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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is space 1,5; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The file must not contain any identification: either within the text or in the file properties (in Microsoft Word: “File” → “Inspect Document” → “Document Properties and Personal Information” >> check Remove All >> “Inspect”).
  • All authors and co-authors must be registered with the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). Free registration to generate an ORCID ID is available at https://orcid.org.

Author Guidelines

INFORME ECONÔMICO (UFPI) accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Authors will receive feedback from each review round within a maximum of sixty (60) days after submission. Texts may be submitted in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. The journal accepts theoretical or empirical scientific articles, essays, and book reviews. ​Authorship as a maximum of five (5) authors is allowed per submission; all authors must be registered as users and REVIEWERS (the editors reserve the right to assign them peer-review tasks at their discretion). Submissions are accepted exclusively through the journal's official website. The submitted file must be completely free of any author identification. Authors should use the standards found in publications from “vol. 40” onwards, as a formatting reference:

​Formatting for Articles and Essays

1. ​Length minimum of 5,000 and maximum of 12,000 words, including all elements of the submission.

2. Font Times New Roman, spacing 1.5 spacing, size 12 for the main text, footnotes size 10 (single-spaced, numbered, placed at the bottom of the page) and Block Quotations over 3 lines (size 10, single-spaced, no quotation marks, with a 4 cm left indent), page setup A4 format, margins Top/Bottom: 3 cm; Left/Right: 2 cm, justified alignment.

3. The title page must include a title (max. 15 words, centered, bold), an abstract (max. 200 words), and 3 to 5 keywords in both Portuguese and English. For texts submitted in languages other than Portuguese, the abstract and keywords in the foreign language must appear before the Portuguese version.

4. Tables, figures, illustrations, and the like must be embedded within the text, not at the end. They must be numbered and include captions and source citations (size 10).

5. Section and subsection titles must be bold and numbered, except for introduction, conclusion, and references.

6. Foreign words must be italicized.

7. If it contains appendices and annexes, it must appear before the references.

8. ​A complete list must be provided at the end of the article, in alphabetical order, following ABNT standards.

​Formatting for Book Reviews

1. ​Only reviews of COMPLETE books within the field of Applied Social Sciences.

2. Length minimum of 2,000 and maximum of 5,000 words, including references.

3. Times New Roman font, 1.5 spacing, size 12, A4 format, margins: Top/Bottom: 3 cm; Left/Right: 2 cm, justified alignment, quotations exceeding three lines are not permitted in reviews.

4. The initial page must contain the title (max. 15 words, centered, bold) followed by the full bibliographic reference of the reviewed work and its total page count.

 

​Textual Review and ABNT Standards

​Spelling check, grammar, style, and ABNT compliance are the sole responsibility of the authors. Following peer review, if adjustments are required regarding only grammatical, spelling, or formatting aspects, the Editorial Team reserves the right to perform them through its Language professionals, while respecting the authors' style. In all other cases, authors are responsible for revising the text according to the Editorial Team's instructions.

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The journal does not pay royalties to the authors of published texts.

The copyright holder of the journal is the Department of Economic Sciences of the Federal University of Piauí (Universidade Federal do Piauí - UFPI).

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