About the Journal
Scope
Sertão História aims to bring together articles, reviews, transcripts and interviews that contribute to the advancement of historical studies in different temporalities and spatialities.
It is published every six months.
Objectives:
To promote debate between researchers, students and the general public.
To publish articles, reviews, transcripts and interviews that contribute to the advancement of historical studies in different temporalities and spatialities.
To provide theoretical and methodological reflection and dialogue on History and related areas, such as Geography, Economics, Social Sciences and others, through the publication of quality texts.
The journal will publish articles, reviews and interviews.
Publications will be accepted from undergraduates, lato sensu and stricto sensu postgraduate students (masters and doctorates), masters and doctors, relevant to the scope of the journal.
Higher education students can be co-authors, but cannot submit as first author. In this case, the first author must indicate the co-authors.
Dossiers and continuous flow:
Articles will be published by thematic and free dossiers, as long as they fall within the scope of the journal.
Submissions are made by continuous flow for articles with a free theme and according to the deadlines stipulated for thematic dossiers.
The Journal's editorial process follows this workflow:
Submission: articles are received in the system. At this stage, the texts are rejected (if they do not meet the journal's standardization standards or if a full external evaluation is not justified) by the editors or assigned to evaluators.
Evaluation: the articles are submitted to a blind evaluation process by peer reviewers. If approved, the articles move on to the next stage.
Layout editing: only articles approved by peers go on to be proofread and formatted. This requires textual and/or formal adjustments.
Editing: this is the last stage in which the texts are prepared in their final version and transformed into a PDF.
Publication ethics:
The Journal reserves the right not to accept for evaluation more than one unpublished article per author during a two-year period.
Editors-in-chief may not submit articles for publication in the journal during the period in which they are carrying out their duties, with the exception of interviews. All cases of doubt will be assessed jointly with the associate editors. The editorial board will be consulted on changes to the rules.
Sertão História can have up to 20% of its articles produced in-house (authors linked to the Universidade Regional do Cariri) in each issue.
Misconduct:
Sertão História undertakes to comply with good editorial practices and to respect the guidelines of scientific ethics that govern historical research. Unethical behavior, including plagiarism and falsification of data, is not permitted.
At the time of submission, the author must ensure that all ethical guidelines have been followed, inform the sources of funding and, where applicable, declare the approval of the ethics committees. Compliance with good ethical practices is the sole responsibility of the author.
Articles will be evaluated without discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, nationality or political stance, provided that national and international documents on human rights are respected.
As for authorship, all those who contributed to the design, development and analysis of the data must be identified as co-authors.
If errors are identified after publication, the author undertakes to inform the editors as soon as possible so that errata can be issued in a future issue of the journal.
In cases of misconduct, such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism or republication of manuscripts, detected after publication, the author will be subject to editorial sanctions, including retraction of the article. In addition, if they wish, the plagiarized author can send a reply in article format to be published in another subsequent issue.
Adoption of software using artificial intelligence:
Authors using generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) must describe its use when submitting the article, justifying and detailing how and where it was applied in the manuscript itself. If the article is approved, authors must also detail the use of generative AI in the final version, including specifications such as the name, version of the tool and date of consultation. This information should be included in a note at the beginning of the article, along with the acknowledgments or a description of the research projects.
Adoption of Similarity Checking Software:
Sertão História uses the following similarity checking programs: CopySpider and Plagiarism Checker.
Articles are checked by the editors as soon as they are submitted. In situations of minor similarity with excerpts from the authors' own work (including theses and dissertations) that have already been published, the authors are contacted to reformulate the submission. In cases of great similarity, the submission is rejected.
Open Access Policy
This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge. This is an open access journal, which means that all the content is available free of charge, at no cost to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without seeking prior permission from the editor or author. This is in accordance with BOAI's definition of open access.
Núcleo de Estudos em História Social e Ambiente - NEHSA
Support:
Laboratório de Pesquisa em História Social - LABORE
Universidade Regional do Cariri
