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Author Guidelines

FORM AND PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

1) Files: Submissions must include, at least, a cover page and full text in two separate files in DOC or DOCX format.

=> Cover page (authorship information): full name, institutional affiliation, email address, and ORCID of all authors; indication of a corresponding author; contribution of each author to the work, in case of multiple authorship (four or more authors); information about whether the work is based on a paper presented at an event, master's dissertation, doctoral thesis, preprint, Discussion Paper, Working Paper or similar, if applicable.

=> Full text (without authorship marks):

a) Pretextual elements (in Portuguese, English, and Spanish) - concise title, abstract of up to 200 words and up to five keywords, up to five theme codes, and methodology according to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification.

b) Textual elements (in Portuguese or English) - sections for developing the work containing texts, figures, and references, observing the criteria of form and structure.

c) Post-textual elements (in Portuguese or English) - annexes and appendices.

2) Form and Structure: academic articles must contain, at a minimum, the following sections:

a) introduction, identifying the theme, research problem, object, objectives, motivation, justifications, and research contributions.

b) literature review, covering the theoretical and/or empirical literature.

c) methodology, to describe data collection and analysis techniques, data sources, and research procedures.

d) presentation and discussion of results.

e) conclusion or final considerations.

3) Language: papers should be written in either Portuguese or English.

4) Length: up to 14,000 words, excluding bibliographical references, appendices, and annexes.

5) Authorship: no restrictions apply regarding the number of authors or their required qualifications (in degrees). In the case of multiple authorship (four or more authors), the contribution of each individual author must be specified on the title page.

6) Citations and Bibliographic References: formatted according to the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) standards – NBR 6023 and NBR 10520.

7) Footnotes: used sparingly and only to provide additional information; do not use footnotes to reference cited works.

8) File Format: title page and full text (without authorship marks) must be in *doc or *docx format. PDF files will not be processed for evaluation and the submission will be automatically archived.

9) Supplementary Materials: research data, collection instruments, codes, scripts, and other materials may be submitted with the full text and title page.

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DATA CITATION

All secondary data used in the submission must be cited in ABNT format. This includes all data extracted from open-access online databases (e.g.: OECD, IPEA, IBGE, IMF, etc.). The data must be cited in the body of the text in the format “(Author, Date),” and the full reference to the databases must be included among the bibliographic references of the text.

 

SHARING DATA AND OTHER MATERIALS

Sharing data and research materials related to the submitted work is optional. This includes, but is not limited to, data sets (primary or secondary), collection instruments, codes, and program scripts used in data processing, among others. Data and materials may be shared or sent if they are relevant to the evaluation of the submission, contextualization and interpretation of the results, replication of the study, etc.

Research data and other supplementary materials may be submitted via the Submission System as part of the submission files and/or may be deposited in trusted data repositories and shared via a link or persistent identifier included in the full-text file. Examples of trusted repositories include Zenodo, Figshare, Dataverse, Scielo Data, etc. It is suggested that, if there are data and materials to be shared, authors inform this in the “Comments to the editor” field in the submission form and include in the methodological section the link to the repository where the shared datasets are located.

 

CHANGES TO AUTHORSHIP DATA

Complete authorship data must be provided at the time of submission following the Guidelines for Authors. After the manuscript has been submitted, changes will only be permitted to the registration and affiliation data (wording of name, professional address, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, ORCID) and the order of authors in the case of multiple authorship. It will not be permitted to add or remove authors, that is, the composition of the authorship cannot be changed.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements:

1) The submission includes at least two separate files (cover page and full text).

2) The cover page includes the complete data and institutional affiliation of all authors of the submission and indicates a corresponding author.

3) The full text does not carry authorship marks and includes the sections on the development of the work, bibliographic references and any annexes and appendices.

4) The cover page and full text are in *doc or *docx format.

5) If the submission is based on a work presented at a scientific event, master's dissertation, doctoral thesis, Discussion Paper, Working Paper or similar, or has it been previously deposited in a preprint repository, this information is included at least on the cover page.

6) Supplementary materials, if included, are duly identified.

Scholarly or Academic Papers

REC publishes original and unpublished academic articles in the field of Economics that address topics of national and international scope, especially those that are relevant to the economy of Brazil and Latin America, and make some original contribution from a theoretical or methodological point of view, preferably in the following areas:

  • Economic Thought, Economic History, Economic Method, and Political Economy
  • Macroeconomic Theory, Financial System, Growth Models, and Applications
  • Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Economics, Innovation, International Trade, and Applications
  • Development Economics, Labor Market, Employment and Income Policies, Public Policy, and Welfare

The study of a particular case (being it a country, a region, an industry, a firm, etc) is only of interest to this journal provided that the paper delivers an original and innovative contribution, whether theoretical or methodological, to the literature.

In our understanding, a scholarly work or academic paper reports the results of original academic research or reviews existing research results, whether theoretical or applied. Manuscripts are usually structured as follows: an introduction that describes the research theme, problem, objectives, and goals; a literature review; a methodological section that describes data sources, procedures for data collection, and analytical methods; a section discussing the results; and a conclusion.

An original paper is one that does not contain any form of plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

An unpublished scholarly work is a paper that has not been simultaneously submitted for publication to any other journal, nor has it been previously published as a book or a book chapter. A manuscript based upon a working paper, a conference paper, a dissertation or Ph.D. thesis, or previously deposited as a preprint will be considered an unpublished paper, provided that the author(s) declares it in the submission form.

As for the languages accepted, submissions must be written in either Portuguese or English.

Copyright Notice

REC is a Diamond Open Access journal and does not charge any fees for submission, review, publication, or distribution of manuscripts.

All content published by REC, except where otherwise specified, is licensed under the Creative Commons attribution license CC-BY.

Those who publish in the Journal of Contemporary Economics agree to the following terms:

a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of its authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b. Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the manuscript published in REC, such as depositing the work in an institutional repository or publishing it as a chapter in a book, provided that the authorship and initial publication in this journal are acknowledged.

c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to distribute their work online, including depositing the document in an institutional repository or posting it on their personal website, especially after submission acceptance, as this can generate productive exchanges and increase the impact and citation of the published work.

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