Instructions for Authors of iSys Articles

Title: If the article is written in Portuguese, then place the title in English here

Author 1 Full Name1, Author 2 Full Name2, …, Author N Full Name1

1Department/Institute name – University name (Acronym)
City, State/District – Country

2 Department/Institute name – University name (Acronym)
City, State/District – Country

N Department/Institute name – University name (Acronym)
City, State/District – Country

{local-part-1, local-part-n}@domain, local-part-2@domain, e-mailx

Abstract. This template describes the style to be used in articles for iSys – Brazilian Journal of Information Systems. For papers in English, you should add just an abstract while for the papers in Portuguese, we also ask for an abstract in Portuguese (“resumo”). In both cases, abstracts should not have more than 10 lines and must be in the first page of the paper.

Keywords. Add from 3 to 7 title-cased keywords, separated by semi-colon.

Resumo. Este modelo descreve o estilo a ser usado na confecção de artigos para publicação na iSys – Revista Brasileira de Sistemas de Informação. É solicitada a escrita de resumo e abstract apenas para os artigos escritos em português. Artigos em inglês deverão apresentar apenas abstract. Nos dois casos, o autor deve tomar cuidado para que o resumo (e o abstract) não ultrapasse(m) 10 linhas (cada), sendo que ambos devem estar na primeira página do artigo.

Palavras-Chave. Se o artigo for escrito em português, acrescente de 3 a 7 palavras-chave com a inicial em maiúsculo, separadas por ponto-e-vírgula.

General Information

To avoid unnecessary errors, you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check'. We ask that authors follow the guidelines explained in this template, to achieve the highest quality possible and a standard presentation of the manuscripts of the journal. Be advised that manuscripts in a technically unsuitable form may be rejected anytime by the editors or reviewers.

All articles submitted to iSys should be written in English or in Portuguese. The format paper should be A4 with single column, 3.5 cm for upper margin, 2.5 cm for bottom margin and 3.0 cm for lateral margins, without headers or footers. The main font must be Times, 12 point nominal size, with 6 points of space before each paragraph.

As it is an Information Systems (IS) journal, it is expected the work is supported by IS theories, deals with innovative technology artifacts and correctly follows a scientific methodology, presenting novel contributions to the state-of-the-art of the area. We also welcome systematic reviews that include clear research questions, a critical analysis, and directions for new challenges in the area. There is no limit of number of pages for the manuscript, although usually it ranges from 15-30 pages.

First Page

The first page must display the paper title (if the article is written in Portuguese, then the “Title:” followed by the title in English is also mandatory), the name and address of the authors, the abstract and keywords in English, and “resumo” and “palavras-chave” in Portuguese (“resumos” and “palavras-chave” are required only for papers written in Portuguese). The title must be centered over the whole page, in 16 point boldface font and with 12 points of space before itself. Author names must be centered in 12 point font, bold, all of them disposed in the same line, separated by commas and with 12 points of space after the title. Addresses must be centered in 12 point font, also with 12 points of space after the authors’ names. E-mail addresses should be written using font Courier New, 10 point nominal size, with 6 points of space before and 6 points of space after.

The abstract and “resumo” (if it is the case) must be in 12 point Times font, indented 0.8cm on both sides. The word Abstract and Resumo, should be written in boldface and must precede the text. The keywords and “palavras-chave” (if it is the case) must follow the abstract and “resumo”, respectively, be in 10 point Times font, indented 0,8 on both sides, with 6 points of space before and 12 points of space after. The word Keyword and Palavras-chave, should be written in boldface and must precede the text.

Sections and Paragraphs

Section titles must be in boldface, 13pt, flush left. There should be an extra 12 pt of space before each title. Attention to the section numbering. The first paragraph of each section should not be indented, while the first lines of subsequent paragraphs should be indented by 1.27 cm.

Subsections

The subsection titles must be in boldface, 12pt, flush left.

Figures and Captions

Figure and table captions should be centered if less than one line (Figure 1), otherwise justified and indented by 0.8cm on both margins, as shown in Figure 2. The caption font must be Helvetica, 10 point, boldface, with 6 points of space before and after each caption.

Figure 1. A typical figure

Figure 2. This figure is an example of a figure caption taking more than one line and justified considering margins mentioned in Section 5.

In tables, try to avoid the use of colored or shaded backgrounds, and avoid thick, doubled, or unnecessary framing lines. When reporting empirical data, do not use more decimal digits than warranted by their precision and reproducibility. Table caption must be placed before the table (see Table 1) and the font used must also be Helvetica, 10 point, boldface, with 6 points of space before and after each caption.

Table 1. Variables to be considered on the evaluation of interaction techniques

Images

Images and illustrations may be colorful, but attention to the possibility of black-and-white, or gray tones, print. The image resolution on paper should be about 600 dpi. Do not include images with excessive resolution, as they may take hours to print, without any visible difference in the result.

Submission instructions

Fill up the metadata information with the most complete data possible as some indexing entities require detailed information and also for helping us to organize the journal data. Notice that if the paper is written in Portuguese, it is necessary to fill up the metadata in both languages (English and Portuguese).

Start with information for each author. Please provide the information according to the order of the authors. Although it is possible to reorganize the order, sometimes the system does not work well on performing reordering. Avoid shortening middle names (as it may make harder to identify other publications of the same author). In the URL field, choose to fill in with the curriculum URL (for those who have a Lattes curriculum, please fill in with the address to access the CV). Add the current affiliation of each author and fill in the country where the author works. Click on the “Add Author” button for adding other author, if that’s the case.

Add the Title and Abstract of the manuscript. Attention to the “Form language” on the top of the form. If the manuscript is in English, then provide the title and abstract information in English. If the manuscript is written in Portuguese, then it is necessary to fill the title and abstract also in English. In this case, just change the form language on the top of the form and fill in the corresponding information. Notice the “Form language” is related to the information that is filled in the metadata. It does not change the language of the page.

For “Academic discipline”, please consider the system suggestions, filling in the ones are related to the manuscript. For “Keywords”, the authors are free to choose all the terms they consider important to indexing the manuscript. If the work is related to a specific geo-spatial area, please, provide the corresponding information in “Geo-spatial coverage”. Information about the research sample characteristics must be provided in the “Research sample characteristics” field. The research type, method and approach must be filled in the “Type, method or approach” field. The language field is related to the manuscript language. Therefore, this field is the same regardless of the form language. Attention to use semi-colon “;” to separate terms in each field of the indexing information.

Information about the contributors and supporting agencies must also be filled in the submission metadata. In case of approval, the authors may also add this information on the final version of the manuscript (usually it is added at the acknowledgement section). Again, attention to the “Form language”. If the manuscript is in Portuguese, the authors are also required to fill in the metadata in English as in the title and abstract.

Provide a formatted list of references for works cited in the manuscript and separate individual references with a blank line. This field is the same regardless of the form language. Notice we follow the active link procedure, which is highly recommended to also include on the article. Then, when generating the PDF file, make sure the hyperlinks are active.

Acknowledgement

This template is based on the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) template for papers.

References

Bibliographic references must be unambiguous and uniform. We recommend giving the author names references in brackets, e.g. [Knuth 1984], [Boulic and Renault 1991]; or dates in parentheses, e.g. Knuth (1984), Smith and Jones (1999).

The references must be listed using 12 point font size, with 6 points of space before each reference. The first line of each reference should not be indented, while the subsequent should be indented by 0.5 cm.

Whenever possible, include the links to the references (URL, DOI and Google Scholar link):

A. When the reference has a Link

Make a clickable link on the respective URL (if you are using MS-Word, use the tool Insert Hyperlink, informing the URL).

B. Allow readers to search for the reference on Google Scholar

Copy the title of the reference and put in between “%22”, including the “+” character between each word: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q= %22PASTE+TITLE+HERE%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search

If it is a common title, you may add the author, such as in: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=PASTE+AUTHOR+HERE+%22PASTE+TITLE+HERE%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search

Or you may use the publication year (YEAR) to restrict the results, such as in: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=PASTE+AUTHOR+HERE+%22PASTE+TITLE+HERE%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search &as_ylo=YEAR&as_yhi=YEAR

It is highly advisable to confirm if the link is correct (and if Google Scholar presents a correct result).

Include the term “[GS SEARCH]” at the end of each reference and make “GS SEARCH” a hyperlink with the URL just created.

C. Allow readers to access references with DOI

Add “doi:” followed by the DOI number. Then, make the DOI number a hyperlink using the corresponding URL (the URL can be created adding “http://doi.org/ in front of the DOI number).

D. Allow readers to access references with DOI

Add “doi:” followed by the DOI number. Then, make the DOI number a hyperlink using the corresponding URL (the URL can be created adding “http://doi.org/ in front of the DOI number).

Boulic, R. and Renault, O. (1991) “3D Hierarchies for Animation”, In: New Trends in Animation and Visualization, Edited by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann, John Wiley & Sons ltd., England. [GS Search]

Dyer, S., Martin, J. and Zulauf, J. (1995) “Motion Capture White Paper”, ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/A%7CW/jam/mocap/MoCapWP_v2.0.html, December.

Holton, M. and Alexander, S. (1995) “Soft Cellular Modeling: A Technique for the Simulation of Non-rigid Materials”, Computer Graphics: Developments in Virtual Environments, R. A. Earnshaw and J. A. Vince, England, Academic Press Ltd., p. 449-460. [GS Search]

Knuth, D. E. (1984), The TeXbook, Addison Wesley, 15th edition.

Pawlak, Z. (1981). Information systems theoretical foundations. Information Systems, 6(3), 205-218. doi: 10.1016/0306-4379(81)90023-5 [GS Search]

Smith, A. and Jones, B. (1999). On the complexity of computing. In Advances in Computer Science, pages 555–566. Publishing Press. [GS Search]