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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and it is not being evaluated for publication by another journal. If it was presented at a scientific event and previously published in annals, its submission should be justified in "Comments to the editor", indicating at what level it brings a revised and expanded version of the original work.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format.
  • URLs for references were provided when available.
  • The text uses italics instead of underlining (except for URL addresses); Figures and tables are inserted in the text, not at the end of the document as attachments.
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for Authors on the About journal page.
  • In case of submission to a peer-reviewed section (eg. Articles), the instructions available in "Ensuring blind peer review" were followed.

Author Guidelines

Radiofonias – Journal of Sound Media Studies (formerly Radio-Leituras) accepts articles authored by doctors. PhD candidates, masters, master's students and specialists may submit texts, if co-authored by doctors.

Articles must be original and not submitted to simultaneous evaluation in other journals. The texts must be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Every submission shall go under double blind peer review process.

Articles extension must be between 20,000 and 60,000 characters (or 3,000 to 9,000 words), including spaces, footnotes, and all textual elements, such as references.

Articles should be accompanied by title, abstract of up to 1000 characters with spaces and three to five keywords written in Portuguese, Spanish and English.

All tags that may identify the author, such as the authorship of the text file and the name and/or institutional affiliation of the authors, should be removed from the submitted file.

Texts submitted for evaluation must be formatted in Times New Roman font, size 12, justified, 1.5 spacing. Quotes longer than three lines should have 4 cm indentation, single spacing, and font 11. Reference footnotes should be avoided and this space should be reserved for explanatory notes. Footnotes should be formatted in Times New Roman font, single spacing, and body 10. Quotations should follow the "(AUTHOR, date)" model and other specifications of the text must follow the current rules of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT).

The texts must be submitted in Word, OpenOffice or RTF file format. All images, whether photographs, tables, graphs or illustrations should be inserted into the texts. Audio and video files should be sent separately as a complementary document, in the following configuration: audios in .mp3 format [128 kbps]; videos in .avi format [640x480]. Titles, subtitles and credits should be inserted in the body of the text.

Articles are responsibility of the authors, as well as the images, videos and audios used by them. Thus, it is the responsibility of the authors to collect and keep authorizations for the use of images, as well as suppress people's identity for ethical reasons.

After bibliographic references, Acknowledgments (to funding agencies, colleagues and/or fellows, for example) and Information (declaration that there is no conflict of interest involving the research and that it has been approved by an ethics committee or other collegiate board) should be included. If these sections compromise the blind review process, the information must be forwarded by the system at the time of submission, in a note addressed to the editors.

When there are more than three authors, inform the editors in a message about each effective contribution to the article.

It is noteworthy that papers that do not comply with the journal's publication norms will be returned to the authors.

An interstitial of three issues will be observed for an author to publish another article in the journal.

Radiofonias do not charge submission, editing, translation or publication fees.

Artigos

Política padrão de seção

Monograph “Radio and catastrophes”

The new coronavirus pandemic paralyzed a third of the planet in just three months, imposing challenges on the authorities. Each country reacted differently, with more or less severe measures, ranging from total inaction to quarantine and lockdown, going through different recommendations for social isolation and suspension of activities involving urban displacement. With a total of victims that doubles every couple of days, the so-called Covid-19 is spreading at a time of strong circulation of disinformation campaigns, which question scientific knowledge, bringing risks to public health.

Radio plays an important role, one way or another, in informing and building the population’s knowledge about prevention and mitigation measures, in order to avoid a collapse in health systems, affecting mainly the poorest population. Due to its reach and agility, radio can be a powerful ally in large-scale communication strategies, assuming a leading role in times of catastrophes such as pandemics, floods, earthquakes, fires, tsunamis and other emergency situations.

In this context, Radiofonias encourages submissions that present case studies, propose theoretical reflections and/or arise from research projects involving the relationship between radio and catastrophic situations, such as:

• Radio and public information in times of calamity

• Radio and scientific communication about Covid-19

• Challenges when doing radio in times of pandemic and social isolation

• Protocols for radio action in catastrophe situations

• Broadcasting of public service campaigns by radio

• Radio and misinformation

Deadline for submissions: July 10th, 2020

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