a maximum of five images in jpeg format (minimum 600x800 pixels, with the resolution of 72 dpi). Authors should submit a compressed folder (e.g. *.zip, *.rar, etc.) with all the pictures and a text/statement about his/her artwork, as well as a biographical note.
  • · Interviews with authors, scientists, professionals or other people with an evident interest in the context or practices of contemporary art and culture. Interviews should have at least 1500 words and should include, if possible, a photo (gif or jpeg) of the interviewee;
  • · Reviews (e.g. books, films, plays, music composition, etc.) related to art, science, communication sciences, or other artistic, scientific or cultural questions. Reviews should have a maximum of 1500 words, including detailed information on the book, or film etc. (e.g. book: author, title, translator, series, editor, place and dates of publication, no. of pages, etc.; film: original title, director, year of production, etc.), at the beginning of the text. Reviews of any work of relevant cultural interest, irrespective of the area, will be considered for publication;
  • · Thesis on subjects related to Art, Humanities or Communication for a university degree (excluding bachelor/graduation) which have been previously defended and approved. Thesis should be both, submitted and send to the Thesis Editor in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat Reader). Thesis should include a 100-150 word abstract and four key words, at the beginning of the text, both in original language and in English headed "Abstract" and indented.
  • · Translations of texts or books not in copyright.
  • · Fiction - In this section, artciencia.com will publish original works of fiction (narratives, poetry, etc). There is no word limit for works of fiction, but Editors may decide to publish the integral text in a single number of the Journal or divide it into chapters in different numbers.

artciencia.com may also publish short texts (news) about meetings, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, festivals or other scientific or cultural events.

Language and Style

Texts can be written in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French, and should be sent in Word format, source Arial, size 11; 1, 5 spacing between lines (see template in Call for Papers). All texts are published in PDF format; therefore, it is possible to include tables, graphs, illustrations, images, footnotes, or other elements.

Deadlines and Publication

artciencia.com will be updated twice a year. The usual deadlines are 15th November and 15th of May but, if necessary, these deadlines could be modified by Editorial decision. When updating occurs, the work published in previous numbers will continue online in the Archives. The registered contributors will be informed before publication of their work.

Responsibility

The content of all published texts and portfolios is entirely the responsibility of the author. It is also the responsibility of the author to obtain permission for the use of any copyrighted material, including images, sound, and video files.

Posting

Work should be submitted on-line. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and follow the five-step process. If you still have any doubts or questions, please contact the Editor’s section (e.g. Essay, Review, etc.).

Contacts

Please direct any inquiries to Section Editors (Editorial Team).

artciencia.com does not charge any fees over a submitted work, neither in the submission act, and neither in the publishing act.

ARTICLES

artciencia accepts submissions of Essays and Articles related to Art, Science or Communication Sciences. Essays and Articles should be of at least 3000 words, including notes and bibliography. Essays, articles and thesis should include a 100-150 word abstract and at least four key words, at the beginning of the text, both in the original language and/or in English headed "Abstract" and indented, and should not include the author’s name or any other information about the author.

ESSAY

artciencia accepts submissions of Essays and Articles related to Art, Science or Communication Sciences. Essays and Articles should be of at least 3000 words, including notes and bibliography. Essays, articles and thesis should include a 100-150 word abstract and at least four key words, at the beginning of the text, both in the original language and/or in English headed "Abstract" and indented, and should not include the author’s name or any other information about the author.

PORTFOLIO

artciencia accepts submissions of artist`s Portfolios (e.g. painters, photographers, designers, sculptors, directors, musicians or others), with an evident interest in the context or practices of contemporary art and culture. Portfolios should have a maximum of five images in jpeg format (minimum 600x800 pixels, with the resolution of 72 dpi). Authors should submit a compressed folder (e.g. *.zip, *.rar, etc.) with all the pictures and a text/statement about his/her artwork, as well as a biographical note.

FICTION

In this section, artciencia.com will publish original works of fiction (narratives, poetry, etc). There is no word limit for works of fiction, but Editors may decide to publish the integral text in a single number of the Journal or divide it into chapters in different numbers.

INTERVIEW

Interviews with authors, scientists, professionals or other people with an evident interest in the context or practices of contemporary art and culture are welcome. Interviews should have at least 1500 words and should include, if possible, photos (gif or jpeg) of the interviewee and/or his/her work.

REVIEW

Reviews (e.g. books, films, plays, music composition, etc.) must related to art, science, communication sciences, or other artistic, scientific or cultural questions. Reviews should have a maximum of 1500 words, including detailed information on the book, or film etc. (e.g. book: author, title, translator, series, editor, place and dates of publication, no. of pages, etc.; film: original title, director, year of production, etc.), at the beginning of the text. Reviews of any work of relevant cultural interest, irrespective of the area, will be considered for publication;

Copyright Notice

It is assumed as Author the person (natural or legal) whose name is indicated as such in the work, as embodied practice, or announced to the public by any kind of use or communication. It is recommended that the submitted works do not exceed the total number of four authors. In cases where the number of authors exceeds four, the editors will, ultimately, decide about the acceptance of the submitted work.

TERMS

By submitting a paper to artciencia.com the author accepts, without any kind of reservation, the terms indicated below.

The mere act of submitting a paper is assumed as full comprehension and acceptance, even if in tacit form, of these terms and ignorance about them cannot be invoked.

Authors who publish in artciencia.com, Revista de Arte, Ciência e Comunicação will release their contributions under the Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC 4.0: «Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for non-commercial purposes».

The author retains the rights to his work, but its publication in artciencia.com automatically implies the complete and exclusive assignment of copyright to the first edition.

The author is aware that he will not receive any payment / copyright compensation relating to the work submitted despite it is, or not, published.

Similarly, artciencia.com will not charge the author any submission, publishing or distribution fees related with the submitted paper.

The views and opinions expressed in published works are the sole responsibility of the author and may not reflect the editorial policy of artciencia.com.

It should be noted that artciencia.com can reject, by decision of the editors, any submission that manifestly collides with the journal's editorial policy. In such cases the author will be informed of that decision.

After the first publication, the author is authorized to take on additional contracts, independent of artciencia.com, for the dissemination of his work by other means. He must, in that case, to always safeguard the full citation of the original publication.

The author of a published paper is encouraged and has permission to distribute his work by any means, safeguarding the aspects mentioned in the previous paragraph.

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