Submissions

Author Guidelines

Política & Sociedade Journal

Publication Guidelines for Collaborators

1. According to the type of contribution

• Unpublished articles (up to 30 standard pages of 30 lines with 70 characters each, or approximately 60,000 characters, including notes and references).

• Bibliographic essays (up to 12 standard pages of 30 lines with 70 characters each, or 25,200 characters, including notes and references) - critical reviews of one book or of several books on related issues.

• Literature reviews (up to 6 standard pages of 30 lines with 70 characters each, or 6,300 characters) - short reviews of recent books.

2. Regarding the review for publication

• The journal publishes articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, accepting submissions in French, whose publication is dependent on the possibility of translation.
• Original articles, essays and reviews submitted to the journal are first read by the editors. If the submitted material is considered to be in accordance with the editorial policy and fulfills the essential academic requirements, it will be forwarded for evaluation by at least two experts in the field, ensuring the anonymity of both authors and reviewers.
• In the evaluation, the peer reviewers should take into account the content, relevance and quality of the contributions, considering writing, text originality, quality of argument and literature, relevance and appropriateness of the methodology employed. The evaluation result can be one of the following: a) accept; b) accept with minor revisions; c) revise and resubmit; d) refuse. In case of a positive and a negative review, the work is to be submitted to a third reviewer. When there is a need for changes relating to aspects of grammar, spelling and normative nature only, in order to maintain the homogeneity of the publication, the editors reserve the right to make any necessary changes, complying with the author's style.

3. Every article must be accompanied by an abstract containing between 100 and 150 words, with a version in Portuguese and English, with three to five keywords. Authors should send their professional information (institution, position, title, most important publications), mailing address and e-mail. This information should appear on a separate page that alsocontains the title of the article.

4. Footnotes should be indicated by Arabic numerals in ascending order at the end of each page and should contain relevant information, and may not consist of simple bibliographic references.

5. Citations and references should appear in the body of the text with the following formatting:

• (author's last name, year of publication, page) according to the example: (WAGLEY, 1977, p. 160-162).

6. The references, in alphabetical order, must be at the end of the work and follow the format that appears in the following examples (please observe punctuation, spaces, bold type and capitalization):

• Book:

VEBLEN, T. A teoria da classe ociosa. São Paulo: Livraria Pioneira, 1965.

• Collection:

LIPSET, S. M. (org.). Política e Ciências Sociais. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 1972.

• Article from a collection:

WALLERSTEIN, I. Three Ideologies or One? The Pseudo-Battle of Modernity. In: TURNER, S. P. (org.). Social Theory & Sociology. The Classics and Beyond. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

• Article from a journal:

PAIXÃO, A. L. A teoria geral da ação e a arte da controvérsia. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, São Paulo, v. 4, n. 11, p. 34-56, out.1989.

• Academic  thesis or dissertation:

MIGUEL, S. M. Um olhar para dentro: o movimento feminista no Rio de Janeiro. Florianópolis. Dissertation (MA in Political Sociology). Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 1988.

7. Graphs, figures, tables, charts or maps should be inserted in the body of the text, properly numbered and captioned and with their respective references. They must be provided in a format that allows their direct reproduction.

8. Bibliographical essays and reviews must provide complete references about the works reviewed, indicating the number of pages of each.

9. The submission of any collaboration implies the full transfer of copyrights to the journal Política & Sociedade. A new publication of the same text, by the author or third parties, shall mention in writing the precedence of its publication in this journal, citing the edition and date of this publication. There is no guarantee that the original submissions will be returned.

10. The opinions expressed in signed articles are solely the responsibility of their authors.

11. Authors should send their texts preferably through the journal's website (http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica) or in electronic format (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF, provided the file does not exceed 2 MB) to the address ps@cfh.ufsc.br.

For more information, please contact the Graduate Program in Political Sociology:

Phone: +55 48 3721 9253
Fax: +55 48 3721 9098
E-mail Address: ppgsocpol@contato.ufsc.br

Web: http://ppgsp.posgrad.ufsc.br/