Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. The Editorial Board and the ad hoc Evaluation Committee of the Senac Journal of Education and Work will decide the publication of the article within one year of receipt by the Journal. Later, it will issue a technical opinion of the suitability of the publication via peer review, subject to the anonymity of the designated reviewers. The authors will not be disclosed to the evaluators if they so request (single-blind or double-blind review).

2.  The standardized criteria for analysis of each of the articles by the Evaluation Committee are divided into 1. Relevance and suitability; 2. Insertion in the thematic/editorial line of the Journal; 3. Relevance and novelty of the article; 4. Writing and organization of the text (spelling, grammar, clarity, objectivity, and formal structure). The general evaluation of the proposal and the suggestions for adequacy may be communicated to guide the authors in the improvement of the submitted works, either for the continuity of the evaluation or for refusal and openness to receive other future works.

3. This Journal does not have article-processing charges (APC). Submission and publication do not have any charge for the authors neither.  The publication will be in accordance with Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0. All articles will be published, originally, in www.bts.senac.br.

4.  Accepted papers will be subject to editorial review. Any substantial changes to the text will be submitted to the author.

5.  National and international articles must be original (services from Septet Systems and other research methods available online and offline might be used to detect the originality). The journal rejects any plagiarism.

6. All contributions must be sent through the authorship service available on the journal's platform – www.bts.senac.br. The data of all the authors must be registered within the submission of the article.

7. The author shall adopt the following papers presentation standards:

a) The authors must edit the articles in Microsoft Word for Windows - version 6.0 or higher. The text must follow official spelling rules and be presented with 3 cm margins on all four sides of the text, with a spacing of 1.5 lines between each paragraph, size 12 font for text and 10 for quotes.

b) The Journal will accept original articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish and other languages subject to the translation by the Journal's editorial staff.

c)  The texts must consist of at least 10 and at most 25 standard pages (2,100 characters, including spaces, per standard page) of textual elements (body of text, quotations, notes, tables, graphs, and figures), in accordance with NBR 6022 - Article published in a printed scientific periodical - Presentation. International articles may be adapted to NBR 6022 by the Brazilian editorial board.

d) The first page must identify the following information for each author, in addition to the paper's title (a): author's name; the main institution to which the author is linked and the position or role held there; title and/or academic qualifications; postal address; email address; telephone number; persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD).

e) The paper must include keywords and the abstract must be between 500 and 600 characters, including spaces.

f) Short direct quotes (up to three lines) must be included in the text itself, in quotation marks; long direct quotes (more than three lines) must appear in their own paragraphs, without quotation marks, with a 4-cm indentation. However, the author may give preference to indirect citations. It is recommended, by ethical conduct, that the authors do not use too much self-citation. Likewise, citations are not suitable for Final Considerations.

g) Any and all quotations, whether direct (verbatim) or conceptual (paraphrased), must fully cite the source, in accordance with NBR 10520 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT). Quotations must be identified in the text by the author-date system and the source should be given in the References section at the end of the article, in accordance with NBR 6023. Direct quotations must include the page number, after the date, in the body of the text.

h) The accompanying notes must be numbered consecutively, in Arabic numerals, in the order they appear in the text, and listed at the end of the article as an endnote.

i) Researches involving human beings and/or animals must have been approved by an Ethics Committee. It is recommended that the authors inform this consent between the endnotes.

j) Graphs and tables must be sent with their respective titles and captions, indicating where they should be inserted in the text.

k) Figures, graphs and other images must be sent with a size of at least 21 x 30 cm and/or at least 300 dpi. Photographs must be at least 10 megapixels. 

l) Authors are advised: not to use unnecessary abbreviations, jargon and neologisms; to give the full meaning of any acronym or abbreviation the first time it appears in the text; to use concise titles that adequately express the corresponding content; and avoid the use of passive voice or, if using it, identify the subjects of the sentences.

m) The author must submit the article through http://www.bts.senac.br/index.php/bts/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

8. These Guidelines aim to establish an ethical commitment in individual and peer collaboration so that there are equity in the editorial processes. The Journal is in line with the ethical codes respected worldwide for quality scientific communication, including the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).