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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is Microsoft Word file format, and uses the template available in the instructions for authors.
The text follows the formatting defined in the template, including body text, headings, images, tables, references, etc.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
If applicable, the article includes a statement on the ethical considerations of the research, specifying the ethical code followed and, where necessary, the approval of an institutional ethics committee, including the institution’s identification and the reference number.
I confirm that I have read and agree with the NTQR Ethics and Best Practices Declaration, complying with all the established guidelines.
Author Guidelines
The NTQR Editorial Board encourages authors to submit original and innovative manuscripts for evaluation by the Scientific Committee, in a "Double-Blind Peer Review" process.
Submissions must be unpublished and must not be under any other review process associated with another publication. The submission of a manuscript assumes that the authors state that the contents are not owned by the copyright of another publication.
Manuscripts must be between 3500 and 4500 words (excluding sections such as titles, abstract, keywords, text, footnotes, figure captions, references, etc.).
Manuscripts can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, or English, always following the formats defined in the template. In addition to the scientific quality standards, NTQR intends to maintain high standards of writing quality, not accepting manuscripts that have spelling, grammatical, or other errors. To this end, it is mandatory for authors who are not native speakers of the publication language to have the document proofread by qualified individuals or companies, and they must submit proof of this revision along with the article. Submissions that present serious linguistic errors will not be accepted for peer review, with the authors being contacted to correct them and make a new submission.
The submitted manuscripts must follow the rules of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Ed., 2019. We request your attention to the following particularities:
The "&" sign will be used in the bibliographic references as provided by the APA rules (example: "(Creswell & Clark, 2011)" should be used in a quotation in the text within parenthesis, and "Creswell and Clark (2011) ", when the authors' names appear outside the parenthesis.
The decimal separator sign of the numbers must be the period (Anglo-Saxon system), and the thousands separator must be a space (example: 1 024.53).
Manuscripts must include abstracts in Portuguese/Spanish and/or English, between 250 and 300 words, and between 2 and 5 keywords.
Only the final version of the manuscripts accepted for publication may mention information identifying the authors (names, e-mail, affiliation, ORCID, etc.). To enable blind review, authors should remove this information from the first page, as well as subsequent pages that contain information to identify the authors (eg, author's note, thanks).
The final version of the manuscripts must be submitted in Microsoft Word format.
Each submission on NTQR is subject to the payment of a submission fee of €45. If the article is accepted, it will be subject to a publication fee of €250.
Important Note: Starting from September 1, 2024, the submission fee will be charged before the pre-evaluation. Only papers for which payment has been made will be pre-evaluated and notified regarding their continuation for evaluation or rejection.
Authors will have a period of 15 days from the date of submission to make the payment. If the payment is not made within this period, NTQR reserves the right to delete the submission.
The fee for rejected papers is non-refundable, and each author may only submit the same article once.
Manuscripts submitted to NTQR are subject to procedures for detecting possible plagiarism. NTQR aims to comply with the criteria of the originality of published works and information on the sources of the ideas presented, as such:
Performs a first analysis of the submitted material using anti-plagiarism software.
If irregularities are detected, the author will be contacted to make the necessary changes and resubmit the manuscript.
If the irregularity persists, the editors reserve the right to refuse the work for possible publication.
In a subsequent identification of some type of plagiarism of text already published, NTQR reserves the right to remove the text from the published volumes.
When submitting a manuscript to NTQR, the author authorizes the publication of approved and published manuscripts, as well as their automatic transfer to the OJS platform. This transfer makes it possible to publish the manuscript as well as to share it with the acknowledgement of its authorship, according to the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, which states: this is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, that others remix, adapt and create from their work for non-commercial purposes, as long as they do not distribute the modified material. The content of the manuscripts, experience reports, document analysis, integrative review, systematic review and meta-synthesis papers, clinical case reports and special issues and reviews published in the NTQR are the sole and exclusive responsibility of their authors.
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