Submissions

Author Guidelines

1 REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

1.1 The Mission of the Journal and the Nature of Submissions

CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada publishes original and unpublished works written by researchers with a PhD degree or co-authored with them who are affiliated to national and/or international teaching and research institutions. Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, or English. In case the paper is written in a foreign language, the journal reserves the right to publish it in the original language or as a translated version, provided that there is a proper written consent of the owner of the publishing rights. In case the paper is approved for publication, the author(s) is/are responsible for its translation.

Articles should have between 10 and 30 pages and interviews, between 5 and 30. Book reviews should not exceed 5 pages, and the book reviewed must have been published in Brazil or abroad within the last 24 months. It should be its first edition or its published translation. Articles, interviews and book reviews should address topics related to the theories of discourse, preferably under a semiotic perspective.

If a paper is published in a particular issue, its author(s) should not submit another paper for the subsequent issue.  

By submitting a paper to CASA: Cadernos de Semiótica Aplicada, the author(s) automatically grant(s) all the copyrights of the work in case it is published.

1.2 Analysis and Assessment

The Executive Editors will send submitted papers to at least two members of the Editorial Board or to ad hoc reviewers (referees) indicated by them. After the paper is analyzed, the reviewers’ written comments will be sent to the author(s). In case the paper is accepted for publication, the author(s) may incorporate final corrections based on the reviewers’ comments.

2 The Submission Process

Forwarding: The author must register (Username/Password) on the journal's page, using the “Register” option and completely filling out the profile.

After carrying out these steps, the first author must click on his username and choose “Control Panel”, in the Submissions list, click on “New Submission” to start the submission process, in which he will perform the five basic steps:

a. Start: Start the submission process, selecting the submission language, the section (Original Articles, Reviews, Interviews) and confirming that it is/are in accordance with the conditions established by the journal (by ticking the checkboxes of the conditions and the copyright statement and right to use image);

b. Upload Submission: Transfer the file without identified authorship to the system, choose the type as Article Text. In this same step, you can transfer supplementary documents, which function as an appendix to the main text or as an annex to it, such as: document proving approval by the Research Ethics Committee, research instruments, data sets and tables, that follow ethical standards of evaluation, sources of information not normally available to readers, or figures and/or tables that cannot be integrated into the text itself.

Important:

To guarantee the confidentiality of the authors' identity, the work file must not contain the author(s) name(s), institution of affiliation or any other information that may identify him/her. Personal information must also be removed from the submitted file's Properties (Basic steps for Microsoft Word: File > Information > Inspect Document > Inspect > Remove Personal Data > Save).

The author(s) information must be filled in only in the specific fields of the journal's system (Step 3. Insert metadata), which are exclusively accessible to the journal's editors;

c. Enter Metadata: Insert the Title, Subtitle, Abstract and Keywords of the submission, and the data of each co-author – name, family name, e-mail, country, institution, biography summary with the author's full title, ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identification. All authors' metadata must be included;

d. Confirmation: In this step, just click on “Finish Submission” for it to be sent.

e. Próximos Passos: Next Steps: Information on tracking your submission.

After completing the five steps described, the author must wait for the editor's e-mail and, in the meantime, can follow the entire flow of his work, from submission, acceptance, evaluation, re-editing of the original until publication. The articles, after submission, are assigned to the evaluators defined by the board or by the editors of the journal. The article selection policy is defined by the members of the Executive Editorial Board, the Editorial Board and the Journal Editors, available in the “About the Journal” section, “Peer Review Process”.

3 PREPARING YOUR MANUSCRIPT

3.1 Formatting the file

Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, or OpenOffice (.doc, .docx, or .odt format), in Times New Roman font, size 12 pt (except for citations and footnotes, whose size should be 11 and 10 respectively). Use single line spacing between lines and paragraphs and do not number the pages in the manuscript. The page format is: A4; top and left margins of 3 cm and bottom and right margins of 2 cm. Not indenting the paragraphs.

3.2 Organizing the text

In order to organize the text, you must follow the sequence below.

TITLE: in uppercase letters, boldface and centered on the page;

TITLE IN ENGLISH: on the second line below the title, in uppercase letters, boldface and italics, and centered on the page;

AUTHOR(S): the full name of the author(s), capitalizing the last family name, on the second line below the title in English and right aligned. After the name of the author(s), place an asterisk (*), indicating a footnote in which information on the (institutional) affiliation of the author(s) is given. The information must comply with the affiliation model indicated in annex 1.

ABSTRACT: on the third line below the name(s) of the author(s), using Times New Roman (12 pt) font, the abstract should be between 100 and 200 words;

KEYWORDS: on the second line below the abstract, using Times New Roman (12 pt) font, provide 3 to 6 keywords, which should be typed in the same language as the body text and be separated by periods.

RESUMO and PALAVRAS-CHAVE: this is the Portuguese version of the Abstract and the Keywords. Using Times New Roman (12 pt) font, the Resumo should be typed on the second line below Keywords and Palavras-chave, on the second line below Resumo;

BODY TEXT: on the third line below Palavras-chave, present the text, using single line spacing;

SUBTITLES: in boldface, left aligned, subtitles should be typed in sentence case on the third line below the prior section and one line above the text of the following section or item;

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: indicated by the subtitle “Acknowledgements,” they should be typed on the third line below the body text with justified alignment;

REFERENCES: the References must comprise only the works cited in the text.

3.3 Typographic resources: Bold type should be used to emphasize or highlight words in the text whereas italics should be used for words in a foreign language and for the title of works cited in the body of the paper.  Use double quotation marks for the titles of chapters, short stories or sections of a work.

3.4 Footnotes:  The number of footnotes should be kept to the minimum necessary. By using the text editor tools, they should be presented in the footer, in font size 10 pt, and be numbered according to the order of appearance.

3.5 Tables: It is important to remember that tables are not used strictly for numerical (quantitative) data; they are also appropriate for textual (qualitative) data. The title of the table should be typed above the table. Below the table, present its source and a caption. When compiled by the author(s), the source should be presented as “Source:  Compiled by the Author.”

3.6 Illustrations: the title of the specific type of illustration (drawing, diagram, flowchart, photograph, graph, map, organizational chart, plan, picture, portrait, image, etc.) and a number should be typed above it. Example: “Photograph 1 – Black dolls from the Quilombo Conceição das Crioulas.” It is important to highlight that the words “illustration” and “figure” are very general. The correct nomenclature is the one that really designates the illustration; thus, the word “figure” should be used only when it is not possible to classify the illustration.  Bellow the illustration, present its source, a caption, and other information necessary to understand it. The illustration has to be close to the text to which it refers.

3.7 In-text citations: The journal CASA adopts the author-date model of NBR 10520, August of 2002, for in-text citation. To quote an author in your paper, your parenthetical citation must be presented in two different formats: the capitalized last name of the author and the date of the work’s publication are placed between parentheses, separated by a comma (E.g.: SILVA, 2000), or the name of the author is part of the text and only the date of the work’s publication appears between parentheses (E.g.: “Silva (2000) points out…”). In case of verbatim (direct) quotations, the number of the page(s) from which the quotation is taken must appear after the date of the work’s publication. Separated by a comma, it must follow the page abbreviation “p.”: (E.g.: SILVA, 2000, p.100). If citations are from different works of the same author, published in the same year, they must be distinguished by lower case letters right after the date of the published work (E.g.: SILVA, 2000a). For a work with three or fewer authors, the names of the authors must be presented and separated by semicolon (E,g.: SILVA; SOUZA; SANTOS, 2000); for a work with more than three authors, present the first author’s name followed by “et al.” (E.g.: SILVA et al., 2000). Never use “&” in parenthetical citations. In the text, use “and”; between parentheses, use semicolon [E.g.: (SILVA; SOUZA, 2000) or According to Silva and Souza (2000)...].

3.8 Block quotations: If the verbatim (direct) quotation is longer than three lines, start it on a new line, with the entire quotation indented 4 cm from the left margin. Use 11 font size, single line spacing between lines, and no quotation marks (NBR 10520 of ABNT, August of 2002).

3.9 Foreign-language quotations: in-text direct citations in foreign languages must be translated. The original text, independently of the number of lines, must be presented as a footnote, between quotation marks. If the translation was done by the paper author(s), this information should be given in the parenthetical citation with the expression “our translation” (DURAND, 2004, p. 16, our translation).

3.10 References: the reference list (comprised only of the works cited in the text) should appear at the end of the paper. According to ABNT (NBR 6023, August of 2002), reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work, whose first name is abbreviated. Use Italic type for titles and left-align the reference list. Use single line spacing between lines and single line spacing between references.

Examples of references:

Books:

COURTÉS, J. Analyse sémiotique du discours. Paris: Hachette, 1991.

GREIMAS, A. J.; COURTÉS, J. Dicionário de semiótica. Tradução de Alceu Dias Lima et al. São Paulo: Contexto, 2008.

Books with more than three authors:

CALAME, C. et al. La Lettre: approches sémiotiques: Actes du VIe Colloque interdisciplinaire – 1984. Fribourg: Éditions universitaires de Fribourg, 1988.

Edited Books:

OLIVEIRA, A. C.; TEIXEIRA, L. (org.). Linguagens na comunicação. São Paulo: Estação das Letras e Cores, 2009.

E-books:

PRADO, M. G. S. O ponto de vista em semiótica: fundamentos teóricos e ensaio de aplicação em A hora da estrela. São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica, 2013. Disponível em: http://www.culturaacademica.com.br/catalogo-detalhe.asp?ctl_id=406. Acesso em: 11 ago. 2014.

Theses and dissertations:

MENDES, C. M. Semiótica e mídia: uma abordagem tensiva do fait divers. Orientador: Waldor Beividas. 2013. 282 f. Tese (Doutorado em Semiótica e Linguística Geral) – Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2013.

Book chapters:

BARROS, D. L. P. de. Comunicação de risco. In: PRETI, D.; LEITE, M. Q. (org.). Comunicação na fala e na escrita. São Paulo: Humanitas, 2013. v. 12,  p. 21-48.

LOPES. I. C. Esquematização da modalidade epistêmica. In: CORTINA, A.; MARCHEZAN, R. C. Razões e sensibilidades: a semiótica em foco. São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica, 2004. p. 51-65.

Articles from printed journals:

GREIMAS, A. J. L’Énonciation: une posture épistémologique. Significação – Revista Brasileira de Semiótica, Ribeirão Preto, v. 1, n. 1, p. 09-25, 1974.

Articles from e-journals:

FIORIN, J. L. A construção da identidade nacional brasileira. Bakhtiniana, São Paulo, v. 1, n. 1, p. 115-126, sem. 1, 2009. Disponível em: http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/3002/1933. Acesso em: 05 dez. 2013.

Work published in conference proceedings or similar publication:

DISCINI, N. História em quadrinhos: um enunciado sincrético. In: COLÓQUIO DO CENTRO DE PESQUISAS SOCIOSSEMIÓTICAS, 12., 2006. Caderno de Discussão do Centro de Pesquisas Sociossemióticas. São Paulo: PUC-USP, 2006. v. 1, p. 1-16.

Films:

The Untouchables. Directed by Brian de Palma. Production by Art Linson. Screenplay by David Mamet. Interpreted by Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert de Niro and Sean Connery. [S.l.]: Paramount Pictures, 2004. 1 DVD (119 min), trilingual: English, Spanish and Portuguese. Special edition.

TV or radio programs:

GNT DOC. UPP – favela e polícia face a face. Rio de Janeiro: GNT, 9 August 2014. TV program.

Music albums:

One singer and different composers:

NASCIMENTO, M. Nascimento. Rio de Janeiro: Warner Music Brasil, 1997. 1 CD (47 min).

One composer and different singers: 

VANZOLINI, P. A música de Paulo Vanzolini. Intérpretes: Carmen Costa. Paulo Marques. São Paulo: Marcus Pereira, 1974. 1 CD.

Collections:

CAGE, J. Works for piano and prepared piano. [S. l.]: WERGO, [1970?]. 4 sound discs, digital, stereo.