Submissions

The journal publishes scientifical articles of the Theology area, which are unpublished and are result of research, not submitted simultaneously to another journal, in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, French and German; reviews of works to the interest of the area, published in Brazil or abroad.

The journal adopts the updated reference standard of ABNT (ABNT - General Rules).

The author must keep his registration profile updated and, for submission of a new text, fill out the following requirements:

• full name with the correct spelling;
• Orcid number (see: orcid.org);
• affiliation: institution, city, state and country;
• e-mail;
• complete physical postal address of the corresponding author, which may be the institutional address, provided at the end of the article;
• research funding source (if any);
• potential conflicts of interest (if any).

Optionally, the authors may indicate at the end of the article: a) acknowledgements; b) mini curriculum: academic and professional informations.

Submitted files must be in open text format (Word).

Texts originally written in a foreign language must contain title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese.

The References’ List is presented at the end of the article, according to the standards in ABNT– General Rules.

Biblical References and Church Magisterium are written in the text between parenthesis, in full or in acronyms Examples: (Mt 5,1-12; Lc 4,20-22; GS 25 ou Gaudium et Spes 25). When necessary, add the meaning of the acronym or abbreviation in parenthesis or in a footnote. For biblical citation s and ss is not used after the verse number. Ex.: Lc 4,20-22, not Lc 4,20ss.

Greek and Hebrew characters are preferably written with BibleWorks fonts (available on: www.bibleworks.com./fonts.html). If these fonts are not used, they must be transliterated. Other non-latin characters are equaly transliterated.

Texts cited in foreign languages must be translated and written in the body of the article and the original version must be put in the footnotes, when useful.

The contribution must be original and unpublished and cannot be undergoing evaluation for publication by another journal; if not, justify in “Comments to the editor” when submitting the text in the portal.

Publication of papers is subject to approval by reviewers. The originality of treatment of the theme, the consistency and rigor of the approach and its contribution to the thematic line of the publication are considered. The names of the reviewers will remain confidential, and the names of the authors before the reviewers will also be omitted.

The author’s name must be removed from the text and from the “Document’s Properties (Option of the menu “File" of the MS Word), in order to assure the blind evaluation ad hoc evaluators.

Spontaneous submission of articles and subsequent acceptance for publication automatically implies the assignment of the rights of the first publication to the Journal. Intellectual copyright remains with the author. Any subsequent reproduction, by any means, may be made only by prior agreement between the Journal, the author and with proper citation of the source.

The concepts issued in the works are the sole responsibility of the authors, not necessarily reflecting the opinion of the Editorial Board or Editorial Council.