Author Guidelines

IMPORTANT NOTE:


From 12/20/2025 to 01/20/2026, RBIE will not process any steps related to the editorial workflow, as most of its collaborators will be on vacation. The system will remain open for submissions; however, no processing will take place during this period.

After 01/20/2026, editorial processing will gradually resume as collaborators return to their activities.

Please read these instructions carefully before submitting your manuscript.

The Brazilian Journal of Computers in Education (RBIE) is published and maintained by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). RBIE is inherently interdisciplinary and its main objectives are:

  • To disseminate the scientific production of national and international research groups linked to educational institutions that work with Computers in Education and Computer Science Education;
  • To provide a space for reflection on the daily issues of computer-mediated teaching practice and in the practice of computer science teaching;
  • To deepen knowledge of topics related to the research lines of Postgraduate Programs linked to the area;
  • To stimulate scientific production at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
  • To disseminate computer products applicable to education.

Types of Contribution

RBIE publishes research articles that present contributions in various forms:

  • Completed scientific papers presenting experiments, experience reports, or scientific discussions;
  • Ongoing research presenting new ideas with preliminary results and critical discussions, addressing relevant problems, describing system implementations, etc.;
  • Surveys with a critical view of a specific area, including a complete review of the state of the art and rigorous methodology (such as systematic reviews). If your article is a literature review, RBIE and SBC-OpenLib (SOL) should be included in your research databases.;
  • Essays, position papers, or tutorials that deeply explore a specific topic from a theoretical or practical point of view.

Please use the "Comments for the Editor" field during submission to provide any extra information.

Cover Letter (required)

Authors must submit a cover letter, according to the template [DOCX | RTF], containing the following items:

  • Scope: Brief explanation of why the manuscript is suitable for publication in the journal;
  • Context: Brief explanation of how the manuscript relates to previous works in the journal on the topic, highlighting its originality when no related work is found;
  • Open Science: Brief explanation of how the submission addresses open science, providing access to research data and materials, and promoting rigor and reproducibility;
  • Research Highlights: Original contributions that the article offers to the scientific community;
  • Authorship: Authors should describe, both in the cover letter and at the end of the manuscript, their contributions to the article, following the CRediT taxonomy;
  • Conflicts of Interest: Declaration of any potential conflicts of interest or issues related to the journal's policies.

Other Information:

  • Extended Articles: The title and venue of the previously published article that the manuscript extends (if applicable);
  • Special Issue: The name of the special issue to which you are submitting (if applicable).

Extended Articles

If you are submitting an extended version of a previously published conference paper, ensure that the article is a non-trivial extension of the version that appeared at the conference. We strongly recommend that authors highlight areas where new text or results have been included, how the text has been rewritten, and where additional depth is provided. Please note the following five requirements:

  • Authors must ensure that the extended paper contains at least 30% new material (approximately 50% recommended) compared to the previously published work;
  • The new version must explicitly cite the original work, indicating that it is an extended and revised version;
  • No large blocks of text (i.e., entire sections or paragraphs) should be copied verbatim from the conference paper: the extended version must be a rewritten paper;
  • The paper must highlight its original contribution, explaining how it extends the original work;
  • The .pdf file of the original published work must be provided (use the "Supplementary Documents" component of the paper) when submitting the extended paper;
  • If your paper is a literature review, RBIE and SOL must have been included in your research databases.

Review Process

RBIE operates under a double-blind peer review system where reviewers do not know the names and affiliations of the authors, and the review reports provided to the authors are anonymous.

The publication of research articles by RBIE depends primarily on their scientific quality and contribution, as judged by our editors and reviewers. The review process will also assess whether the writing is understandable and whether the work represents a valuable contribution to the field.

Submitted manuscripts are generally reviewed by three independent experts. Reviewers assess whether the manuscript helps the scientific community advance its ability to address a clear and relevant research problem, whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates previously published work, and whether it is sufficiently clear for publication. Reviewers will also be asked to indicate the extent to which the research is interesting and significant. Editors will decide based on these reports and, when necessary, consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Ethical Concerns

Manuscripts should explicitly state how ethical concerns were addressed and managed, including research approval by an ethics committee, where applicable. Authors are encouraged to critically examine their references, context, and methods, striving to avoid and combat different biases in science (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, social class, disability bias, etc.).

RBIE subscribes to the SBC Code of Conduct in its editorial process and published materials.

Open and Fair Science

Manuscripts should provide the conditions to replicate, reproduce, or understand the research design and results. The use of content generated by Artificial Intelligence must be properly identified.

RBIE strongly recommends that authors make their datasets, methods, software, transcripts, and other additional materials available to readers in public repositories (e.g., GitHub or Open Science Framework).

Authors should ensure that their research acknowledges the contributions of underrepresented groups in science, not only in their related works section, but also in applied theories and methods.

Since SOL is an open and free database that indexes RBIE and other journals maintained by SBC, manuscripts submitted to RBIE must ensure that SOL has been properly consulted (i.e., included among the scientific databases considered when searching for relevant related works) and that the submission is properly situated within the existing literature: https://sol.sbc.org.br/busca/

Open and Free

RBIE does not charge Article Publishing Charges (APC) or fees for authors and readers.

The journal is maintained by SBC through the Special Committee on Computers in Education (CEIE). RBIE is funded by this community, which, in turn, obtains its resources mainly from membership fees and registrations for the Brazilian Congress on Computers in Education (CBIE), aimed at students, teachers, researchers and other professionals. This is why RBIE has a non-negotiable commitment to open, rigorous, and high-quality science and works towards democratic and inclusive science for all people.

All articles published by RBIE follow the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, and authors retain full copyright and publication rights without restrictions.

Language

RBIE publishes original research in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.

Template

Submissions should be in pdf [PDF] format, preferably using the LaTeX [LaTeX] template, or the RBIE docx [DOCX] template.

If the manuscript is not an extension of an award-winning article invited to publish in RBIE, any information that identifies the authorship of the work (author names and affiliations, project titles or pages, other references from one or more authors, metadata from submitted files, etc.) should be omitted to ensure a double-anonymized peer review process.

In the final version, if the manuscript is accepted for publication, authors must provide their names, affiliations, ORCID numbers, and other information.

The manuscript should be between 15 and 30 pages long, excluding references and appendices.

References must follow the instructions contained in the guidelines on metadata and references.

Copyright Notice

RBIE is free for authors and readers, and all articles published by RBIE are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain full and unrestricted copyright and publication rights.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered on this journal website will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.