Submission guidelines for articles
Submission Guidelines for Articles
The author must hold a postgraduate degree at the Master's, Doctorate, or Post-Doctorate level in Law or related fields.
Articles may have shared authorship. In the case of co-authorship, authors with a specialization level are accepted, provided they partner with a Master's, Doctorate, or Post-Doctorate holder. Article submissions from authors with only an undergraduate degree are also accepted, provided they are co-authored with a Doctorate holder.
Articles must be unpublished, original, and address topics related to Labor Law and related fields of knowledge.
Articles in foreign languages are accepted.
The Documentation and Memory Commission will take into account, as evaluative criteria, the thematic and innovative relevance of the article, as well as its adequacy to parameters of quality, objectivity, and textual coherence.
Articles with content largely similar or identical to other texts published by the same author in another publication, even with a different title, will not be accepted.
Articles should be submitted in electronic format, formatted according to the documentation standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT), in Word format, with a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 pages (excluding bibliographic references), following the configurations below:
- paper size: A5;
- margins: top: 2.2 cm; bottom: 3 cm; left: 1.7 cm; right: 2 cm;
- headers and footers: header 1.3 cm; footer: 2.2 cm; vertical alignment: top;
- font: Times New Roman;
- font size: 11;
- spacing: single;
- paragraph indentation: 1 cm;
- title in Portuguese and English, in uppercase and bold;
- author's name in lowercase/bold, aligned to the right, with three spaces after the title and three before the text begins, and indication in a footnote of their respective degree, institutional affiliation, Lattes CV indication, ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and email;
- abstracts in Portuguese and English, in font size 10, with a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 lines, and three spaces below the author's name;
- keywords in Portuguese and English, with a maximum of 4 expressions each, just below the respective abstract;
- text begins three spaces after the keywords;
- subtitles in lowercase and bold, without indentation, in Arabic numbering, and with 1 space before and after;
- quotes longer than three lines: font size 10, indentation of 3 cm (paragraph beginning) and 2 cm (subsequent lines); such quotes should not have different spacing from the body of the text;
- quotes of up to three lines should not be set apart from the body of the text;
- references to quotes should be in the format author/year/page, in parentheses and separated by commas [e.g., (Delgado, 2017, p. 52)] within the text itself and not in a footnote, and all should be listed in full at the end of the article in the “References” section;
- footnotes should be size 10 and have the same spacing as the body of the text.
Authors will be solely responsible for the content expressed in their articles.
No royalties or any other type of remuneration will be due for articles published in the Journal of the Superior Labor Court, regardless of the type of media in which the publication occurs.
The submission of an article does not imply its obligatory publication, which is decided solely by the Ministers who are members of the Permanent Documentation and Memory Commission of the TST.
Further clarification regarding article submission can be obtained through the email address revista@tst.jus.br, or, from Monday to Friday, from 7 am to 7 pm, by phone at +55 61 3043-3056 (morning) / +55 61 3043-4756 (afternoon).
