Guidelines for Authors

1. Languages

The official languages for publication of the content of the magazine are English and Portuguese. Collaborators' texts and goods presented by researchers can be in any one of the two official languages. In the case of difficulties in supply of the content in the two official languages, the authors should request orientations of the editors.

2. Reviews of the goods

Each text or other cooperation should be summarized around 200 words. This summary should be capable to turn, alone, a description of the article. Reviews should be supplied in the two official languages. In the case of difficulty in producing these texts in the two languages, the authors can count with the attendance of the editorial team.

3. Authors

To supply full name, (with last name in capital letters) address for correspondence (including e-mail), telephone / fax number and an abbreviation description of the professional experience. These information should also be supplied by all of the joint authors.

4. Style

Texts and all the other submitted cooperations should be concise and written in a readable way. Language which is not technical and no discriminatory should be used where possible and the specialized terms should be explained for a multy-disciplinary public that might not know or use certain technical terms. The new terminology or highly technique should be defined and explained. The terms that will be used in an abbreviated way, should be, first, used for extensive. Clarity should be solid in the texts.

For all of the contributions, being them in English or Portuguese, the format of the headers, tables, illustrations, citations, references and other details should follow patterns internationally recognized such as: ABNT (Brazil), APA (United States), etc. Once it is an international and bilingual magazine, the job of any standardized style is accepted and recognized internationally. The important is to maintain consistence and an unique style inside of a certain article.

5. Citations

In the case of citations, the author should present all the materials exactly like they appear in the original, indicating any omission for the period of three spaces. Every citation should be referenced, just indicating the author's name and the year of publication in the body of the article and presenting the complete reference in alphabetical order in the end of the article. 40 references are recommended, at the most. These should be verified with great care. To maintain coherence in the style of the magazine, the author, independently of the stylistic format adopted for the body of the article, it should follow the guide of style of ABNT or APA strictly for the presentation of the references. All the references should be in alphabetical order for the author's (no numbered) name, as in the example below. In these references there is no space between the authors’ initials. Use the first following example when you refer to a book and the second example to an article.

In all contributions, whether in English, Portuguese or Spanish language, the format of headings, tables, figures, citations, references, and other details should follow an internationally recognized style, such as APA (USA) or ABNT (Brazil). Given the international and trilingual characteristics of BRODL, papers may follow any internationally recognized presentation style. It is important, however, to maintain a consistent style throughout any one article. Other specific style standards are presented below.

O'Shea, T., & Self, J. A. (1983). Learning and teaching with computers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Pretince-Hall Inc.

Porter, R., & Lehman, J. (1984). Projects for physical concepts of teaching using a microcomputer. Newspaper of Computers in the Teaching of the Mathematics and Science, 3 (4), 14-15.

6. Texts, tables and graphs

Every text should be original, scientifically exact, and in good editorial format. The communication should be informative, summarizing the basic facts to conclusions, and maintaining the coherence and unit of the thought. Controversial topics should be treated in a factual way and in an impartial way. The whole text should be written using an electronic editor of texts.

Tables, Graphs and Forms should be sent in an electronic way using a file type capable of being transformed in document for the Web. Not to submit compressed (for instance, zip) files.

All the tables and graphs of illustrations should be stored inside of a file of excellent quality. Illustrations will be subtitled in the inferior part of the image, and numbered in sequence. Mathematical formulas or other codes / programs, / text in tables, they should be submitted as graphs (jpeg, gif, tiff, png, etc.). The graphs should be stored in the file where they will appear.

7. Conditions of acceptance of goods and other cooperations

For the acceptance of texts, RBAAD demands that:

Everything must be original works and no published previously;
they must not be considered for publication in any other place - exceptions of this rule can be: an editorial, new items or reviews of books;
the author has obtained every necessary permission and paid all the taxes for use of the mentioned material or cession of copyrights. Authors should compensate ABED and the team of editors of the magazine for any loss caused as a consequence of some infraction in relation to copyrights.

8. Revision for the Editorial Team

The texts will be revised by members of the editorial team and for a team of reviewers with experience in the area acted by the text, and/or guests with special competence in the referring area. All the manuscripts will be received by presented receipt. The revision will be accomplished the fastest possible. A manuscript will be revised for at least two members of the editorial team that, usually, they don't take more than two months in this task. The main author, or the author designated to receive correspondence, this person will be notified, as soon as the decision has been made for the publication or rejection of the work. Through the notification, and as condition of the acceptance of the work for publication, the author can be requested to do certain revisions in the manuscript, or the Editor can submit some revision suggestions for the author's approval.

9. Copyrights

The Brazilian Association of Education the Distance (ABED) stops the copyrights of this magazine. A material published in RBAAD cannot be published in another place without the previous permission of ABED. ABED possesses those rights in all of the texts accepted for publication, as well as the right of distributing and/or to store its contents of one or more forms to proceed: papers, electronic publication or other distribution, filing and recovery mechanisms. Authors of the published texts in the magazines have the right of using this material for personal purposes, purely educational. All of the subsequent publications, complete or partial, should be authorized by the Editor, and they cannot be done without the recognition, in the citations, of ABED as the original publisher of the article.