Publication Process

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The process and selection criteria

At Editora Uningá, once the proposal has been received, the manuscript is submitted to the Editorial Board, whose role is to define and implement editorial policies, as scrutinising, selecting and deciding whether or not to accept the publication of the original submitted by the proposers, as well as establishing the criteria of excellence and the quality standards of the works that will be published.

Stages of the book publishing process

The complete process consists of the following steps: 

1. Submission: receipt of proposals and preliminary analysis based on the criteria: theme, structure, content, target audience and market.
2. Evaluation: the work is sent to ad hoc reviewers from outside Uningá to be assessed for scientific merit. For this purpose, two reviewers are selected from the area corresponding to the study submitted to Editora Uningá. If there is a discrepancy between the evaluations, a third reviewer will be called in. 
3. Deliberation: scrutiny of the technical-scientific opinions, which subsidise the Editorial Board’s decision to publish the work.   
4. Approval: acceptance of the publication and immediate signing of the “Publishing Contract” by the author or the book’s organiser, in order to proceed with the textual/grammatical revision process, standardisation of the rules in terms of structure, citations and references, graphic design and layout.

Instructions for submitting manuscripts

To submit a proposal for publication, the author or organiser must send it to the publisher at the following email address: [email protected]

In this e-mail, attach the following documents: 

1. a) Publication proposal in Word file, containing the authors’ identification. 
2. b) “Proposal submission” form. 
3. c) Declaration of authorisation and assignment of any copyright.

Ebook submission guidelines

About the material: 

Editora Uningá publishes textbooks as well as technical and scientific books. It should be highlighted that if the work is the result of a thesis or dissertation, it must be reformulated before being submitted for editorial consideration, so that the transposition into book format is presented in a fluid and objective text. Since, unlike the target audience to which the academic-scientific study is exposed, such as a group of specialists in the field, it is necessary to consider the audience for which the copy will be intended, sometimes a broader and more diverse one, and therefore more accessible language and format are needed, in keeping with the new purpose.  

For proposals for books resulting from research involving human beings, experimental animals, genetic engineering and the environment, the proposer must present the consent of the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) and be in line with the Cope Guidelines (Committee on Publication Ethics). 

In the case of a book translation, prior to submission, the publishers and authors of the work to be translated must be authorised to do so, and the applicant is responsible for reviewing and translating the work.

On the format of the text:

Manuscripts need to be full text, with a presentation and/or introduction, following the standards set out in the annex. The only inclusion accepted a posteriori is the preface.

A collective work requires standardisation in terms of textual structure (introduction, section title, subsection and conclusion), the wording, the references cited, the use of explanatory footnotes, the presentation of the authors, as well as a balanced layout of the chapters, thus avoiding the creation of a mosaic of texts with similar themes. 

The recommendation is to organise the collection so that it contains a maximum of 15 chapters, with each chapter preferably comprising six authors. The organiser may contribute a maximum of two chapters. 

Figures and images need to be presented in JPEG or PNG format, at 100 per cent scale and at least 300 dpi resolution.

During the publication process, the author, organiser or translator is responsible for checking, arranging and submitting the assignment of any copyrights reserved by the original authors when the work contains awards, translations, collections, photos, images, illustrations or makes use of registered trademarks, bearing any financial expenses arising from the payment of these rights.

The cataloguing will be requested after the review of the author’s first proof, at which point the ebook will be assigned an ISBN (International Standard Book Number).

Editora Uningá reserves the right to develop and define the graphic design and create the cover. The applicant is advised to contact the publisher in case of suggestions.

For more information on file formatting and text standards, please visit: Anexo I