Submissions

Author Guidelines

Rules for presentation and publication

Instructions for the authors

1. Authors should indicate the nature of their text: articles, reviews, research notes and bibliographical essays.

2. Texts must include the respective authors, indicating the following information: author's name; institutional affiliation (department, faculty and university/institute to which they belong, as well as the city and country where the institution is located); ORCID registration number; email address; telephone contact; correspondence address (preferably institutional address; in the case of co-authored articles, there should only be one correspondence author).

3. In the case of co-authored articles, authors must complete and submit the attached form corresponding to the declaration of contribution of authors and collaborators provided by the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) specification system. Only articles
whose authors have made significant contributions to the conception and/or
development of the research and/or writing of the manuscript and, obligatorily, to the revision and approval of the final version will be accepted. Authors are also asked to formally specify whether or not there are any possible conflicts of interest in carrying out and communicating the research. 

4. Texts should be written on A4 pages with normal margins, one and a half spaces, Times New Roman font and 12 point font, in Word for Windows or compatible format. Footnotes should be written in 10-point font with 1.15 spacing. The same spacing should be used for tables, which should be written in 11-point font.

5. The maximum length of articles is 12,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, spaces, footnotes, bibliographical references, tables, graphs, figures and photographs. Reviews should not exceed 1,000 words; research notes and bibliographical essays, 3,000 words, including spaces.

6. The full title of the text must be presented in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The article must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 600 characters, written in each of these languages, as well as 3 keywords.

7. Charts, graphs, figures and photographs must be few in number, identified with continuous numbering and accompanied by their titles and fonts, and presented in black and white or grayscale. If the tables, charts or graphs are very complex, they should be included in the body of the text as an image. The title of each element must appear outside the image, as well as the source. These elements may not be wider than the body of the text. The Editorial Board reserves the right not to accept non-textual elements which involve excessive graphic difficulties or an increase in financial costs.

8. Texts must clearly indicate sources and references of various kinds for non-original elements. If intellectual property rights exist, authors must request the corresponding authorizations. Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto is not responsible for any breach of intellectual property rights.

9. Bibliographical references and citations will be included in the body of the text, according to the following presentation: Lima, 2005; Lima (2005); Lima (2005: 35); Lima et al. (2004).

10. Only numbers should be used in footnotes. Footnote numbering should be continuous from the beginning to the end of the text.

11. In articles, it is suggested to use a maximum of two title levels, with Arabic numbering.

12. Quotations should be presented in Portuguese, in cases where the original text is in this language, and in quotation marks. Words in languages other than Portuguese should be formatted in italics.

13. Only references cited or mentioned throughout the text should be included in the final bibliography. Bibliographical references must comply with the following guidelines:

a) Book with one author: LUHMANN, Niklas (1990), Essays on self-reference, New York, Columbia University Press.

b) Book with more than one author: BERGER, Peter; LUCKMANN, Thomas (2004), The social construction of reality: a book on the sociology of knowledge, Lisbon, Dinalivro.

c) Book with more than four authors: ALMEIDA, João Ferreira et al. (1992), Exclusão social: Factores e tipos de pobreza em Portugal, Oeiras, Celta Editora.

d) Chapter in a book: GOFFMAN, Erving (1999), “A ordem da interação”, in Yves Winkin (org.), Os momentos e seus homens, Lisbon, Relógio d' Água, pp. 99-107.

e) Article in periodical publication: FERNANDES, António Teixeira (1991), “Formas e mecanismos de exclusão social”, Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, vol. I, pp. 9-66.

f) Article in online periodical: FERNANDES, António Teixeira (1991), “Formas e mecanismos de exclusão social”, Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, vol. I, pp. 9-66, [Consult. a 15.07.2014]. Available at: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/artigo3031.pdf.

g) Online publications: PRESIDÊNCIA DO CONSELHO DE MINISTROS (2011), Program of the XIX Portuguese Constitutional Government, [Consulted on 15.07.2014]. Available at: http://www.portugal.gov.pt/media/130538/programa_gc19.pdf.

h) Communications at scientific events: QUINTÃO, Carlota (2004), “Terceiro Sector - elementos para referenciação teórica e conceptual”, in V Congresso Português de Sociologia. Sociedades Contemporâneas: Reflexividade e Acção, Braga, University of Minho, May 12-15, 2004.

i) Theses: CARVALHO, Paula (2006), Percursos da construção em Lisboa. Do Cine-Teatro Monumental ao Edifício Monumental: Estudo de caso, Sociology Degree Thesis, Lisbon, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon.

j) Legislation: Law no. 147/99, of September 1st, Law for the Protection of Children and Young People in Danger.

14. Bibliographical references should be placed at the end of the text and ordered alphabetically by the author's surname. If there is more than one reference with the same author, they should be ordered from the oldest to the most recent.

15. Texts must comply with the Orthographic Agreement of the Portuguese Language, in force since January 1, 2009. However, quotations from texts prior to the agreement must respect the original spelling.

16. Manuscripts previously published on preprint servers are not excluded from the evaluation.

17. Originals should be submitted to the platform https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/Sociologia/about/submissions

or sent by e-mail to:

revsociologiaflup@letras.up.pt

18. The process of reviewing and publishing manuscripts for Sociologia, Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto follows the present editorial flow:

1) Articles submitted to the journal's platform go through an initial editorial evaluation, being analyzed and reviewed not only by the editorial team but also by the journal's Board of Directors. In this first phase, articles may be rejected for publication by the decision of the Direction of Sociologia whenever they do not fit within the themes covered by the journal or lack scientific quality.

2) The articles validated at this stage are sent for scientific peer review, with the manuscript being assigned - duly anonymized - to scientific reviewers specialized in the subject under analysis. Taking into account the chronology of the selection process and contacting of potential reviewers, as well as the acceptance of the review, the deadline usually set between the journal and reviewers for issuing a scientific review is 4 weeks.

3) After receiving the scientific assessment, the authors will be notified, via e-mail, of the editorial decision regarding their article, which may be to:

a) Reject the article for publication;

b) Accept the article for publication without changes (safeguarding any requests for rectification of errors detected during the editorial review process, as well as requests for additional information from the authors);

c) Accept the article for publication with changes. In this case, the authors will receive, in addition to the notification of the editorial decision, a transcript of the scientific assessment and recommendations made during this process to improve the articles, as well as suggestions from the editorial team. Authors usually have 2 weeks from the date the notification is sent to implement the recommendations and changes indicated and send the new version of the manuscript to the editorial team. This new version is then subjected to a new review, to determine whether all the recommendations have been implemented satisfactorily, safeguarding the possibility of returning the manuscript to the authors if there are still issues to be resolved. Only after validation from the editorial team is the article published.

4) Once the above-mentioned review process has been completed, the manuscript is sent for
publication and insertion in the final issue, by standardizing its formatting and image. The final issue, as a compilation of the articles highlighted for publication, is only published after all the articles accepted for publication have been stabilized and formatted. The first issue of the year is published at the end of June, while the last issue of the year is made available to the public at the end of December.

5) Authors will be promptly notified of the publication of the issue in which their article appears via e-mail, where they will be sent a link allowing them to access their individual article, the full issue and its table of contents on the journal's website.