Submissions

Author Guidelines

Article Processing Charges or APCs

There are no article processing charges involved in the submission, review or publication of manuscripts in the journal.

Copyright notice

- The editorial board requires authors to declare possible conflicts of interest of a personal or financial nature. For more information, please read this document carefully.

Article processing fees or APCs

There are no article processing fees involved in submitting, reviewing or publishing manuscripts in the journal.

Dadolin: Journal of Languages and Literatures accepts submissions throughout the year. Contributions must be sent by the following guidelines:

Technical conditions:

1. a) Text written in Microsoft Word format (*doc or *docx).
2. b) The URL addresses of the references in the text are active and ready to be clicked.
3. c) The texts of the sections will be formatted as follows: Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 spacing, the page with 3 cm at the top margin and 2 cm at the other margins and should not be paginated.

- article: unpublished, the result of empirical research and/or a theoretical study of a given theme/problem. A minimum of 4,000 words and a maximum of 8,000 words;

- retrospective: a historical-critical summary of the state of a particular field of knowledge or theoretical framework. A minimum of 4,000 words and a maximum of 8,000 words;

- book review: presentation and critical analysis of recently released books (up to 2 years old). A minimum of 1,000 words and a maximum of 3,000 words;

- interview: an interview whose content is of interest to the academic community and with an interviewer who stands out in the field of research. A minimum of 1,000 words and a maximum of 3,000 words;

- translations: texts of interest to the academic community. A minimum of 4,000 words;

Structure of article: The presentation must include the title, introduction, development (theoretical basis, methodology, analysis), and conclusions. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words, Times New Roman, 12, single-spaced;

1. d) All citations and references must comply with the APA standard (updated version).

Authorship: Master's or doctoral degree. Master's students, undergraduates or graduates can publish in co-authorship with an author who holds a master's or doctorate, i.e. students can publish with a supervisor, or another professor, who holds a master's or doctorate.

Please note: Before the blind peer review, Dadolin: Revista de Línguas e Literaturas checks the authenticity of the texts using Turnitin Originality, the Turnitin software for detecting textual similarity and integrity in academic texts (anti-plagiarism): https://www.turnitin.com/products/originality.

Formatting of the article to be submitted for evaluation

1. a) Pre-textual elements:

The title (capital letters), and abstract (maximum 250 words).

Keywords: 3 to 5 keywords in Portuguese, with the first letter of the keyword capitalized; words separated from each other by a period, with the last word also followed by a period (e.g. Linguistics. Literature. Language Teaching.).

Translation: The title, abstract, and 3 to 5 keywords are translated into Tetum.

Translation: The title, abstract, and 3 to 5 keywords translated into English.

The abstract (maximum 250 words) should present the object/subject/theme, the problem, the hypotheses, the objectives, the methodology, and the main conclusions. All abstracts should be formatted with single spacing.

Do not include the author's name or academic affiliation in the text being submitted;

1. b) Textual elements:

Introduction or Initial considerations situate the reader by presenting the general panorama; offering a global vision of the study; clarifying and delimiting the approach to the subject; presenting objectives (general and specific); presenting the justification and relevance of the research; highlighting the methodology; exposes the structure of the article.

Sections and subsections of the text (if there are any): definition of concepts, debates, justification of ideas, etc.

Methodology, presentation, analysis, and discussion of data.

Conclusions or final considerations: present the research findings; the starting question is answered by confirming or refuting hypotheses; ideas are tied together, and the objectives are verified.

1. c) Post-textual elements: References in APA standard (updated version). Annexes and appendices (if any/optional).
2. d) Internal structure of the text:

- Illustrations: figures, graphs, charts, and tables must have a title and an indication of their source. Produced by the author, should state “Source: own elaboration”. The source should be positioned below the illustration, by APA.

- Notes: explanatory notes should be avoided and if used should appear as a footnote throughout the text.

- All words and expressions that are not part of the language of the article should be italicized.

- The titles of sections and subsections should be in Arabic numerals, in bold, and with the first letter capitalized.

- In the text, titles of works should be enclosed in double quotation marks, with capitalization only at the beginning, except in the case of proper names.

Bibliographical references: References to works cited in the text, according to the APA standard (updated version).

Other guidelines:

1. a) notes should be inserted in the footer; they should not be used to reference works;
2. b) citations:

- direct quotations (which are not paraphrases) of up to 40 words: inserted in double quotation marks in the author's paragraph; single quotation marks are used to indicate a quotation within a quotation;

- quotation with more than 40 words: new paragraph, indented and without quotation marks (cf. APA Noma - updated version);

- deletion of parts of the quotation are indicated as: [...];

- additions or comments inserted in the quotation are separated by square brackets [sssss].