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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 article follows the standards and bibliographic requirements in “ Author Guidelines”
  • The text of the paper has undergone a detailed review, ensuring quality of writing. At the work there is a sufficiently clear exposure of the quantitative and or qualitative methods used in the article.
  • The submission file is in .doc extension and should not exceed 2MB.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication in any other journal. The article was not, published fully or partially, in the annals of conferences, meetings, symposiums and other events, otherwise, specify the annals and year of publication in "Comments Editor."
  • The identification of authorship of the work was based in the file and Properties option in Word, thus ensuring the criterion secrecy of the journal, if subjected to evaluation in pairs, as Ensuring instructions available in Blind Pairs Evaluation.

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

 Submitting articles and case studies on SCRIBES - Brazilian Journal of Management and Secretarial Studies is free of charge.

The articles must be submitted using the template in this link.

Attention: The template can be downloaded after logging in our platform.

 

Authorship

 A maximum number of 4 authors per article is allowed and all of them must have an account on SCRIBES’ website.

The authors’ names should be uploaded in a separate file, jointly with their email and a brief curriculum certifying their qualifications in the respective subject area.

A single author/co-author can feature in a maximum one article per year. Submitted articles must also be claimed and signed by Doctors, Masters, PhD and Master students, Postgraduates (MBA/Specialisation), Postgraduate students (MBA/Specialisation), Graduates, and Undergraduate students. Regarding these last four categories, when it comes to submitting a co-written article, it is of utmost importance that at least one of the authors has a PhD title.

 

Themes Explored in the Journal

 Secretarial Studies

  • Scientific Development of the Secretarial Field
  • Professional and Academic Majoring in Secretarial Science
  • Secretarial Science and the Work Environment
  • Management and Business Skills in Secretarial Science
  • Secretarial Science and Foreign Languages
  • Identity and Diversity in Secretarial Roles
  • Sustainability in Secretarial Roles

Organisational Studies

  • Historical approach to the development of Organisational Studies and related subjects
  • Culture, symbolism and collective imaginary (power, emotion management, discipline, employer-employee relationship, psycho-sociological perspective etc)
  • Employment of new epistemologies aimed at understanding organisations
  • Intercultural studies (interactions between national identities, mobility, foreign bodies inserted in a pre-established group, multicultural teams, different aspects of international careers etc)
  • Human behaviour in the work environment (violence, discriminations, abuse, suicide, etc.)
  • Organisation change
  • Management methods
  • Creative industries
  • Post-structuralist ethnographic studies
  • Postcolonial approach in studying organisations
  • The reach of management tools beyond their original purpose
  • Consumption and organisations
  • Institutional approach in Organisation Studies
  • Apprenticeship in organisations
  • Organisational behaviour
  • Symbolisms, culture, and organisational identities
  • Relational approach to organisations

 

Languages

Articles can be submitted in Portuguese, in English, in Spanish, and in French. However, there should always be English versions of its title, abstract, and keywords.

 

Formatting

The articles must be submitted using the template in this link.

 Page format: A-4 (29,7 x 21cm).

Margins: top: 3 cm; left: 3 cm; bottom: 2 cm; right: 2 cm.

Text editor: Word for Windows 6.0 or follow ups.

Font: Times New Roman, size 12.

Line spacing: 1,5.

Paragraph alignment: justified.

Articles must have between 15 to 22 pages and should not exceed 8000 words, including:

  • Title (in both original language, if applicable, and English)
  • Abstract and 3 keywords (in both original language, if applicable, and English)
  • Introduction
  • Theoretical Frame of Reference
  • Methodology
  • Findings and Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • References

 

Title and subtitle: both must be visible on the article’s front page. If a subtitle is present, it should feature separated by a colon (:) sign, in Portuguese and English.

Abstract: it should not exceed 1000 characters. Automatically translated abstracts into English are not accepted (such as Google-translated texts). The abstract must contain clear information on the paper’s objective, the theoretical frame of reference adopted, its main methodological considerations (when applicable) and the more relevant results.

Keywords: they must be divided by a semicolon.

Footnotes: they are not advised against but should be used with the least possible frequency, as we include our own during the editing process.

Sections: Home - Paragraph - Spacing - Before: 0 pt and After: 12 pt. Do not include any points/marks between number and text.

Charts, tables, graphs, illustrations must include their respective legends, as well as a citation of the original source. An identification number and designation should also feature on top of an illustration (Table no. 2). The author should be able to differentiate between tables and charts.

Citations and References: they must include all sources of all information cited in the text, as per the APA in-text citation style (American Psychological Association). We strongly recommend that authors read carefully the orientation on citations and references as provided by APA.

Articles

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Copyright Notice

Published authors agree on the following items:

 

a. Authors keep copyright ownership whilst ceding to SCRIBES the right to a first publication. The material is also simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence, which allows its publication with mutual recognition of authorship and initial publication through SCRIBES.

 

b. Authors are authorised to engage in third-party contracts independently, as long as they are pursuing a non-exclusive publication of the article originally published in this journal, such as having it appended to an institutional repository or included in a book as a chapter. Authorship and original publication by SCRIBES must still be acknowledged.

 

c. Authors have permission to and are encouraged to publish their research online, such as in institutional repositories or in their own personal web pages. They are allowed to do that before or after the editorial process, once it inspires any opportunistic alterations to be considered during the aforementioned process, and increase the content’s impact and value as a quotable work (read more on The Effect of Free Access).

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