Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors must register (Login/Password) on the journal's website; in the Online Submissions section, fill out the profile correctly and select the “AUTHOR” option, observing the mandatory fields (those marked with an asterisk). It is important to “save” the registered information.

After completing these steps, go to “ACTIVE SUBMISSIONS” and start the submission process through the link “CLICK HERE TO START THE SUBMISSION PROCESS”, where you will perform the five basic steps:

1. Start: confirm that you agree with the conditions established by the journal (by checking the boxes for the conditions and the copyright statement) and select the articles section;
2. Inclusion of metadata: indicate the main data – name, surname (the system translates as first name and first name), e-mail, institution, city, state and country, biography summary, title and abstract; indication of funding from funding agencies related to the work to be published. If there is co-authorship, do not forget to include the second author in the metadata;
3. Transfer of originals: transfer the file to the system;
4. Transfer of supplementary documents: transfer files with supplementary information, which function as an appendix or annex to the main text, such as research instruments, data sets and tables, which follow the standards of ethical evaluation, sources of information not normally available to readers, or figures and/or tables that cannot be integrated into the text.
5. Confirmation: Complete the submission.

After completing the five steps described above, the author must wait for the editor's email and, in the meantime, can follow the entire flow of his/her work, from submission, acceptance, evaluation, re-editing of the original until publication. After submission, articles are assigned to evaluators defined by the board or editors of the journal. The article selection policy is defined by the members of the Editorial Board and the Editors of the journal.

Guidelines for Authors (updated in March 2025)

1. Fronteiras Journal accepts original works (articles and reviews) by PhDs and Masters, individually or in co-authorship. Authors must be affiliated with Graduate Programs in Theology, Religious Studies and related areas or with Research Groups of the aforementioned Graduate Programs. In the case of co-authorship, the limit is one co-author.

2. The journal prioritizes submissions from the field of Theology, although it welcomes works from related fields that bring real contributions to theological discussions, such as history, philosophy, sociology, etc. All contributions must be submitted via the electronic system by registering and creating a login and password. Texts must be in DOC or DOCX extensions, Word format. Files in PDF format will not be accepted.

3. Papers written in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, English and German will be accepted. The Journal and its editor are not responsible for the linguistic revision of the texts and, therefore, the contributions must be sent duly revised.

4. Papers sent to Fronteiras will be subject to critical review by at least one member of the Board of Editors and to evaluation by reviewers in the “peer blind review” mode.

5. Authors who submit papers containing images and special fonts (Greek and Hebrew) must inform this specificity in “Comments to the Editor” in the submission system, and send separately the images (in JPG, with 300 dpi resolution) and the fonts (in TTF format) as supplementary documents. In the case of biblical languages, it is possible to use the Greek and Hebrew keyboards integrated into your computer, which eliminates the need to send the fonts.

However, the recommendation is to give preference to the use of transliterations for languages ​​with non-Latin alphabets, leaving the use of special characters (Greek, Hebrew or other language fonts) only for exceptional cases such as studying the original or when it is very important for the exhibition.

Also, authors are warned that some images are copyrighted and, in these cases, authorization is required for their use. It is suggested to use websites that freely make these images available, such as depositphotos or pixabay.

6. The authorship data, names and biography of the authors should not be included in the submission document. This data must be filled in in step 3 of the submission.

7. The work must present, obligatorily, the following elements: title, abstract and keywords in the original language and in English, except when the original language is English. When the original language is English, the translation of the abstract and keywords must be into Portuguese. These initial elements must be followed by the introduction, body, final considerations and references.

Regarding the Review/Critical Review, the following points will be observed:

• The work must be relevant to the epistemological field of Theology.
• There must be no other reviews of the work in qualified journals
• National Works: up to the last 3 years.
  International Works: up to the last 5 years.
• Only master's and doctoral students will be accepted for this section.

Methodological specifications

Texts must have a minimum of 25,000 characters (without spaces) and a maximum of 35,000 characters (without spaces). For reviews/reviews, between 3,500 characters (without spaces) and 10,000 characters (without spaces) are required. To ensure the correct number of characters, simply use the text editor's character counting tool. Special cases, if any, should be communicated via “Comments to the Editor” and will be evaluated by the journal's editor-in-chief.

The texts must follow the configuration specifications indicated below

1. The page layout must be configured on A4 paper, with top and left margins set at 3 cm and bottom and right margins set at 2 cm.

2. The following items must appear on the first page, in the following order: title of the article in its original language, centered, bold, in Times New Roman font size 14 pt. The translation of the article title into English, centered, in Times New Roman font size 12 pt.

The abstract must contain between 100 and 250 words, including the theme, objective, methodology, steps followed and conclusions, according to the guidelines of NBR 6028, from ABNT, accompanied by five keywords that represent the content of the text, avoiding the simple repetition of words from the title. Translation of the abstract and keywords into English. If the original language is English, the translation will be into Portuguese.

3. Texts must use Times New Roman font, size 12pt, with 1.5 line spacing and 1.25 cm indentation in the first line of paragraphs for the body of the text. For citations with more than three lines, use size 11, 1.15 spacing and 4 cm indentation on the left. Spacing between paragraphs in automatic mode.

4. References used in the body of the text must be indicated in the author-date-page system. Latin expressions such as idem, ibidem, opus citatum should be avoided in cases of repeated references.

5. The list of references at the end of the text must adopt the following formatting: Times New Roman font, size 12, single line spacing, left alignment, unjustified, paragraph spacing in automatic mode. Only references indicated in the body of the text are listed. References should be in alphabetical order, without using dashes to indicate the author's name when there is more than one work by the same author. For references, the guidelines of NBR 6023 (2018) of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) should be followed, as follows:

Books

COELHO, Antônio Carlos. Encounters marked with God: expression of unity: Jewish festivals and Christianity. São Paulo: Paulinas, 1999.

Articles

THEOBALD, Christoph. Christianity as a style: on the role of individuals and communities in the formation of subjects. Journal of Theology and Religious Sciences of Unicap, Recife, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 9-25, Jan./June 2010.

Theses

GOMES, Rita Maria. Miracle-making prophet and unheard-of messiah: the Marcan process of presenting Jesus the messiah. 2017. Thesis (Doctorate in Biblical Theology) - Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, Belo Horizonte, 2017.

Quotes in the body of the text

Biblical quotes should be used in the following format: John 4:17; Mt 5,9–6,7; 2Tm 3,16.

Translation

When the text is translated, indicate it with the expression “translated by” or “Translation of”