Author Guidelines
1. The journal receives submissions for evaluation continuously.
2. Texts submitted to MODOS Journal must be at least four thousand words and cannot exceed the limit of ten thousand words (reviews and texts about exhibition montage must have between three and five thousand words), including notes and bibliographic references. Originals need to be typed in WinWord, Times New Roman, font size 12, 1.5 times line space, A4 portrait format (we do not accept landscape format). The contribution should be original. The title should be centralized, in lower case and in bold. Below, on the right, follows the author’s name. Information about affiliation, acknowledgment of research sponsorship and email address should be included in the first footnote.
3. Images, if applicable, should be inserted into the main body of the text, and additionally sent as complimentary file in.JPG format, with a resolution of at least 200 dpi. When reusing previously published material (including texts, graphs, tables, figures or any other material), valid copyright legislature should be followed and the source cited.
4. Every text submitted should be accompanied by an abstract with no more than 200 words and five key-words in Portuguese and English. The authors should also send the title in Portuguese and in English, and title should clearly express the general content of the article. The abstract should contain the objective of the work, the methods, the results, and in some cases, the conclusion.
5. The footnotes should be succinct. Information about authors cited should not be done in footnotes, but be included in the main body of the text. Citations should contain the name of the author, followed by the date of the publication and page number, separated by colon.
Example: According to Foster (2004: 05), a measurement that had large dissemination...
Giving a discontinuous character to the knowledge about the past (Ricoeur, 2007: 407).
6. In-text citations of up to three lines should be marked by double quotation marks. Citations with more than three lines should start in the next line with 4 cm from the left margin, without quotation marks, with simple space between lines and with font size 11.
7. The use of italics should be limited to foreign words and titles of works; bold should not be used in the text or footnotes; underline should be avoided, except in URL addresses.
8. The work should be clear and coherent in the expositions of ideas and style, observing the correct use of language. We suggest that the work is revised for language and grammar use before submission to the journal.
9. Research involving human beings should mandatorily have been approved by a research ethics committee, according to the directions and norms of the 0196/96 Resolution. Authors should insert a digital copy of the declaration of approval by the ethics committee of their institution.
10. Bibliographic references are based on the ABNT NBR 6023:2018. They should be allocated at the end of the text. We will not accept referencing undergraduate dissertations and non-published texts (e.g. class notes).
11. A two-year period must be observed between submissions by the same author, whether the previous manuscript has been accepted or rejected.
12.We recommend that you read the journal's About the Journal to avoid errors and inadequacies in your submission:
https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/mod/about
As part of the process of submission, the authors should verify that the article follows all the items below. Submissions that do not follow the norms will be sent back to the authors.