Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Revista Presença Geográfica publishes scientific articles, experiments, literature reviews, reviews or scientific original notes, unpublished and relevant, which can be in portuguese, english, french and spanish that contribute to local issues, regional, national and international, in contexts that cover geographic themes.

     1.   The articles must be submitted electronically, typed in a Word-compatible format, in portuguese, english, french or spanish, on a 18.5 x 26.5 cm sheet with 2.00 cm top, bottom, left and right margins, Times New Roman 12 font, single spaced, with a maximum number of 20 (twenty) pages, including tables, graphs, illustrations, annexes and appendices (when there's).

    2.   The articles must contain Title, Abstract (maximum 250 words) and Keywords (of 3 to 5 words separated by semicolons) in the original language and translated in portuguese and english, if these are not the original language, in addition to Introduction, Final Considerations or Conclusion and Bibliographic References. The internal subdivision of the text is at the discretion of the authors. Notes and reviews must also contain abstract in portuguese e english.

     3.   The citations of the references in the text, as well as the Bibliographic References must be presented in accordance with the ABNT rules.

     4.    The tables and charts should be numbered with Arabic numerals and a heading at the top.

     5.    Drawings, graphs, maps and photographs should be called Figures and be in JPG format, with the order number in Arabic numerals and the titlein its lower part. Figures from tables and charts will not be accepted.

      6.     At the discretion of the editors, works that do not fit in the Geography area will be returned to the author (s), without going through the editorial process.

     7.  The concepts and statements contained in the articles will be the sole responsibility of the author (s), but the Editorial Board reserves the right to suggest changes.

     8. The article will be submitted to the Advisory Council of the Journal (peer review and approval), which will accept or not the publication.Each article will be sent to two reviewers with recognized competence in the topic addressed, at least one linked to an external institution. In case of disagreement, the original will be sent for a third evaluation.The peer review process is a confidential procedure regarding the identity of both the authors and the reviewers, so that the authors should use all possible means to avoid identifying the authorship of the submitted article.The final decision on whether or not to publish the manuscript is always with the editors, who are entitled to make any adjustments they deem necessary.In the detection of writing problems and/or plagiarism, identified with the support of the CopySpider and Plagius software, according to the RPGeo ethics policy, the manuscript will be returned to the authors for the necessary changes.The reformulated work must return within the maximum period determined in the communication between editor and author.