XI SOFiA presentations CALL FOR PAPERS (2017) TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOFiA ( SEMANA DE ORIENTAÇÃO FILOSÓFICA E ACADÊMICA / SYMPOSIUM OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND ACADEMIC ADVISORNING) 1.0. Submissions: ORGANIZER: UNIFESP UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SÃO PAULO 1.1. Deadline: Article submissions for presentation are open from 1sh April 2017 until 1sh June 2017. SPONSOR: BLUCHER Conferences proceedings publication www.blucher.com.br 1.2. Who can sign up: Postgraduate and undergraduate students, or people who have taken any graduate degree. submissions: SOFIA.UNIFESP.INSCRICAO @GMAIL.COM other questions: SOFIA.UNIFESP.COMUNICAO @GMAIL.COM PUBLICATION DATE: GUARULHOS, 1 SH APRIL 2017. 1.3. Submission Rules: 1.3.1. It is necessary that the student is regularly enrolled in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) and has developed a research with results already to be presented. In the case of other people, who ones that have taken graduate degree and are not currently linked to any undergraduate or postgraduate program, it is necessary they are currently linked to any HEI s group of studies. 1.3.2. It is required that the author sends, along with the article, an institutional proof of active enrolment in the HEI where he/she studies. For those who ONLY have a link with some group of studies, it is necessary to present a statement issued by the HEI, on letterhead and signed by the person in charge, attesting participation in the respective group of studies. In this latter case, the researcher must have taken - at least - 12 months of participation in the respective group of
studies, having it as reference the publication date of this call for papers. 1.3.3. The works must be sent respecting the deadline established in item 1.1. of this call. Entries sent out of this deadline or that do not meet ALL the conditions of the items 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 will be disregarded and REFUSED. 1.3.5. Only APPROVED articles can be present in the SOFiA XI edition. Prior to approval, SOFiA will carry out a first screening, in which it will evaluate the work relevance with our scope of approach, the work quality - which includes allegiance to EVERY rule of this call - and its adherence to the set of thematic sessions, which will be set up in view of the enrolled works. The sessions have very LIMITED space. Moreover, enrolled works also may be DENIED whether we evaluate the IMPERTINENCE of the work/article with the SOFiA aims or there is no adherence with other works that we will approve for create thematic sessions. 1.3.6. The works do not necessarily have to be in the Philosophy field, but they must take up a clear philosophical approach. 1.3.7. It is unappealable the decision of SOFiA about APPROVAL or REFUSAL (referring to the 1.3.5. item). When someone submit its work to the XI SOFiA, it is agreeing with ALL rules of this call and with the unappealable SOFiA decision. 1.3.8. Each person can have its name listed in the authorship of ONLY one work/article, either as an author or as a co-author. It is not possible to participate in SOFiA with more than one paper, either as an author or as a co-author.. 2.0. On articles: 2
2.1. Guideline for papers: 2.1.1. Title: it must have a maximum of 12 words and be centralized, typed all in capital letters and bolded in size 13; 2.1.2 Identification: It must be right below with full name and institution, both in size 12. In footnote must be your academic degree, besides email address and funding agency of the research. 2.1.3. Abstract: The text must be preceded by abstract typed ONLY in English, the Portuguese version should not be placed. The abstract must be PRECEDED by the English title of the work. The abstract should contain between 400 and 500 words, neither more nor less. Right after, it must there be five keywords separated by a period. It should be typed in Word format, Times New Roman style. However, specifically for the abstract: it should be typed in size 12 with single spacing 1.15, in SINGLE paragraph; 2.1.4. Number of pages: For the inscription, the works must contain, at least, 10 pages and, at most, 13 pages (already counting bibliography and abstract); 2.1.5. Format: The article can be typed in Portuguese, English or Spanish. It must be entered in the form of an academic ARTICLE, sent in Word format. The text BODY must be typed with Times New Roman style letters, spacing 1.5 and indenting paragraph 1.5; 2.1.6. Quotes: It must be typed in Times New Roman, single spacing 1.0, size 11, with indent 2.0., It must be typed in SINGLE PARAGRAPH apart ONLY when it takes at least 5 lines. Quotations with less than five lines have not to be separate from paragraphs, they must be in a regular paragraph and be highlighted by quotation marks. ALL quotations must be made IN THE BODY of the time, footnotes have not to be used, and it 3
must follow the following template (AUTHOR, year, page), item 2.1.8; 2.1.7. Footnotes: it must be typed in Times New Roman, single spacing 1.0, size 10. 2.1.8. References have to be cited throughout the text according to the system (AUTHOR, date, page), and presented in alphabetical order at the end of the work, according to the APA or ABNT / NBR-6023 standards, and typed in size 12 With 1.0 single spacing. 2.1.9. Layout: Alignment: Justified; - Margins: Top: 3 cm; bottom: 2 cm; Left: 3 cm; Right: 2 cm. - Paging: insert number of pages in the footer with right side alignment; 2.1.10. The submitted articles will be published in proceedings published by Blucher. Publication date is until the first quarter of 2018. 2.11.11. The abstracts will be released during the event in proceedings. 2.2. Presentation and publishing: 2.2.1. Presentation time: Each work will have 25 minutes for presentation. Next, 5 minutes will take place for discussions, extendable for 5 minutes more. 2.2.2. Allowances: SOFiA will not be responsible for sessions members' expenses who will present their works. Therefore, all those who submitted work will have to pay for their own costs, such as travel and lodging, for example. 2.2.3. Permission for reproduction and copyright transfer statement: When the article is submitted to XI SOFiA, the author agrees to publish - the same article sent - in XI SOFIA Proceedings, as well as its abstract. Those who have their papers approved MUST send a copyright transfer statement for the publication in the SOFIA proceedings. The deadline for the delivery of the copyright transfer 4
statement will be released together with the works approved publication. 2.2.4. ISSN: SOFiA publications (with articles and event abstracts) have ISSN. Besides, each paper will be published by publisher Blucher with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) specified by International DOI Foundation. 3.0. Where to submit: 3.1. Submissions are EXCLUSIVELY via email address: sofia.unifesp.inscricao@gmail.com; 3.2 The full name of the main author and "enrolment" in parentheses must be on the subject of the email message. Ex: John Elis Katter (enrolment). Besides, the file with the article must be named IN TINY with the surname arrived by the name of the main author (ex: katter_john) and must be sent in Word 2013 format or later. Emails that do not have on your subject such a structure will not be opened because they are not considered submissions and, therefore, will not be approved. The email address at item 3.1. is EXCLUSIVE for inscriptions. If there will have any question, they must be sent to (sofia.unifesp.comunicao@gmail.com), questions that are sent to the email address for submissions will not be answered. RATIFY: Entries that do not follow the instructions described in this item will not be approved, as they will not even be considered a subscription. 4.0. Results: The list of approved works will be announced at most on 31sh July 2017 in order to be presented in the XI SOFiA, it will be sent to the approved email along with the acceptance letters. 5.0. Date and place of the event: 5
The XI SOFiA will be held on 18th September 2017 and 22nd September 2017 at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). 6.0. Honourable mention: Each session will have a person responsible for coordinating. This year, authors of the most outstanding presentations will be awarded an honourable mention. 7.0. Omitted cases: Facts that do not appear in this public call will be analysed and deliberated in an irrevocable manner by the organization of the XI SOFiA. 6