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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.
  • Rebeca - Brazilian Journal of Film and Audiovisual Studies is a biannual publication that accepts continuous submissions of original and unpublished contributions. Texts are published in sections dedicated to free-themed articles and thematic dossiers, as well as book reviews, film reviews, translations, interviews, and creative texts related to cinema and audiovisual media.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal.
  • The journal accepts submissions in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French.
  • The sections Free Themes and Dossier are intended for the publication of articles written by PhDs and PhD candidates. Masters, master's students, graduates, and undergraduates may submit articles in co-authorship with PhDs.
    The sections Reviews, Criticism and Translations, Interviews, and Out of Frame accept individual and collective proposals from PhDs, PhD candidates, masters, and master's students. Graduates and undergraduates may contribute in co-authorship with PhDs, masters, and master's students.
  • The texts of the contributions must be standardized according to the style guide for each section of the journal, and authors must ensure that the submitted file does not contain any form of author identification, ensuring a double-blind review of the manuscript.
  • The title page is a mandatory file that must be submitted as an attachment, in a separate document from the text that will be evaluated under the double-blind review system. It contains information about authorship and, when applicable, details on co-authorship, research project results, funding sources, ethical considerations, conflict of interest statement, and prior presentation of the text at conferences or other academic events.
  • Authors and co-authors of articles and other texts accepted for publication or already published in the latest issue of the journal must wait a period of one year before submitting a new contribution.
  • The files for text submissions must be in .docx format with a maximum size limit of 2MB. Images should be formatted in .jpeg with a resolution of 150 dpi and made available as supplementary documents for the submission, even if embedded in the text.
  • The Rebeca journal uses the Similarity Check system for content similarity detection. Authors must inform the editors about the publication of the initial versions of their articles in conference proceedings, considering that unpublished articles submitted to the journal must exhibit a minimum of 30% changes compared to the versions available in the proceedings.
  • If a preliminary version of the article has been published in conference proceedings, the title must be modified in the version submitted to Rebeca.
  • Submissions that do not comply with the journal's guidelines will be archived, without prejudice to a new submission that meets all the criteria outlined in the author guidelines.
  • In the first stage of submission, before sending the manuscript and other attachments, all the information requested in the electronic form must be completed in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Author Guidelines

Important: Texts submitted to Rebeca must follow the style guide for each section of the journal and must not contain any information that could identify the author(s), ensuring the double-blind peer review process. In addition to complying with the style guide, the final file must be properly formatted, including margins and the graphic elements of the document's header and footer.

Reminder: A title page must be attached to the submission.

Title Page 

Open Theme Section

This section is open to articles that explore diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives in the field of cinema and audiovisual studies. Contributions must be between 5,000 and 9,000 words, including a title and subtitle (up to 120 characters), abstracts, and four keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, as well as footnotes and references.

Abstracts should be between 180 and 250 words and must include the following aspects: the general theme and research problem, the objectives and/or hypotheses, the methodology used—highlighting the object of study—along with the main results and conclusions.

Style Guide – Articles

Dossier Section

This section publishes articles on pre-defined themes. Dossier topics are established by guest editors under the coordination of Rebeca's editorial board, based on the relevance of the proposed approaches to the fields of cinema and audiovisual studies.

Contributions must be between 5,000 and 9,000 words, including a title and subtitle (up to 120 characters), abstracts, and four keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, as well as footnotes and references.

Abstracts should be between 180 and 250 words and must include the following aspects: the general theme and research problem, the objectives and/or hypotheses, the methodology used—highlighting the object of study—along with the main results and conclusions.

Style Guide – Articles

Reviews, Criticism, and Translations Section

This section is open to reviews of books relevant to the fields of cinema and audiovisual studies, critiques of films and other audiovisual works, and translations of theoretical articles and essays from foreign languages into Portuguese. Texts may be specially invited by the editors to promote dialogue with the thematic articles in the Dossier Section.

Reviews should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words, including a title and subtitle (up to 120 characters), an abstract between 180 and 250 words, and four keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, as well as footnotes and references.

Style Guide – Reviews

Criticism must present a well-founded opinion on a cinematographic or audiovisual work, based on the author's reception and their descriptions of aesthetic, stylistic, contextual, or other relevant aspects.

Critiques should be between 2,000 and 4,500 words, including a title and subtitle (up to 120 characters), abstracts and four keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, as well as footnotes and references.

Style Guide – Criticism

Translations should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words, including abstracts in Portuguese, English, and Spanish (180 to 250 words), four keywords in each language, footnotes, and references.

For translation submissions, the following supplementary documents must be attached:

  • The original text in the foreign language, indicating the journal or book in which it was previously published.

  • A declaration from the copyright holder of the original text granting Rebeca the non-commercial right to publish the translated version.

Style Guide – Translations

Interview Section

This section is dedicated to interviews with authors, researchers, filmmakers, photographers, editors, screenwriters, producers, and artists working in cinema and audiovisual fields.

Interviews should be between 2,000 and 9,000 words, including abstracts (180 to 250 words) in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, with four keywords in each language, as well as footnotes and references. Adaptations from oral language to improve reading fluency are welcome, provided they are indicated in a footnote.

Style Guide – Interviews

Out of Frame Section

This section accepts submissions in free format, including texts, photographs, drawings, cartoons, and other visual works, provided their dimensions and technical characteristics are compatible with the journal’s publishing capabilities. Visual essays are recommended to include a maximum of 12 images.

Texts must differ in style from those accepted in the other sections of Rebeca and may explore various genres, such as essays, chronicles, poetry, letters, manifestos, among others. The style guide for this section is a reference and may be adapted to the specificities of each contribution.

Style Guide – Out of Frame

Copyright Notice

Authors hold the copyright and grant Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual - the right of first publication with the original work licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing the sharing of the text with the correct citation of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

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