Submissions

Author Guidelines

ESMAT Journal is a biannual interdisciplinary scientific journal published by the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins, a body linked to the Court of Justice of the State of Tocantins. The journal welcomes unpublished scientific contributions, focusing on a critical approach to the topics covered, both nationally and internationally. Its main objective is to act as a means of disseminating knowledge produced by Judges, students, professors, civil servants, lawyers, members of the Public Prosecution and other members of the legal and academic community. The journal is directly linked to the Professional and Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Judicial Provision and Human Rights, run by the Federal University of the State of Tocantins (UFT) in partnership with Esmat.

GENERAL ORIENTATIONS

• From 2024, the journal will fully publish exogenous articles, meaning those from other States in the country and abroad. For the purpose of exogeny, all the authors subscribing to the article are taken into account.
• Authors with a minimum of a master's, doctoral or master's/doctoral degree may submit articles.
• They may not be submitted simultaneously to other journals and they must be in any area of Law and/or interdisciplinary.
• The articles received will be submitted for prior evaluation by the Editorial Board, which will verify their suitability for the editorial line of the Journal, the general publication rules and conduct a plagiarism check. Articles that do not meet these requirements will be returned to their authors so that the necessary changes can be made.
• By submitting their work, the authors agree that the copyright for each of them is being assigned to the ESMAT Journal, without remuneration for the assignment and publication, respecting what is established in these rules.
• The journal reserves the right to accept or veto any original received in disagreement with these guidelines, as well as the right to propose any changes.
• The articles will be sent for analysis by external reviewer, taking into account the respective thematic areas, using the DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEW system. If approved, they will be published free of charge for authors and/or readers.
• ESMAT does not charge article submission fees or article processing fees.
• The Journal requires a declaration of conflict of interest in relation to the article submitted when the author has interests (political, personal, economic, etc.) that could inappropriately influence the preparation of the articles. The declaration will be analyzed in advance by the Editorial Board.
• Works involving research with living beings must be approved by an Ethics Committee, in accordance with current regulations.
• Publication in the Esmat Journal is free of charge and there is no pecuniary compensation for authors. Each author will be entitled to two copies of the issue of the ESMAT Journal that they collaborated on.
• Selected articles may be adapted to the ABNT standards if they do not comply with the standardization.
• Articles should be sent through the System of the Journal or directly to the e-mail <revista.esmat@tjto.jus.br>, with a copy to the scientific editor:  <tarsisbarreto@uft.edu.br>.
• The content of published articles is the sole responsibility of their authors.

Articles must meet the following technical standards:

Structure of the Article:

• Title;
• Title translated into English;
• Names of the authors;
• Abstract;
• Keywords;
• Abstract;
• KEYWORDS (do not use automatic web translators);
• Introduction;
• Text with subheading and footnotes with sequential numbering (1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.2, 4....);
• Conclusion;
• References (bibliographical and other);

Identification of the authors, in a footnote, must have:

• full name of the authors;
• e-mail addresses of the authors;
• institution where the authors work and/or study;
• curriculum summary of the authors with a maximum of three lines, informing their academic situation, titles and professional practice;

Bilingual summary (Portuguese/English), with the same content, and presented clearly:

• the subject of the work;
• the objectives;
• the methodology used; and
• the conclusions;

Keywords: Between three and a maximum of five (in the language of the text and in English - KEYWORDS)

Formatting:

• They must be between fifteen and thirty pages long, including the text and references;
• MS WORD (doc);
• Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, formatted on A4 paper (with 3cm top and left margins and 2cm bottom and right margins), 1.5cm paragraph;
• Pages NOT numbered and margins justified;

Titles

• Titles of Chapters in capital letters, in the same font as the text, and subheadings in normal text, both in bold, numbered and aligned to the left;
• Title of the article uppercase, bold and centered.

Quote:

• direct quote of more than three lines: indent 4cm from the left margin, Times New Roman font, size 10, single spaced, name of the author at the end of the paragraph in the format: (Name, 2007, p.11);
• quote where words or phrases are omitted: replace them with ellipses in square brackets, e.g. [...];
• indirect quote: Name (2007);
• all references in the body of the text must follow the ABNT author-date system (Oliveira, 2015, p. 25);

Footnotes:

• Times New Roman font, size 8, EXCLUSIVELY for brief explanatory notes, never for references;

References

• Bibliographical references must comply with the standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT NBR 6023) in alphabetical order, according to the following quote models:

Books:

SURNAME, Name of the author. Title of the book in bold. City: Publisher, year.

KARAM, Maria Lúcia. Special criminal courts: the early realization of the power to punish. São Paulo: Journal of the Courts, 2004.

Chapters of books:

SURNAME, name of the author. Title of the chapter without emphasis. In: SURNAME, name of the author. Title of the book in bold. City: Publisher, year.

MORAES, L. C. S. de. Legislative competence. In: MORAES. Course in environmental law. São Paulo: Atlas, 2002, ch. 2, p.54-68.

Articles from periodicals:

SURNAME OF THE AUTHOR, First name. Title of THE article: subheading (if any). Name of the Periodical in Bold, city, v., n., p. initial - final, month, year.

SENNA, Andressa Paula. Abuse of rights and bad faith litigation as impediments to procedural progress and the fair outcome of court proceedings. Journal of Private Law, v. 10, n. 40, p. 9-59, Oct./Dec. 2009.

Work presented in an event:

SURNAME, Name of the author. Title of the work presented, followed by the expression In: NAME OF THE EVENT, numbering of the event (if there is one), year and place of the event, title of the document, place, publisher, date of publication and initial-final page of the referenced part.

MARQUES, Cláudia Lima. Basic consumer rights in the post-modern society of services: the emergence of a new subject and the realization of their rights, In: BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ON RIGHT OF THE CONSUMER, 5, 2000, Belo Horizonte, Journal of Right of the Consumer, São Paulo, jul./sep. 2000, p. 61-96.

• In the case of works consulted ONLINE, it is essential to provide information on the electronic address, presented between the <> signs, preceded by the expression Available at: and the date of access to the document, preceded by the expression Accessed at:

HEIDEGGER. Martin. The age of the world image. Available at <http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/~wfil/heidegger.htm>. Access in: May 11th 2011.

ARTICLES

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