GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Journal Forum Sociológico is published in full open access. The submission, edition and publication of texts are free of charge for authors, as well as the reading of the published texts for the public.

All original proposals must be sent to the official email of the journal (forum@fcsh.unl.pt).

The submitted manuscripts must be anonymized and accompanied by a separate file containing the following information about authors: name, email, ORCID, and institutional affiliation with three levels: University, Faculty or School, Department or Centre.

All texts should be presented in A4, space and a half pages (standard also valid for bibliography), in Times New Roman font size 12 with the upper, lower left and right margins at 2 cm. The tables, graphs and figures must be numbered continuously in Arabic numerals (Table 1 ; Graph 1 ; Figure 1) and should be sent in JPG/PNG/TIFF format (with minimum resolution of 300 dpi). Citations and bibliographical references must follow the APA 7th Edition style format.

Articles must have a maximum of 40.000 characters (including spaces, abstracts, footnotes, bibliographies, tables, graphs and figures, which make up about 18 pages), and will only be considered for the double-blind peer review process if authors do not exceed the character limit. Authors are recommended to use the following structure for empirical articles : introduction ; theoretical framework ; methods ; results ; discussion ; acknowledgments ; notes ; and references.

Articles must start with title, abstract, and keywords in the main language of the text and also in Portuguese and English, if the text is not written in those – with a maximum of 1.000 characters (10 lines) for each abstract, followed by 3 or 4 keywords in these same languages, and the indication of the global number of characters (including spaces). Abstracts must include the following information : introduction to the subject ; reference to the theoretical and methodological approaches ; main results ; conclusions; and the relevance of the work.

Articles must also present the following information: 1) a statement about the function/s performed by each author listed in the work, according to the CRediT taxonomy nomenclature; 2) a declaration on the existence or absence of conflicts of interest; and 3) a statement about the existence or absence of research funding sources.

The use of third-party material must be accompanied by a statement of authorization for use with legal consent and must be obtained by the authors of the publication.

Authors listed in the original works must fulfil all the criteria mentioned below : 1) have contributed in a substantive way to the conception/design of the work or the collection, analysis or interpretation of the data ; AND 2) have contributed substantively in the writing or critical review ; AND 3) approving the final version submitted, being responsible for all the work carried out, including its ethical implications. Collaborators who do not meet the authorship criteria must be mentioned in the “Acknowledgements” section. Forum Sociológico disapproves of the attribution of honorary authorship, offered, invited or phantom in the manuscripts proposed for publication. In this context, we follow the COPE guidelines about authorship definitions (available here).

By publishing in Forum Sociológico, the authors agree with the free and exclusive transfer of the right to publish the first version of the article to CICS.NOVA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, reserving the right to reproduce and publish it in paper and/or digital support and to distribute and promote it by all normal means at its disposal.

Authors authorize CICS.NOVA, free of charge, the right to make the respective article available in full open access on the journal's website and on CICS.NOVA's website, on the Institutional Repository of Universidade NOVA de Lisbon (RUN), and on databases and platforms for aggregating scientific content.

All accepted works are published in Forum Sociológico under a Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 - CC BY 4.0, which allows the work to be shared online with recognition of its authorship and initial publication.

To each original article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by the OpenEdition Journal platform.

STATEMENT OF ETHICS AND GOOD PRACTICE

Journal Forum Sociológico follows the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Academic Publications and the Core Practices of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). The Editorial Board and its scientific reviewers promote equality in scientific publication for all articles and authors that collaborate with the Journal.

The practice of plagiarism, manipulation of citations and manufacturing of data is disapproved by the Journal. All papers submitted for publication will be submitted to a recognized plagiarism detection program. When identifying any type of misconduct, before or after the publication of originals, the Editorial Board will contact those affected to request their response and will follow the COPE guidelines (available here). The confirmation of plagiarism will imply the non-publication of the submitted article as well as other publications for a period of time to be defined by the Editorial Board.

The authors indicated in the original works must meet all of the criteria referred to below : 1) have contributed substantively to the design of the work or to the collection, analysis or interpretation of the data ; AND 2) have contributed substantively in writing or critical review ; AND 3) approve the final version submitted, taking responsibility for all the work done, including its ethical implications. Collaborators who do not fit the authorship criteria should be mentioned in the "Acknowledgements" section. The Forum Sociológico disapproves the attribution of honorary authorship, offered, invited or phantom in the manuscripts proposed for publication. In this context, we follow COPE’s guidelines regarding authorship definitions (available here).

The Journal promotes transparency and integrity in scientific publication in order to combat any conflicts of interest that my arise during the research process, the writting or the publication of a scientific work. In cases where a conflict of interest is identified on the part of the Journal, authors, reviewers, members of the Boards or the editorial team, the Journal will also follow COPE guidelines (available (here).

Any allegations of scientific misconduct or the need for corrections, revisions or retractions in originals, these should be addressed in writing to the e-mail address of the Journal (forum@fcsh.unl.pt). Furtheremore, all complaints about the Journal, the editorial team, or the Editorial Board should also be addressed in writing to the Journal’s email.

If an article has already been published online, the detection of a violation of ethical principles, the integrity of the scientific research and/or the guiding principles of the journal, may lead to the publication of a complement to the article with an explanatory errata or, in serious cases, the retraction of the article, and an explanatory note.

Forum Sociológico follows the Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Academic Publications and the Core Practices of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

The practice of plagiarism, manipulation of citations and manufacturing of data is disapproved by the Journal. All papers submitted for publication will be submitted to a recognized plagiarism detection program. When identifying any type of misconduct, before or after the publication of originals, the Editorial Board will contact those affected to request their response and will follow the COPE guidelines. The detection of plagiarism will imply the non-publication of the submitted article as well as other publications for a period of time to be defined by the Editorial Board.

In resolving conflicts of authorship and other conflicts of interest, the journal will also follow the guidelines of COPE.

The Editorial Board and its scientific reviewers promote equality in scientific publication for all articles and authors that collaborate with the Journal.

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW AND DECISION PROCESS

The Editorial Board reserves the right to publish/not publish submitted manuscripts, and informs the authors of its decision. The decision is supported by an evaluation process of the manuscripts based on a blind peer-review system, carried out in two consecutive steps:

1. Manuscripts are submitted to an initial assessment by the Editorial Board, which decides on the manuscript’s submission to the following step of the process, i.e. on the submission to peer review. This decision is made taking into consideration criteria of relevance, interest and quality, as well as defined criteria according to the journal’s editorial policy and guidelines for authors.

2. The selected manuscripts in the first step are submitted to detailed evaluation by anonymous reviewers through a double-blind peer review system. The reviews resulting of this process will be the base for the final decision on the manuscript’s publication by the Editorial Board.

The Editorial Board sends the blinded reviews to the authors and may suggest revisions, according to the recommendations made by the reviewers. A new evaluation of the revised paper may also be necessary in order to make the final decision on its publication.

When manuscripts submitted to the second step of evaluation are rejected, Forum Sociológico will inform the authors of the reasons for this decision, generally sending the reviewers’ opinions to the authors.

The Editorial Board is responsible for the final decision, according with the referees’ reviews and the journal’s editorial policy.

Authors are fully responsible for the published manuscripts.

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

Forum Sociológico digitally preserves the numbers it publishes. The numbers are deposited in full and in open access in the institutional repository of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, the RUN, a repository belonging to the Network of Open Access Scientific Repositories in Portugal (RCAAP).

GUIDELINES FOR SPECIAL ISSUES PROPOSALS

Journal Forum Sociológico may publish thematic issues about relevant subjects in Social Sciences.

Proposals must be sent to the official email of the journal (forum@fcsh.unl.pt) and must include the following information:

1. Proposed title for the special issue;

2. Name of the coordinator(s) and respective(s) institutional affiliation(s) presented in three levels (University, School/or Faculty, Department/or Centre);

3. A short presentation identifying the theme of the special issue, its relevance and articulation with the specific domain of publication of the journal.

The coordination must indicate a deadline expected for the publication of the special issue and for the reception of proposes and inform the number of articles expected;

Proposals of articles should be sent to the official email of the journal (forum@fcsh.unl.pt) and must follow the norms of publication adopted by the journal, available in Guidelines for Authors;

All articles are submitted to the Journal’s peer review process. The coordination will be responsible for the selection of at least two referees per article, subject to approval by the Editorial Board;

The journal will be responsible for the management of the peer review process (reception of articles; sending of invitations to referees; sending of reviews to authors; sending of articles to coordination, etc.);

The coordination will be responsible for the organization and final revision of articles and for writing a short Editorial;

The timing of the publication of the special issue will depend on the schedule of the journal established by the Editorial Board.