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.Research Reports
Investigative articles based on empirical data using the scientific method. This type of study is limited to 25 pages (including title, abstract, references and appendices).
Critical Literature Reviews
Articles in which is thoroughly analyzed the relevant literature of a topic of interest in Psychology, identifying gaps, contradictions, inconsistencies or relations still not identified in the literature, and prescribing directions to new scientific works based on the aspects of the examined literature. Interação em Psicologia strongly suggests that authors of this kind of article should fully adopt the guidelines of the PRISMA group for systematic reviews of literature and meta-analyses (http://www.prisma-statement.org). This type of study is limited to 25 pages (including title, abstract, references and appendices).
Theoretical or Historical Studies
Articles which analyses theoretic concepts or researches of historical nature. This type of study is limited to 25 pages (including title, abstract, references and appendices).
Case Studies
Articles that describe and evaluate professional interventions performed to people, groups, institutions or communities of interest of Psychology professionals. It is important that in this kind of text the innovations in the intervention are highlighted and that the compatible evaluation of the results is presented. This type of study is limited to 15 pages (including title, abstract, references and appendices).
Copyright Notice
The approval of articles implies the immediate acceptance, with no imposition, that the journal Interação em Psicologia will have the exclusivity of the first publication of the article. The authors will, notwithstanding, keep the copyrights for future publications. In case of republication of the articles in other media, it is demanded the mention to the first publication in the journal Interação em Psicologia. The authors also authorize their articles to be available in all the indexes of which the journal is included.
The Editorial Board is not responsible for the concepts or statements expressed in the published works, which are the sole responsibility of their authors.
The journal Interação em Psicologia offers immediate open access to all its content, following the rationale that offering gratuitous scientific knowledge to the public promotes the democracy of knowledge and published works tend to produce higher impact. The published articles in the journal are available under the Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). According to this license, the access, distribution, reusing of the articles for non-commercial sources are allowed, provided that the authors and the source is referenced. When submitting articles to the journal Interação em Psicologia, authors agree with making their texts legally available based on this license.
