ISSN 0430-5027

e-ISSN 2182-2905

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts | Guidelines for Authors
• Guideliness Thematic Issue
• Authors' Rights

Finisterra- Revista Potuguesa de Geografia, edited since 1966 by the Center for Geographical Studies of the University of Lisbon (CEG, Universidade de Lisboa), is the oldest and one of the leading Portuguese journals of Geography.

The composition of the Executive Committee follows the criteria of gender parity and integrates academics from different scientific areas of Geography. The focus on young researchers, in the composition of the Executive Committee, aims to encourage the publication of more recent research, but is essentially due to their experience publishing and reviewing scientific articles and with digital editing , which, without diminishing the importance of the paper edition, is key for improving the position of FINISTERRA in the online publishing world.

Finisterra publishes original texts dedicated to research in many aspects of Human and Physical Geography, Environmental Hazards, Local and Regional Planning, Local and Regional Development, Geographical Information Sciences, among other topics.

The quality of FINISTERRA is assured though the revision of submitted articles by an editor designated by the Director and the Executive Committee and double-blind peer review.

Since 2016, Finisterra is published 3 times a year.

TYPES OF MANUSCRIPTS

Finisterra publishes Research or review articles, Reviews, Author`s comments, Notes, Errata and Obituaries.

Manuscripts should be prepared in digital format in a recent version of Microsoft Word.

COVER PAGE

All manuscripts must be accompanied by the title page.

On the Cover Page, the corresponding author must:

- Mention all the authors of the manuscript in the order to appear in the publication;

- Pay attention to the names and surnames that will be associated with the manuscript;

- Present the affiliation of each author, including the position, Department / Research Center, Faculty, University, city, country, and institutional email;

- The corresponding author must be duly identified and must present his full institutional address.

DIMENSION OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

Research or review articles should not exceed 35 000 characters with spaces, excluding abstracts, keywords, bibliography, figures and tables.

Reviews should not exceed 15 000 characters with spaces.

Author`s comments, Notes, Errata and Obituaries should be a maximum of 10 000 characters with spaces.

FORMATING THE MANUSCRIPTS

All manuscripts must be formatted according to the TEMPLATE provided by Finisterra. If manuscripts are not submitted using TEMPLATE formatting, they may not be submitted for review.

The body of the text must follow the Minion Pro font, size 10.5, without line spacing.

TITLES / ABSTRACTS / KEYWORDS

Titles, abstracts and keywords (maximum of 5) must be presented in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

Abstracts must contain approximately 1 500 characters with spaces and must not contain bibliographic references or citations.

HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of the manuscript are mandatory. They consist of a short number of bullet points that capture the relevance and novelty of methods and/or results of the study. Each bullet point must have a maximum of 85 characters, including spaces.

FIGURES

The word “figure” includes the following types of images: maps, graphs, drawings, photographs, infographics.

The title must be in two languages: original language of the manuscript (Portuguese / Spanish / French) and English, or, if the original language of the manuscript is English, in English and Portuguese). It must be concise and express the content of the figure.

The source should only be expressed if authors other than those in the text have been used.

All figures must be referred to in the body of the text, using the word "figure" if it is in the middle of the sentence, or the abbreviation "fig." if parentheses are used [eg (fig. 1)].

In addition to being included in the body of the text, the authors must submit all figures in an individual file, in color and in shades of gray (not to exceed 5 MB; 30 MB for the set of images), in .jpeg format, .tiff, .bpm, .gif, .png, with a resolution of not less than 300 dpi. Each individual file is identified by the surname of the first author, the figure number and extension (ex: Durão_fig.2. Jpeg).

Figures must be of sufficient quality and legibility to allow reduction to the magazine stain (~ A5).

The paper publication of the Finisterra magazine is done in shades of gray, and the color figures will only be available online. If you want the figures in your article to be printed in color, the printing costs will be borne by the authors.

Cartographic standards

You can consult the Cartographic Norms of Finisterre and see examples of figures.

You can access the North Finisterre symbol.

Cartography not prepared by the authors must present the source after the legend.

Graphics

All graphics must be in an editable format in the Word file of the manuscript or be sent in a supplementary file in Excel (or other format).

The graphs must identify the units of measurement on the axes, avoid lines inside and have no external line (box).

TABLES

The formatting of the tables includes horizontal lines, without external vertical limits, with internal vertical lines being allowed. Tables should be simple and preferably fit on a single page, avoiding long sentences, long numbers and too many decimal places.

All tables must be mentioned in the body of the text, using the word “table”, in the middle of the sentence or in parentheses [ex: (table I)], followed by a Roman numeric sequence.

All tables must be in an editable format in the Word file of the manuscript (regardless of authorship).

The title must be in two languages: original language of the manuscript (Portuguese / Spanish / French) and English, or, if the original language of the manuscript is English, in English and Portuguese. It must be concise and express the content of the table. The source should only be expressed if there has been recourse to authors other than those in the text.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

The formatting of bibliographic references must comply with all the requirements of APA Norms 7th Edition (see APA Norms 6th Ed. / Norms APA 7th ed. (Preliminary)).

Bibliographic references correspond exclusively to the works referenced in the manuscript and must be inserted at the end of the manuscript, in the section “Bibliographical References”.

Bibliographic references are organized in alphabetical order. If there are several works by the same author, the chronological order is followed. If there is more than one work from the same year and author / a, the letters "a", "b", "c", etc. are added to the year. (e.g. 2020a).

All titles that are not in English must be translated into that language (to be enclosed in square brackets after the original title), except for legal documents.

Finisterra supports the use of bibliographic management software (Mendeley, EndNote, among others). However, the authors must make sure that their bibliographic references include all the necessary elements and comply with the rules of APA 7th Edition.

END TEXT NOTES

The essential notes (maximum 10) will have a Roman numeric sequence and should be included at the end of the manuscript as "end notes".

Notes that are merely bibliographic references are not allowed.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; methodology, X.X.; software, X.X.; validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; formal analysis, X.X.; investigation, X.X.; resources, X.X.; data curation, X.X.; writing – original draft preparation, X.X.; writing – review and editing, X.X.; visualization, X.X.; supervision, X.X.; project administration, X.X.; funding acquisition, Y.Y.” (fill in only the options referring to the work presented).

Authors can consult the CRediT taxonomy (https://casrai.org/credit/) for the term explanation.

Opening of a period for applications:

The process of creating a thematic issue (TI) starts with the launch of an open period for applications, circulated by Finisterra.

The submission of the I is made by the Editor Responsible (ER)

The Director and the Executive Committee, together with two experts, evaluate the applications received based on the following selection criteria:

·         Relevance of the theme;

·         Scientific quality of each proposed manuscript;

·         Consistency of the set of proposed manuscripts ant the contribution of the theme to the advancement of science;

·        Research by the authors in the thematic area of the number (academic degree and affiliation); In order to ensure that SIs are sufficiently "open" to the participation of specialists from different areas and / or backgrounds, it is recommended that uthors with the same affiliation do not exceed 1/3 of the global number of authors. Failure to comply with this condition is a possible exclusion factor from the application.

Final decision – the decision to accept thematic issues is made by the Executive Commission of Finisterra and by the Editorial Commission of CEG.

After the final decision is made, the Responsible Editor of the TI approved, must sign with the Executive Commission of Finisterra a formal agreement of programmed publication.

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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 Licença Creative Commons Attribution 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.

EDITION RIGHTS

The publishing rights belong to theCenter of Geographical Studiesof the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planningof 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 "authors' duties”.

PUBLICATION RIGHTS

All publication rights belong to the Centre of Geographical Studies in its capacity as Editor of the Journal Finisterra.