Author Guidelines
General Guidelines
All submissions must be made exclusively through the journal’s website and must comply with the guidelines set forth below. Authors are therefore strongly encouraged to read this page carefully. RHAC reserves the right to summarily reject submissions that do not comply with its editorial policies and requirements.
All text files must be submitted in .doc or .docx format and prepared using the journal’s template, which contains all mandatory elements required for submission. Texts may be written in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, or Italian. RHAC publishes manuscripts only in their original language and does not provide translations.
RHAC does not charge any fees for reading, processing, or publishing manuscripts.
RHAC welcomes submissions adopting a wide range of approaches and themes, provided they are compatible with the journal’s Scope and Focus.
RHAC adopts a set of ethical policies in accordance with national and international standards for scientific research, aiming to promote integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly practices. For further information, authors are encouraged to consult the journal’s Ethics page.
Submissions may be made to four sections: 1) Articles; 2) Documents and Translations; 3) Reviews and Reports; 4) Interviews. The editorial policies applicable to each section are described at the end of this page.
During the submission process, authors are required to provide various complementary pieces of information, referred to as metadata, which play a fundamental role in the indexing and dissemination of publications. Authors are encouraged to consult the Guidance for Completing Metadata in order to provide this information accurately and comprehensively.
The manuscript submitted for peer review must not contain any information identifying its authorship. Authors are strongly encouraged to consult the Guidelines for Authors’ Confidentiality to ensure that both the content of the manuscript and the file properties remain anonymous.
Information regarding RHAC’s peer review procedures is available on the Peer Review page.
Authors whose work has been published by RHAC may submit new manuscripts only after a period of two years from the publication date of their previous article.
Authorship
Authors are fully responsible for the content of manuscripts submitted to RHAC, in accordance with the journal’s Copyright Statement presented below.
RHAC uses Turnitin software to screen all submitted manuscripts as a means of assisting authors and editors in identifying potential textual similarities. Further information is available on the Peer Review page.
RHAC does not make distinctions regarding academic titles, considering only the scope and quality of the work submitted, in accordance with the journal’s requirements.
Co-authored submissions are welcome, provided that all listed authors have actively contributed to the preparation of the manuscript.
In order to acknowledge the individual contributions of each contributor and to provide greater transparency to readers, RHAC adopts the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) system both during the submission process and in published manuscripts, as indicated in the journal template. Authors are encouraged to consult the Guidelines for Completing the CRediT Taxonomy for further instructions.
In the case of articles derived from undergraduate monographs, master’s dissertations, doctoral theses, or postdoctoral research, advisors and supervisors should not be included as co-authors solely by virtue of their supervisory role. Their participation should instead be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section. Co-authorship is accepted when there has been an effective and substantial contribution to the conception, development, or writing of the manuscript.
RHAC does not accept the addition of authors after a manuscript has been submitted.
Brazilian authors must provide both a link to their Currículo Lattes and a link to their ORCID profile. Authors from other countries are required only to provide a link to their ORCID profile.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
RHAC recognizes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may assist authors in certain scholarly activities, such as language revision and translation, literature review, the analysis of large datasets, and the formatting of academic texts. However, their use must comply with ethical, transparent, and responsible research practices.
Ethical use of AI is understood as preserving human critical judgment in the production of scholarly work, ensuring that the conception, development, interpretation, and analysis of research remain the responsibility of the authors.
Maintaining academic integrity in the use of AI entails preserving the quality and reliability of scholarly work. Authors are responsible for avoiding copyright infringement and plagiarism, preventing the dissemination of misinformation and discriminatory biases that AI systems may generate, and carefully reviewing all outputs produced by such tools in order to ensure their accuracy, relevance, and appropriateness, particularly with regard to data, quotations, and bibliographic references.
The use of AI in manuscripts submitted to RHAC does not exempt authors from responsibility for their contents. Failure to disclose the use of AI constitutes an ethical breach contrary to the principles of integrity and transparency promoted by the journal.
To ensure transparency, authors must explicitly disclose the use of AI in manuscripts submitted to RHAC, indicating which tools were employed and specifying the stages and sections of the work in which they were used, including the preparation of images, tables, charts, and other associated materials. This information must be included at the end of the manuscript, in accordance with the journal template.
RHAC reviewers are asked to assess whether the use of AI complies with these principles and to inform the editors of any indications of undisclosed or inappropriate use that may conflict with accepted standards of academic integrity.
For further information on the use of Artificial Intelligence in scholarly publishing, RHAC recommends consulting: Portaria 2664/2026, de 6 de março de 2026 - Política de Integridade na Atividade Científica do CNPq; Guia de uso de ferramentas e recursos de Inteligência Artificial na comunicação de pesquisas na Rede SciELO; Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) in the Work - Recommendations for Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications.
Funding
Authors must disclose any funding received for the conduct of the research or the preparation of the manuscript, indicating the name of the funding agency or institution and the corresponding grant or project number.
Funding information must be provided during the submission process through the metadata fields on the platform and included at the end of the manuscript, in accordance with the journal template. Within the anonymized manuscript itself, however, information that could identify the authors – such as grant numbers or project titles – must be omitted to ensure the integrity of the peer review process.
Should the manuscript be accepted for publication, RHAC will be responsible for including the complete funding information in the final published version.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors must disclose any conflicts of interest that may have influenced the preparation, interpretation, or presentation of the manuscript.
Conflicts of interest may include personal, academic, professional, or financial relationships involving one or more authors that could interfere with the objectivity of the research or its presentation.
Such information must be provided in the Comments to the Editor field during the submission process. Editors will evaluate each case individually and, when necessary, communicate relevant information to reviewers while preserving the anonymity of the authors.
The declaration of a conflict of interest does not necessarily preclude publication. On the contrary, disclosure allows editors, reviewers, and readers to better evaluate the manuscript in accordance with accepted principles of research integrity and transparency.
Reviewers are likewise encouraged to decline invitations to review manuscripts whenever they perceive a potential conflict of interest with the anonymous author(s).
Research Ethics Committee
Whenever a manuscript involves research using data obtained from research participants or includes identifiable or sensitive information concerning them, as defined by Resolution No. 510 of 7 April 2016, which establishes ethical standards applicable to research in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Brazil, authors must declare that the study received approval from the appropriate Research Ethics Committee (Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa – CEP).
Whenever applicable, proof of approval by the relevant Research Ethics Committee must be uploaded during the submission process as a separate file and disclosed at the end of the manuscript, in accordance with the journal template.
Preprints
RHAC accepts manuscripts that have previously been made publicly available as preprints on national or international repositories for the purpose of scholarly discussion prior to journal publication.
When applicable, authors must inform the editors of the existence of a preprint version in the Comments to the Editor field during the submission process.
If the manuscript is accepted for publication, RHAC will be responsible for including an appropriate reference to the preprint version in the final published article.
Research Data
RHAC encourages the citation and dissemination of research datasets deposited in national or international open-access repositories that are analyzed or discussed in submitted manuscripts. Such practices contribute to the preservation and reuse of data, as well as to the reproducibility and transparency of scholarly research.
References to research datasets must follow the journal’s citation and referencing guidelines described below.
Formatting and Bibliographic References
Documents must use size 12 Calibri font, justified, 1.5 line spacing; A4 size pages, with 2.5 cm top and bottom margins and 3 cm side margins.
Italics should be used for the titles of artworks, for foreign words, and to highlight terms. Do not use underlining, except for hyperlinks.
If there are sections within the document, do not number them; instead, identify them in bold type. Examples include Introduction, Conclusion, and similar headings.
All bibliographic citations must be indicated through the numerical system, that is, by means of footnotes, in accordance with ABNT NBR 10520:2023. RHAC reserves the right not to consider manuscripts that employ other citation systems, such as the author–date format.
RHAC does not publish a bibliography at the end of manuscripts. Nevertheless, all bibliographic references cited in the text must be provided in the appropriate field during the submission process on the journal platform.
Direct quotations within the text must be enclosed in double quotation marks (“ ”). If quotation marks appear in the original passage, they should be converted to single quotation marks (‘ ’). When a direct quotation comprises three full lines or more, the paragraph must be indented 4 cm from the left margin, set in size 11 font, and single-spaced, without the use of quotation marks (unless quotation marks are present in the original source).
Articles and interviews must include a title, abstract, and keywords, together with their corresponding English versions whenever the manuscript is written in another language. Abstracts should contain approximately 500 characters, including spaces.
References must follow the ABNT NBR 6023:2025 standard. Authors are encouraged to consult the Referencing Guidelines to ensure compliance with the journal’s requirements.
After the first citation in a footnote, abbreviated forms such as idem, ibidem, and opus citatum (opere citato) should be used throughout the text whenever appropriate.
Tables must be placed at the end of the manuscript and preceded by a title. For example: Table 1: Survey of the artist’s production. Within the body of the text, their location should always be indicated in square brackets. For example: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet [Table 1], consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc et lectus nibh. Nullam a quam molestie, consequat metus sed, laoreet ipsum [Table 2]. Tables are not included in the character count. In the case of tables reproduced or transcribed from other authors, the corresponding reference must be provided in a footnote immediately following the table title.
Charts must be inserted in the manuscript and also uploaded as separate files in the appropriate section of the platform (Article Components), in TIF, JPG, JPEG, or PNG format. Within the body of the text, their location must be indicated in square brackets. For example: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet [Chart 1], consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc et lectus nibh. Nullam a quam molestie, consequat metus sed, laoreet ipsum [Chart 2]. Each file name must include the corresponding number without brackets (e.g., chart1.jpg). Chart titles must be listed sequentially at the end of the manuscript. When reproducing charts created by other authors, the full bibliographic reference must appear immediately after the title, preceded by “In:”. For example: Chart 1: Number of artworks produced by the artist by decade. In: Full bibliographic reference (see Referencing Guidelines).
Images must be inserted in the manuscript and also uploaded as separate files in the appropriate section of the platform (Article Components), in TIF, JPG, JPEG, or PNG format. Within the body of the text, the location of each image must be indicated in square brackets. For example: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet [Figure 1], consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc et lectus nibh. Nullam a quam molestie, consequat metus sed, laoreet ipsum [Figure 2]. Each file name must include the corresponding number without brackets (e.g., figure1.jpg). Image captions must be listed sequentially after the images and at the end of the text according to the following format:
Figure (number): Artist, Title, year. Technique, dimensions in cm, location (museum name, collection, if applicable), city (if applicable). Copyright holder/reference or photographer.
If images do not meet the quality standards required for publication, the Editorial Team may request replacements or modifications. Whenever possible, authors are strongly encouraged to provide high-resolution images with a minimum effective resolution of 300 dpi. If the material is deemed unsuitable, the Editorial Team reserves the right to publish the images in black and white or, ultimately, not to publish them.
