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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.
  • Priority will be given to PhDs and PhD students/candidates.
  • Essays and articles titles, abstracts (up to 250 words), and keywords (total of three) must be in the text’s original language and in English. Abstracts and keywords are not required for reviews.
  • During the submission process on step 2: Submission Metadata (indexing), fill the field Form Language in the text’s original language and in English, adding title, abstract and keywords. For manuscripts in Spanish and French the Metadata should be provided in English and in Portuguese.
  • The text font should be Verdana, size 10; line spacing should be 1.5; and the file format should be either Rich Text Format (RTF) or Word (DOC). All pages should be numbered.
    Text length:
    Essays and articles - up to 40,000 characters;
    Interviews - up to 15,000 characters;
    up to 8,000 characters
  • Images, when available, should be in the text’s body; total size should not exceed 4 MB.
  • The manuscript should comply to the ABNT 1050:2023 standards for scientific Journals publication.
  • Foreign articles should comply with the standards of their countries of origin.
  • Footnotes should be at the end of the manuscript, after the bibliographical references. Footnotes should be numbered in unique sequence. Font should be Verdana, size 8, single line spacing.
  • The observation of spelling and grammar is the author’s responsibility.
  • Information about authorship should be included only on the Short Bio field, under the Profile section, upon registration, and include: name, title, institution and other information considered relevant by the author. Authorship information should be written both in the manuscripts’ original language and in English. The manuscript sent to Contemporanea can not make any reference regarding authorship or institution link, in order to guarantee the text’s double-blind review process. In case there is the need for information in the text that allows for the identification of the author, this information should be removed, but it can be added to the final version, in case the manuscript is accepted for publication.
  • Annexes and appendices will not be published by this Journal.
  • Manuscripts published by Contemporanea will be made available at other databases and online indexers.
  • Contemporanea publishes works in the field of Communication, which implies that the submitted manuscript must have a question and research design that dialogues with at least one structuring agenda of the field, considered in all its theoretical-methodological diversity.
  • For an article to be considered in line with the journal's scope, it must have a communication phenomenon as its theoretical or empirical object.
  • All metadata requested by the system, for all authors, must be completed, including the ORCID number (orcid.org).

Author Guidelines

Original texts in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish will be accepted. For submissions of articles resulting from previous presentations at seminars, meetings, or congresses, authors must include the name of the event, as well as the location and date, in the specific "author comments" field.

All texts will be evaluated anonymously by members of the Editorial Board or by ad hoc consultants.

Author information should be included exclusively in the Biography Summary field, in the Profile section, during author registration: name, academic title, institution of origin, and other relevant information. Author information must be in the original language of the text and in English. The text submitted to Contemporanea cannot contain any indication of authorship or institutional affiliation, so that the material can be analyzed in a completely impartial manner. If additional information linking the text to the author is necessary, it may be added to the final version for publication, should the material be accepted.

Submitted manuscripts must be sent according to the template (available here).

Authors who have already published in the journal must wait 24 months before having a new article published as author or co-author.

Please note that submitting an article to the Revista Contemporanea confirms its acceptance for publication. Texts published in Revista Contemporanea will also be available in other databases and indexes. From the moment of submission, the applicant is aware of this criterion and cannot claim otherwise.

Copyright Notice

Authors publishing in this journal must agree to the following copyright terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal Contemporanea and the Faculty of Communication of the Federal University of Bahia the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0), which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are authorized to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal website) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can lead to productive exchanges, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.

Privacy Statement

Names and addresses will be used solely for the services provided by this Journal and will not be made available for third parties or for uses other than those related to this publication. The data presented in the articles is the responsibility of the authors, who must comply with current privacy and personal data protection regulations.

Contemporanea - Revista de Comunicação e Cultura does not share information about authors, reviewers, and evaluators with third parties. However, it may use data obtained during the submission process for strategic editorial management purposes, provided that it is properly anonymized. This Privacy Policy is aligned with the General Data Protection Law (Law No. 13.709/2018) and related legislation.