Submissions

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 text does not contain the identification of the authors. In Microsoft Office documents, the authorship identification must be removed from the document properties.
The author/s are aware that, in the case he/she/they had a paper recently accepted for publication or already published, he/she/they should wait at least 1 (one) year between the date of the previous submission and the current one.
The paper does not contain plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Any plagiarism or self-plagiarism identified will result in the article being immediately rejected.
The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format.
The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being considered for publication by another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the editor".

Author Guidelines

The Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência publishes every six months original articles, essays, book reviews; annotated transcripts and translations from inaccessible primary sources; and interviews. Its primary mission is to disseminate original, unpublished and quality works in the area of History of Science and Technology, recognizing the importance of its relationship with the fields of Philosophy, Sociology and Science Teaching. Papers in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish are accepted.

Thesis/dissertation summaries are not accepted. All articles derived from thesis/dissertations must present their own coherence and completeness, without depending on the reading of the original source.

The opinions expressed in any contribution published in RBHC do not necessarily reflect those of the Editors, members of the Scientific Advisory Board or Sociedade Brasileira de História da Ciência (Board, Deliberative Council or associates in general), and are always responsibility of their authors.

If approved in the preliminary editorial review, which determines whether any contributions will be considered for publication, they are submitted to two experts for evaluation (except in the case of submissions to Reviews, Documents and Sources, Interviews, Letters, and Translation sections, which may be accepted by editorial act). In case of divergence between the referees, the work will be sent to a third evaluator.

The evaluation process follows the double-blind regime, and takes an average of four months between the submission of the article and the final decision. In the case of topics where there is little availability of specialists, authors should be aware that the evaluation time can be significantly extended.

The Editors will always give the final decision regarding the publication of contributions received.

The Editors reserve the right to introduce minor changes in the writing and presentation of the originals approved for publication, in order to maintain the uniformity and quality of the journal, respecting the style and opinions of the authors.

Authors who had articles accepted for publication must wait 1 year to submit a new article, counting from the date of submission of the previous article.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION

Articles, essays, testimonials and interviews, documents and sources, letters:

Submission files must be in DOC or DOCX, after careful spelling and grammar review, and must be formatted according to the template available in this link (see rules below for more details).

At the time of submission, authors must indicate ONE of the sections of the journal for which the text should be considered.

Book reviews

Publishers or authors interested in sending books for review should contact us by e-mail (revistabhc@sbhc.org.br). It is up to the editors to make decisions about the relevance of the review and the choice of reviewer.

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

Contributions to Revista Brasileira de História de Ciência must be unpublished, always sent in DOC or DOCX, typed in Times New Roman 12 font, with 1.5 space between lines and 2.5 cm margins. It is MANDATORY to send the paper according to the model available at this link.

Papers must have a maximum of 10000 words (without references).

The files must not contain any indication of authorship.

In any type of contribution, do not customize the style or use unnecessary marks in the text, such as italics, underlining etc.

Footnotes should be included only to clarify matters tangential to the main argument.

The cited bibliographic references should be listed at the end of the article, in a specific section.

Only after the acceptance of the article, the authors may include biographical information and acknowledgments, if any, as directed by the editors. It is mandatory to inform the ORCID of every author of the paper.

Specific instructions

Articles, documents and sources, letters:

They must have a title in the main language of the contribution and in Portuguese, and be accompanied by two abstracts (main language and Portuguese, each containing up to 250 words) and three to five keywords indicating the content of the work (main language and Portuguese).

Essays and interviews

In the case of essays and interviews, the Editors will define the relevance of abstracts and keywords.

Book reviews

Reviews must include complete bibliographic information about the reviewed book.

Images

The images referring to the works must be scanned at 300 dpi and included in the file. Captions and source/authorship (credits) are mandatory and must appear in below the figures.

It is of the responsibility of the authors to provide permission for the use of copyrighted images.

References

For citations in the text:

One author: Smith (2008); (Smith, 2008).

with page reference: Smith (2008, p. 20); (Smith, 2008, p. 20)

Two authors: Smith and Rylance (1998); (Smith and Rylance, 1998)

with page reference: Smith and Rylance (1998, p, 304); (Smith and Rylance, 1998, p. 304)

Three or more authors: Smith et al. (1950); (Smith et al., 1950)

with page reference: Smith et al. (1950, p. 2); (Smith et al., 1950, p. 2)

Two or more authors in the same sentence: “Smith (2008) and Roberts (1998) consider…” OR “were considered by some authors (Smith, 2008; Roberts, 1998).”

with page indication: “Smith (2008, p. 20) and Roberts (1998, p. 5) consider…” OR “were considered by some authors (Smith, 2008, p, 20; Roberts, 1998, p. 5) .”

In the “Bibliographic References” section, citations should be written as follows:

BOOKS:

SURNAME, N. Title of book in italics: subtitle not italicized. Translation. Edition. City: Publisher, year.

Examples:

KRAGH, H. Introdução à historiografia da ciência. Trad. de Carlos Grifo Babo. Porto: Porto Editora, 2001.

PINSKY, C.B. (org.). Fontes históricas. 3ª ed. São Paulo: Editora Contexto, 2019.