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RBI accepts submissions of unpublished research papers, review articles and book reviews, written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. For articles in English both British and American spellings are accepted, as long as the author chooses one and maintains consistency throughout the text.
The recommended length for research and review articles is 8,000 words, and 1,000 for book reviews. Manuscripts that have been submitted for publication or have already been published in another journal will not be accepted.
All submissions to RBI must be carried out via the Electronic System for Journal Publishing (SEER), which is hosted at UNICAMP’s Web Portal of Electronic Scientific Journals (PPEC/Unicamp). Papers submitted by other means will not be accepted.
In cases in which the work has been written by more than one author, it is understood that the ordering of the authors’ names is in accordance with their contribution.
The submission of original manuscripts to the journal implies the authorization of the author(s) for publication, without payment of copyright and/or publication royalties. The inclusion of authors will not be accepted after the submission, so it is important that the authors correctly fill and check the metadata of their submission when the manuscript is sent to RBI.
1.1. Preparation of manuscripts:
Works submitted to RBI must be drafted according to the following guidelines. Articles that do not conform to the rules will be returned to the authors for adjustments before they are submitted to peer review.
Authors must ensure the originality and the uniqueness of the article, that is, the work cannot have been published previously and/or submitted simultaneously to another journal. It is important to point out that RBI does not consider that the publication of articles in events or “working papers” remove the originality of the work submitted. Aware of Open Science principles updating, RBI considers that articles published in preprint repositories keep their originality and thus can be submitted.
Articles must be submitted WITHOUT any identification of authorship. For such, it is necessary that the authors, at the time of submission, correctly fill out the information in their User Profile and also the information in Step 3 (Submission Data) in the system (by providing full name, e-mail, institution/affiliation, country and biographical summary for each author) and withdraw from the article excerpts and information that facilitates the identification of authorship. Among the items that must be withdrawn are acknowledgements, references to research projects and self-citations. This information should be made available on the title page that the author must submit during submission as a supplementary document, separate from the article. This information may be included in the article after its approval, when applicable.
Title page: in the submission of the article, the authors must send, via online system, a separate page of the article containing:
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Title in the original language of the article and title in English for articles in Portuguese or Spanish;
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Full name of each author;
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Affiliation of each author (with university, city, state – if any –, and country);
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E-mail address of each author;
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Indication of who the corresponding author is;
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The ORCID identifier of each author;
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Contribution of each author to the manuscript: RBI follows the specifications based on the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system adapted to the practices of “innovation studies” journals. The CRediT system specifications for authors’ contribution include:
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A. theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization;
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B. data research and statistical analysis;
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C. elaboration of figures and tables;
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D. drafting and writing of the text;
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E. selection of bibliographical references.
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Indication of conflict of interest (if there is no conflict, please declare “there is no conflict of interest”);
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Source of funding (if there is no financing source, please declare “there is no source of funding”);
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Acknowledgments (if any).
Word file (.doc or .docx extensions), font: Times New Roman 12; page setup: A4; right, top and bottom margins: 2.5cm; left margin: 3cm; line spacing: 1.5; 1.25 indentation in the first line; text alignment: justified; page numbering in the top right corner.
Explanatory footnotes must be in Times New Roman 10 and listed in Arabic numerals.
Abbreviated citations in the body of the text and in footnotes (author, year of publication and, when applicable, page) should be complete in the bibliographical references at the end of the text.
Tables, charts and graphs (in editable format, that is, elaborated from the text editor itself) must be enumerated and inserted in their respective spaces and with their respective sources.
Figures other than charts and graphs (in JPEG format – from 300 dpi upward) must be included in the Word file and sent separately (appended during the submission of the article as supplemental document). Tables, charts, graphs and other figures can be sent in color.
Formulas and mathematical equations must be presented in the normal sequence of the text. In the paragraph, they must be centered and identified by consecutive Arabic numerals enclosed in parentheses at the far right of the line, as follows:
Var [ε1 | x1, x2] = Var [ε2 | x1, x2] = 1 (1)
Foreign words must be written in italics. Foreign proper nouns should not be in italics.
Links to electronic addresses must be active. The file for submission must be in Word and in PDF formats WITHOUT authors’ identification in any of the versions.
References and citations:
References must be quoted alphabetically, without numbering, with single spacing with 6pt before and 0pt after paragraphs. If there is more than one work of the same author, citations must respect the chronological order of publication; if there is more than one work of the same author published in the same year, they must be differentiated by adding a, b, c… to the year. The bibliographical references should include only the works used for the elaboration of the manuscript.
Examples:
1) Books:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Book title (in italics, only the first letter in uppercase): subtitle (no italics). Edition. City of Publication: Publisher, year. v. (Series or Collection).
Ex.: DOSI, G.; PAVITT, K.; SOETE, L. The economics of technical change and international trade. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1990.
2) Book chapters:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Chapter title without highlighting. In: followed by the references of the book: AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Book title (in italics, only the first letter in uppercase): subtitle (no italics). Edition. City of Publication: Publisher, year, page numbers or v. (Series or Collection).
Ex.: EDQUIST, C. Systems of innovation approaches: their emergence and characteristics. In: EDQUIST, C. Systems of innovation: technologies, institutions and organizations. London and Washington: Pinter/Cassell Academic, 1997.
3) Works published in conference proceedings or similar:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Title: subtitle. In: Name of the event (in italics), number, year, place. Publication title (in italics): subtitle (no italics). City of Publication: Publisher, year, page numbers.
Ex.: POSSAS, M. L. Racionalidade e Regularidades: rumo a uma integração micro-macrodinâmica. In: XVII Encontro Nacional de Economia, 1989, Fortaleza, CE. Anais... Fortaleza/CE: ANPEC, 1989, p. 62-82.
4) Pieces of periodic publications
4.1) Journal publications:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Title (no highlight). Journal name (in italics), City of publication, volume and number, pages, year.
Ex.: METCALFE, J. S. Equilibrium and Evolutionary Foundations of Competition and Technology Policy: New Perspectives on the Division of Labour and the Innovation Process. Revista Brasileira de Inovação, Campinas, v.2, n.1, p.111-146, 2009.
4.2) Newspaper articles:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Article title. Newspaper title. Number or title of the section or supplement, City of Publication, page numbers, day/month/year.
Ex.: GADELHA, C.; MUDEL, T. Inovação Brasileira, impacto global. Folha de S. Paulo, 12/11/2013.
5) Monographs, dissertations and theses:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Title (in italics): subtitle, year, number of pages or volumes. (Category and area of concentration) Name of Faculty, Name of University, City.
Ex.: RUFFONI, J. Proximidade geográfica e inovação tecnológica de firmas: uma análise para o segmento produtor de máquinas para calçados da Itália e do Brasil, 2010, 251 p. (PhD thesis in Science and Technology Policy) University of Campinas, Campinas.
6) Online publications:
AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s first name. Article title. Name of journal. City, volume, number of issue, number of pages, year. ISSN. Available at: <electronic address>. Accessed on: day/month/year. DOI (when applicable).
Ex.: TIGRE, Paulo Bastos. Paradigmas Tecnológicos e Teorias Econômicas da Firma. Revista Brasileira de Inovação, Campinas, SP, v. 4, n. 1, p. 187-223, Aug. 2009. ISSN 2178-2822. Available at: <https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648911>. Accessed on: 27 Jul. 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/rbi.v4i1.8648911.
For other examples, we recommend consulting the ABNT-NBR-6023/2002 guidelines. For users of electronic systems for indexing references (Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero or other), we suggest the use of the style “ABNT – Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas”.
1.2 Guidelines for submission of manuscripts for sections Articles, Memory and Review Articles
When submitting an article to RBI, authors must make sure that the work is aligned with the thematic areas and the scope of the journal. It is also necessary to check if the text submitted complies to the items listed below. Submissions that do not conform to the following guidelines will be returned to the authors.
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Authors must ensure the originality and the uniqueness of the article, that is, the work cannot have been published previously and/or submitted simultaneously to another journal. It is important to point out that it does not follow from this editorial policy that the publication of articles in events or “working papers” remove the originality of the work submitted.
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Articles must be submitted WITHOUT any identification of authorship. For such, it is necessary that the authors, at the time of submission, correctly fill out the information in their User Profile and also the information in Step 3 (Submission Data) in the system (by providing full name, e-mail, institution/affiliation, country and biographical summary for each author) and withdraw from the article excerpts and information that facilitates the identification of authorship. Among the items that must be withdrawn are acknowledgements, references to research projects and self-citations. This information should be made available on the title page that the author must submit as a supplementary document, separate from the article. This information may be included in the article after its approval, when applicable.
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Title page: in the submission of the article, the authors must send, via online system, a separate page of the article containing: 1) title in the original language of the article and title in English for articles in Portuguese or Spanish; 2) full name of each author; 3) affiliation of each author (with university, city, state (if any), and country); 4) e-mail address of each author; 5) indication of who the corresponding author is; 6) the ORCID identifier of each author; 7) contribution of each author to the manuscript: RBI follows the specifications based on the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system adapted to the practices of “innovation studies” journals. The CRediT system specifications for authors’ contribution include: A. theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization; B. data research and statistical analysis; C. elaboration of figures and tables; D. drafting and writing of the text; E. selection of bibliographical references; 8) Indication of conflict of interest (if there is no conflict, please declare “there is no conflict of interest”); 9) source of funding (if there is no financing source, please declare “there is no source of funding”); 10) acknowledgments (if any).
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As a form of authorship standardization, we suggest the inclusion of the ORCID identifier for each author in the act of submission. The ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at: https://orcid.org/register.
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Articles submitted in Portuguese or Spanish must include title, abstract (maximum of 150 words) and keywords (from three to five) in the original language of the article and in English.
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The articles must be drafted according to the standards requested by the journal’s editors.
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The manuscripts are recommended to contain around 8,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, tables, bibliographical references and other components of the text.
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The file for submission must be in Word and in PDF formats WITHOUT the identification of the authors.
1.3 Guidelines for submission of Book Reviews
Reviews of books published in the last three years, related to the topic of innovation studies and aligned with the editorial scope of the journal are accepted. The submission of reviews must be performed via SEER and their approval is made by the editorial team. As an indication, the text should contain around 1,000 words.
A book review is expected to present a critical review of the book, not just a summary. Thus, the review should point out what the main predicates of the book and its most important weaknesses are, in order to stimulate and guide potential readers. For more information on how to write a review, the following texts are recommended:
1) http://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/book-reviews/
2) http://guides.library.queensu.ca/bookreviews/writing
1.4 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. As part of the submission process, the authors must mandatorily verify the conformity of the submission in relation to all the items listed below.
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Authors must ensure the originality and the uniqueness of the work, that is, it cannot have been published previously and/or submitted simultaneously to another journal.
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The file for submission must be in Word and in PDF formats WITHOUT the identification of the authors.
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Title page: in the submission of the article, the authors must send, via online system, a separate page of the article containing: 1) title in the original language of the article and title in English for articles in Portuguese and Spanish; 2) full name of each author; 3) affiliation of each author (with university, city, state (if any), and country); 4) e-mail address of each author; 5) indication of who the corresponding author is; 6) the ORCID identifier of each author; 7) contribution of each author to the manuscript: RBI follows the specifications based on the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system adapted to the practices of “innovation studies” journals. The CRediT system specifications for authors’ contribution include: A. theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization; B. data research and statistical analysis; C. elaboration of figures and tables; D. drafting and writing of the text; E. selection of bibliographical references; 8) Indication of conflict of interest (if there is no conflict, please declare “there is no conflict of interest”); 9) source of funding (if there is no financing source, please declare “there is no source of funding”); 10) acknowledgments (if any).
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The text must follow the standards of style and bibliographical requirements described in RBI’s guidelines for authors;
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The work must be aligned with the thematic areas and the scope of the journal;
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Abbreviated citations in the body of the text and in footnotes (author, year of publication and, when applicable, pages) should be complete in the bibliographical references at the end of the text.
1.5 Declaration of copyright, responsibility, compliance with publication license and with open-access license
The declaration of copyright and publishing rights in RBI is based on DOAJ Seal criteria. When submitting an article to RBI the author retains unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights, although assuring that, when submitting, the article has not been published or submitted to any other journal. Once the article is approved the author continues to retain unrestricted copyright and, at the same time, allows its publication by RBI and also its sharing on condition that its authorship is acknowledge, in accordance to the Creative Commons License CC-BY 4.0. This license states that the article is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction by any means on the condition that the original article is dully cited.
The content of the articles and reviews published in RBI are of absolute and exclusive responsibility of their authors.
The authors must fill out the “Declaration of Responsibility, Compliance with Publication License and with Open-Access License” in the website. The author submitting the article shall fill out this statement on behalf of the other authors. We recommend that all authors read this document.
1.6 Authorship
The Brazilian Journal of Innovation considers as authors those who have actively participated in the discussion of the results of the article and who have revised and approved its final version. As for authorship, RBI also considers the guidelines of the ICMJE, whose main points are: substantial contributions in the conception or design of the work, effective participation in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the article or in its revision and final approval of the version to be published.
RBI requires the full names of authors as well as information on the affiliation of each of them. RBI follows the specifications based on the CRdiT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system adapted to the practices of “innovation studies” journals. The CRediT system specifications for authors’ contribution include: A. theoretical and conceptual foundations and problematization; B. data research and statistical analysis; C. elaboration of figures and tables; D. drafting and writing of the text; E. selection of bibliographic references and about potential conflicts of interest. The authors should inform these and other items during the submission of the articles, sending the information in accordance with the journal’s guidelines, which respect double-blind review and issues related to ethics and good practices.
After the submission of the article, changes on the contribution of the authors can only be made through a document delivered to RBI with the signature of all authors.
1.7 Privacy Policy
As a privacy policy adopted by RBI, the articles are sent to the reviewers through the Electronic System for Journal Publishing (SEER), without identification of authorship, in the same way that the referees are not identified to the author (double-blind review).
All information requested for users’ registration is for the exclusive use of RBI and for its sole purposes.
1.8 ORCID registration
As a form of authorship standardization, the editors request the inclusion of the ORCID identifier for all authors in the act of submission.
The ORCID identifier can be obtained free of charge at: https://orcid.org/register
To use ORCID, you must accept the default options for ORCID ID and include the full URL, accompanied by the phrase “http://”, in your registration, right after the email (e.g.: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097). See here the tutorial for registration.
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