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 article must be presented in Microsoft Word format or RTF provided that it does not exceed 2MB;
- Foreign words should be written in italics while neologisms or unusual words should be written in quotations marks;
- The identification of the article’s author must be removed from the file and the Properties option in Microsoft Word;
- Authors must adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) standards.
- Units of measure shall follow the standards of the International System (SI) developed by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) [www.bipm.org];
- By being responsible for the content of the article submitted to the journal, the author authorizes its publication.
- Anything that is not a table will be considered a figure. Examples: drawing, diagram, flowchart, photograph, graph, map, organizational chart, plan, chart, portrait, figure, image, among others. And tables "display exact numerical values, and data are neatly arranged in rows and columns, facilitating their comparison" (APA, 2001, p. 133).
Point-Counterpoint
The initiative for the development of a ‘Point-Counterpoint’ may come from the editors, the journal’s editorial board, or through an informal proposal from authors to the editors. On receiving such a proposal, the editors will evaluate the proposal and, if it is approved, will ask for a more formal proposal which describes the relevance, scope and contribution of the debate, including the different positions of the respective authors on the issue or topic and the proposed outcome of the debate.Editorial Comments
This section is exclusive to the editors of the Journal.Technical paper
Describes and evaluates technical products, processes or services.Bibliographic Review
Bibliometric studies.Insights
This section for invited short papers - experience scholars. Editorial team will invite some experience scholars for publishing purpose.Copyright Notice
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms: the author(s) authorize(s) the publication of the text in the journal;
The author(s) ensure(s) that the contribution is original and unpublished and that it is not in the process of evaluation by another journal;
The journal is not responsible for the views, ideas and concepts presented in articles, and these are the sole responsibility of the author(s);
The publishers reserve the right to make textual adjustments and adapt texts to meet with publication standards.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Atribuição NãoComercial 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which allows the work to be shared with recognized authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are allowed to assume additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g. publish in institutional repository or as a book chapter), with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are allowed and are encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on a personal web page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can generate positive effects, as well as increase the impact and citations of the published work (see the effect of Free Access) at http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Privacy Statement
- The content of the articles is the sole responsibility of the authors.
- The total or partial reproduction of the content of the articles is allowed, provided the source is mentioned.
- Articles with plagiarism will be refused, and the author of the plagiarism will lose the right to publish in this magazine.
- The names and addresses informed in this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and are not available for other purposes or to third parties.
- Once you submit the articles, the authors give the copyright of their articles to the JPB. If you regret the submission, the author has the right to ask the JPB not to publish his article. However, this request must occur within two months before the release of the number that the article will be published.
- The JPB uses the Creative Commons CC BY license. Information about this license can be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/