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The journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia (ABP) is an official organ of the Instituto de Psicologia (IP) of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), published every four months under the responsibility of the Graduate Program in Psychology (IP-UFRJ). ABP publishes original works in Psychology and related fields, in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French, in the following categories:

Articles containing research reports with empirical data

Research based on empirical data, using scientific methodology: up to 50,000 characters with spaces, including tables, figures, charts and references.

Reports of professional experience

Articles describing an individual or collective experience apprehended from a specific intervention or case study, containing a description of procedures or intervention strategies, analysis of conceptual implications, explaining the theory/practice gap and accurately indicating the conditions under which the reported experiment has been conducted, with methodologically appropriate evidence evaluation of effectiveness and of interest to practicing psychologists in different areas: up to 16,000 characters with spaces.

Book review

Presentation and review of relevant books, be them domestic or foreign, in psychology and related areas, regularly published in the last two years. Abstract or keywords are not required: up to 16,000 characters with spaces.

Open section

The Open section publishes research reports and papers presented at scientific meetings or cultural events (e.g., national and international conferences), interviews, international articles already published abroad but unheard of in Brazil.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION PROCEDURES

Submitted manuscripts, since according to the standards for publication described below, will be sent to two ad hoc consultants or members of the Editorial Board for blind review. Two favorable opinions indicate final acceptance. In case of conflicting opinions, a third one shall be sought.

Manuscripts to be evaluated aiming at publishing should be submitted exclusively through the internet:

http://submission-pepsic.scielo.br/index.php/arbp

Registering in the link above is the first step to be taken. In the case of articles with multiple authors, the names of all authors should be necessarily included in submission metadata. In order to include more than one author, click on "add author"and the field will be available to be filled.

Every single text submitted to the journal must be accompanied by a letter signed by all authors, where the intention of submission or resubmission of the work for publication and statement of responsibility for the ethical aspects and authorship of the work is made clear. Besides, it must be stated that the work neither has ever been presented in full in any other media, nor is under evaluation by another journal. That letter must also contain authorization for reformulation of language, if needed, in order to meet the journal’s standards. Authors should disclose conflicts of interest (professional, financial, direct or indirect benefits) that may influence the research results. Similarly, the authors must disclose all funding sources involved in the work. They must also ensure that privacy and anonymity of those involved were respected. All complementary documents must be attached by electronic publishing, as image or text file.

Articles resulting from research involving human beings and/or relating to interventions (diagnostic or therapeutic) must be accompanied by a copy of the Research Ethics Committee letter of approval of the host institution or other entity accredited by the National Health Council, in accordance with Resolution 196/96 of the aforementioned Committee. In texts containing data from clinical cases, it is necessary to obtain a Letter of Consent. These documents must be attached in the field "add additional document"in the metadata.

This journal uses a double-blind review process, therefore preserving the identity of authors and consultants. Authors should use all possible means to prevent authorship identification of the manuscript.

Manuscripts submitted will initially be considered by the Editorial Board. If not suited to the standards or scope of the journal, they will be excluded from the system and their authors informed. Otherwise they will be forwarded to peer review, according to the following procedures:

1. Referral to two ad hoc consultants or two members of the Editorial Board for blind review.
2. Reception of opinions, with recommendation for acceptance (with or without modifications) or refusal. In the case of recommendation with modifications, authors will be notified of the suggestions as soon as possible (the opinions will be made available to the authors, preserving the consultants’ identities).
3. Modifications made by the authors must be included in a different color or in bold in the revised manuscripts.
4. Revised manuscripts will be subjected to evaluation by the Editorial Board who will decide, based on the recommendations of the consultants, between acceptance for publication, the need for additional review or refusal of the manuscript. If accepted for publication, the Editorial Board reserves the right to make minor changes for purposes of standardization according to the editorial parameters of the journal.
5. The final decision regarding whether or not to publish the manuscript is always the Editorial Board’s.
6. The authors of the papers are entirely responsible for their content.

ASPECTS TO BE OBSERVED

LManuscripts may be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English and their abstracts may be in Portuguese, English or Spanish; papers in French shall also include an abstract in that language. The texts must follow the editorial guidelines set forth by this journal, adapted from the 5th edition of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Publication Manual, 2001( www.apastyle.org ):

• Format: Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP file format (*.doc) or OpenOffice 1.0 Text Document (*.sxw);
• Extension: 16,800 characters up to 50,000 characters with spaces, according to the category of the paper;
• Font: Times New Roman, 12-pt;
• Line spacing: 1.5 spacing;
• Margins: one inch on all sides (at least 2.0 centimeters), justified;
• Tables, graphs and images (JPEG format) must appear in the text, just below the reference done (e.g., according to Table 1 we can say that…), not exceeding the maximum limit of 1Mb per image;
• First page: the following order must be respected: title in Portuguese, resumo, palavras-chave, title in English, abstract, keywords, title in Spanish, resumen and palabras clave. On the following page, the text to be evaluated;
• Title in Portuguese in bold, up to 10 words, only the first letter capitalized; Title in English in bold, up to 10 words, only the first letter capitalized; Title in Spanish in bold, up to 10 words, only the first letter capitalized;
• Abstract in Portuguese: character limit between 700 characters with space and 1,000 characters with space;
• Abstract in English: character limit between 700 characters with space and 1,000 characters with space;
• Abstract in Spanish: character limit between 700 characters with space and 1,000 characters with space;
• Keywords in Portuguese (Palavras-chave): from 3 to 5 separated by semicolon. The first letter of each word should be capitalized; Keywords in English: from 3 to 5 separated by semicolon. The first letter of each word should be capitalized; Keywords in Spanish (Palabras clave): from 3 to 5 separated by semicolon. The first letter of each word should be capitalized;
• Mandatory completion of the "submission metadata"in Portuguese, English and Spanish. To select the metadata in English and Spanish, click on the language chosen in the top right corner of Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia website;
• Headings in the body text: main headings in bold and subheadings not. Only the first letter should be capitalized in both. There shall be no kind of seriation for main headings and subheadings;
• It must be indicated in the metadata ‘field of academic knowledge’, keywords and funding sources, if any;
• In the body text, italics must be used only for foreign words and bold for highlighting words and book, articles or cited text titles.

Author notes (if any)

Once it is an electronic journal, the feature footnotes should be used only in relevant cases which do not fit in the logical sequence of the text. They shall be put on the footer, numbered.

Citations

Bibliographic references without direct quotation must be incorporated into the text, in parentheses, following the pattern:

- Up to two authors: last name(s) and year of publication in all citations;

Ex: Dor (1991) or Ansermet and Borie (2007) or (Dor, 1991, p. 35) or (Dor, 1991, pp. 35-37) or (Ansermet & Borie, 2007, p. 154).

- Three to five authors: list all authors in the first citation; the lead author followed by "et al."(and others) and year in subsequent citations;

Example: first citation:

Alves Filho, Cerra Maia, Sacomano Neto e Bonadio (2004)

(Alves Filho, Cerra Maia, Sacomano Neto, & Bonadio, 2004)

Following citations:

Alves Filho et al. (2004) (Alves Filho et al., 2004)

In the references:

Alves Filho, A. G., Cerra, A. L., Maia, J. L., Sacomano Neto, M., & Bonadio, P.V. G. (2004). Pressupostos do gerenciamento da cadeia de suprimentos: evidências de estudos sobre a indústria automobilística. Gestão & Produção, 11(3), 275-288.

- Six or more authors: the lead author followed by "et al." and year, in all citations.

Costa et al. (2000)

In the references, all names shall be listed.

When using direct quotations, the extract should be enclosed in double quotation marks, followed by the page(s) from where it was taken. Quotations with more than 40 words should appear in block format, without quotation marks or italics, indented five spaces from the left margin.

References

Mention only the ones which are in the text.

The References should be listed in alphabetical order, immediately after the end of the text, organized by the authors’ last names and by date, according the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Publication Manual, 2001.

Works with only one author should precede the ones with multiple authors, when the last name is the same. Multiple works by the same author with different co-authors, the co-authors' last names should be considered for purposes of alphabetical order.

Multiple works by the same author should be organized by date, the most recent last. Use lowercase letters after years to distinguish publications in the same year. Example: (Freud, 1905/1996a), (Freud, 1908/1996b) or Rogers (1973a), Rogers (1973b).

• Books and works taken as a whole:

Baudrillard, J. (2002). A troca impossível. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira.

Chauí, M. (1984). Repressão sexual: essa nossa (des)conhecida. São Paulo: Brasiliense.

Moura, M. L. S., & Correa, J. (1997). Estudo psicológico do pensamento: de W. Wundt a uma Ciência da Cognição. Rio de Janeiro: EDERJ.

Conselho Federal de Psicologia. (Org.). (1988). Quem é o psicólogo brasileiro? São Paulo: Edicon.

Pasquali, L. (Org.). (1999). Instrumentos psicológicos: Manual prático de elaboração. Brasília: LapPam/IBAPP.

• Chapters of collections:

Frigotto, G. (1998). A educação e a formação técnico-profissional frente à globalização excludente e o desemprego estrutural. In L. H. Silva (Org.), A escola cidadã no contexto da globalização (pp. 218-238). Petrópolis: Vozes.

Grimm, L. G., & Yarnold, P. R. (1995). Introduction to multivariate statistics. In L. G. Grimm & P. R. Yarnold (Orgs.), Reading and understanding multivariate statistics (pp. 1-18). Washington: American Psychological Association.

• Papers in scientific journals:

Mello, S. L. (1992). Classes populares, família e preconceito. Psicologia USP, 3,123-130.

Andriola, W. B. & Cavalcante, L. R. (1999). Avaliação da depressão infantil em alunos da pré-escola. Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica, 12, 419-428.

• Papers in scientific journal grouped into fascicles: follow the aforementioned indications and include the fascicle number, in parentheses, immediately after the volume number.

•Earlier work and republished later:

At first, the year of the original publication, followed by the year of the consulted edition. Ex: Freud (1905/1996).

In the references:

Freud, S. (1996). Três ensaios sobre a teoria da sexualidade (Edição Standard Brasileira das Obras Psicológicas Completas de Sigmund Freud, Vol. 7). Rio de Janeiro: Imago. (Originally published in 1905).

Piaget, J. (1973). A linguagem e o pensamento da criança (3a ed., M. Campos, Trad.). Rio de Janeiro: Fundo de Cultura. (Originally published in 1956)

Note: in the body text, the notation should be as follow:

Piaget (1956/1973).

• Unpublished dissertations and theses

Cusatis Neto, R. (2007). Construção e validação da escala de estressores ocupacionais das linhas de produção. Tese de doutorado não-publicada, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, 180pp.

•Corporate authorship:

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual (5a ed.). Washington: Autor.

• Secondary source citations:

When it is absolutely unavoidable, it is possible to cite a text in another publication without consulting the original publication. In this case, the authors and dates of the two texts should be indicated, for example: Piaget (1932, cited in Flavell, 1996).

• Web documents and sites:

Associação de Moradores de Vila Real (2002).Carta aberta à Prefeitura Municipal. From http://www.amvr.atas/cartaaberta.html. Retrieved August, 25, 2004.

Precisamos vencer a dengue agora (s/d). From emhttp://www.ansp.campanhas/saude/docs/. Retrieved June, 12, 2005.

Candiotto, C. (2007). Verdade e diferença no pensamento de Michel Foucault. Kriterio, 48(115). From http://www.scielo.br. Retrieved January, 16, 2008, doi: 10.1590/S0100-512X 2007000100012

IInstituto Nacional de Câncer. (2003b). Câncer no Brasil: dados dos registros de populacional. From http://www.inca.gov.br/regpop. Retrieved February, 22, 2006.

VandenBos, G., Knapp, S. e Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates [Versão electrónica]. Journal of Bibliographic Research, 5: 117-123. From http://jbr.org/articles.html. Retrieved October, 13, 2001.

CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS

As part of the submission process, the authors are required to verify whether or not the submission complies with all the items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the standards will be returned to the authors.

1. I certify that the work is original and on psychology and/or related areas.
2. I am aware that the work submitted to the Editorial Board, since according to the standards for publication, shall be subjected to blind evaluation by two members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc consultants and likewise aware that small spelling changes in the text may be made at the discretion of the Editorial Board, without consulting the authors.
3. The submitted work is accompanied by a letter signed by all authors, scanned and attached to the field "add additional documents"(check the Guidelines for authors for the content that it should contain).
4. The submitted work, in case of articles resulting from research involving human beings and/or relating to interventions (diagnostic or therapeutic) must be accompanied by a copy of the Research Ethics Committee letter of approval of the host institution or other entity accredited by the National Health Council, in accordance with Resolution 196/96 of the aforementioned Committee. In texts containing data from clinical cases, it is necessary to obtain a Letter of Consent.
5. The submitted work contains, in this order: title in Portuguese, resumo, palavras-chave, title in English, abstract, keywords, title in Spanish, resumen and palabras clave. On the following page, the text to be evaluated.
6. The submitted work contains title in Portuguese, up to 10 words, only the first letter capitalized.
7. The submitted work contains title in English, up to 10 words, only the first letter capitalized.
8. The submitted work contains title in Spanish, up to 10 words, only the first letter capitalized.
9. The submitted work contains abstract in Portuguese (character limit between 700 characters with space and 1,000 characters with space).
10. The submitted work contains abstract in English (character limit between 700 characters with space and 1,000 characters with space).
11. The submitted work contains abstract in Spanish (character limit between 700 characters with space and 1,000 characters with space).
12. The submitted work contains keywords in Portuguese: from 3 to 5 separated by semicolon.
13. The submitted work contains keywords in English: from 3 to 5 separated by semicolon.
14. The submitted work contains keywords in Spanish: from 3 to 5 separated by semicolon.
15. The submitted work contains mandatory completion of the "submission metadata" in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
16. The submitted work contains manuscript without any authorship identification, be it in the running head, in the text body or in the document properties, to be evaluated by the consultants.
17. The submitted work is in strict accordance with the rules of publication required by Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, according the Guidelines for authors, found in the "About"section of the Journal.
18. I certify that all authors of the submitted work are registered in the system with their biographical data.
    

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Copyright for papers published in this journal are the authors’, with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, the papers are free access for educational and non-commercial purposes.

Partial reproduction of other publications

Submitted manuscripts which contain extracts from other publications should comply with the specified limits to ensure originality of the submitted work. It is recommended to avoid reproducing figures, tables, charts or graphs extracted from other publications.

Manuscripts which contain reproduction of one or more figures, tables, charts or graphs extracted from other publications shall be forwarded to evaluation only if they are accompanied by written permission from the copyright holder of the original work for the specified reproduction in Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia. The permission should be addressed to the author of the submitted work. Under no circumstances Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia and the authors of the published papers in this Journal will transfer the rights thus obtained.

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