Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Editorial policy. The Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica – RBLA (Brazilian Journal of Anthropological Linguistics) is a Brazilian open access journal operating on a continuous publication basis and also publishing special issues. It welcomes articles authored by professors, researchers, PhD or MA students, the latter’s contribution preferably co-authored with their advisors or associated researchers.

 

2. Review system. RBLA adopts the double-blind peer review system. Authors remain anonymous throughout the analysis process of their articles, as well as reviewers during and after the evaluation. In case a manuscript receives disagreeing reviews, a third evaluator will take part in the evaluation process. Once reviews are available, copies of the evaluations are sent to the author(s), together with recommendations for adjustments indicated by the reviewers.

 

3. The nature of the published work. RBLA publishes articles, vocabularies, field diaries, travel reports, book reviews, translations, and ancient studies of inestimable value for the knowledge of languages ”‹”‹and cultures of South American Indigenous people. Exceptionally, studies on indigenous languages ”‹”‹of the Americas in general are accepted. None of the submitted manuscripts can be simultaneously submitted to other journals.

 

4. Submission. Articles must be submitted through the UNB SEER Platform: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/about/submissions. The author(s) must register (Login/Password) in the Submissions section. When filling in the data, authors must agree with the conditions established by the journal.

 

4.1 Metadata: Authors must fill out the metadata properly when submitting a manuscript as they are considered in the editing process. As for affiliation, the name of the Institution must be informed in full. After submission, the author(s) receive an e-mail from the editor and, from then on, can follow the evaluation and editing process of the submitted work.

 

4.2 Articles. Articles must be original and unpublished.

 

4.3 Book reviews. Reviews are exclusively for work published in the last two years.

 

4.4 Interviews. Interviews can be carried out with researchers in Brazil or abroad, or other experts ”” indigenous leaders, activists recognized by their contributions in favor of indigenous peoples, indigenism experts, among others.

 

4.5 Vocabularies, Travel reports, Field diaries. Vocabularies, travel reports and field diaries should make a relevant contribution to the linguistic, cultural, zoological/botanical, and archaeological knowledge of indigenous peoples.

 

4.6 Remembrance. This section is dedicated to publish past studies of fundamental importance for the knowledge of languages ”‹”‹and cultures of indigenous peoples.

 

4.7 Translations. Translations should consider the relevance of the work, its methods and theoretical contributions to the study and research of indigenous languages ”‹”‹and cultures. Translations should prioritize social inclusion.

 

4.8 Languages. Articles can be written in Portuguese (in accordance with the New Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement (2016)), French, English, Spanish or in indigenous languages.

 

5. Presentation: All article types should be submitted both in .doc (Word for Windows) format and PDF format.

5.1 Manuscript format: Paper size: 8.5 x 11 or A4.

5.2 Articles

 5.2.1 Main text :

• font: Times New Roman
• font size: 12
• line spacing: 1.5

5.2.2 Citations and footnotes:

• font: Times New Roman
• font size: 10
• line spacing: single

5.2.3 Tables, maps, and figures. Tables, maps, and figures should be sent in high resolution.

 

5.2.4 Article Title and Authorship

Page zero of the manuscript should contain the title of the work.  The author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation, the ORCID of the author(s), as well as a postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number of (one of) the author(s) should be inserted as metadata during the submission.

 

5.2.4.1 Title: the title should appear with the first letter capitalized. Other words may follow the same format, when relevant. The title should be in bold, centered at the top of the first page, single spaced, followed by a Portuguese translation (placed two lines after the title), if the manuscript is written in English. The title should be translated into English if the manuscript is written in any other language.

5.2.5 Abstracts. Each article should contain, at the top of page 1, two versions of the abstract with a maximum of 150 words each, to be placed three lines after the title and its correspondent translation. If the manuscript is written in Portuguese, one of the abstracts should be in English. If it is written in a different language, one of the abstracts should        be in Portuguese.

 

5.2.6 Keywords. Each abstract should be followed by five keywords separated by a period, followed by a space.

 

5.2.7 Editing rules. RBLA follows the rules of the Chicago Manual of Style.

 

5.2.8 Citations. References in the text must be enclosed in parentheses. When an author’s name is mentioned in the text, dates and pages should immediately follow his/her name, for example, Thomason and Kaufman (1988: 40-45). Citations of authors and their respective work should be enclosed in parentheses, for example, (Thomason and Kaufman 1988: 87).

 

5.2.9 Footnotes. Explanatory notes should be made in footnotes numbered consecutively.

 

5.2.10 References. A list of references including works that are cited in the manuscript should appear at the end of the manuscript, under the title References, following The Chicago Manual of Style.

Examples:

Books

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1914. An Introduction to the Study of Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. [Repr. intro. Joseph F. Kess, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1983.]

Bloomfield, Leonard. 1933. Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. [Repr. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1984. Chapters on historical linguistics issued separately as Language History, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1965.]

Lathrap, D. W. 1970. The Upper Amazon. New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers.

Sapir, Edward, and Morris Swadesh. 1939. Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives with Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials. Philadelphia: Linguistic Society of America and University of Pennsylvania.

Thomason, Sarah G., and Terrence Kaufman. 1988. Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Book chapters

Benveniste, Émile. 1966. “Être” et “avoir” dans leur fonctions linguistiques. In Émile Benveniste (ed.), Problèmes de linguistique générale (vol. 1, pp. 187–207). Paris: Gallimard.

Harrison, C. 1986. Verb Prominence, Verb Initialness, Ergativity and Typological Disharmony in Guajajara. In D. Derbyshire & G. K. Pullum (Eds.), Handbook of Amazonian languages. (Vol. 1, pp. 407–439). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kaufman, T. 1990. Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: studies in lowland South American languages, (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. Keenan, E. (1976). Towards a Universal Definition of “Subject”. In L.

Journal articles

Campbell, Lyle. 1973. Distant genetic relationships and the Maya–Chipaya hypothesis. Anthropological Linguistics 15(3), 113-35.

Faust, Norma. 1963. El lenguaje de los hombres y mujeres en cocama. Perú Indígena 10:115-17.

Dissertation and thesis

Rodrigues, A. 1958. Phonologie der Tupinambá Sprache. PhD thesis, University of Hamburg.

Correa-da-Silva, Bratriz, C.. 1997. Urubu-Ka'apor - da Gramática à História: a trajetória de um povo, Universidade de Brasília.

Noelli, Francisco S. 1993. Sem Tekohá não há Tekó (em busca de um modelo etnoarqueológico da subsistência e da aldeia Guarani aplicado a uma área de domínio no delta do Jacuí-RS). Mestrado em História, Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul.

Conference proceedings

Payne, D. L. 1986. Inflection and Derivation: Is there any difference?. Proceedings from the First Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene, Oregon.

See also:  https://feup.libguides.com/chicago/estruturabasica

5.2.11 Phonetic symbols. The use of UNICODE is recommended.

 

5.3 Reviews. Reviews should not exceed seven pages. The complete reference of the work under review should follow the rules for articles, remembering that the submitted review cannot contain the identification of the author(s) of the review(s). After approval for publication, the final version will include the identification of the author(s).

5.4 Translations. Each RBLA volume publishes up to two translations, except for occasional special volumes.

5.5 Interviews. Interviews should be formatted according to the same rules for the title and the author(s) of articles, but the title should be introduced by: “Interview with ...”, followed by an asterisk indicating a footnote with a brief biography of the interviewee. Reviews should not exceed seven pages. The complete reference of the interviewer must follow the rules for articles, remembering that the submitted review cannot contain the identification of the author(s) of the review(s). After approval for publication, the final version will include the identification of the author(s).

5.6 Field Diaries and Travel Reports. Should follow the same rules for articles.

 

5.7 Vocabularies. Should follow the same rules for articles. Tabs (and not tables) should be used to present vocabulary data.

6. Acknowledgments: When applicable, acknowledgments should be located in a footnote.

7. Supplemental material and/or Appendices. Supplemental material and appendices are accepted when they are of vital importance to complement the text. They should be inserted at the end of the text, after the list of references, obeying a maximum length of 30 pages.

8. Further instructions. Articles that do not meet the journal’s guidelines will be returned to the authors. Or revisions will be requested, indicated in a personal letter. Data and theoretical concepts presented in the manuscript, as well as an accurate list of bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the author(s).

9. Copyright - Permission for publication. Upon acceptance of the submitted article for publication, the authors grant RBLA reproduction and publication rights, according to the definitions of “reproduction” and “publication” on items I and VI, Article 5 of the 9610/98 Law.

10. Privacy Policy. RBLA uses authors’ names and addresses exclusively for the purposes of the journal and will not be making them available for any other purposes.