Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The contribution is original and unpublished and is not being evaluated for publication in another journal.
The work is in line with the focus and scope of the Observatory of Cultural Diversity Journal.
The submission file is saved in .doc or .docx format, in the case of textual work.
The submission file is saved in .jpg or .jpeg or .png format, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi in the case of artwork.
Links to references have been provided wherever possible.
The identification of the author of the work has been removed from the file and from the “properties” option in Word.
The work follows the standards specified in the Guidelines for Authors.

Author Guidelines

Texts can be written in Portuguese or Spanish and sent in a Word file (.doc or .docx), in Arial 11 font, 1.5 spacing, normal margins (for quotations and tables, use Arial 10 font and 1.0 spacing) and with no space between paragraphs;
The title should be centralized, in bold and uppercase;
The abstract should be up to five lines long;
Up to five keywords must be indicated;
Direct and indirect quotations, as well as references, must be made in the text itself;
If there are images, graphs or tables, they must be inserted in the text and sent separately in the appropriate field of the article submission platform, saved in .jpg or .jpeg or .png format, with a minimum resolution of 150 dpi to 200 dpi.
Credits for images, graphs and tables must be duly given;
Texts should be between five and ten pages long, including bibliographical references;
Textual works must follow ABNT standards (6023:2018 - references and 10520:2023 - citations).
Works by professionals and researchers will be accepted. There is no limit to the number of authors of a text. In cases of co-authorship, each author's contribution to the research and writing of the paper must be indicated in the article itself, according to the CRediT taxonomy.

Contributor Roles	Definição
Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing – original draft	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing – review & editing	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.