Submissions

Author Guidelines

About Submission

I. Kant e-prints accepts for publication articles, essays, critical studies and reviews, in the following languages: Portuguese, Italian, English, French, Spanish or German, and translations in Portuguese or Spanish.

II. Kant e-prints accepts contributions from both professors and researchers who have a doctoral degree and from doctoral students.

• It is allowed the submission of only one contribution per author during the twelve-month period.

III. Contributions must be submitted exclusively through the Kant e-prints electronic system. In case of difficulties, the author should contact the Editorial Team.

IV. Contributions must be sent without any kind of identification of the author, ensuring the evaluation in a double-blind basis. The author must avoid using the first person when referring to personal works or any type of mention that allows the identification of authorship (such as thanks to researchers or acknowledgment of funding agencies, which should only be added in the “proofreading”). The author’s data – full name, email, affiliation (institution, city, country), and ORCID iD – are mandatory, but must appear only in the submission “steps”, not in the submission file.

V. Before sending the contribution to the referees, the Editorial team will verify the adequacy of the contribution to the journal’s Focus and Scope and to the rules determined in Author Guidelines, reserving the right to refuse manuscripts that do not conform to the journal's editorial standards.

VI. Manuscripts that conform to the journal’s editorial standards will be evaluated in a double-blind basis. After this process, the author will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript by the Editorial team, within 120 days (approximately).

VII. Once accepted for publication, the manuscript will be edited/revised and sent by the Editorial team by email, for the “proofreading” by the author. The verification of possible errors and omissions, as well as the confirmation of implemented changes and corrections suggested by the Editorial team must be carried out and returned by the same “proof” email sent by Kant e-Prints, within 15 days (additions to the text content won’t be accepted). All changes made by the author in the “proofreading” must be indicated in red font in the text, and the manuscript file must be sent both in doc./docx. and in PDF. After the “proofreading”, the manuscript cannot be revised nor can it undergo any type of alteration by the author(s).

• Kant e-prints is not responsible for errors or omissions present in the manuscript after the “proofreading”, and strongly recommends that, until this stage (i.e., before sending the final version of the manuscript for publication), authors submit their texts to linguistic and editing experts for a final revision of the manuscript (verification of pages, dates, names of cited authors and translations; standardization of references; improvements in writing; correction of errors in relation to the standard of the language in which the manuscript is written, etc.).

VIII. The author of a manuscript accepted for publication may be called upon to make corrections, at any time, prior to its effective publication on the Kant e-prints website, and must respond to all requests from the Editorial team.

• At each stage prior to publication on the journal’s website, the manuscript accepted by Kant e-Prints remains under the appreciation of the editorial coordinators and technical reviewers and, if any previously unnoticed flaw is identified (that is, not corrected by the author until the “proofreading”), in order not to affect the publication of the corresponding volume, the Editorial team reserves the right to: 1) implement the formal corrections necessary for publication (only those relating to grammatical/linguistic correction, style and norms stipulated in the Author Guidelines); 2) resend the manuscript for immediate correction by the author; or 3) suspend the publication of the manuscript, until the journal’s requests are met.

IX. The authors take full responsibility for the ideas, statements and opinions expressed in the manuscripts. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material for which he or she does not have copyrights and for ensuring that proper acknowledgements are included in the manuscript.

X. After publication, if the Kant e-prints Editorial team is informed about plagiarism, self-plagiarism or identifies any infringement of intellectual property, such as insufficiency or lack of recognition, inclusion of third-party material without the proper copyrights, or authorship of the article is disputed, the Editorial team, once the nature of the illegal act has been proven, reserves the right to take the following actions (alone or in concomitance): publish errata or correction; exclude the manuscript from the published edition; ban the author from publications in the journal; notify the researcher’s institution or funding agency to take appropriate actions; being reserved to the Publisher of the Kant e-prints (CLE/State University of Campinas) the right to file a lawsuit against the author for any damages suffered.

Guidelines for preparing the manuscript

1. Style

The text must be formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, justified alignment; the end of a paragraph and the beginning of another must be indicated by an "enter" and a "tab".

Foreign words (to the language in which the article is written), variables, Greek characters, as well as book titles must be in italics.

Titles of books, journals or names of literary or artistic works must be in italics (example: Critique of practical reason; A Semântica Transcendental de Kant). In the case of section titles or book chapters, the main words of the title must be capitalized (example: Transcendental Doctrine of Method; Transcendental Dialectic). If abbreviations are used, they must be informed in the first relevant footnote.

The illustrations (figures, graphics, tables, etc.) must be inserted in the text, not at the end of the document in the form of attachments.

The contribution must be typed in A4 format. URLs for the references should be provided when possible. It uses italics instead of underlining (except in URL addresses).

Articles should contain a maximum of 12,000 words, including bibliographical references and notes. They must present sequentially: a) Title; b) Abstract (maximum 150 words); c) Keywords (3 to 6, separated by semicolons); d) Body of the text; e) References. Items a), b) and c) must come in the original language in which the article is written, accompanied by an English version. Articles originally written in English must be accompanied by title, abstract and keywords in one of the other languages ​​accepted for publication.

Essays do not obey pre-established sizes. Such textual genre must be guided according to its logic of presentation and writing, combining the freedom of thought and the intellectual capacity of the author to work on ideas with a high level of comprehension.

Critical studies must contain a maximum of 6,000 words and follow the other rules for presenting articles; must discuss an article or topic published in Kant e-prints, no more than one year ago; a review of current philosophical work is also accepted (in the latter case, the complete reference of the work must be indicated in the title).

Reviews must contain a maximum of 3,000 words and must be from works currently published, preferably up to four years after the date of submission of the reviewed text; must present at the beginning of the text the complete reference of the work reviewed; it must not be accompanied by notes; if there are references, they must come at the end of the collaboration.

Translations must be from classical Kant texts translated into Portuguese or Spanish, preferably accompanied by a presentation or study on the translated text; translations of articles or texts of relevance to specific discussions about Kant’s philosophy will also be accepted, in which case they must be accompanied by an authorization dated and signed by the person or institution responsible for the copyright of the translated text, in case of an eventual publication (the editor will verify the philosophical relevance of the translation, since Kant e-prints values ​​the originality and novelty of the production).

2. References

All works cited in the text (only those actually cited) must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript, under the heading “References”, with single spacing and an “enter” between the referenced works, following the updated rules of American Psychological Association (APA Style).

Book

Surname, N. (Date). Title of book. (N. and Surname, Trans.; edition, volume). Publisher Name.

Allison, H. (2004). Kant’s transcendental idealism: An interpretation and defense (Rev. and enl. ed.). Yale University Press.

Beck, L. W. (1996). A commentary on Kant’s critique of practical reason (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1960).

Paton, H. J. (2013). Kant’s metaphysic of experience: A commentary on the first half of the kritik der reinen Vernunft: Vol. 2. Routledge. (Original work published 1936).

Chapter in an edited book

Surname, N. (Date). Title of chapter. In N. Surname (Ed.). Title of book. (N. and Surname, Trans.; edition, volume, page range). Publisher Name.

Friedman, M. (2017). Kant’s conception of causal necessity and its legacy. In A. Breitenbach & M. Massimi (Eds.), Kant and the laws of nature (pp. 195–213). Cambridge University Press.

Gerhardt, V. (2009). Die Menschheit in der Person des Menschen. Zur Anthropologie der menschlichen Würde bei Kant. In H. F. Klemme (Hrsg.), Kant und die Zukunft der europäischen Aufklärung (pp. 269–291). Walter de Gruyter.

Stark, W. (2015). Moraltheologie und Cosmologischer Beweis. Hinweise und Überlegungen zu einer übersehenen Reflexion von Immanuel Kant. In P. Kauark-Leite, G. Cecchinato, V. de A. Figueiredo, M. Ruffing, & A. Serra (Eds.). Kant and the Metaphors of Reason (pp. 227–241). Georg Olms Verlag.

Periodical

Surname, N. (Date). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume(issue), page range. DOI or URL.

Borges, M. (2010, jul.-dez.). Kant on women and morality [número especial]. Kant e-Prints [série 2], 5(3), 162–168. https://www.cle.unicamp.br/eprints/index.php/kant-e-prints/article/view/409/311

Morrison, M. (1989). Methodological rules in Kant’s philosophy of science. Kant-Studien, 80(2), 155–172. https://doi.org/10.1515/kant.1989.80.1-4.155

Zammito, J. (2008). A text of two titles: Kant’s ‘A renewed attempt to answer the question: “Is the human race continually improving?’” Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 39(4), 535–545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2008.09.004

Dissertation and Thesis

Surname, N. (Date). Title of dissertation or thesis [Doctoral dissertation or Master’s thesis, Name of Institution Awarding the Degree]. Database Name. URL.

Frierson, P. R. (2001). Anthropology and freedom in Kant’s moral philosophy: Saving Kant from Schleiermacher's dilemma [Master’s thesis, University of Notre Dame]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

DOI or URLs for references should be provided when possible.

Be consistent in presentation of the “References" list, follow the punctuation carefully, and use APA Style only. Cases not listed above should be checked in: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020).

3. Quotations

Paraphrases must follow the author-date system:

• Lewis (1983) points out...
• …it is an argument against transcendental realism (see Allison, 2004).

For more details, follow a comma after the date:

• In Kuehn’s perspective (2001, p. 11)...
• As Cassirer (1918/1981, pp. 274-276) argued ...
• Frege’s second definition of numbers (1884, §§ 62-64) failed ...

Direct quotation with less than 40 words (short), into the text, must be enclosed in double quotation marks. The citation reference must follow the author-date-page system and appear at the end of the cited text (outside the quotation marks); the punctuation mark that concludes the sentence must always come after the reference:

• “...” (Beck, 1960/1996, pp. 223–227).
• As Velkley states, “...” (1989, p. 44).
• In the Preface to the Phenomenology of the Spirit, Hegel (2011) says that: “...” (p. 27).

Direct quotation with 40 words or more (long), must be displayed separated from the text with a space of one line before and after the quotation, without quotation marks before and after; it must be typed in font size 11, single spaced and indented to the left of 1,27cm.

For classic works published in critical/academic editions, in addition to the reference system mentioned above, an abbreviation of the title of the work can be used instead of the publication date, followed by an indication of the volume and pagination of the critical/academic edition of the author’s work. In this case, the abbreviations and the citation standard used must be indicated in the first relevant footnote.

Kant’s works must be referenced exclusively according to the Academy Edition (Akademie-Ausgabe). References to the Academy Edition must be given by the abbreviation of the title of the work, prepared by Kant-Forschungsstelle der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, available at https://www.philosophie.fb05.uni-mainz.de, followed by the volume and the page number of the Academy Edition, for example: Prol, 4: 365; KU, 5: 378; OP, 21: 191 (without any prefix such as ‘AK’ or ‘AA’). For the Critique of Pure Reason (KrV), the conventional “A” and “B” corresponding to the first and second edition of the work, followed by pagination (e.g.: KrV, A 68 / B 93), is sufficient. It is not allowed to use the author-date-page system for Kant's works (e.g.: Kant, 2011, p. 15), nor to mix two reference standards according to the translation/edition used. In this sense, for example, instead of a reference coming in the form ‘(GMS, 4: 393; Kant, 2011, p. 15)’, it would suffice to quote ‘(GMS, 4: 393)’. Due recognition of the translation/edition used must be indicated in the ‘References’ or footnotes.

Double quotation marks should be used for direct quotations, to indicate a special use or informal language. Single quotation marks should be used to indicate a quote within another quote enclosed in double quotation marks.

4. Notes

Footnotes should be brief and used sparingly, providing additional content (substantive information or clarification). Footnotes must not be used for direct quotations or citation references. Footnote calls must come right after the punctuation mark (except dashes), and must be indicated in Arabic numerals, superscripts, located at the bottom of the same page where the numerical call occurs, in ascending order; notes must be formatted in Times New Roman, size 10, justified alignment and single spaced.

5. Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments to funding agencies or any people who supported the work (but did not qualify for authorship) should be added to the manuscript (after the evaluation stage). Acknowledgements must be indicated in a footnote (*), following the author’s name.

In case of doubt, the authors should follow the rules that appear in the last published editions or contact the Editorial team.

6. ORCID Registration

As a way of standardizing authorship, the Kant e-prints Committee made it mandatory to include the iD of the ORCID at the time of submission. After the first review, before forwarding for evaluation, the manuscripts that do not have the ORCID informed in the system will be notified for the inclusion of the identifier registration, and should contain at the time of registration, information on academic background and employment (employment, if any).

The ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at: https://orcid.org/register. 

You must accept the standards for submitting ORCID iD, and include the full URL, accompanied by the expression "http://" (for example: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097). See here for the registration tutorial. ORCID registration is mandatory for all authors. On the platform you can directly enter the ORCID connection, thus allowing your connection to be validated by the system.

Last updated: August 31, 2021