Guidelines for Authors
Authors should use the TEMPLATE of the Herança Journal.
FACILITATE THE PUBLICATION OF YOUR MANUSCRIPT IN HERANÇA
Before submitting your manuscript, you should try to answer the following questions:
Contents:
- Does the manuscript fall within the scope of the journal?
- Is the text clear, concise and accessible?
- Does the title, abstract and keywords reveal the key points of your manuscript, and does it not exceed the word limit?
- Do you have written authorizations for the reproduction of figures and pictures that are under copyright?
Structure:
- The text size conforms to that recommended by Herança?
- Does the Identification Form include the name and affiliation of all authors?
- It is formatted according to the “norms for authors”?
- Are all references made in the body of the text, captions and notes included in your bibliographic references?
- Does your manuscript meet all anonymization guidelines in accordance with our journal's peer review policy?
WRITING AN ARTICLE FOR A SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL
The writing of a scientific article is the culmination of continuous and hard intellectual work. Sometimes the authors even have all the work organized, know what they want to address, have the data to work with, but they do not know how to report it in a coherent and organized text.
It all comes from the author’s willingness to learn.
The basis of any scientific work must be ethics. The work done so far should be recognized and not plagiarized. All criticism must be accepted.
The wording must be clear and without grammatical errors. Any article submitted for review is reviewed. Thus, the writing must be appropriate to the situation. For example, if it is to be published in a scientific journal, the methodology must be addressed, the means used; in the end, the article must provide all the indications so that it can be reproduced by another author. If it is to be presented at a congress or a specialized journal, the contents and language must be adapted. In short, the language used must be suitable for the purpose.
The scientific article reflects all the work done. All phases must be recorded, all documentation generated must be organized and easy to consult. It is this organized register that will allow the article to be written naturally and without losing its original focus.
As a rule, each scientific journal has its structure defined and it is easy to adapt the study to this structure.
THE ABSTRACT: the abstract must contain information that stimulates interest in the reader (s) to read it in full. The summary is not to introduce the topic or the description of the activities carried out. It should be enlightening in itself, making no references to the body of the work or containing citations or bibliographic references. Abbreviations and symbols should be avoided. The summary should indicate the problem, justify why it is a problem, a sentence that presents the solution to the problem and captures the attention of the reader (s). Finally, it should explain how the solution is a solution.
THE INTRODUCTION: in a first phase, you should try to explain the importance of the theme. Then you should look in the literature if there is something that answers the starting point and what is currently on the topic. It must then be seen what solutions are currently valid for the problem itself. Based on this, you should explain what is the solution presented and, finally, the conclusion must coincide with the justification of the theme.
BODY OF THE WORK: in the body of the work, the problem to be solved must be described; why the situation is considered relevant and why it is important to resolve it. Then, the solution should be described, what was done to solve the problem, describing the methodology used.
After the described methodology, the results must be presented, proving what was previously described. One should check what already exists and compare it with the results obtained, showing the contribution of the article.
CONCLUSION: the conclusions drawn with the study must be presented. The conclusion must respond to the topic addressed in the introduction. It is necessary to verify what the literature has concluded and what the study allows to conclude; whether it meets or disputes what already exists. At this stage, the limitations that were identified when developing the study should be presented. The conclusion must be visible even to those who have not read the body of the article. When someone is interested in an article, they read the title, the summary and the conclusion. If they like it, they read the body of the text.
If you use any term in the conclusion that was only used in the body of the work, the reader (s) is / are unaware. If the conclusion is stimulating, the reader (s) will have an interest in the body of the work and will want to know how they arrived at that conclusion, if they used their own software, which sample and methodology was used.
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW AND EXPECT WITH THE PEER REVIEW AT HERANÇA
The process of evaluating articles submitted to e3 consists of two stages. The first, a preliminary evaluation by the Editor-in-Chief and the Deputy Editor, who examine the adequacy of the work to the editorial line of the journal and make the preliminary evaluation (Desk Review). The second, the assessment itself, which consists of the double-blind review system or open peer review, to be carried out by two ad hoc reviewers.
What are the reviewers looking for?
The evaluation considers, primarily, the scientific quality of the text, focusing on the following aspects:
Theme topicality;
Originality of the work;
Relevance and theoretical consistency of the text for the development of the area of knowledge;
Quality of the theoretical framework used;
Quality of writing and organization of the text;
Contribution of work to administrative knowledge and/or administrative action in organizations;
Methodology used: property, quality, level of sophistication;
Quality of data analysis and discussion (if applicable);
Conclusions: achievement, foundation and consistency.
TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS
Herança publishes original articles, review articles, essays and critical reviews.
Manuscripts must be submitted digitally, in a recent version of Microsoft Word.
IDENTIFICATION FORM
All manuscripts must be accompanied by the Identification Form.
In the Identification Form, the corresponding author must:
- Mention all authors of the manuscript in the order they appear in the publication;
- Pay attention to the full names that will be associated with the manuscript;
- Present the affiliation of each author, including the University, Faculty, Department / Research Center, the position, city, country, ORCID and institutional e-mail;
- The corresponding author must be duly identified and must present his/her full institutional address.
DIMENSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Articles must not exceed 8000 words, excluding titles, abstracts, keywords, bibliography, figures and tables.
Essays must not exceed 4000 words.
Critical reviews must have a maximum of 2500 words. These typologies do not need summaries.
PLAGIARISM AND AI WRITING REPORT
To clarify the originality of your manuscript, a Turnitin plagiarism report and a Turnitin AI report also need to be submitted with your manuscript. Once the submission fails to address any one of these requirements, submission will be declined automatically:
- The plagiarism rate should be lower than 20%.
- The AI writing rate should be lower than 5%to be considered as fully human-written.
FORMATTING THE MANUSCRIPTS
All manuscripts must be formatted according to the TEMPLATE made available by Herança.
If the manuscript is not submitted according to the template, it will not be reviewed.
The body of the text must follow the Georgia font, size 10, 1.08 spacing between lines.
TITLES / ABSTRACTS / KEYWORDS
Titles, abstracts and keywords (maximum of 5) must be presented in Portuguese and English.
Abstracts should have about 200 words and should not contain bibliographical references or citations.
FIGURES
The word “Figure” includes the following types of images: maps, graphs, drawings, photographs, infographics.
The title must be in the original language of the manuscript. It must be concise and express the content of the figure.
The source should only be expressed if there has been recourse to authors other than those in the text.
All figures should be referred to in the body of the text, using the word "Figure" if it is in the middle of the sentence, or the abbreviation "Fig." if parentheses are used [e.g.: (Fig. 1)].
Figures must be of sufficient quality and legibility for the journal editing process (A4). Thus, the author (s) may be requested to send them, in an individual file, referring to the surname of the first author, the figure and extension number (e.g.: Goncalves_fig.2. Jpeg).
GRAPHICS
All graphs must be in editable format in the manuscript's Word file or sent in a supplementary Excel file (or other format).
The graphics must identify the units of measure on the axes, avoid lines on the inside and have no outside line (box).
TABLES
The formatting of these tables includes horizontal lines, without external vertical limits, with internal vertical lines being allowed. Tables should be simple and preferably fit on a single page, avoiding long sentences, long numbers and too many decimal places.
All tables must be referred to in the body of the text, using the word “Table”, in the middle of the sentence or in parentheses [e.g.: (Table I)], followed by a Roman numeric sequence.
All tables must be in an editable format in the manuscript's Word file (regardless of authorship).
The title must be in the original language of the manuscript. It must be concise and express the contents of the table. The source should only be expressed if there has been recourse to authors other than those in the text.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
The formatting of bibliographic references must comply with all the requirements of the APA Norms 6th Edition (see APA Standards 6th ed.).
Bibliographic references correspond exclusively to the works referenced in the manuscript and must be inserted at the end of the manuscript, in the section “Bibliographical References”.
Bibliographic references are organized in alphabetical order. If there are several works by the same author, the chronological order is followed. If there is more than one work from the same year and author, the letters "a", "b", "c", etc. are added to the year. (e.g., 2020a).
All titles that are not in English must be translated into that language (to be in square brackets after the original title), except for legal documents.
Herança supports the use of bibliographic management software (Mendeley, EndNote, among others). However, the authors must make sure that their bibliographic references include all the necessary elements and comply with the rules of APA 7th Edition.
ENDNOTES
The essential notes (maximum 10) will have Roman numerals and should be included at the end of the manuscript as “endnotes”.
Notes that are only bibliographic references are not allowed.
FOOTNOTES
Bibliographic references that appear in footnotes and not included in the list of references at the end of the article will not be taken into account and may prevent the publication of the manuscript.
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