ISSN 2182-1267
[online version]

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Original articles

Publishing policy of the journal

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that freely available scientific knowledge to the public supports a greater global democratization of knowledge. In order to ensure the scientific quality of published articles, and to ensure the impartiality of the review and acceptance of articles for publication, GOT, has a blind peer review system.

Areas of interest of the publication and the type of articles

GOT has as main objective the dissemination of scientific papers in the fields of Geography and Spatial Planning, particularly those relating to the interests of the lines that structure the investigation of CEGOT: Nature and environmental dynamics; Cities, competitiveness and well-being; Cultural landscapes, tourism and development. The articles published are included in the articles section, the contribution must be original and unpublished and not being under review or for publication by another journal. Occasionally texts of invited authors are published.

Procedures of valuation by pairs (peer review) of the journal

To understand the peer review process, we present 18 points that sequentially describe all procedures performed.

1. In order to ensure the scientific quality of the published articles, as well as ensure the impartiality of the review and acceptance of articles for publication, the GOT has a blind peer-review system.

2. The review process begins on the day following the closure of the call for submission of articles to the number in question: the 1 February and 1 August.

3. The editorial team makes a first analysis of the texts (to check compliance with the standards presented in sections I and II), and can request additional elements to the authors or to opt for immediate rejection of the article in duly justified situations.

4. Verified the compliance of these texts are removed all elements identifying the perpetrators.

5. The review process comprises two phases.

6. In the first phase, the articles are sent to two reviewers (depending on the chosen theme and nature of the text) for evaluation. The deadline for evaluation is of 5 weeks, and the reviewer registration on the platform of its decision regarding the publication or the text. The reviewer must go hand in hand with its decision to a review form (provided by the editorial team) and/or comments to text.

7. The reviewer's decision must be one of the following: accept for publication; accept the condition for publication (subject to minor corrections that will be verified by the editors); resubmit for review; reject; or submit to another magazine.

8. Is the editorial policy GOT reject and archive the text whenever at least one of the reviewers recommends rejection.

9. All elements sent by the reviewer, are directed to the authors (without identifying the reviewer) when communication from the editorial decision.

10. At the end of the first phase of review is granted a period of 4 weeks to conditionally accepted texts and the texts that require deeper revisions, to responding to comments and suggestions from reviewers, and send new document with all changes highlighted.

11. All authors who fail to meet the deadline see their archived articles.

12. Then, the second stage of review begins. All the papers reworked (see paragraph 10) are re-sent to the reviewer, or appreciated by the editors (depending on the case) for final review within 4 weeks.

13. The reviewer's decision must be one of the following: accept or reject the article.

14. On the basis of the evaluations the Publisher selects between 10 to 13 texts for publication. Whenever necessary, the qualitative assessment criteria and the confidential comments submitted by reviewers to the Edition are used.

15. Then begins the process of formatting and editing of texts by the editorial team, with duration of 3 weeks.

16. Once the edition of articles to publish is completed, they are sent to authors for reading and authors must communicate any changes within 1 week.

17. It follows the electronic preparation of publishing and assigning DOI.

18. The publication happens twice a year, on June 30 and December 30.

Public of the journal

The journal is aimed at all those interested in issues related to Geography and Spatial Planning.

Format and forms of original shipment for the journal

1. Os artigos devem incluir o template de identificação da revista e dos autores, conforme modelo disponibilizado no ficheiro template_GOT.doc. Neste template de abertura do artigo deve ser incluído o título do artigo e a identificação dos autores. A identificação dos autores tem obrigatoriamente de incluir: apelido e nome; afiliação completa (por exemplo Universidade, Faculdade e Departamento/Centro); código-postal, país e cidade; endereço de email. No caso do autor de correspondência deve ainda ser incluída a morada completa.

2. Os artigos devem ter um mínimo de 5 páginas e um máximo de 25 páginas. Estes limites consideram todo o corpo do artigo (incluindo identificação e referências bibliográficas), exceto os elementos anexos.

3. As margens do documento deverão ser todas (superior, inferior, interior e exterior) de 2,54 cm.

4. Deve ser incluído um resumo no idioma do artigo e ainda no idioma português e inglês, quando estes não são o idioma principal do texto. O resumo deve ter entre 5 e 10 linhas.

5. O tipo de letra para o resumo é calibri, tamanho 12, sem espaçamento entre parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas. O tipo de letra para o título (“Resumo”) é calibri, tamanho 12, a negrito, sem espaçamento entre parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas.

6. Devem ser incluídas palavras-chave no idioma do artigo e ainda no idioma português e inglês, quando estes não são o idioma principal do texto. Os artigos devem ter entre 4 e 8 palavras-chave.

7. O tipo de letra é calibri, tamanho 12, sem espaçamento entre parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas. O tipo de letra para o título (“Palavras-chave”) é calibri, tamanho 12, a negrito, sem espaçamento entre parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas. Não deve ser feito parágrafo entre o título e as palavras-chave.

8. O tipo de letra para o corpo de texto é calibri, tamanho 12, com espaçamento de 6pto antes dos parágrafos e com espaçamento de 1,5 entre linhas.

9. O tipo de letra para os títulos é calibri, tamanho 16, negrito, com espaçamento de 6pto antes e depois dos parágrafos e com espaçamento de 1,5 entre linhas. Os títulos devem ser numerados sequencialmente.

10. O tipo de letra para os subtítulos é calibri, tamanho 12, negrito, com espaçamento de 6pto antes dos parágrafos e com espaçamento de 1,5 entre linhas. Os subtítulos devem ser numerados sequencialmente.

11. Todas as imagens, tabelas, esquemas, desenhos ou outros elementos constituintes do artigo devem vir referidos no texto e acompanhados da respetiva legenda. O tipo de letra da legenda (para título e fonte) deve ser calibri, tamanho 11, sem espaçamento entre parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas. Todos os elementos devem ser numerados sequencialmente.

12. As notas de rodapé devem ser colocadas no fim da página onde são introduzidas. O tipo de letra deve ser calibri, tamanho 10, sem espaçamento entre parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas. As notas de rodapé devem ser numeradas sequencialmente.

13. As referências bibliográficas devem seguir o modelo das normas internacionais ISO 690, conforme apresentado em baixo. O tipo de letra é calibri, tamanho 10, com espaçamento de 6pto depois dos parágrafos e com espaçamento simples entre linhas.

Original shipment for the journal

1. Submission of articles is made on the platform of the journal GOT in http://cegot.org/ojs/index.php/GOT/author/submit/1. To access the paper submission form you must be registered (or register) as author on the platform of the journal.

2. Before you start the submission process you must ensure that the article is original and unpublished, not having earned any prior publication in another journal.

3. If you have submitted the article for review at another magazine at the same time you must inform the editor of this situation (in comments to the editor).

4. The article must comply with all the formatting rules set out in the previous point and made available in the file template_GOT.doc.

5. The article must comply with all the rules of introduction of bibliographical references, described in section IV of this document.

6. The DOI must be provided to all articles cited in the text, when this is available.

7. The submission is done in five steps:

a. Start – for selecting the section (should be "articles", unless otherwise specified), language selection, acceptance of the conditions of submission, copyright statement and send comments to the editor;

b. Upload submission – to article submission;

c. Enter metadata – for identifying all authors (not just of who submits the article), title, summary and other funders;

d. Upload supplementary files - if necessary to send schemas, images or other elements separately to ensure higher resolution (optional);

e. Confirmation – to complete submission.

Standards for bibliographic references of the journal

1. The references must follow the model of the international standards ISO 690.

2. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the international reference body for standardisation. International standards ISO 690: 1987 and ISO 690-2: 1997 establishes the order of the elements in the preparation of bibliographic references, as well as the conventions for transcription and presentation of information from the most diverse sources of information.

3. All documents cited in the text should appear on the bibliographical references.

4. For printed documents must follow the following models

Books

SURNAME, First Name. Title. Editing. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. ISBN..

Volumes and part of books

SURNAME, First Name. Title of part. Editing. Numbering. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Location of part. 

Book chapters

SURNAME, First Name. Title of contribution. In Surname, Names. Title of the book. Editing. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication, Location in the monograph. 

Journal papers

SURNAME, First Name. Title of the article. Publication title in the series. Editing. Year of publication, numbering, Location in the publication. ISSN.

Thesis

SURNAME, First Name. Title. Additional note, academic institution, Year.

Proceedings

SURNAME, First Name. Title of the communication. In Title of the Proceedings, number, location, date. Place of publication: Publisher. Location in the publication. ISBN.

Regulations

Symbol and Number of standard: Year. Title Area. Editing. Year of publication

Patents

Entity. Title. Secondary responsibility. Country type of document Number. Date of publication

 5. For electronic documents should follow the following models

E-books, databases and computer programs

SURNAME, First Name. Title. [Type of medium]. Editing. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Date of update/revision. [Date of consultation]. Availability and access. ISBN.

Articles and chapters, etc. on e-books 

SURNAME, First Name. Title of contribution. In title [type of medium]. Editing. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Date of update/revision [reference date]. Location in the monograph. Availability and access.

Articles on electronic documents: magazines, newspapers, etc.

SURNAME, First Name. Title of the article. Publication title [type of medium]. Editing. Numbering. Date of update/revision [reference date], Location in the publication. Availability and access. ISSN. 

All articles published by the GOT are original. During the submission process the author should state that the contribution is original and unpublished and is not under review or for publication by another journal. Sets "original articles" and other types of materials.

It is recommended that the article is structured the following parts, although its sequence and chapter titles do not necessarily have to be these: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements and References.

An abstract should be included in the language of the paper and also in English and Portuguese when they are not the text of the main language. The abstract should be between 5 and 10 lines.

Authors must comply with a set of guidelines, regarding:

- Formatting standards;

- Paper submission;

- Revision process;

- Bibliographic references.