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 follow these instructions may be reason for rejection of the manuscript.
  • The manuscript is your original production and does not duplicate any previously published, including your own work;
  • The manuscript should only be submitted to Finisterra and not under peer review or in the process of publication or already published elsewhere;
  • The manuscript does not contain abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent or illegal elements;
  • The files for submission are in Microsoft Word format and do not exceed 2MB;
  • All authors of the manuscript are identified on the submission platform;
  • The text follows the style standards (see Template) and bibliographic requirements (APA Norms 7th ed.) described in Norms for Authors;
  • A cover page should be submitted, identifying all authors, affiliations and contacts. If applicable, indicate the special number to which the article is submitted in this document;
  • ATTENTION: FOLLOWING THE EXTRAORDINARY AND URGENT MEASURES THAT HAVE EMERGED IN RESPONSE TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THE CONTINGENCY GUIDELINES ENACTED BY THE PORTUGUESE STATE AND THE DECLARATION OF A PANDEMIC BY THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, WE ALERT THAT THE PUBLICATION OF FINISTERRA – REVISTA PORTUGUESA DE GEOGRAFIA’S FORTHCOMING ISSUES MAY SUFFER DELAYS IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS EXCEPTIONAL SITUATION.
  • All communications relating to the process of submission, review and publication of manuscripts will only be made with the corresponding author.

Author Guidelines

For more information about the types of manuscripts accepted in the journal, manuscript formatting rules (text, figures and tables), cartographic rules and bibliographic rules, authors should consult the page Guidelines for Authors.

Submission Statement and Verification

Submission of a manuscript implies that it: a) has not been previously published, except in the form of an abstract, lecture or academic thesis; b) is not being considered for publication by another publisher; c) to be published that is approved by all authors, and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible entities where the research was carried out, and which, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same format, or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright holder. To check its originality, your text can be checked by the originality/similarity detection service that CEG currently uses: Ouriginal. This solution brings together a combined plagiarism detection solution from Urkund and PlagScan.

Plagiarism

Manuscripts submitted to Finisterra cannot be considered for publication on the journal without proper attribution of authorship. Plagiarism is an unrecognized copy and can clearly be said to have occurred when remarkable amounts of text were “copy and paste” without proper and unambiguous attribution of authorship. Likewise, when reusing text, whether from the authors' own publication or of others, adequate attribution and citation are necessary to avoid misperception to 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.

 

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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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