Submissões

To compose each issue, Revista Aspas receives contributions from researchers who hold a Master’s or Doctoral degree, as well as from those currently enrolled in graduate programs at the master’s or doctoral level. It is strongly recommended that submissions be co-authored with doctoral-level supervisors.

Undergraduate students may submit contributions provided they are co-authored with faculty members holding a doctoral degree.

Revista Aspas accepts submissions in the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish, and English.

Submissions are evaluated based on criteria related to format, standardization, relevance to the issue’s theme, relevance, and originality. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process.

Occasionally, the journal may receive contributions from artists and/or professionals related to the Performing Arts whose work is relevant to the theme proposed for the issue. In such cases, submissions must be approved by the Editorial Core responsible for the issue and are subject to the same peer-review criteria.

Conditions for Submission

Articles and other contributions, such as interviews and reviews, must be aligned with the thematic proposal of the issue and with the journal’s editorial guidelines.

Each contributor may submit only one contribution per issue. The publication of contributions by the same author(s) in consecutive issues is not permitted.

Submitted contributions must be original and unpublished, including book chapters, which are not accepted. By authorizing publication, the author(s) grant Revista Aspas the right of first publication.

Feedback on submitted texts will only be provided once the manuscript has been sent to peer reviewers. If the text does not pass the initial screening, Revista Aspas is not obliged to provide a review or feedback.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the journal undergo an external peer review process, ensuring standards of quality, academic rigor, and relevance to the journal’s editorial scope.

Articles submitted in accordance with the journal’s criteria are evaluated by two reviewers under a double-blind system: reviewers do not have access to the authors’ names or affiliations, and authors receive the reviewers’ evaluations without reviewer identification, including within the text and metadata.

Reviewers are professionals with recognized academic training and experience, holding studies, research, and/or publications in the field of Performing Arts, preferably at the doctoral level. Reviewers are selected through registration and/or invitation by the journal’s editorial board.

Articles are sent to reviewers by the editorial team responsible for the issue.

Submissions may be accepted without revisions, accepted with suggested revisions, or rejected.

In cases of divergent evaluations, a third reviewer will be consulted.

The Editorial Core is responsible for deciding whether to invite national or international authors for publication and for communicating this information to the Editorial Team.

The content published in the articles is the sole responsibility of the authors.

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Special Issues and Guest Editors

In the case of special issues or dossiers organized with the participation of guest editors, the same editorial procedures applied to regular articles are followed. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the content of the entire journal, including special issues, which must always comply with the journal’s scope.

Articles submitted to special issues are clearly identified as such and undergo editorial supervision equivalent to that of regular articles, including external peer review. The credentials of guest editors are previously verified and approved by the editorial team, and their work is overseen by the Editor-in-Chief or designated members of the Editorial Board.

To ensure the integrity of the evaluation process, submissions authored by guest editors are handled through an independent review process, without any direct editorial interference, and may not exceed 25% of the total number of articles published in the special issue.

Editorial Standards

  1. Header must include:

a) Title of the work in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, in this order, each separated by a line. All three titles are mandatory.

  1. Abstracts in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, in this order, each separated by a line. All three abstracts are mandatory:
    a) Between 5 and 10 lines, Times New Roman, size 12, single spacing.
    b) The abstract must present the general research proposal, theoretical framework, objectives, and methodology.

  2. Keywords:
    a) Between 3 and 5;
    b) Inserted below their respective abstracts, separated by commas.

  3. Full text

All texts must be typed in Times New Roman, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. Files must be submitted in .doc format, up to 2 MB, and contain between 16,000 and 24,000 characters including spaces (counting only the body of the text, excluding title, abstract, and references).
Texts may be written in one of the journal’s three languages (Portuguese, English, or Spanish). Authors are encouraged to submit bilingual texts (e.g., English and Portuguese).

  1. References: must follow ABNT NBR 6023/2025 standards. Titles must be highlighted in bold. If the cited document has a DOI, it is mandatory to include it.

  2. Footnotes are accepted only when essential and brief. They must be numbered with Arabic numerals, Times New Roman, size 10, single spacing.

  3. Block quotations longer than three lines must be formatted with single spacing, Times New Roman, size 10, and a 4 cm left indentation, in accordance with ABNT NBR 10520/2023.

  4. The Author–Date system is mandatory for all citations (Author, year, p. x).

  5. General Formatting:

  • A4 page size

  • Top and bottom margins: 3 cm

  • Side margins: 2 cm

  • Double quotation marks only for in-text quotations

  • Italics for foreign terms and book/journal titles

  • Bold for emphasis

  • URLs provided as hyperlinks

  • Images, charts, and tables included in the body of the text with proper credits

  1. If articles include photographs, drawings, or graphic materials by third parties, a written authorization is required. Materials must include captions. Graphic materials should be limited to the minimum necessary, in JPG format, 300 dpi, 725 × 500 pixels.

Media standards:
a) Images: 300–600 dpi, 725 × 500 pixels
b) Videos: up to 15 minutes, YouTube link
c) Audio files: MP3 format, maximum 15 minutes, up to 2 MB

  1. Submission of the original article implies authorization for publication under Creative Commons 4.0, and the work will be published in the digital journal.

  2. Authors retain copyright while granting the journal the right of first publication. Works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). After publication, authors may republish the text, provided that the journal is notified and the original publication is cited.

  3. Authors are fully responsible for the approved and published text, including ethical and legal aspects. Any accusation of plagiarism or copyright infringement is the sole responsibility of the author. Proven plagiarism results in immediate exclusion from the journal’s system.

Revista Aspas uses iThenticate Similarity Check, a service provided by Crossref, to identify textual similarity in previously published scientific documents. More information:
https://www.abcd.usp.br/apoio-pesquisador/integridade-prevencao-plagio/turnitin-ferramenta-prevencao-plagio/

  1. To ensure the integrity of the double-blind review process, all efforts must be made to prevent identification of authors and reviewers. Authors must ensure that:

  • All references to authorship in the text, references, and footnotes are replaced with “Author” and the corresponding year;

  • Author identification does not appear in the file properties.

Click here to download the correctly formatted template.

Sections of Revista Aspas

The Editorial and Articles sections are fixed. Other sections vary according to the thematic approach of each issue.

  • Editorial: Text written by members of the Editorial Core outlining the ambitions and guiding principles of the issue.

  • Articles: Scholarly texts discussing ideas, methodologies, techniques, procedures, processes, or results in the expanded field of Performing Arts, in dialogue with the dossier theme.

  • Criticism: Analytical texts examining works in Performing Arts, considering historical context, creative processes, and artistic and technical teams.

  • Interview: In-depth dialogues with researchers, thinkers, and artists in the Performing Arts.

  • Review: Reviews of recently published books, focusing on structure, language, historical perspective, author trajectory, and contribution.

  • Open Form: Textual, visual, and/or sound content related to the issue’s theme, presented across different media or platforms (e.g., links or QR codes), including dramaturgy, research notebooks, videos, photo series, and field reports.

Copyright Statement

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant Revista Aspas the right of first publication. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which allows sharing, adaptation, and reuse for any purpose, provided that original authorship and initial publication in this journal are properly credited.

Authors retain copyright and publishing rights. Whenever republishing material related to an article originally published in Revista Aspas, authors must acknowledge the original publication as follows:
“This article was originally published by Revista Aspas in volume (insert volume), issue (insert issue), year (insert year), and is available at: http://revistas.usp.br/aspas, under the Creative Commons CC BY License.”

Privacy Statement

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