RULES FOR SUBMISSION
Articles and reviews submitted to the Journal Revista de Defesa da Concorrência (RDC) must be unpublished and cannot be under review in another journal.
- Texts not considered as unpublished: published on the Internet (unless deposited on certified preprint and postprint servers); already published abroad (even if in another language); published in other journals, books, or collections. Texts considered as unpublished: works previously published in the annals of scientific events, as long as they present effective improvements because of debates and subsequent studies (please identify such changes to the editorial team in the submission comments); theses and dissertations published in online systems of reference of Universities by regimental obligation.
Papers must address the journal's editorial line and must be forwarded through the journal's OJS platform.
Texts must be written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. The Journal RDC encourages the submission of manuscripts in English, regardless of the nationality of the authors.
Authors can submit papers at any time without the need to pay any type of submission or editing fee for the articles. The opinions expressed and the integrity of the content of the articles are the absolute responsibility of their authors.
Authors are requested to inform the Journal RDC of any funding or benefits received from commercial or non-commercial sources and to state that there is no conflict of interest that compromises the work presented, in the specific fields of the online system and in the cover sheet.
TEMPLATE
Texts submitted to the Journal RDC must be in Word .doc or .docx format.
The template for formatting the article may be consulted here. The submission of articles in .pdf (Portable Document Format) is prohibited.
Simultaneously with the submission of the paper, the authors must send a statement of authorship, in a separate file, which can be consulted here.
AVERAGE TIME FOR REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES
Authors who wish to submit articles to the Journal RDC should be aware that:
- The average period for the desk review of the article by the Editorial Team is thirty days;
- The average period for double blind peer review is one hundred and twenty days;
Only when the above deadlines have passed will we respond to inquiry emails about the progress of the review.
FORMAT FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSION
- Text editor: Microsoft Word.
- Paper: A4.
- Number of pages: minimum of fifteen and maximum of twenty-five.
- Margins: top and left 3cm, bottom and right 2cm.
- Font: Times New Roman, size 12 for the text and size 10 for citations of more than four lines, footnotes, legends of illustrations, tables, and charts.
- Paragraph: justified text.
- Spacing: 1.0 for abstract and citations of more than three lines, and 1.5 for text, without spacing between paragraphs.
Statement of authorship
In a separate file, the author(s) must send a statement of authorship with the following information:
- Article title
- Identification of the author(s): full name, titles, institution to which they are connected, link to Lattes curriculum, ORCID, mailing address, telephone, and email
- Information on funding or benefits received, as well as any conflicts of interest and acknowledgments.
- All identification of authorship must be included only in the statement of authorship.
Article
The first page of the article must contain:
- Title in Portuguese and English.
- Structured abstract, in Portuguese and English, describing the objective, method, and main conclusions.
- Keywords in Portuguese and English, minimum of four and maximum of six, separated by semicolons and ending with a period. They must be written with initials in lower case, with the exception of proper nouns and scientific names.
- JEL classification code, for articles addressing Economics.
Citations
- The author-date citation system, according to ABNT 10520:2023, must be used.
- Citations of up to three lines must remain in the body of the text in the format Surname, (year) or (Surname, year, page) in the case of direct citation, between quotation marks.
- Direct citations with more than four lines must have no quotation marks, a 4cm indentation, right-aligned with justified text, single spacing, and Times New Roman font, size 10.
References
- The list of references must be presented in alphabetical order at the end of the text, by author's surname, according to ABNT NBR 6023:2018, with single spacing, in Times New Roman, size 12, left alignment.
References to works exclusively in electronic media must indicate the available URL and the date of access.
Explanatory notes
Explanatory notes should be reduced to the minimum necessary and presented as footnotes.
Tables and formulas
Tables must be in text format and not as figures.
The files that contain formulas must be accompanied by statements at the end of the article so that peer reviewers can better analyze the results presented.
Identification of authorship
No type of identification of authorship should be included in the article. Any information that leads to the recognition of the author(s) must only be present in the statement of authorship.
RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE
Articles that involve research with human beings or animals must comply with the ethical standards required by the Brazilian Research Ethics Committee/National Health Council/Ministry of Health (CONEP/CNS/MS). Research involving human beings must meet the standards of Resolution 466/2012 and Resolution 510/2016 of the National Health Council (CNS), or equivalent agency in the country of origin of the research.
PLAGIARISM DETECTION
The Journal RDC uses the Crossref Similarity Check, which is an anti-plagiarism software created by iThenticate and Crossref with thousands of journals sharing their work, offering to editors the comparison of scientific content similarity within its database.
INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY POLICY
The Journal RDC encourages the use of inclusive language in the writing of scientific articles, in order to encourage inclusion and diversity. The RDC believes that language and science are socialization agents that can reproduce or try to contribute to overcoming structural inequalities in society.
- Published content must not state or allude that one person is superior to another because of age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or health condition. This is even an imposition of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 in its republican and equality principles.
- Care must be taken to avoid the reproduction of stereotypes and partial views of reality, influenced by structural inequalities in society. Terms with negative connotations should be avoided.
- The adoption of gender-inclusive terminology is suggested, and the use of neutral terms (e.g. juízo, instead of o juiz; defesa técnica, instead of o advogado; pessoa acusada, instead of o acusado) or both grammatical genders (e.g. o/a advogado/a; a advogada e o advogado) is preferred.
- a) The use of both grammatical genders must be weighed against the objectivity and intelligibility of the text, since the excessive use of such an option may eventually impair its accuracy.
- b) It is also possible to suppress the grammatical gender when identification is unnecessary (e.g. especialistas, instead of “os” especialistas); or collective terms can be used (e.g. corpo docente, instead of os docentes; comunidade científica, instead of os cientistas).
- Avoid labeling subjects, except when strictly necessary (e.g. renowned teacher, respected professor, etc.). The labeling of subjects by age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or health condition should be avoided, unless this qualification is indispensable for the understanding and development of the research.
- Standardize the reference style to authors. If you choose a name and a last name, adopt them equally in all cases.
The RDC recommends consultation of the Inclusive Language Guidelines of the Brazilian Senate; FRANCO, Paki Venegas; CERVERA, Julia Pérez. Guidelines for the non-sexist use of language and LGBTI+ Communication Guidelines (all in Portuguese).
In English, please see: Elsevier Guidelines and the United Nations Gender-inclusive language.
In Spanish, please see: Lenguaje inclusivo en cuanto al género de la Naciones Unidas e Guía de la Universidad de Valencia.
In empirical research, the RDC recommends paying attention to the ‘Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines’.
