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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The article is original and previously unpublished, and it is not under review in any other publication
  • The article follows all requirements in Guidelines for authors
  • The article is in accordance with the Ethics Code and Publication Best Practices
  • Authors declare any conflict of interest in the publication
  • The authors commit to submitting the Open Science Practices Adherence Form at the time of article submission.

Author Guidelines

Submission norms

1. Economic History & Business History publishes exclusively original studies written on either Portuguese, English, or Spanish.

2. File settings: Microsoft Word or an open-source alternative, A4 paper, margins 2.5 (top and bottom) and 3.0 (left and right), font Times New Roman 12, 1.5 spacing and word limit of 10,000 words, including references, which should be separated from primary sources.

3. Manuscripts should present: title, abstract with limit of 150 words, 3 keywords and JEL code.

4. Economic History & Business History accept articles with, at best, three authors, from which we demand effective participation in the development of the work and an ORCID entry. Once taken the first editorial decision, it is forbidden to include new coauthors.

5. Charts and spreadsheets must be sent separately in a Microsoft Excel file. Figures, prints, illustrations and drawings should also be sent separately, with a minimum resolution of 600 real dpi (not interpolated), in natural size and saved in JPEG format and in RGB colors. Trading cards or slides must have a minimum resolution of 2,500 real dpi (not interpolated). Photographs taken by digital cameras must have a minimum resolution of 3 megapixels without compression (high definition module). All cited elements must be numbered, accompanied by a legend and source indication.

Open Science

The journal Economic History & Business History adheres to the set of principles, practices, and requirements of Open Science in accordance with the recommendations of the SciELO Brazil Collection. At the time of submission, authors must attach the Application form for adopting Open Science practices duly completed. When filling out the form, authors must provide information that increases transparency regarding the research process and its dissemination, namely:

Funding Sources
At the time of manuscript submission, authors must disclose all sources of funding, whether from funding agencies or other sources of financial support, that contributed to the conduct of the research.

Preprints
Economic History & Business History accepts submissions of preprints deposited in reliable servers prior to or in parallel with the journal’s evaluation process, such as SciELO Preprints, Zenodo, Preprints.org, SocArXiv, and Advance. Articles published on other preprint servers may be evaluated at the discretion of the editorial team. Submission to preprint servers is a choice of the author(s), who must indicate whether the manuscript has been deposited in such servers.

Conflicts of interest
Indicate whether there are potential conflicts of interest of a financial, personal, or professional nature in the process of preparing and publishing the manuscript.

Individual contribution of each author
Specify the individual contribution of each author according to the following criteria: (1) Conception of the article; (2) Data and/or document research; (3) Data and/or document analysis; (4) Discussion of results; (5) Writing and revision of the manuscript.

Availability of research data
Indicate the availability of the research data and the conditions for access.

Use of Artificial Intelligence
Indicate the uses and purposes of Artificial Intelligence tools in accordance with the journal’s Generative AI Policy.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy

História Econômica & História de Empresas follows the guidelines and recommendations regarding the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and AI-assisted technologies established by Elsevier. The use of AI technologies must comply with ethical principles in accordance with COPE guidelines concerning privacy, copyright, and other related issues. The journal monitors the ongoing debate on the use of AI in scientific research and will revise its policy whenever necessary.

For authors
Authors are allowed to use generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies, provided such use is consistent with the journal’s AI policy. AI technologies cannot be listed as authors. The use of these tools must be carried out under strict human oversight, with authors responsible for verifying the accuracy of the generated content, including factual errors, and assuming full responsibility for authorship and the published material. The use of generative AI to create or modify images, graphs, or figures is not permitted; only minor adjustments such as brightness, contrast, and color are allowed. Upon submission, authors must disclose the use and purpose of generative AI tools and AI-assisted technologies. This information will be published at the end of the article.

For reviewers
Invited reviewers must treat the manuscript as a confidential document. Uploading parts or the entirety of the manuscript to generative AI tools or AI-assisted technologies is not permitted, due to the risk of copyright violations. Peer review is an exclusively human responsibility. The use of AI tools as review assistants is prohibited, as it undermines the critical thinking required for peer review. AI technologies may generate incomplete, inaccurate, or biased evaluations and conclusions. Reviewers are solely responsible for the assessment, which is a non-delegable task.

For editors
Editors must treat manuscripts as confidential documents. Uploading parts or the entirety of a manuscript to generative AI tools or AI-assisted technologies is not permitted, due to the risk of copyright violations. This confidentiality extends to editorial decisions and all communication with authors. Therefore, editors may not submit editorial letters or communications to AI tools, even for the purpose of correcting grammatical or stylistic issues. Editors may not use AI technologies as assistants in editorial work, as this may lead to incomplete, inaccurate, or biased evaluations and conclusions.

Any cases not covered by this policy will be evaluated by the Editorial Team.

Research involving human subjects, directly or indirectly

Original articles resulting from research involving procedures with human subjects must attach, at the time of manuscript submission, the approval of the Ethics Committee of the institution to which the authors are affiliated, in accordance with the applicable legislation.

Citations and references

1. Citations must have author, year and page, following the norm NBR-10520 from ABNT.

2. Notes should be restricted to minimal indispensable, inserted as footnotes.

3. The references, restricted to only the effectively cited in the body of the work, should be presented at the end of the text, in alphabetical order and conforming to the norm NBR-6023 of ABNT. If there is more than one reference/publication of the same author, it should be presented in the order of publication date, from the oldest to the most recent. The surname and name of the author should be repeated, being forbidden the use of the “string” (________).

Copyright Notice

The authors keep the copyrights on their work, allowing the journal only the right of first publication. Besides, they have authorization to sign additional contracts separately from the initial version of this work published in this journal, as long as the first publication in this journal is recognized.

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