ISSN 1647-6158
[printed version]

ISSN 1647-7316
[online version]

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope & policy
• Ethics
• Assessment criteria
• Two stage peer review
• Article components
• Sending materials
• After approval
• Other information

Research by artists

Revista :Estúdio publishes original articles within the area of artistic studies with the aim of exploring and discussing the innovation and investigation in this area study. The objective is to present research, within the field of art, done by the artists. The authors will study the work of another professional, their colleague.

• Explore the artist’s point of view on art
• Introduce quality authors, less known, from Iberian languages speaking countries
• Present innovative views in the artistic field
• Propose new syntheses, establishing connections, which are relevant and creative, among themes, authors, periods and ideas.

Iberian expression

Revista :Estúdio works within the different Iberian languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Galician and Catalan, encouraging the decentralization and promotion of cultures which could be more intertwined considering the present geographic context.

Originals scope
Revista :Estúdio receives original article submissions according to themes proposed in each issue, by a few conditions and requirements:

• The authors of the articles must be graduated artists in any artistic field;
• The author must focus on the work of another artist, rather than on his own.

• Original articles, in which the work, or artist, analysed is from a Portuguese or Spanish speaking country
• Original articles which reveal less known, but quality artists.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

(based on Elsevier recommendations and COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors)

Revista ESTUDIO is committed to ensuring ethics in publication and quality of articles.

Conformance to standards of ethical behavior is expected of Authors, Editors, Reviewers, and the Publisher.

Authors:

On submitting a manuscript, the author(s) ensure that the manuscript is their own original work.

Authors should not submit articles describing essentially the same research to more than one journal.

Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

The corresponding author should ensure that there is a full consensus of all co-authors on the manuscript submission for publication.

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Editors:

Editors should evaluate manuscripts for their academic merit without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

The editor is responsible for the final decision of which of the papers submitted to the journal should be published.

The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.

An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.

The authors’ opinion may not always be supported by the editorial board.

Reviewers:

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Any manuscripts received for review are treated confidentially.

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must not be used for personal advantage and be kept confidential.

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by reviewer without the express written consent of the author.

Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.

Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments.

Any referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Peer reviewers’ identities are protected in the double blind peer review process.

• Interest, relevance, originality and validity.
• Linguistic suitability.
• Correct referencing of contributions and authors and format, according to the rules text.
• Within the general theme suggested in each issue, "Artists on other artists work", it is appreciated the study of artists from countries of Iberian languages, or if that is not the case, the study of less known, but quality artists.

Original Articles

The proposed articles must be original. The authors must not apply for other publications simultaneously, nor to republish them without an authorization of the journal.

The articles must be accompanied of a statement of originality and of non-publication in other spaces.

The originals undertake an editorial process that happens in two stages, the "synopsis stage" and the complete "article stage".

During the first stage, the synopsis stage, the submitted abstracts are subject to a preliminary assessment by the director and/or editor, who evaluates its formal and subject accordance. Once these are verified, it is sent to two or more academic peers from the international editorial board, which determine anonymously: a) approved b) not approved.

In the second stage, once the preliminary approval is given, the author of the article must submit, on time, the complete version of the article, according to the style guide (an available "meta-article").

This original version is then sent to two or more academic peers, who integrate the international editorial board, to determine anonymously: a) approved b) approved with some alterations c) not approved.

The selection and revision procedures occur according to the model of double blind review by academic peers, where there is also a geographic protection: the authors are assessed solely by peers which are external to their affiliation.

Before publishing, the authors must have up kept with the originality declaration and hand-over of copyrights, as well as contributing to the costs of the publication.

Original article components

All texts must be presented in Times New Roman, 1.5 leading, size 12 (except abstracts, key words, captions, blocs of quotations and bibliography, which are size 11 and leading 1). Texts cannot include footnotes or endnotes.

The synopsis (first stage of submission) should have a maximum of 2.000 characters or 300 words, without referencing the author’s name. A title and one or two images (captioned) should be included.

The complete article (second stage of submission) may have a maximum of 12.000 characters (including spaces) in the body of text, excluding abstracts, captions and bibliographical references. It may include figures or paintings, if suitable (maximum ten), accordingly captioned.

The title must be descriptive and with a maximum of 150 characters (including spaces), also translated to English;
This is followed by "article submitted on day-month-year" (date of submission of the complete article);
This is followed by the abstract with a maximum of 650 characters, followed by three to five key words;
This is followed by the translation of the abstract and of the key words into English;
This is followed by the body of text, composed by an "introduction" (can be this or another title), the main body (composed by one or more sections with numbered title starting on "1" and with eventual subsections up to the second level, for example "1.1" etc.). The article should end with a "conclusion", which is not a numbered section, alike the "introduction". The article should end with a "References" chapter, which only includes the bibliographical references cited throughout the text (only).
Citations: Transcriptions, which are smaller than two lines, start and finish in quotation marks. More extensive transcriptions should be shown in a block of text (size 11, leading 1) and in italic with no quotation marks.
References: Bibliographical references of cited works must be done according to these rules:

• Book:
  Surname, Name (year) Title: Subtitle. Place where published: Publisher. ISBN
• Article in periodic publication:
  Surname, Name (year), "Title of article", Name of Journal. ISSN. Volume (issue), pages.
• Texts in book:
  Surname, Name (year), "Title of text: subtitle". In Name and surname (org.), Title of book: Subtitle. Place where published: Publisher, pages. ISBN.

Sending materials to Revista :Estúdio

The article must be sent by email (estudio@belasartes.ulisboa.pt) in Word file (*.doc or *.docx). It should follow the two stage approval process, first a synopsis stage and then the complete text stage.

First stage:
Submission of synopsis: To submit the synopsis of your article to Revista :Estúdio, send an email to estudio@belasartes.ulisboa.pt, with two different attachments in Word for Windows format, and indicating the issue of the journal you intend to publish your article.

One of the attachments contains the text referring to the anonymous article, with a title. The other attachment contains your personal data and the corresponding title.

Both attachments are named the same (any word of the title) followed by the string "preliminar_a" and "preliminar_b"
For example:

• The attachment "word_preliminar_a.docx" contains the title and the author’s data;
• the attachment "word_preliminar_b.docx" contains the title of the article and a synopsis.

Second stage:
Submission of complete articles, after the synopsis was approved.
After the completion of the first stage, the complete article must be sent on time, in the format of one file, containing the whole article (with title), but with no reference to the author, either direct or deductible (it should also be eliminated from the properties of the document). As in the first stage, the author must not state references to himself on the second submission stage.
The file should be named as it was on the first stage, however the string "completo" must be used instead (e.g.: "word_completo_b").
The figures that are included in the article must also be sent separately, in "jpg" files, named, for example "word_completo_fig_01.jpg", "word_completo_fig_02.jpg", etc. The resolution of these files should be compatible for printing, therefore, it should contain at least 800 pixels on the smallest side (800 being the minimum value: bigger is preferable).

Publication costs
Publishing an article in Revista :Estúdio assumes that after the approval, a contribution by each author for the associated costs will be made (166 euro).

Originality statement
Revista :Estúdio requires all authors the handover of copyrights so that the articles can be reproduced, published, edited, communicated and transmitted publically in any form or media, as well as its distribution in the number of copies to be defined and its public release, in all its forms, including its digital release, optic (print) or any other technology, with solely scientific and cultural objectives, on a non-profit base.

Revista :Estúdio publishes original articles submitted to the Editorial Board as well as editorial articles by invited authors.
It also includes synopsis by the Editorial Boards, from books, periodicals and other cultural materials given to Revista :Estúdio.