Author Guidelines

General Guidelines (for articles and article translations):

  • Authors should be MA students co-authored by their advisers, doctorate students, or holders of MA or PhD degrees.  Their profile forms must be fully filled out in the journal system, including the link to their Lattes CV and orcid account.
  • Submissions must adhere to these standards: A4 page size, 12 pt size Arial font, 1.5 line spacing, and 2.5cm page margins (right, left, top, bottom).
  • Submissions should not include the name(s) of the author(s), nor any indication in the body of the text that makes it possible to identify them. If the author’s surname is in the body of the text or in References, replace it with the word ‘author.’ In the case of translations, the name of the translator should not be indicated in the text.
  • For a wider diversity of themes and academic reach of the journal, an author can make only one submission per year, regardless of whether he appears as an author or co-author.

Guidelines for Articles:

  • Articles should be 15 to 20 pages in length, including appendices.
  • The title should be in single line spacing, font size 14 pt, centered and bold. Only the first letter of the title should be capitalized (except for proper nouns).  In the next line, the English version of the title should be indicated.
  • The abstract should have 100 to 150 words, font size 12 pt and be single line spaced. It should be written in Portuguese and in English. In case the manuscript is written in English, French or Spanish, the abstract should be written in the foreign language and in Portuguese. The term SUMÁRIO (ABSTRACT, RESUMEN or RÉSUMÉ) should be bold, capitalized and followed by a colon.
  • The keywords, in Portuguese and in the foreign language, must have the same formatting as the abstract. The term PALAVRAS-CHAVE (KEYWORDS, PALABRAS CLAVE or MOTS CLEFS) should be bold, capitalized and followed by a colon. There should be 3 to 5 words, which are separated from each other by a period (ABNT NBR 6028).
  • After the presentation of the Abstract and the Keywords, their translation (RESUMO and PALAVRAS-CHAVE) should be presented, using the same type of formatting.
  • If the article is written in English, the author should present the Abstract and the Keywords as well as their translation, i.e., Resumo and Palavras-chave. If the article is written in French or Spanish, besides presenting the abstract and the keywords in the language of the text, the author should also present their translation into Portuguese and English.
  • Every section title, which includes the Introduction (or another equivalent subtitle) and the Conclusion (or another equivalent subtitle), are numbered without the period after the numeral. They must be in font size 12 pt, bold, and only the first letter of the subtitle should be capitalized (except for proper nouns).  
  • Articles based on a dissertation or thesis must mention the research in the abstract and introduction, and the bibliographic reference of the dissertation or thesis must be presented in References. Moreover, the text should dialogue with the thesis or dissertation, not being a simple extract of it.
  • Articles that analyze data that involve human beings must present the approval process number of the Ethics Committee of the author’s institution (Resolution No. 510/2016 of Brazil’s National Health Council).
  • In case the article uses images (from the internet, books, screen shots of films, etc.), the author(s) must send the permission of use (given by those who hold their rights) to the editors of Odisseia via email. No articles with images will be published if the permission for their use is not sent to Odisseia.
  • Images, tables or graphics that accompany the text must appear inside the document in the space provided and be sent in separate files in case of formatting problems.
  • Articles that use phonetic symbols should use True Type fonts.
  • Citations and references must follow ABNT NBR 10520 and NBR 6023 guidelines, respectively. Citations with indentation must have 11 pt font size, and footnotes, 10 pt. Do not use idem, ibidem, or op. cit.
  • References of articles that have free access on the Internet should bring the direct link to the articles (not the site address of the journal) and the date they were accessed.
  • When citing the title of a work in the manuscript and in References, use italics (not bold). As in the References (NBR 6023), do not use italics or quotation marks for subtitles, titles of chapters and articles.
  • Works that are collections of essays by the same author or chapters by different authors should not be generally referenced. Each essay or chapter should be referenced separately.

Here are some examples of references that are frequently used in academic articles found in ABNT NBR 6023/2018 (2nd edition):

Book

GOMES, A. C.; VECHI, C. A. Estática romântica: textos doutrinários comentados. Tradução Maria Antonia Simões Nunes, Duílio Colombini. São Paulo: Atlas, 1992.

BAVARESCO, A.; BARBOSA, E.; ETCHEVERRY, K. M. (org.). Projetos de filosofia. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, 2011. E-book. Disponível em: http ://ebooks.pucrs.br/edipucrs/projetosdefilosofia.pdf. Acesso em: 21 ago. 2011.

Book chapter

ROMANO, Giovanni. Imagens da juventude na era moderna. In: LEVI, G.; SCHMIDT, J. (org.). História dos jovens 2: a época contemporânea. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1996. p. 7-16.

Thesis or dissertation

COELHO, Ana Cláudia. Fatores determinantes de qualidade de vida física e mental em pacientes com doença pulmonar intersticial: uma análise multifatorial. 2009. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Médicas) – Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2009.
Disponível em: http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/16359/000695147.pdf?sequence=1. Acesso em: 4 set. 2009.

Chapter of thesis or dissertation

RODRIGUES, Ana Lúcia Aquilas. Aspectos éticos. In: RODRIGUES, Ana Lúcia Aquilas. Impacto de um programa de exercícios no local de trabalho sobre o nível de atividade física e o estágio de prontidão para a mudança de comportamento. 2009. Dissertação (Mestrado em Fisiopatologia Experimental) – Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2009. f. 19-20.

Article

RIBEIRO, P. S. G. Adoção à brasileira: uma análise sociojurídica. Dataveni@, São Paulo, ano 3, n. 18, ago. 1998. Disponível em: http://www.datavenia.inf.br/frame.artig.html. Acesso em: 10 set. 1998.

DANTAS, José Alves et al. Regulação da auditoria em sistemas bancários: análise do cenário internacional
e fatores determinantes. Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, São Paulo, v. 25, n. 64, p. 7-18, jan./abr. 2014. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-70772014000100002. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo. php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-70772014000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso. Acesso em: 20 maio 2014.

For other types of references, please see ABNT NBR 6023/2018 (2nd edition):

 

Guidelines for translated articles:

  • The guidelines for translated articles are the same as for unpublished articles.
  • The publication date of the translated article should not exceed 5 years. In case it does, the translator should, prior to any submission, contact the editors to let them know about the relevance of the work.
  • The translator must forward Odisseia editors (revistaodisseia2016@gmail.com) the email message in which the author(s) of the original article  and the editor(s) of the journal in which the original article was published give permission for the translation to be published at Odisseia.