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Author Guidelines

EDITORIAL POLICY AND GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

The Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility - Josum is committed to ethics and quality of publications, not being admissible deviations in academic conduct, the Editorial Team, and reviewers or authors. We defend the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publication: authors, editors, and reviewers, as well as we, defend ethical procedures throughout the process of editing, submission, and evaluation. Therefore, we do not accept plagiarism or any other unethical behavior.

Authors who want to publish their material in Josum must fully agree with these instructions that seek to ensure the quality of the published works concerning all readers. The Editorial Board may investigate cases involving suspected unethical behavior or misconduct for resolution.

This statement is based on the "Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), available at <https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf>, which detail the standards to publish texts in our Journal.

We would be happy to receive your paper on sustainable urban mobility, an interdisciplinary area that deserves to be further investigated and debated from different perspectives. We accept papers that discuss the displacement of people and cargo in cities aligned with sustainable development goals and essays with theoretical reflections and interviews with people who are references in the field. Texts can be submitted in the "continuous flow" modality, at any time or in "thematic dossiers" organized by guest editors and have specific submission deadlines with start and end dates.

There are guidelines for content, title, text, open data, authorship, and bibliographic references. We created a tutorial to help with OJS registration and submission. Please contact us if you have any questions at josum@ipmmu.com.br.

PUBLICATION FEE

For "continuous flow" texts, the Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility works with a charge per article approved for publication. In Open Science, this procedure is known as Article Processing Charges (APC).

See the fee policy by clicking here. (change language on the right bar)

Texts submitted in "thematic dossiers" are sponsored by partner institutions, and no publishing costs are charged.

CONTENT GUIDELINES

Concise articles distinguish the Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility. Thus, the main editorial rule for the scientific article section is that the text must contain a single specific objective and research method. However, we also have more accessible sections about formatting and length, such as essays and interviews.

In the case of articles, the intention is to report results in stages of research if it is part of a larger research project. In order to accelerate and broaden the dissemination of scientific content, the paper does not need to be complex, but it does need to have a research question and a proposed method to answer it. See the other published papers for inspiration.

The Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility accepts and encourages papers reporting adverse outcomes. In order to contribute to the development and improvement of the scientific process, you can share uncorroborated hypotheses or methods that have proven ineffective. In addition to bringing more transparency to the scientific process, you can help others not to go down unworkable paths.

Both "continuous flow" and "thematic dossier" submissions are comprised of the following sections:

Scientific Article

In this section, the Journal accepts unpublished articles written in an institutional, academic, or scientific context, with the primary objective of discussing theories, ideas, methods, techniques, processes, and results within urban mobility and related themes. 

Data-Articles

This section will accept the submission of an unpublished article that is a searchable metadata document. Like the scientific article, the data article should follow the structure of scientific logic, sticking more to the methodology to present how such data was obtained. The data article may contain a methodological proposal for solving problems in urban mobility and related themes. The availability of open data is mandatory, one of the Josum editorial policies, which can be seen in the item below: OPEN DATA GUIDELINES.

Essay

The essay is a text that exposes ideas, criticisms, and reflections that can be related to personal experiences, reports, and impressions on issues related to urban mobility and related themes. This section will also accept essays that bring data and research results from theses and dissertations and book reviews. 

Interviews

This section publishes unpublished interviews with relevant thinkers and people who have experience in mobility studies and related themes. The text should be in a question and answer format with a brief introduction at the beginning.

NORMS FOR PUBLICATION

All texts should be presented in:

Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 spacing in the body of the paragraph. With titles, subtitles and section headings in bold. In word, odt or pdf format.

Scientific articles must be submitted with the following textual elements

• Title (English and Portuguese)
• Abstract (English and Portuguese)
• Keywords(English and Portuguese) (3 to 5 words)
• Impacts and Sustainable Development Goals
• Research question
• Specific Objective
• Justifications (research gaps)
• Key differentiator (what is new in the work)
• Method
• Results
• Conclusions and considerations

Including all the above items, the minimum length of the scientific paper is 10,000 characters with space and the maximum length is 30,000 characters with space (use "word count" feature/tool).

References are not included in the character count (see details of data inclusion on the Zotero platform below, under REFERENCES GUIDELINES)

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Data articles must be submitted with mandatory textual elements:

• Title (English and Portuguese)
• Abstract (English and Portuguese)
• Keywords (English and Portuguese) (3 to 5 words)
• Sustainable development impacts and goals
• Research question (up to 3 questions)
• Description of method
• Results
• Conclusions and considerations

Including all of the above, the minimum length of the data article is 9,000 characters with space and the maximum length is 15,500 characters with space (use "word count" feature/tool).

References are not included in the character count (see details of data inclusion on the Zotero platform below under REFERENCES GUIDELINES)

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Essays do not obey the rules determined for scientific or data articles and may contain subheadings that better divide the text, according to the authors' criteria. Some obligatory textual elements:

• Title (English and Portuguese)
• Abstract (English and Portuguese)
• Keywords (English and Portuguese) (3 to 5 words)

Including all the above items, the minimum length of the essay is 16,500 characters with space and the maximum length is 60,000 characters with space (use "word count" resource/tool).

References do not count in the character count (see details of data inclusion on the Zotero platform below under BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE GUIDELINES)

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For interviews, like the essay, the format is freer. They should be presented in a question and answer format, with some mandatory items:

• Title (English and Portuguese)
• Abstract (English and Portuguese)
• Keywords (English and Portuguese) (3 to 5 words)

Body of the interview text: must have at least 10,000 characters with spaces and must not exceed 30,000 characters with spaces (use "word count" resource/tool).

References are not included in the character count (see details on the inclusion of data in the Zotero platform, below, in the BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES GUIDELINES)

CRediT

In the final version, for each author, name, affiliation, and contributions must be flagged by the Contributor Roles Taxonomy CRediT system. Example: Maria José - Universidade Municipal de Carapicuíba, maria.jose@universidadecarapicuiba.com.br, https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000

Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.

CRediT link: http://credit.niso.org/  

TITLE GUIDELINES

Should contain subject matter, spatial and temporal constraints, and methods where possible. Opt for short titles. Do not use subheadings.

TEXT GUIDELINES

The paper should be written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish.

The text should be objective and succinct. Always check whether the content can be conveyed in the most objective, transparent, and direct manner. Always strive for conciseness.

Maintain textual coherence and the correct style of writing. Your text can be written in the first person plural (e.g., we collected data), in the passive voice (e.g., data collection was performed), in the reflexive voice (e.g., data collection was performed), or in any other form that is practical in your field. It is crucial to keep the text fluid and easy to understand.

Whenever possible, use gender-inclusive language to deconstruct and break with the idea of masculinity as universal. Do not use "x", "e", "es", or "@", as this makes it impossible for accessibility software to read. Use terms that cover both genders. Examples: "people interviewed" instead of "the interviewees"; "the faculty" instead of "the professors".

Mistakes in typing, spelling, and verbal and noun agreement may disallow the article.

Do not use acronyms if they are cited less than five times in your paper.

Tables and graphs should be inserted as images and any other element besides the text. A maximum of five images are allowed per article, including tables, graphs, charts, maps, etc. Any text content within the images must be in Arial typeface and their respective titles. Captions and fonts should be outside the images. Example of caption and font: "Figure 1: Surveyed road maps. Source: Elaborated by the author”.

Figures should be cited by numbering the legend. Example: "As in Figure 1". Never use "figure above" or "figure below" to refer to figures.

Figures must be in the body of the text (minimum 150 dpi) when submitting the article and data in the form of a simple table. Pie or 3D graphics should not be made. Reinforcing, there are a maximum of 5 elements.

OPEN DATA GUIDELINES

The Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility works toward Open Science. In order to democratize access to science and knowledge for all people, as well as to increase the speed of scientific research, visibility, and access to its results, we value our open data guidelines.

We suggest that you make your data and code available (bases used, transcribed and anonymized interviews, programming code, etc.). Sharing raw data and open-source code from your research helps leverage discoveries.

The Journal of Sustainable Urban Mobility has a folder in the Harvard Dataverse, the university's scientific repository for scientific data.

Create an account at https://dataverse.harvard.edu  

Log in at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/josum  

Create a folder within the Josum folder with the title of your article, without special characters, and with spaces replaced by _ (underline).

Example:

Title: Urban mobility and social conditions

Folder Name: Urban_mobility_and_social_conditions

Submit your data for review under the button "Publish dataset > submit for review

GUIDELINES FOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

References must be at the end of the text and must comply with the ABNT - Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards). We also suggest organize references within Zotero (free). Within our open data sharing policy, we also advise authors to join the Mobility Multiplicity Group within the same platform. Below are some examples of how to reference from ABNT NBR 6023:

Books

EXAMPLE 1

- Essential Elements

LUCK, Heloisa. Liderança em gestão escolar. 4. ed. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2010

EXAMPLE 2

- Essential Elements

BAUMAN, Zygmunt. Globalização: as conseqüências humanas. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1999. 

Thesis and dissertations

EXAMPLE 1 

- Essential Elements

AGUIAR, André Andrade de. Evaluation of oral microbiota in patients under chronic use of penicillin and benzathine. 2009. Thesis (Doctorate in Cardiology) - Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2009.

EXAMPLE 2

- Complementary Elements  

RODRIGUES, Ana Lúcia Aquilas. Impact of a workplace exercise program on physical activity level and readiness stage for behavior change. Advisor: Mario Ferreira Junior. 2009. 82 f. Dissertation (Master in Experimental Pathophysiology) - Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2009.

Electronic Documents

EXAMPLE 1 

- Essential Elements 

KOOGAN, André; HOUAISS, Antônio (ed.). Enciclopédia e dicionário digital 98. São Paulo: Delta: Estadão, 1998. 5 CD-ROM. 

EXAMPLE 2 

- Essential Elements

GODINHO, Thais. Vida organizada: como defnir prioridades e transformar seus sonhos em objetivos. São Paulo: Gente, 2014. E-book.

EXAMPLE 3

- Essential Elements

COELHO, Ana Cláudia. Fatores determinantes de qualidade de vida física e mental em pacientes com doença pulmonar intersticial: uma análise multifatorial. 2009. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências Médicas) – Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2009. Available at: http://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/16359/000695147.pdf?sequence=1. Accessed on: 4 Sep. 2009.

Periodical publication collection

EXAMPLE 1 

- Essential Elements

REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE GEOGRAFIA. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE, 1939- . ISSN 0034-723X

Periodical collection in electronic media

EXAMPLE 1 

- Essential Elements

ACTA CIRÚRGICA BRASILEIRA. São Paulo: Sociedade Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Cirurgia, 1997- . ISSN 1678-2674 online version. Available at: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_ serial&pid=0102-8650&lng=en&nrm=iso. Accessed on: 22 Aug. 2013.

EXAMPLE 2 

- Complementary Elements 

CADERNO BRASILEIRO DE ENSINO DE FÍSICA. Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2008- . ISSN 2175-7941. DOI 10.5007/2175-7941. Available at: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/fsica/ index. Accessed on: 20 May 2014.

Articles in periodicals

EXAMPLE 1 

- Complementary Elements  

MENDONÇA, Lenny; SUTTON, Robert. Como obter sucesso na era do código aberto. Entrevistado: Mitchekk Baker. HSM Management, São Paulo, ano 12, v. 5, n. 70, p. 102-106, set./out. 2008.

EXAMPLE 2 

- Essential Elements 

TAVARES, Raul. O combate naval do Monte Santiago. Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, v. 155, t. 101, p. 168-203, 1953.

EXAMPLE 3 

- Essential Elements

DANTAS, José Alves et al. Regulação da auditoria em sistemas bancários: análise do cenário internacional e fatores determinantes. Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, São Paulo, v. 25, n. 64, p. 7-18, jan./abr. 2014. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1519-70772014000100002. Available at: http://www.scielo.br/scielo. php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-70772014000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso. Accessed on: 20 May 2014.

Newspaper article

EXAMPLE 1 

- Essential Elements

OTTA, Lu Aiko. Parcela do tesouro nos empréstimos do BNDES cresce 566 % em oito anos. O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, ano 131, n. 42656, 1 ago. 2010. Economia & Negócios, p. B1. 

EXAMPLE 2 

- Essential Elements

CRÉDITO à agropecuária será de R$ 156 bilhões até 2015. Jornal do Commercio, Rio de Janeiro, ano 97, n. 156, p. A3, 20 maio 2014.

EXAMPLE 3

- Essential Elements

VERÍSSIMO, Luis Fernando. Um gosto pela ironia. Zero Hora, Porto Alegre, ano 47, n. 16.414, p. 2, 12 ago. 2010. Available at: http://www.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default.jspx?uf=1&action=fip. Accessed on: 12 Aug. 2010.

Examples of in-text citations and references

1

In-text citation

Naomi Baron (2013) broke new ground on the subject.

2

In-text citation

According to the article, female bhakti poets "faced overwhelming challenges through their rejection of social norms and values" (BARON, 2013, p. 45)

3

In-text citation longer than 3 lines (indented 4 cm., font 10, single paragraph)

According to Naomi Baron, reading is "only half of literacy. The other half is writing". One might even suggest that reading is never complete without writing. Reading at Risk notes that despite an apparent decline in reading during the same period, "the number of people doing creative writing - of any genre, not exclusively literary works - increased substantially between 1982 and 2002." (BARON, 2012, p. 67)

Missing issues and other questions about referencing should follow the standards set forth by ABNT.