Submissions

Author Guidelines

All submissions must be made using our online submission system, available at http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/urbe-scielo.

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The submission must be in accord to all norms and layout provided by the templates available online for download in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Urbe receives scientific articles including theoretical and empirical studies related to general urban issues, and specifically, to the urban management, establishing itself as a plural space to discuss the several contributions associated with the theme.

As a part of the submission process, authors must check compliance of the submission with all items listed below. Submissions in disagreement with the standards will be returned to the respective authors.

1. The contribution is original and unpublished and is not being assessed for publication by another magazine; otherwise, the fact must be justified in "Comments to the editor".
2. The file to be submitted must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format.
3. URLs to the references were informed when possible.
4. The text uses simple spacing; a 12-point font; italic instead of underlined (except in URLs); figures and tables are included in the text, rather than at the end of the document as attachments.
5. The text must follow the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for Authors, on the page About the Magazine.
6. In case of the submission of a section with peer review (e.g., articles), the instructions available on Ensuring blind peer review must be followed.

All submissions must be made using our online submission system, available at http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/urbe-scielo.

Urbe accepts scientific articles with theoretical and empirical studies of issues related to urban management but also to the broader field of urban studies, promoting an interdisciplinary debate on urban management using research outcomes as well as theoretical and empirical discussions from diverse thematic areas.

EDITORIAL POLICY

a) Papers must be submitted through our online system, available at http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/urbe-scielo. We will not accept submissions by e-mail.

b) Articles are firstly analyzed by editors and, if they follow the norms for publication and are considered aligned to the thematic areas of interest, they follow a double-blind reviewing process in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are concealed from both parties.

c) Referees will assess papers according journal’s norms, considering four possible results:
    (1) Accepted without revisions;
    (2) Accepted subject to minor revisions;
    (3) Accepted subject to major revisions;
    (4) Rejected.

d) The editors and referees reserve the right to suggest changes and amendments to the originals, in order to keep the quality of the publication, respecting, however, the style and the opinions of the authors. Statements, opinions and concepts expressed in the articles are authors’ entire responsibility.

e) The submission of the paper to urbe implicate the acceptance, by the author, of the norms expressed herein, as well as in the authorization for their publication.

f) The papers are published under Creative Commons License, attribution-type BY, that allows "others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation" (Creative Commons, 2013).

MANUSCRIPT STYLE

Style and convention Presentation

The manuscript should be submitted in Word file (.docx) or OpenOffice (.odt), and it must follow all norms and layout available in the template bellow. The file must be saved directly into your computer to be editable.

Choose desired language for download (template):  Portuguese  |  English  |  Spanish 

Papers must be between 5,000 and 8,000 words. The original document should not contain any authors’ identification. Autorship information (highest title, institutional affiliation and complete address) will be requested during the process of online submission.

The first page of the document must present: title in the paper’s original language and in Portuguese; abstract and key-words.

The main body of the article must follow the first page, without any reference to the authors or their institutions.

Abstract

Authors must provide two abstracts, being one in its first and original language (English, French or Spanish) and a second in Portuguese. When the paper is written in Spanish or French, it is necessary to provide three abstracts: one in the original language, one in Portuguese and another in English. The essential contents of each article should be outlined in an abstract with up to 200 words. In the last line, 3 to 5 keywords must be indicated, separated by comas.

Figures and Tables

Figures and tables must be submitted in our online system.

Graphic materials (illustrations, drawings, etc.) must be mentioned as “figure”, and should have a resolution of 300dpi. Accepted formats are jpg or tif. Figures and tables must be presented with their respective captions. Titles must be inserted on the top of figures and tables. Sources for figures and tables must be concise and inserted on its lower part. The expressions “Figure below/above” or “Table following” must not be used as they may be located differently from their original positions.

Quotations and References

The American Psychological Association – APA’s norms must be adopted in the manuscript’s quotations and references. Examples are available in the template model for download at the top of this page.

Quotations should follow the author-date system, and references must be placed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order organized by author’s surnames. Authors not quoted in the manuscript must not be listed in the references.

If an author was quoted for more than one work, chronological order should be used to organize publications from oldest to newest.  In case of doubt or omitted norms, one should give preference to APA’s norms listed on the American Psychological Association. Observe given examples in our template model available for download at the top of this page. 

Enquiries can be forwarded to [email protected] (please do not attempt to submit articles via e-mail, see the top of this page how to make an online submission).