The journal Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências is edited by the Center for Science and Mathematics Education - CECIMIG (www.fae.ufmg/cecimig), a research and extension body in the area of science education at the Faculty of Education of UFMG. The journal also has the support of the Postgraduate Program in Education at UFMG (Level 7 in CAPES) and interinstitutional partnerships in the composition of our editorial board at the national level (UFOP, UFJF, UFES, CEFET-RJ, UNESP, UFSC, UFABC, UERJ, UFPI, UFLA, UnB, USP, UFRB) and international level (King's College London, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Simon Fraser University, University of Groningen).

The first issue of the journal was published in print in 1999. Subsequently, it became available in electronic format, with three issues per year, and from 2017 onwards, it became a continuous publication with a single annual digital volume. Since 2021, in line with open science communication practices, the journal has adopted editorial policies involving: i) the acceptance of preprints, ii) the availability of data, codes and supplementary research materials, and iii) the openness of identity and opinions in the evaluation process. In this way, the journal seeks to maximize the transparency of knowledge production processes, as well as to provide for the sharing and reuse of data and other research content underlying the texts of the articles.

Currently, the journal publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Additionally, articles may be published in two or three of these languages. The abbreviated title of the journal is Ens. Pesqui. Educ. Ciênc. (Belo Horizonte), which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references, and bibliographic captions. Details about the journal's history can be found in the Editorial of 25 years of the Ensaio, published in 2024.

This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including financial restrictions) to all scientific texts published by the journal.

Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties using an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, track them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose.

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências follows the Gold Open Access model.

The attached form contains information on Open Science Compliance, data on Authorship and Ethics in scientific publication. It must be completed and included as a supplementary document at the time of submission.

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

A peer-reviewed, continuous-flow journal that publishes original national and international articles, of an empirical or theoretical nature, on topics of interest to the field of research in Science Education and its interrelations with the social sciences and humanities, seeking to meet criteria of academic rigor and social and educational relevance.

Our target audience consists of people who teach science and research science education at all levels (from early childhood education to higher education), in the areas of education and teaching of Natural Sciences and their Technologies (biology, physics, chemistry, geosciences and astronomy), health education, environmental education, intercultural education and rural education, communication and dissemination of science and related fields (philosophy, sociology, psychology, communication and others) that work in interfaces with science education.

This journal follows the standards defined in the Política de Preservação Digital do Programa SciELO.

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• Journal title: Educação Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências
• Short title: Ens. Pesqui. Educ. Ciênc.
• Publication of: Centro de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática
• Periodicity: Anual
• Publication modality: Continuous Publication (PC)
• Year the journal was created: 1999

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Since 2021, in line with open science communication practices, the journal accepts preprints. If the manuscript is available in a preprint repository, the authors must inform the editor-in-chief in the PRESENTATION LETTER addressed to Ensaio at the time of manuscript submission, providing the document's DOI. The manuscript evaluation criteria are the same as those used for other works and undergo anonymous (not double-blind) peer review.

Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências suggests the repository of Preprints Scielo.

The journal adopts peer review policies that can occur in the following modalities: i) double-blind, ii) anonymous, or iii) open at the end of the process.

The manuscript evaluation begins with a pre-analysis process that involves: i) analysis using plagiarism detection software and generative AI; ii) analysis of the text's adequacy in relation to the journal's format and scope guidelines. If problems are identified in the pre-analysis, the manuscript is rejected.

If no problems are found in the pre-analysis, the manuscript is forwarded to a member of the adjunct editorial team who selects at least two reviewers for evaluation. After the evaluation, the editorial team sends the authors a final report with the decision. If two reviews disagree, a third person may be invited to evaluate the manuscript. This entire process occurs through double-blind peer review.

Furthermore, since 2021, in line with open science communication practices, the journal has adopted editorial policies involving the acceptance of preprints and the possibility of revealing the identity and opinions of the evaluation process.

Manuscripts made available in preprint repositories undergo anonymous (not double-blind) peer review. The evaluation criteria are the same.

The possibility of revealing the identity of the authors and reviewers, in turn, only exists at the end of the arbitration process (breaking double anonymity). This results in the publication of an opinion piece authored by the reviewer(s) considering the arbitration process. For more details on this process, we suggest reading the journal's 2023 editorial on the subject: Editorial Ensaio 2023.

Empirical articles should present data that, when examined in light of a theoretical framework, can result in new knowledge or in the development of its application in different contexts. Theoretical articles should introduce new ideas to the field of knowledge they examine and provide conclusions and implications for research and educational practice in the field of science education.

Evaluation Criteria Adopted

Empirical Studies

1. Content/Theme addressed. (Does the article title adequately reflect the content/theme addressed? Is the content/theme addressed relevant to research in the field and well-justified? Are the research questions clearly formulated? Is the theoretical framework relevant to the content/theme addressed and the research questions?)

2. Design/Methods. (Are the methodology, procedures, and organization appropriate? Are the figures, tables, and graphs relevant to the arguments presented? Is the methodology presented consistent with the theoretical framework and the research questions? Were ethical considerations addressed?)

3. Results and data analysis. (Is the analysis based on the theoretical framework presented? Does the analysis present sufficient evidence to support the results?)

4. Conclusions and implications. (Are the conclusions well-supported by the results presented? Do they adequately answer the questions posed? Do they include recommendations for the area? Are the conclusions compared with those of other works in the same domain available in the literature?)

5. Formatting. (Does the abstract present clear and concise information? Does the article use appropriate language? Are the figures, tables, and graphs of satisfactory quality for publication? Is the bibliography relevant? Can the article be significantly reduced without loss of clarity?)

Theoretical Publications

1. Content/theme addressed. (Is the title appropriate to the article? Is the article's area of interest clearly described and supported by relevant literature?)

2. Theoretical framework. (Is the theoretical problem addressed relevant to research in Science Education and is it clearly formulated? Is the theoretical foundation adequate to address the problem?)

3. Discussion and argumentation. (Is the theoretical argument developed clear and consistent?)

4. Conclusions and implications. (Are the conclusions well-grounded in the discussion presented? Do the conclusions include recommendations for the field? Are the conclusions compared with those of other publications in the same domain available in the literature?)

5. Formatting. (Does the abstract present clear and concise information? Does the article use appropriate language? Are the figures, tables, and graphs of satisfactory quality for publication? Is the bibliography relevant? Can the article be significantly reduced without loss of clarity?)

Literature Review Papers (State of the Art)

1. Content/addressed theme. (Is the researched theme relevant to the field of education of science?)

2. Scope. (Does the study have a scope that allows for the identification of research trends in the investigated topic? Does the scope of the review include diverse journals and different modalities of scientific communication, such as articles, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations, and conference papers? Does it include dialogue with national and international production?)

3. Analytical Framework. (The study is guided by the author's critical and analytical perspective, supported by theoretical frameworks relevant to the topic under investigation.)

4. Results. (Does the study allow for the identification of different theoretical and methodological approaches in research on the topic? Does it discuss the research agenda in the investigated field? Does it highlight the results, implications, and limitations of the different approaches to the topic? Does it include a comparison and/or contrast of perspectives?)

5. Conclusions and implications. (Are the conclusions well-grounded in the discussion presented? Do the conclusions include recommendations for the field?)

6. Formatting. (Does the abstract present clear and concise information? Does the article use appropriate language? Are the figures, tables, and graphs of satisfactory quality for publication? Is the bibliography relevant? Can the article be significantly reduced without loss of clarity?)

Making data, code, and other materials available in an open format contributes to reproducibility, transparency, collaboration, efficiency, and data economy, among other important aspects for scientific practices and knowledge production.

Once a manuscript is approved, the data, code, and other materials must be submitted to the Ensaio repository on Scielo Dataverse EPEC and will be reviewed by the journal's Data Editors, who are also responsible for assisting authors in making any necessary adjustments.

Since 2024, the Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências has included information on data availability at the end of articles approved for publication, in accordance with the Guia Scielo (2018).

More information is detailed in Editorial 2024.

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências does not charge fees for article submission and publication.

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências follows recommendations for ethical standards, transparency, and accountability in scientific communication, adhering to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE) and the Guia de boas práticas para o fortalecimento da ética na publicação científica.

1. The editor-in-chief oversees the entire editorial process, paying particular attention to the following aspects:
i) The relationships between the journal and different agents involved in scientific communication (persons responsible for authorship, issuing opinions, target audience, indexers, funding agencies, the scientific community, and the general public).
ii) Ensuring the quality of peer review of a manuscript, considering the following parameters: impartiality, transparency, deadlines, effectiveness, and civility.
iii) Guiding the journal's practices based on guidelines and documents from the journal's Publishers, without compromising editorial independence.

2. The manuscript submission process requires authors to provide the following information in the PRESENTATION LETTER sent to Ensaio:
i) information on adherence to the open science policies adopted by the journal;
ii) a statement that they demonstrably accept responsibility for the content of the manuscript;
iii) recording the contribution of each person involved in the production of the manuscript, according to the criteria of the CRediT (The Contributor Roles Taxonomy). Details about the journal's position on this topic can be found in the Editorial 2022;
iv) a statement on the ethical principles and procedures adopted in the research;
(v) information on the use of generative AI tools in the production of manuscript content.

3. The editorial team is guided by impartiality, integrity, and confidentiality in conducting the processing, evaluation, and decision-making processes, prioritizing constructive criticism and meeting the deadlines established by the journal.
i) The editor-in-chief oversees all questions and concerns from authors regarding ethical aspects through contact with the corresponding editorial staff.
ii) Authors may contest editorial decisions by means of a reply letter in which they explain why the manuscript should undergo a new evaluation.
iii) In these cases, the editor-in-chief analyzes the arguments and assesses whether the decision was clearly and well-justified, in order to verify that the opinions were not issued based on erroneous or questionable information.
iv) The editor-in-chief may reconsider rejected manuscripts when they identify valid reasons and problems in the manuscript evaluation.
v) Decisions regarding manuscripts include due diligence related to scientific misconduct. Misconduct includes practices of fabrication, falsification, or piracy/plagiarism when proposing, conducting, reviewing, or disseminating research results, as defined by the COPE Report.
vi) Reports of suspected research misconduct may be made via the journal's official email address.
vii) Suspicions of research misconduct reported in a manuscript are investigated by the editor-in-chief, who contacts the individuals involved in the case in order to make a decision.
viii) In the case of misconduct identified in a previously published article, the text is retained and remains indexed in the journal's databases as a retracted article.
ix) A retraction may be partial if the misconduct applies to a specific part of the article, provided that the overall published research is not compromised.
x) The publication of retractions follows the Guia para o registro, marcação e publicação de retratação.
xi) Errors, regardless of their nature or origin, that do not constitute misconduct, are corrected by means of an erratum, based on the Guia para Publicação de Errata.

Conflicts of interest are understood as conditions in which a person involved in the editorial process of a manuscript holds conflicting or competing interests that could influence editorial decisions. Personal, political, financial, academic, or religious considerations can affect objectivity in the evaluation of manuscripts (The COPE Report, 1999).
In the journal Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências::
i) Those responsible for editing should avoid making decisions about manuscripts that conflict with their own interests, such as those submitted by people in their department or who collaborate with their research.
ii) Considering the possibility of conflicts of interest, the journal does not publish articles authored by members of its editorial board.
(iii) If a conflict of interest is identified, those responsible for the editorial department should delegate decision-making to colleagues on the editorial team.

The journal uses the software Plagius Profissional to identify plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and republication of articles, as well as data falsification.

This occurs during the manuscript pre-analysis process, which, among other aspects, verifies: i) evidence of plagiarism and ii) evidence of citation manipulation.

(i) Plagiarism identification, in two stages. First, using anti-plagiarism software, followed by a qualitative analysis of the manuscript related to the form and content of the text. The maximum similarity accepted by the journal is 15%.

(ii) In case of doubt or questioning regarding plagiarism, the editor-in-chief contacts the person responsible for the manuscript and for contacts with the editorial team and, if necessary, all persons involved in the production of the manuscript. If plagiarism is proven, the authors' affiliated institutions or funding agencies involved in the development of the research are notified.

(iii) Still during the pre-analysis, and during the processing, the editorial team observes evidence of citation manipulation, that is, practices aimed at increasing the number of certain citations in the manuscript. If excessive self-citation is identified, the editorial team contacts the people responsible for the text for clarification to support the decision-making process.

(iii) The journal repudiates practices such as the exchange of citations between colleagues in research groups and suggestions from reviewers that their articles be cited in the evaluated text (coercion).

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências critically opposes the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) for the production of articles and peer reviews. The critique is based on the observation that this technology, under current production configurations, entails risks such as illegitimacy, illegality, implausibility, and lack of criticality, in addition to reinforcing asymmetrical processes of appropriation and distribution of knowledge. By denouncing the depoliticization and dehumanization of academic processes promoted by the indiscriminate use of GAI, we reaffirm the centrality of human authorship as an ethical, creative, and politically situated act, especially in the face of the precariousness of intellectual work. Due to ethical, political, and scientific concerns for the new generation of researchers and the future of science, the practices of authorship, evaluation, and editing must remain the responsibility of individuals.
The editorial team uses the software Plagius to detect the use of generative AI tools in the production of content in manuscripts.

Details regarding the magazine's editorial position on the topic are published in Editorial 2025.

The editorial team of Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, must observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of guidelines that guide the reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, and the interpretation of findings. Furthermore, Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board.

Authors should attach, as a supplementary document, when necessary, a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research.

Authors of articles published by Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências retain copyright to their publication, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication under the same license.

All content, as well as articles published by Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license.

Authors of articles published by Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is properly cited.

The Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts, publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them on their personal social media, provided that the full citation to the journal's website version is included.

• CAPES - National Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, Ministério da Educação (MEC), Brasil.
• CNPq - Program of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (MCTIC), Brasil.
• Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
• Centro de Ensino de Ciências e Matemática – CECIMIG from the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas (Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Minas), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
• Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Educação from Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) (PPGFAE/UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.

• Luiz Gustavo Franco, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8262815854077795, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1009-7788, e-mail: luizgfs@ufmg.br
• Luciana Massi, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Araraquara, São Paulo/SP, Brasil. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5753729534661807, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8761-3181, e-mail: luciana.massi@unesp.br

• Ana Maria Navas Iannini, Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Education, Burnaby, Colúmbia Britânica, Canadá. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9790-2649, e-mail: anavasia@sfu.ca
• Arthur Galamba Fernandes Abreu, King's College London, Londres, Inglaterra. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2208-7015, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9424581969472309, e-mail: arthur.galamba@kcl.ac.uk
• Alessandra Fernandes Bizerra, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2164-3350, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7685865488482588, E-mail: alebizerra@usp.br 
• Eduardo Fleury Mortimer, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerias/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3025-121X, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3488369448766844, e-mail: mortimer@ufmg.br
• Glauco dos Santos Ferreira da Silva, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca - CEFET-RJ, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2747-720X, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4367207560456388, Email: glauco.silva@cefet-rj.br   
• Guilherme da Silva Lima, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-5790, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0385668341216405, e-mail: guilima@ufmg.br
•  Leonardo Gonçalves Lago, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3143-1757, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0571824693004618, e-mail: leonardoglago@gmail.com
• Leonardo Kaplan, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6853-6683, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5484172056636366, e-mail: leonardokaplan@gmail.com
• Luciana Nobre de Abreu Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Piauí/PI, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3505-9523, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8964577964173620, e-mail: luciananobre@ufpi.edu.br
• Marina Rodrigues Martins, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Amargosa, Bahia/BA, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-8167, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9803399050437549, e-mail: marinamartins@ufrb.edu.br,
• Paloma Blanco-Anaya, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Department of Applied Learning, Espanha. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3347-1103, e-mail: paloma.blanco@usc.es
• Paula Cristina Cardoso Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais/MG Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1762-4840,  Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9205761186706273, e-mail: paulamendonca@ufop.edu.br
• Paulo Gabriel Franco dos Santos, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Distrito Federal/DF, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8151-5334, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3018822051255778, e-mail: paulosantos@unb.br
• Vanessa Avelar Cappelle Fonseca, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil.               ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8067-1370, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5940406244726722,   e-mail: vanessacappelle@gmail.com

• Nathália Helena Azevedo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2075-9121, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4040837145376198, e-mail: nhazevedo@ib.usp.br

• Edyth Priscilla Campos Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6678-8537, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0540638765201054, e-mail: epcs2013@ufmg.br , ,
• Gabriela Agostini, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco/PE, Brasil. ORCID: gabrielaagostini1@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8909-4423, http://lattes.cnpq.br/3879031998270307,
• Luan Henrique Alves, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1201-0658, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5266121481565624, e-mail: luanhenri.alves@gmail.com
• Leandro da Silva Barcellos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo/ES, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8912-3052, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5277469410283901, e-mail: leandrobarcellos5@gmail.com
• Rafael Alves Ferreira Almeida, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6343-343, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3142378164178764, e-mail: almeida.rafaelf@gmail.com
• Rafaela Valero, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Bauru, São Paulo/SP. Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0613-6609, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0246311525236554, e-mail: rafavalero@gmail.com

• Adela Molina, Universidade Distrital, Bogotá, Colombia. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6802-5533,: e-mail: aadela@udistrital.edu.co,
• Agustin Aduriz-Bravo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Argentina. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8200-777X, e-mail: andrearevelchion@yahoo.com.ar
• Anelise Maria Regiani, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina/SC, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9416-9947 ,  Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0122537220068653, e-mail: anelise.regiani@ufsc.br
• Charbel Niño El-Hani, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Instituto de Biologia, Salvador, Bahia/BA, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-3983,Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8022297490892415, e-mail: charbel.elhani@gmail.com
• Danusa Munford, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo/SP, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7071-4904, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9318710710545447, e-mail: danusa.munford@ufabc.edu.br
• Digna Couso Lagaron, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Departamento de Didáctica de Matemática y Ciencias Experimentales, Barcelona, España. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4253-5049, e-mail: digna.couso@uab.cat
• Edênia Maria Ribeiro Do Amaral, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Departamento de Química, Recife, Pernambuco/PE, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-6435, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5241130686153506, e-mail: edeniamramaral@gmail.com
• Fábio Augusto Rodrigues e Silva, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais/MG, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1245-2648,  Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6716025029694166, e-mail: fabogusto@gmail.com
• Fernanda Ostermann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Instituto de Física, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0594-2174, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7007713327410057, e-mail: fernanda.ostermann@ufrgs.br
• Giuliano Reis, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Education, Ottawa, Canadá. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4831-5485, e-mail:  greis@uOttawa.ca 
• Hannah Sevian, University of Massachusetts, College of Science and Mathematics, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7378-6786, e-mail: hannah.sevian@umb.edu
• Luiz Marcelo de Carvalho, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Rio Claro (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro, São Paulo/SP, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6109-6830, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0804543782141182, e-mail:  lm.carvalho@unesp.br
• Isabel Martins, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional para a Saúde (NUTES), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5572-6958, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5160665761520226, e-mail: isabelmartins@ufrj.br,
• Shirley Takeco Gobara, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Departamento de Física, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul/MS, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0336-8199, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8915979671559379,  e-mail:  gobara@ufms.br
• Silvia Nogueira Chaves, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Instituto de Educação Matemática e Científica, Pará/PA, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9771-4610, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9353964127402937, e-mail:  schaves@ufpa.br
• Suzani Cassiani, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Centro de Educação, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina/SC, Brasil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8824-9342, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7824434944793277, e-mail: suzani.cassiani@ufsc.br
• Tania Pérez-Bustos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Escuela de Estudios de Género, Bogotá, Colombia. ORCID: , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2885-2606, e-mail: tpbustos@gmail.com

• Carlos Sérgio Leonardo Júnior, Divulgação e Redes Sociais, e-mail: csleonardojunior@gmail.com
• João Bosco Carvalho, Editoração eletrônica, e-mail: jbosco1951@gmail.com

Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's website in docx or doc (Word) format, or a compatible format. The document must be an original, unpublished article and cannot be under review in another publication (book or journal). Conference papers may be submitted provided they are revised and expanded, avoiding repetitions of works published in conference proceedings or significant similarity to such works. The same applies to those publicly available on preprint servers, whose DOI must be provided at the time of submission to the journal for validation by the adopted peer review policy.

Considering the double-blind peer review process, the manuscript text should not contain any clear or indirect indications of authorship, in order to allow for blind peer review. In the case of open review, authorship is revealed to the reviewers at the end of the arbitration process, when the work is approved. It should be noted that preprint articles will undergo anonymous peer review (and not double-blind review).

The journal Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Furthermore, after approval, articles may be published in two or three of these languages, provided the authors cover the costs of translation and revision. From 2022 onwards, multilingual versions of the same article each receive their own DOI identifier. Even when referring to the same intellectual work, the DOI functions as a citation identifier. Because an article in one language is cited differently from the same article in a different language, each has its own DOI.

If more than one person is an author, the contributions of each person to the manuscript must be reported in the journal's system, in the PRESENTATION LETTER submitted with the manuscript. The contribution of each person involved in the manuscript's production must be recorded according to the criteria of the CRediT (The Contributor Roles Taxonomy).

• The article should have a maximum length of 25 pages, including references.
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The document has to follow the layout:  TEMPLATE.

Manuscript structure

• A clear and objective title without abbreviations, parentheses, or formulas that hinder understanding of the article's content.
• Abstract in the language of the respective article (100-150 words).
• Title and abstract in English and Spanish.
• Three keywords in the original language, in English and in Spanish.
• Text.
• Bibliographic references.

Authorship details:

• Author names, institutional affiliation, ORCID, and email addresses should NOT be included in the file being evaluated, only in the metadata to be filled in on the journal's submission system.
• For preprints, authorship information must be included in the file being evaluated.

Tables, charts, figures, illustrations, maps, diagrams, and other digital assets present in the documents should be included in the body of the text. Include the title and source. Images should be in tif or jpg file format with a resolution of 300 dpi. The use of images is the sole responsibility of the author.

The required presentation standards for bibliographic references, citations, tables, notes, abstracts, graphs, etc., contained in the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th Edition (Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2019, 7th edition) must be observed.

Examples of how to use these patterns for different types of documents can be found at: Exemplos APA Style

PRESENTATION LETTER

• Information regarding adherence to the open science policies adopted by the journal
• A declaration that the authors demonstrably accept responsibility for the content of the manuscript.
• Record of the contribution of each person involved in the production of the manuscript.
• Statement regarding the ethical principles and procedures adopted in the research (approval by an ethics committee)
• Information on the use of generative AI tools in the production of manuscript content

Information regarding funding sources should initially be provided only in the metadata to be filled out in the journal's submission system, and not in the manuscript itself. At the end of the evaluation process, before the article is published, this information should be included in the body of the article.

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