Submissions

Author Guidelines

Configurações: Revista de Ciências Sociais publishes unpublished academic works in the form of articles and book reviews, which contribute to enriching scientific knowledge regarding social reality at the national and international levels. The aim is to balance the publication of high quality original work by senior and young researchers.

The journal's editorial approach is based on an ongoing call for contributions and thematic issues. The aim is to safeguard the journal’s identity, which is based on relevant topics in the area of Social Sciences, especially Sociology, and to ensure its periodicity, thus enabling it to be indexed in international bibliographic databases recognised by the scientific community.

Manuscripts submitted for publication undergo an initial screening by the Editorial Team, which decides whether they are relevant to the scientific scope of the journal. They are subsequently subjected to independent double-blind peer review. On the basis of the reviews given, the Editorial Team may suggest that authors revise their work.

The Editorial Team reserves the right not to publish manuscripts received and this decision will be communicated in writing to the authors.

Articles proposed to Configurações: Revista de Ciências Sociais must be submitted electronically following registration on the platform.

Further information on the Editorial Policy and the Scientific Review Process and Publication Decision can be found here.

SIZE

Articles

1. Manuscripts must not exceed 50 000 characters, including spaces, in total and excluding abstracts.

2. Each article must be accompanied by three abstracts and title – in Portuguese, English and French –, with a maximum of 750 characters (including spaces) per abstract. These should be saved and sent in a separate file and the abstract in Portuguese must also be included in the main file (full article).

3. In addition, each manuscript should contain 4 or 5 keywords indicated after the abstracts and in the three languages indicated.

Book Reviews

1. Book Reviews must not exceed 8000 characters, including spaces.

2. Reviews can be written in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish.

3. Reviews should preferably refer to works published in the previous 24 months, without prejudice to earlier publication in the case of reference works, although this is always subject to consideration by the Editorial Board. 

4. If other works are quoted, the review must be accompanied by a list of the respective bibliographical references;

FORMATTING AND ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION

1. Files must be submitted in Microsoft Word format, Times New Roman font, size 11, 1.15 spacing and paragraph tabs.

2. To ensure blind peer review, all manuscripts must be submitted suitably anonymised;

3. As stipulated in point 2, the following information should be sent in a separate document where reference is made to the title of the work:

• Name(s) of the author(s).
• Institutional affiliation of the author(s).
• Email addresses of the author(s).
• ORCID Identification Code(s) of the author(s).
• Acknowledgements and/or Funding [optional], which should only include references to funding and, as necessary, to institutions/individuals that may have facilitated access to data relevant to the authoring of the manuscript.

4. All originals must:

• contain the final version of the text ready for publication, duly revised of typos;
• be accompanied by a title, in bold, size 12, left aligned and without a full stop;
• contain 4 or 5 keywords listed after the respective abstract in Portuguese, which, as mentioned, should be included in the main file. 

5. All quotations must be translated into the language in which the manuscript is written. The original version of the translated passage is not footnoted;

6. The following guidelines should also be considered when authoring and formatting manuscripts:

• the use of a maximum of two numbering levels without numbering the Introduction and Conclusion and with Arabic numerals for the body of the text. These numbering levels must use size 11, Times New Roman font, be in bold and left aligned;
• transcriptions must be opened and closed with inverted commas when they must not exceed 4 lines. In the case of longer quotations, these should be indented and transcribed without inverted commas;
• interpolations are to be identified by curly brackets ( );
• omissions are indicated by an ellipsis within curly brackets (...);
• words in languages other than Portuguese should be formatted in italics;
• non-textual elements must be organised into tables, graphs or figures, and identified with continuous Arabic numerals for each of these elements. As well as being included in the body of the text, they must be sent as an attachment in PNG or JPG format, with at least 300 dpi;

• All non-textual elements must be accompanied by a clear indication of the source and copyright.

• in footnotes, use only numbers without brackets;
• a list of works cited should be included at the end of the manuscript.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCING RULES

Manuscripts submitted for publication must comply with the NP 405 standard (more information here).