Guidelines for Authors | Submission checklist

Manuscript

• The manuscript was reviewed carefully (form and content)
• Submitted version has been approved by all authors
• Is original, is not waiting for publication and has not been submitted elsewhere
• Meets the ethical principles set out in http://revista.arp.org.pt/en/normas/etica.html

Text file

• Is prepared using the template document available here
• Is in doc or docx format
• Does not include footnotes or endnotes

Title, abstract and keywords

• The manuscript has title, abstract and keywords in the language of the document
• The manuscript has title, abstract and keywords in English
• The manuscript has title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese language (except in the case of non-speaking Portuguese authors)
• The abstract does not exceed about 150 words
• A maximum of 6 keywords are indicated

Authors

• The manuscript has the affiliation of all authors
• Authors with ORCID indicate their ORCID number
• A corresponding author has been indicated

Text

• Abbreviations are defined at their first mention in text (non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided in abstract)
• Acknowledgments are at a separate section at the end of manuscript before the references list

References

• Are identified by numeric system
• Are listed at the end of manuscript according to the formatting standards listed in http://revista.arp.org.pt/en/normas/referencias.html
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa

Figures

• Figures are all referenced in the text
• Captions are at the end of the manuscript
• Figures are in jpg, tif or psd format with file name indicating the Figure number
• Figures are, at least, about 1000 pixels wide (original resolution, without magnification)
• If any third-party figures are used the authors obtained the necessary permission and signed the document available at http://revista.arp.org.pt/en/normas/direitos.html

Tables

• Are all referenced in the text
• Are at separate page(s) the end of the document doc or docx
• Have caption
• They are presented in text form