Instructions to authors

Form and preparation of manuscripts

RAM accepts academic contributions consisting of scientific papers written in Portuguese, English or Spanish (at the discretion of the authors) that are of interest to the field of knowledge of administration and for the activities of the business administrator, in compliance with its Editorial Policy. If your submission is in English, it is not necessary to send the Portuguese version. If the submission is in Portuguese or in Spanish, it is necessary to send the Portuguese and English versions for publication. Translation is the responsibility of the authors.

The manuscripts must be formatted in the Word for Windows 6.0 editor or later, A4 format, 1.5 spacing, Times New Roman, font, 12 point, 3 cm upper and left-hand margins and 2 cm lower and right-hand margins. THE COMPLETE TEXT containing every element (covering page, summary, abstract, text body, references and appendices). IT MUST HAVE AT LEAST 7600 WORDS AND NOT OVER 8400 WORDS.

Figures, tables or graphics must be shown in the article’s body, close to the location in which they are mentioned (main file). Furthermore, figures, tables and graphics inserted in the text must be provided separately, each contained in a separate complementary file, in the software font format in which they were created. Such files must be submitted jointly with the main file. Complementary files must not exceed 1MB.

Owing to the large number of submissions, authors and co-authors will be restricted submitting to RAM not more than two articles at every consecutive 12-month period. In the case of special calls, each author can submit only one article for call, regardless of whether he or she is an author or co-author, and this submission will be counted in the two papers per year that each author can send. Re-submitting rejected papers will not be allowed, albeit containing changes. It is also not permitted to submit a paper simultaneously to two RAM sections. Each author may publish not more than one paper during the same year, regardless of his/her position in an article’s authorship.

The maximum number of authors per article is five. Changes in authorship of articles in the course of the editorial process is not permitted.

Files and contents of text, figures, tables and graphics must not contain any identification of author or co-authors. Should it be possible to identify the author or co-authors, the article will be rejected.

Special editing resources such as underscoring, hyphens, macros, insets, etc. must be avoided. Italics should be restricted to words in foreign languages. Highlighting words and symbols should employ bold type.

Titles and subtitles should be written in bold type and must not be extensive, with not over two lines in length and must have from 12 to 15 words.

Notes should be used sparingly. When used they should be placed in the footer. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the text.

The manuscript’s submission (containing the text’s body and enclosed in the main file) should comply with the format as follows:

• Unidentified covering page: Title in Portuguese followed by an abstract in Portuguese containing from 200 to 250 words. The abstract should be organized by items, pursuant to the proposed model that follows. Labels should be in bold type, without numbers.
• Purpose: – Consists in setting forth objectives to be achieved with the paper.  As a suggestion, we illustrate with Blaikie’s rating (2009)¹.
  • Explore: Provide an initial description or an understanding of a phenomenon;
  • Describe: – Provide a detailed array of data or measurements of the nature of any population (sample), group or phenomenon, including regularities found in the data;
  • Explain: – Establish elements, factors or mechanisms that gave rise to the state or regularities in the phenomenon under study;
  • Understand: – Establish the reasons inherent to a specific social action, an event’s occurrence or of the development of a social episode;
  • Foresee: – Employ a phenomenon’s established understandings or explanations in order to infer certain outcomes in accordance with specific conditions;
  • Modify: – Intervene in a social situation by manipulating some of its aspects or to aid participants in the change, preferably based on an understanding or a pre-established explanation.
• Originality/value: – Explain why the article should be considered original. Which knowledge gap does it complete? Are there issues with no replies on the subject investigated?  Does it propose a new approach, concept, theory, paradigm? Does it encourage changes or advances in knowledge, in terms of concepts, relationships, models or theories?  What is its practical usefulness (and interest)? Reflects trends likely to contribute to present and future organizational changes?
• Design/methodology/approach: – Briefly describe the methodological approach and survey techniques; – qualitative, quantitative, mixed. Survey strategy. Data gathering and analysis technique. In case of a theoretical text, explain the procedures adopted (systematic review of literature, bibliometrics, analysis target, proposal of model or theory, etc.).
• Findings: – What do the results mean (interpreted in the light of relevant theories), in particular in view of what was known on the subject under investigation? Conclusions should not advance and be extended beyond what is supported by their results. What would be the practical applications of the outcome and which would be the next survey steps?
• (1)    Blaikie, N. (2009) Designing social research: the logic of anticipation. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
• The text’s body: The text’s body should appear on a new page. Do not begin a new page for each subtitle. Please note that the conventional portions of a scientific theoretical and empirical article should include: Introduction, theoretical reference, methodological procedure, outcome and analysis, conclusion, references and optionally appendices.  The theoretical reference must necessarily cover relevant domestic and international scientific production for the last five years. Appendices must be employed as little as possible.
• References: Whenever a source is employed, surname(s) of author(s) and years of publication should be mentioned. In case of direct references, the page should be mentioned. All the sources quoted must be mentioned in references following the summary page.
• Figures, tables and graphics: Titles and subtitles (when required) should always be placed in the text’s body close to the figures, tables and graphics (main file). These should also be placed in the complementary files.
• Title in English and Abstract: The “abstract” is the summary in the English language. The same guidance provided is valid for the summary. After the abstract five keywords in English should be inserted (Keywords) compatible with the keywords in the summary in Portuguese.
• Title in Spanish and Resumen: The “resumen” is the summary in Spanish. The same guidance provided is valid for the summary. After the resumen five keywords in Spanish should be inserted (Palabras Clave) compatible with the keywords in the summary in English and Portuguese.
• Rules for submitting the paper: The use of APA standards is mandatory when submitting scientific papers.

In order to submit a paper the first author must necessarily be registered with this Journal.  During the registration process the author must select the author category as well as the reader category.

After registration, the author must access this Journal through a login and password, in order to submit a paper, opting for the author category on the user page. Next, the online submission option must be select on the About the Journal page. During the paper submission procedure, the first author will be requested to complete the registration information for the co-authors.

Brief Biography(ies) of the author and co-authors must necessarily be provided by the first author when submitting the paper. These brief biographies must have around fifty words and state their degrees, affiliation, positions and research interests. The degree requires two types of information: the highest academic title held by the author (e.g. Bachelor; Master; Doctor; Lecturer) and the awarding Institution. The affiliation corresponds to the main institution with which the author is currently affiliated. In both cases, the Institutions must be identified in full, and must necessarily show two organizational units, for example, college and university or department and college. Students must indicate the degree for which they are studying (Graduate, Master’s, Doctorate) and must state the institution to which they are affiliated under affiliation. The degrees and affiliations of the authors (as completed during the submission process) will be published on the coversheet of the article, if approved. The full brief biographies of the authors (as completed during the submission process) will be made available for consultation by readers when accessing the paper through this Journal website.

Thanks and acknowledgments must be included during the paper’s submission process by the first author in the Development Agencies field.  Please mention any significant grants received and disclose the URLs of the institutions or financing organizations.  Add the phrase: “The financing entities had no influence on the study’s design, on the data collection and analysis, the decision to publish and the paper’s preparation.” Should this statement not be correct, it is not necessary to enter the sentence and the first author must complete the Conflict of Interests field, explaining the role of the sponsors or financing entities on the work and the paper.

Contents of undersigned articles are under the authors’ sole responsibility. When submitting articles, authors assure that they contain no violations of any copyrights or other third-party rights or any materials of an obscene, libelous or other unlawful nature. Quoting portions of articles without prior approval is permitted, provided that the source is disclosed.

After submission, the paper will be assessed in compliance with the Peer Review Process. This Journal reserves the right to request possible alterations in texts approved for publication. The first author will monitor the editorial process receiving requests for alterations and submitting revised versions of the paper through the desktop publishing system used by this Journal, with a login and password in the User / Author category.

The submitted papers must be unpublished in Brazil and elsewhere in the world. Papers presented previously at congresses, seminars and similar events may be sent in, provided that no constraints are imposed by the organizers of such events.

After approval of the paper, all the authors must register with this Journal, giving their correspondence and e-mail addresses, which will be published on the coversheet of the paper. The authors will receive the Assignment of Copyright document by e-mail, which must be signed by all the authors and sent back to this Journal by regular mail.

Papers submitted may not be under simultaneous review by other periodicals. Should this situation be ascertained, the paper will be rejected and the authors will be suspended from submitting papers for this Journal for three years. Moreover, the Editor of the periodical for which such simultaneous review process was identified will also be notified of this matter.

Manuscript submission

Papers must follow the RAM’s editorial policies. Additional information about guidelines for authors and the adopted format by RAM are available in https://www.scielo.br/journal/ram/about/#instructions. 

Copyright Declaration

Once the papers have been approved, the authors assign their copyrights to this Journal. The Copyright Assignment Conditions include:

1. The Mackenzie Administration Journal holds the rights to all the papers published thereby through assignment of copyright.
2. The author retains moral rights to the paper, including the right to identify the author whenever the article is published.
3. As of July 1, 2015 RAM adopted the CC-BY license standard (Creative Commons– BY). Authors are allowed to copy, distribute, display, transmit and adapt articles. Authors must attribute to RAM explicitly and clearly an article’s original publication (with reference to the journal’s name, edition, year and pages in which the article was originally published), yet without suggesting that RAM endorses the author or its use of the article. Contents are released by means of the CC-BY license to fully inter-operate with a variety of different systems and services, including for commercial purposes. In case of an article’s reuse or distribution, authors must make the article’s licensing terms clear to third parties. CC-BY criteria follow open access policies by major OA (Open Access) publishers and journals, such as PLoS, eLife, Biomed Central and Hindawi, among others. 
4. Authors may take photocopies of the paper or distribute it through electronic media, provided that this is intended for their own classes and research activities, under the condition that: (a) such copies are not resold and (b) reference to prior publication in this Journal (Journal name, issue, year and pages) are shown clearly and explicitly on the coversheets of all the copies taken of the paper.

Intellectual property

All content in this magazine, unless otherwise identified, is under a Creative Commons – BY attribution license.

Open Science

RAM – Revista de Administração Mackenzie requests, during the submission process, the Open Science Compliance Form, made available by the indexer SciELO. The form must be attached in a specific field of the shipment.