Submissions

Author Guidelines

For articles, Monções accepts submissions on a rolling basis (under the “Miscellanea” section) and, for thematic dossiers, according to the schedule specified in the respective call for papers. Book reviews and interviews are accepted on a rolling basis.

Authors must be graduate students or hold graduate degrees (master’s or PhD). Manuscripts authored by undergraduate students may be accepted only when co-authored with graduate students or graduate degree holders. Submissions to Monções may have a maximum of four authors (i.e., one author and up to three co-authors). New submissions by the same author are accepted only if at least 12 (twelve) months have elapsed between submissions.

Contributions must be original and unpublished and must not be under consideration for publication by another journal. Authors who submit to another journal a manuscript that is under review at Monções, or who submit to Monções a manuscript already under review elsewhere, will be subject to a two-year submission ban.

Monções does not accept manuscripts that have been previously published, in whole or in part, in any language. This includes translated, revised, or adapted versions of texts that have been previously published in journals, books, and/or book chapters.

Translations may be considered only in specific cases, subject to justification and at the editors’ discretion, when the text is of academic relevance and contributes significantly to scholarly debate in the journal’s field of interest.

Submission Specifications

Contributions to the electronic journal Monções must comply with the following requirements:

Articles: Original manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish, or English, with 8,000 to 10,000 words, including references, footnotes, titles, abstracts of up to 250 words, and 3–5 keywords. The title and abstract must obligatorily be provided in Portuguese, English, and Spanish (French may be added optionally), both in the submission file and in the submission system.

Book reviews: 1,500 to 2,000 words, including references and footnotes. The review title must correspond to the title of the work under review, which must have been published within the previous two years.

Interviews: 2,000 to 5,000 words, including the interviewee’s mini-biography and any references.

All submissions, in any of the categories above, must be made through the following link: https://ojs.ufgd.edu.br/moncoes/submission/wizard.

In all cases, manuscripts must follow these formatting requirements: Word-compatible editor, Arial or Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 line spacing, and margins (left, right, top, and bottom) of 2.5 cm.

Figures, tables, and maps must be included in the body of the text and also submitted as separate files, properly numbered and titled, with appropriate source citation (if reproduced from another source) and clear indication of their placement in the text. Images must be submitted in files with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi to allow for direct reproduction.

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in manuscripts submitted to the journal must observe the principles of:

I – Transparency
II – Human authorship
III – Privacy, security, and confidentiality
IV – Academic integrity
V – Fairness and non-discrimination
VI – Responsibility for content
VII – Ethically guided use

The use of AI is permitted only as an auxiliary resource and must be declared and specified in the cover letter to the editors at the time of submission. The use of AI is prohibited for:

I – generating original content, interpretations, or critical analyses;
II – drafting substantive sections of the manuscript (novel methods, tests, results, discussion, and conclusions);
III – fabricating, altering, manipulating, or “enhancing” data, results, images, or graphs;
IV – inserting nonexistent or unverifiable references;
V – concealing plagiarism;
VI – producing undeclared material in violation of the rules described herein.

Citation and Reference Guidelines

Submissions to Monções must follow the most recent ABNT author-date citation style.

Direct Quotations

Quotations of up to three lines must appear in the body of the text within quotation marks. Quotations of four lines or more must be presented as a block quote in font size 10, with a 4 cm left indent, no special indentation, and single line spacing.

Example:

“The Westphalian sovereign state came to be viewed by International Relations as the only possible and legitimate expression of political order” (Fernandez, 2019, p. 462).

References

References must be listed alphabetically by authors’ surnames at the end of the manuscript, following the formats illustrated below:

Books

ANDERSON, Benedict. Imagined Communities. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2008.

CERVO, Amado; BUENO, Clodoaldo. História da Política Exterior do Brasil. 2nd ed. Brasília: Editora da UnB, 2002.

Edited volumes

CHOWDRY, Geeta; NAIR, Sheila (eds.). Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations. London: Routledge, 2002.

Book chapters

WEAVER, Ole. The Speech Act of Realism: the move that made IR. In: GUILHOT, Nicolas (ed.). The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Journal articles

KEOHANE, Robert. The demand for international regimes. International Organization, v. 36, n. 2, p. 325–355, 1982.

Monographs, dissertations, and theses

HERNANDEZ, Matheus de Carvalho. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and its Office: creation and institutional development (1994–2014). PhD Dissertation in Political Science, University of Campinas, 2015.

Online sources

PRICE, Megan; KLINGER, Jeff; BALL, Patrick. Preliminary statistical analysis of documentation of killings in the Syrian Arab Republic. 2013. Available at: http://www.benetech.org/download/Benetech-final-SY-report.pdf. Accessed on February 15, 2016.

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