Studies and Research in Psychology publish texts written in Portuguese, English and Spanish in the following formats: 

• Theoretical study / literature review: analysis of theoretical constructs, discussion of themes and theoretical foundations, leading to the questioning of existing models, critical reflection of themes or concepts, culminating in notes that suggest a critical and innovative perspective in the field of Psychology and their interfaces. It should be between 15 and 25 pages, including abstract, abstract, abstract, figures, tables and references, not including the cover page (attached as a supplementary document).

• Review: critical summary of national (published in the last two years) or foreign (published up to 5 years) works, which aims to guide the reader in relation to aspects of the book, such as characteristics, possibilities and contributions to the field of Psychology. It should be between 6 and 10 pages, including abstract, abstract, abstract and references, not including the cover page (attached as a supplementary document).

Film reviews are also allowed, which must clearly demonstrate the link with the field of Psychology. In addition, it must necessarily identify a theoretical framework.

• Experience Report: Complete and succinct report of professional experience, of social and scientific relevance and with even partial results. It should be between 15 and 25 pages, including abstract, resumo, resumen, figures, tables and references, not including the cover page (attached as a supplementary document).

• Translation: translations of texts (articles, essays, etc.) relevant to the area and nonexistent in Portuguese. Must contain title, name (s) of author (s) and translator (s). It is necessary to send a scanned copy of the original used in the translation, as well as the digitized authorization (from the editor and / or author) for publication. There is no page limit.

• Interview: conducted with authors or professionals with relevant contributions to the area. They should contain the name (s) of the interviewee (s) and interviewer (s) and a presentation of a maximum of one page, aiming to situate the interviewee to the readers. Consent of respondent (s) to publication of material is required. There is no page limit.

• Research Report: research based on empirical data using scientific methodology. It should be between 15 and 25 pages, including abstract, resumo, resumen, figures, tables and references, not including the cover page (attached as a supplementary document). Subtopic Suggestion: Introduction, Method (Participants, Instruments, Procedures (data collection and ethics), Data Analysis, Results, Discussion (or Results and Discussion together) and Final Considerations (optional). In a single topic, Final Considerations are required.

 

On the set of criteria and orientations about scientific publications and the roles of the main authors involved in the editorial process, we work in compliance with the American Psychological Association Manual (APA) 7th http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx

We also conform to, both from an ethical and operational point of view, the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices), which aim to encourage the identification of plagiarism, bad practices, fraud and possible violations of ethics.

The Study and Research in Psychology Journal is a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research and Assessment (DORA), a set of recommendations which aims to better the ways in which scientific production is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions and other parts.

 

 

Prior to submission, authors must agree to adopt the following criteria:

- Papers that feature the utilization of either data or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications must reference them in an explicit manner;

- In the writing of papers that contain a critical summary of another author’s intellectual content, these authors must be accordingly mentioned;

- all authors must meet the unpublished authorship criteria and none of the researchers involved in the research may be omitted from the list of authors;

- for text submission, it is necessary that the authors explicitly state that they have followed the ethical and professional research procedures.

- Authors who have already published papers in the journal can only submit a new manuscript one year after the publication of the last accepted manuscript;

- Authors whose work is still under review should wait for the end of the review and the editorial decision to submit a new manuscript. If accepted, they must wait one year after publication to submit a new manuscript. In case of refusal, a new manuscript can be submitted for evaluation;

- The journal will only publish one manuscript per year, for both author and coauthor.

- After the submission is finished, authorship modifications, such as inclusion or exclusion of co-authors, are not allowed, being followed, therefore, in the publication of the article, the sequence of authors on the coversheet.

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscripts cannot have been previously published in any other journal, neither be simultaneously under consideration for publication.

After submission, all manuscripts will be analyzed by the staff of the journal, which will preliminarily check for compliance with all publication and preparation norms of an original, specified in the author’s guidelines. In the case of inaccuracies, the originals will be returned to the author(s) for modifications. The authors will be notified and will have an opportunity to revise and resubmit their manuscripts.

The papers that comply with the publication and original preparation standards will undergo a pre-analysis by the Editorial Committee, which will assess aspects such as focus, scope, relevance, and compliance with editorial norms and guidelines. Papers that are not deemed suitable in this pre-analysis will be rejected. Those considered relevant will proceed to the evaluation by ad hoc Consultants at the discretion of the Editors and in accordance with the areas of expertise and specialization of the reviewers, provided there is no conflict of interest on their part. Evaluation criteria will include presentation and writing style, content, methodology, presentation of results, and discussion, conclusions, and/or final considerations.

Studies and Research in Psychology uses the double-blind evaluation system, so as to preserve the identity of the authors alongside the evaluators'. The authors are responsible for checking that there are no elements capable of identifying them in any part of the text.

Guidelines at http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/revispsi/help/view/ editorial/topic/000044

The peer review process can take up to 12 months. Manuscripts may be: accepted, accepted pending certain alterations, or rejected. In the case of accepted pending certain alterations, the demanded alterations will be indicated to the author(s). The submission of the revised manuscript shall occur, compulsorily, through the journal’s website within the agreed deadline. If the authors do not return the revised manuscript within the agreed deadline, the submission will be archived.

The Editorial Board always takes the final decision to accept or reject the manuscript for publication. The authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their manuscripts and will receive a summary of reviewers’ opinions on their work.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to make small alterations or cuts in the work, with the goal of making it conform with the journal’s publication criteria, as long as none of these alterations result in changes in content. The Editorial Board also reserves the right to decide on special cases, so that the quality and periodicity of the journal are preserved.

Anti-plagiarism Policy

It is the author's responsibility to guarantee the originality of their text, citing the standards of the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 2020). All works sent to Studies and Research in Psychology will undergo similarity verification using the "CopySpider" program, designed to verify similarity with already published texts.

The similarity analysis will be carried out in two stages: 1) peer pre-evaluation; 2) pre-publication. The reports generated by the program will be verified by the Editorial Committee. If the manuscript shows signs of similarity, the Editorial Committee will evaluate the case and may request corrections and retractions from the author of the text, as well as summarily rejecting it.

Articles derived from thesis, dissertation and monograph will not be considered self-plagiarism.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that providing free scientific knowledge to the public provides greater democratization of knowledge.

Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia does not charge submission and/or publication fees.

 

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 submitted manuscript is original, that is, it cannot have been previously published in any other journal, neither be simultaneously under consideration for publication; if so, it must be justified in the Editor’s Comments.

• The authors explicitly state they have followed all the ethical procedures.

• Submission files are in Microsoft Word format (as long as they do not exceed 4MB).

• The text should follow the guidelines described in the Preparation of Originals section. The lead author should download the Submission Checklist, complete, sign, scan and submit as “Supplementary Document”. Version in Portuguese available at link http://www.revispsi.uerj.br/anexos/EPP_checklist_de_submissao_Portugues.pdf English version available at link http://www.revispsi.uerj.br/anexos/EPP_checklist_de_submissao_Ingles.pdf. Spanish version available at link http://www.revispsi.uerj.br/anexos/EPP_checklist_de_submissao_Espanhol.pdf

• The text conforms to the stylistic standards in the Author’s Guidelines, in the section about the Journal, and the citations and references conform to the sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Physiological Association (APA, 2012).

• Any form of author identification was removed from the file and from the Properties option in Microsoft Word, thus guaranteeing the journal’s confidentiality criterion, if submitted for peer review.

• The authors declare that they are aware that, after the submission of the article, modifications to the authorship data, such as the removal or inclusion of co-authors, are not allowed. In the publication of the article, the sequence of authors will be in the cover sheet.

The journal adopts the norms and style of publication of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (7th edition, 2020), except for a few adaptations that are properly informed in this page.

The texts must be typed in Microsoft Word and double-spaced, with left, right, bottom and top margin of 2.5 cm, in Times New Roman font, body 12, and all pages must be numbered (top corner right) and justified alignment. 

Upon submission, the author must submit three files:

 

1) Manuscript text

The manuscript file should be named as "text_for_evaluation," be in Microsoft Word format, and not exceed 4MB.

Manuscripts should be presented in the following order:

- Titles

The manuscript contains title in Portuguese, English and Spanish. In Portuguese with maximum 15 words. The title should be centred and contain the initial letters of each word in upper case. Do not put it in Bold. Experience report manuscripts must contain the words "experience report" in the title.

- Abstract in portuguese (Resumo), in english and in spanish (Resumen)

The abstracts in Portuguese, English and Spanish must have simple-spaced lines, justified alignment, body text size 12, and should not have citations or abbreviations. The abstract in Portuguese with 150 to 200 words each.

- For Research Report, the abstract must include a brief description of the problem investigated, objective, pertinent characteristics of the sample, method used for data collection, results and conclusions (or final considerations, in the case of qualitative studies). Final considerations should present the implications or applications of the knowledge produced.

- Provide, after the summary, three to five keywords (in Portuguese, English and Spanish), with lowercase initials and separated by commas. To use the most appropriate descriptors, please refer to the list of BVS-Psi terminologies that can be accessed at: www.bvs-psi.org.br/php/index.php. Note: The terms "Palavras-chaves", "Keywords" and "Palabras claves" should be in italics. 

- Text Structure

- The text should have an easily recognizable organization, signaled by a system of titles and subtitles that reflect this organization. Since the introduction of the manuscript is easily identifiable by its position in the text, it is not necessary to insert the title "Introduction".

The entire structure of the text must be in accordance with the norms and style of publication of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (7th edition, 2020).

- Footnotes. They should be avoided whenever possible. However, if there is no other possibility, they should be inserted by Arabic numerals in the text and placed as endnotes.

- Figures and Tables. The tables were written in size 12 with double spaces between lines. Suggested places for inserting figures and tables should be indicated in the text and they should be presented after the References, one per page. The words Figures and Tables, which appear in the text, must always be written with the first letter capitalized and must be accompanied by the respective number to which they refer. APA 7th Edition norms do not include tables or graphs, only tables and figures. See more details in Presentation of Figures and Tables.

If the manuscript presents photographs of people, a signed permission must be sent by them authorizing the use of their image. It is also necessary to send an original letter of authorization from the photographer or company holding the grant and the right to use the image. The body of the letter must contain that the photographer or the company owns the rights to the images and that the copyrights to the journal Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia. It is important to emphasize that the authors are responsible for any rights of reproduction of the images that make up the manuscript and that Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia is not responsible for the cost of image property rights in any modality. 

- Authors quotes. Authors citations should be made according to the norms of APA 7th Edition. All names of authors whose works are cited should be followed by the date of publication, the first time they are cited in each paragraph. In the case of full transcription of a text, it should be delimited by quotation marks and the author's citation should be followed by the page number cited. A literal citation of 40 or more words should be presented in a new paragraph, body 12 and a 1.25 cm indent from the left margin. Do not use commands such as bold or italics in this section. The italics must be underlined.

The manuscript contains no more than three self-citations, considering all authors from the submitted manuscript. In case of self-citation in the manuscript that might lead to the author’s identification and compromise the blind peer-review, the name of the author was removed from the body of the text and substituted for AUTHOR and the year of publication (Example: “AUTHOR, 2020) and substituted in the beginning of the List of References - and not in the alphabetic order - for “Author, year of publication - include reference after peer-review”. (Example: Author, 2020 - include reference after peer-review). Information omitted for review must be inserted in the cover sheet.

- Reference Lists. Research reports, Theoretical studies, Reviews, Experience reports, Translations and Interviews must contain no more than 30 references. In case of Literature reviews, 40 references will be accepted. Use double space, 1.25 cm offset and leave no space between quotes. References should be cited in alphabetical order by the surname of the authors, which should not be replaced by dashes or dashes. References must appear in accordance with APA 7th Edition guidelines. Per APA 7th Edition guidelines, articles in journals with DOI only presents the full link (for example, https://doi.org/10.1109/5.771073. For the articles in journals without DOI, dissertations, thesis, and other references, the URLs are provided (for example, http://...). The DOI and URL are actives and ready to immediate access.  The manuscript does not contain references of papers in evaluation, only in press.

 

2) Cover Sheet

- Authors should download the Cover Sheet template at link (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rJ2MJfr7aw7lbyMa2XFLbcps2OimqyvP/edit?tab=t.0) and submit as “Supplementary Document”.

- The file should be named "cover_sheet" and be in Microsoft Word format, not exceeding 4MB.

The cover page must include:

- The section to which the text is being submitted: Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Clio-Psyché (History of Psychology), or, if applicable, Dossier;

- The type of text: Research Report, Theoretical Study, Literature Review, Review, Experience Report, Translation, and Interview.

- Name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation, ORCID, email address for correspondence, and phone number for each author;

• Title with a maximum of 15 words, in Portuguese, English and Spanish;

• Indication of the specific contribution of each author, having as a minimum requirement for authorship credit: (a) Active participation in the discussion of results; (b) Review and approval of the final version of the paper.

• Funding information obtained (if any)

The cover sheet is in Microsoft Word format and the file does not exceed 4MB.

Authors are advised to remove from the text under evaluation any information that identifies authorship, the location, or the institution where the research was conducted. The identification of authorship should also be removed from the Properties option in Word.

3) Submission Checklist

The lead author should download the Submission Checklist available at link (http://www.revispsi.uerj.br/anexos/EPP_checklist_de_submissao_Ingles.pdf), sign, scan and submit as “Supplementary Document”. The checklist should be in PDF format, named "check_list," and not exceed 4MB.

The presentation of citations and references must conform to the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Physiological Association (APA, 2020).

Footnotes are to be avoided. In case they are absolutely necessary, they must be presented as endnotes, and they must conform to the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Physiological Association (APA, 2020).

The Estudos e Pesquisas em Psicologia Journal requests the authors to divulgue, after the articles’ publication, his/her studies in the social media, for example: 

Academia.edu - https://www.academia.edu/

Mendeley - https://www.mendeley.com/

ResearchGate - http://www.researchgate.net/

ResearcherID - http://www.researcherid.com/Home.action

Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com.br/schhp?hl=pt-BR