Submissions

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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.
  • ATTENTION: Failure to comply with these instructions may result in the rejection of the manuscript.
  • The manuscript is your own and original work and does not duplicate any previously published material, including your own work;
  • The manuscript has been submitted exclusively to Finisterra and is not under peer review, in the process of publication, or published in another journal;
  • The manuscript does not contain abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal content;
  • The submission files are in Microsoft Word format and do not exceed 2MB in size;
  • All authors of the manuscript are identified on the submission platform and have agreed to the final submitted version;
  • The text follows the style guidelines (Template) and bibliographic requirements (Norm APA 7th edition);
  • A Cover page has been submitted, identifying all authors, affiliations, contact details, acknowledgments, ORCID iDs, and contributions. When applicable, identify the thematic number/section related to the submission;
  • All communication regarding the submission, review, and publication process will be conducted solely with the corresponding author.

Author Guidelines

For more information on the types of manuscripts accepted by the journal, formatting guidelines (text, figures and tables), cartographic standards and bibliographic norms, authors should consult the Instructions for Authors page.

Submission and Verification Statement

The submission of a manuscript implies that it:

a) has not been previously published, except in the form of an abstract, conference paper, or academic thesis;

b) is not under consideration for publication elsewhere;

c) has been approved for publication by all authors, and either explicitly or implicitly by the responsible institutions where the research was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright holder.

To verify its originality, the manuscript will be checked using the originality/similarity detection service currently used by CEG: Turnitin.

Plagiarism

Manuscripts submitted to Finisterra cannot be considered for publication without appropriate authorship attribution. Plagiarism is unacknowledged copying, and it is considered to have clearly occurred when significant portions of text have been “cut and pasted” without proper and unequivocal attribution. Even when reusing text, whether from the authors’ own previous publications or those of others, appropriate citation and referencing are required to avoid misleading the readers.

Copyright Notice

  1. Authors are responsible for the opinions expressed in the texts submitted to Finisterra.

  2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors must commit to complying with the “Guidelines for article submission”, on the RCAAP platform.

  4. Whenever a text may require amendments based on suggestions made by the Scientific Reviewers and/or the Executive Committee, authors must agree to accept these suggestions and implement the requested changes. If authors disagree with any of the amendments suggested, they will need to provide justifications for each individual case.

  5. Reproduction of materials liable to copyright laws has been granted permission in advance.

  6. Texts are original, unpublished and have not been submitted to other journals.

Authors' rights

It is the authors' duty to obtain permission for publication of materials subject to copyright.

Edition rights

The edition rights belong to the Center of Geographical Studies of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon.

The edition of a text submitted to Finisterra for publication implies that it is original.

The publication implies acceptance of the "norms for submission of manuscripts" and the accomplishment of the "authors' duties".

Publication rights

The publishing rights belong to the Center of Geographical Studies of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning of the University of Lisbon.

 

License URL CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (BY-NC-ND)

 

Digital preservation policy

Finisterra uses Open Journal Systems (OJS 3.2.1.4), a free open-source system for the administration and publication of journals, developed with support and distribution by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) under the GNU General Public License. PKP is a multi-university initiative that develops (free) open-source software and conducts research to improve the quality and reach of academic publishing. OJS contains the PKP PN plugin, a mean to preserve journal content on the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) that digitally preserves OJS journals. The PKP PN ensures that periodicals that are not part of any other digital preservation service can be preserved for long-term access. PKP allows editors of OJS scientific journals to digitally preserve their content in a decentralized and distributed way. This means that if a journal stop being published or become offline, there will be a way to have long-term continuous access to articles and issues (preservation for long-term access).

For more informations, see: https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

 

 

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