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Editorial Procedures
The journal accepts original articles accompanied by a letter signed by all authors identifying the type of article (Original / Review / Essay / Communication / Translation). The letter should also state that the manuscript is only being submitted to the journal Transinformação and transfer the copyrights to the journal.
The letter should contain the name, address, telephone numbers and e-mails of the authors and indicate the address for correspondence.
Studies with human beings must include a copy of the Research Ethics Committee’s approval. Additionally, the last paragraph of the Methods section should contain the approval protocol number and date. If this is not possible, include in the Methods section the ethical procedures used in the study.
If the manuscript contains figures or tables published elsewhere, the authors must include a document authorizing their use.
The authors may, instead, indicate three referees to assess their manuscript.
Reformulated version
The author is requested to send only the last reformulated version of the manuscript to the site <http://www.puc-campinas.edu.br/periodicocientifico>. Underline the changes made to the manuscript and a letter should be attached reiterating the author’ interest in publishing in this Journal, indicating what changes were made to the manuscript. If the referees disagree, the author is asked to offer arguments that justify their position. If the author do not send the revised manuscript and the letter within the deadline, the editorial process will be terminated, regardless of the phase it is in.
Proofs: proofs will be sent to the authors for the correction of printing mistakes. Proofs must be returned to the Editorial Center by the stipulated deadline. Other changes to the manuscript will not be accepted during this phase.
The manuscripts should contain
Title page (only part of the text identifying the authors)
a) Full title - should be concise avoiding excess words, such as "assessment of...", "considerations about...", "exploratory study…".
b) Short title with at most forty characters (including spaces) in Portuguese or Spanish, and English or French.
c) Full name of all authors indicating the institutional affiliation of each one. Only one title and affiliation will be accepted per author. The authors must, therefore, choose among their titles and institutional affiliations.
Observation: if there is no institutional bond, please inform professional activity, city and state.
d) All title and affiliation data should be written in full, no abbreviations are accepted.
e) Include full addresses of all universities the authors have ties with.
f) Include full address of the corresponding author when there is more than one for correspondence regarding the manuscript, including fax and telephone numbers and e-mail(s).
Another observation
Abstract: all articles submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or French should have an abstract in the original language and one in English. The abstracts should have at least 150 words and at most 250 words.
The articles submitted in English should contain an abstract, title and keywords in Portuguese and in English.
The abstract should contain the objective of the study, the methodological procedures, the results in certain cases and the conclusions.
The text should not contain citations and acronyms. Provide from 3 to 6 keywords using Information Sciences descriptors – Docutes - <http://eprints.rclis.org/bitstream/10760/5875/1/TESAURO_DOCUTES.pdf>.
Text: except for Reviews, Essays and Communications, all manuscripts must follow the formal structure for scientific studies:
Introduction: should contain a review of the current literature pertinent to the theme and appropriate to the presentation of the problem, emphasizing its relevance. It should not be extensive except for Reviews.
Methods: should contain a clear and compact description of the method used, including the study techniques and procedures, and, if applicable, the statistical treatment.
Regarding the statistical analysis, the authors should demonstrate that the procedures used were appropriate, contributing to the interpretation of the results.
Results: whenever possible, they should be presented in tables or figures, be self-explanatory and contain statistical analyses. Please avoid repeating data in the text.
Tables, charts and figures should have a brief title, total no more than five, and be numbered with Arabic numbers consecutively and independently according to the order in which they were mentioned in the text. They should be submitted in separate and individual sheets and the manuscript should indicate their location in the text. The location and year of the study must be included in their titles. Charts and tables should have open sides.
The author is responsible for figure quality (drawings, illustrations, tables, charts and graphs). Their sizes should occupy one or two columns (7 or 15cm wide, respectively). The landscape format is not accepted. Digital figures should be in jpeg format and have a minimum resolution of 400 dpi.
Graphs and drawings should be created in vector design software (Microsoft Excel, CorelDraw X5, Adobe Photoshop CS6, SPSS v.10.0), followed by their quantitative parameters in tables with the name of all variables.
The publication of color images after assessment of technical viability will be paid by the author. If the author request, the journal Transinformação will provide a quote which may vary according to the number of images, image location (different pages), and the concomitant publication of color images by other author(s).
Discussion: should discuss the results in an appropriate and objective manner and compare them with other literature data.
Conclusion: present the relevant conclusions considering the objectives of the work and make suggestions for further investigations. Bibliographical citations will not be accepted in this section.
Acronyms: should be standardized and restricted to those used conventionally or sanctioned by use, followed by the full meaning the first time they appear in the text. They should not be used in the title and abstract.
Acknowledgments: may be done in a paragraph no longer than three lines and be directed to institutions or individuals who effectively collaborated with the study.
Attachments: should be included only when critical for the understanding of the text. The editors will decide if they should be published.
Text citations based on NBR 10520/2002
Bibliographical citations in the text should be included in the list of references.
Citations/references to undergraduate monographs and unpublished texts (classes, among others) will not be accepted.
If the unpublished work of one of the authors of the manuscript is cited (that is, an in-press article), the author must include the letter from the journal accepting to publish the article.
If unpublished data obtained by other researchers are cited, please include a letter authorizing its use.
Specific cases
1) Literal citations of up to three lines: in quotes, not in italic, followed by, (Name of author, date, page, no space between period and number) in parentheses. The period should be placed after the closing parenthesis.
2) Literal citations with more than three lines must be in a separate paragraph, with a left margin of 4cm, using single space between the lines, smaller font than that of the text, without quotes, without italic, ending on the right margin of the text, followed by, in parenthesis, the last name of the author, date and page.
3) Many authors cited in sequence: use the chronological order in which the documents were published separated by a semicolon: (Crespo, 2005; Costa; Ramalho, 2008; Moresi et al., 2010).
4) Texts with two authors: Crippa and Bisoffi (2010) (in the body of the text); (Crippa; Bisoffi, 2010) (within parentheses).
5) Texts with three or more authors: (Griselda et al., 2009) (within parentheses) and Griselda et al. (2009) (outside parentheses).
6) Citations of the same author published in the same year: add a lower-case letter after the date without spacing. Example: (Morin, 2000a, 2000b).
References
References are based on NBR-6023/2002. The references should be limited to 30 for articles but Reviews may have as many as 50. They should be ordered alphabetically according to the last name of the first author.
Specific cases
1) Journal titles should be written in full.
2) References with coinciding authors and dates should be ordered according to the title of the work and a lower-case letter is added after the date, without spacing.
3) In references with three or more authors, only the first author should be indicated followed by the expression et al.
The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy and appropriateness of the references to studies that have been consulted and mentioned in the body of the manuscript.
For other examples, please refer to the ABNT-NBR-6023/2002 norms.
Examples
Article with one author
ELLIS, D. A behavioural approach to information retrieval system design. Journal of Documentation, v.43, n.3, p.171-212, 1989.
Article with two authors
XIE, B.; BUGG, J. M. Public library computer training for older adults to access high-quality internet health information. Library and Information Science Research, v.31, n.3, p.155-162, 2009.
Article in electronic media
WILLIS, J.J.; MATROFSKI, S.D.; WEISBURD, D. Making sense of COMSPTAT: a theory-based analysis of organizational change in three police departments. Law & Society Review, v.41, n.1, p.147-188, 2007. Available from: <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00294.x/abstract>. Cited: Feb. 28, 2013.
Book
ALLEMANG, D.; HENDLER, J. Semantic web for the working ontologist: effective modeling in RDFS and OWL. 2nd ed. Amsterdan: Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
Book in electronic media
LEE, R.; KIM, H.K. (Ed.). Computer and information science. Berlin: Springer, 2008. Available from: <http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-79187-4/page/1#>. Cited: Mar. 1, 2013.
Book chapters
MILLER, D.H. User perception and the online catalogue: public library OPAC users think aloud. In: McILWAINE, I.A.C. (Ed.). Knowledge organization and the global information society - ISKO. London: Ergon Verlag, 2004. p.275-280.
Book chapter in electronic media
COPELAND, B.J. Computation. In: FLORIDI, L. The blackwell guide to the philosophy of computing and information. Malden: Blackwell, 2004. p.1-17. Available from: <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470757017>. Cited: Feb. 28, 2013.
Dissertations and theses
THOMPSON, H.A. The significance and use of historical method in library and information science dissertations, 1984-1999. 2000. Dissertation (Master of Library and Information Science) - Kent State University, Kent, 2000.
Works presented in congresses, seminars etc.
WANG, X.; LIU, J. Usability evaluation of B2C web site. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING AND MOBILE COMPUTING, 3., 2007, Shanghai. Proceedings… Washington: IEEE, 2007. p.3837-3840.
Works presented in congresses, seminars etc. in electronic media
USKOV, V.; USKOVA, M. Applications of telecommunications in education: National Science Foundation projects on advanced technological and online education in information engineering technology. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, 10., 2003, Papeete. Eletronic proceedings... Washington: IEEE, 2003. p.1701-1708. Available from: <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1191689>. Cited: Mar. 1, 2013.
Text in electronic media
YEN, D.H. The Johari Window: the process of human interaction. 1999. Available from: <http://www.noogenesis.com/game_theory/johari/johari_window.html>. Cited: Mar. 1, 2013.
Checklist
- Declaration of responsibility and transfer of the copyrights signed by each author.
- Verify if the information in the legends of figures and tables is complete.
- Prepare a cover page with the requested information.
- Include the name of the sponsors and process number.
- Indicate if the article is based on a thesis/dissertation and include in the footnote the title, name of institution and year of defense.
- Authors should indicate the article´s category: Original / Review / Essay / Communication / Tradution.
- Copy of the Research Ethics Committee approval.
- Include the title of the manuscript in Portuguese, Spanish or French and in English.
- Include the short title with a maximum of forty characters which will be placed on the footnote of all pages.
- Verify if all references are cited in the text.
- Include permission of editors for the reproduction of figures and tables that have been published elsewhere.
Documents
Declaration of responsibility and transfer of the copyrights
Each author should read and sign the documents (1) Declaration of Responsibility and (2) Transfer of Copyrights, which should include:
- Title of the manuscript:
- Full name of all authors (in the same order as they appear in the manuscript).
- Author responsible for the negotiations:
1. Declaration of responsibility: all people listed as authors should sign declarations of responsibility in the following terms:
- "I certify that I participated in the conception of the work and make public my responsibility for its content, and that I did not omit any financial relationships or agreements among the authors and companies that may benefit from the publication of this article".
- "I certify that the manuscript is original and the work, in part or in full, or any other work with substantially similar content of my authorship was not sent to another journal and will not be sent to another journal while its publication is being considered by Transinformação, whether in print or electronic format".
2. Transfer of the copyrights: "I declare that if the article is accepted for publication by the journal Transinformação, that the journal Transinformação will be the exclusive owner of its copyrights and any partial or full reproduction of the article anywhere else, in print or in electronic format, is forbidden unless previously authorized in writing by the abovementioned journal; if the authorization is granted, a statement will be added to the new article thanking the abovementioned journal".
Signature of the author(s) Date / /
Justification of the article
I emphasize that the main contribution of the study to the relevant area is the following:
(Write a paragraph justifying why the journal should publish your article, emphasizing its scientific relevance, contribution to the discussions in the relevant area affected by the aspect(s) of its originality and its consequent potential of being cited).
Given their competence in the study area, I indicate the name of the following three researchers that may act as referees of the manuscript. I also declare that there is no conflict of interests for this indication. |
