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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

 

Scope and policy

    SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE publishes original research on Social Sciences and reflections on the development of Sociology. As such, it is the Journal’s aim to link research, training and professionalization.

    SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE further aims to discuss sociological work developed at a national and international level, accepting proposals for publication of full papers and book reviews in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French or Italian.

    The option for online publishing aims to stimulate the dissemination of sociological work in digital media, taking advantage of faster editing, ease of access and archiving, and visibility.

    SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE uses a double-blind peer review system with papers being independently evaluated by at least two experts. Publication is based on relevance and scientific quality.

    The editorial team commits to comply with the Portuguese Press Law and to follow the deontological principles and ethics inscribed in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE (available at https://publicationethics.org/files/Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf).

 

Form and preparation of manuscripts

    1. SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE publishes original research on Social Sciences that was not previously published or that is not being considered for publication elsewhere;

    2. Articles may be written in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish or Italian;

    3. Manuscripts must be submitted to sociologiaonline@aps.pt;

    4. All articles are initially evaluated by the Direction of SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE. Manuscripts that comply with the Journal’s publication standards are independently evaluated by at least two experts. The Journal uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that the identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. The Direction of SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE is responsible for the final publication decision;

    5. SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE uses a plagiarism detection software. Authors found to have plagiarized the work of others or their own will not be able to publish the submitted work and other publications in SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE during a period of time to be established by the Journal’s Direction;

    6. Manuscripts proposed to SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE must be submitted in a Word file with the text in 12-point Times New Roman and 1,5 line spacing. Authors are responsible for the grammatical and syntactical revision of the articles;

    7. Manuscripts should not exceed 9000 words, including final notes and bibliography. Reflections should not exceed 6000 words, and book reviews 1500 words;

    8. Authors are encouraged to follow the following general structure of papers: Introduction; Theoretical framework; Methodology; Results; Conclusions; Acknowledgments (if applicable); Notes (if applicable); References;

    9. Notes should be used sparingly. In addition, they should be presented in 10-point Times New Roman, with continuous numbering, from the beginning to the end of the article. All notes must be placed at the end of the text, just before the “References”;

    10. Manuscripts written in Portuguese should include a final note stating whether they follow or not the spelling agreement;

    11. Non-textual elements should be presented in tables or figures and identified with continuous Arabic numerals. A maximum of 6 tables and 6 figures is allowed. Table titles should be presented in 12-point Times New Roman, bold and centred. There should be a space between the text and the title of the table or figure and a space between the title and the corresponding table or figure. Tables/figures must be kept in one sheet;

    12. Non-textual elements should additionally be sent in a separate file in their original

    format (Excel, SPSS, others) or in the following formats:
    EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings
    TIFF (or JPG): Color or grayscale images: 300 dpi minimum resolution;

    13. All manuscripts must present a title in Portuguese and a title in English. In addition, all articles must present a summary of 150 words in Portuguese and a summary of 150 words in English (including a brief introduction to the study and its theoretical and methodological approaches; the major results; conclusion and the relevance); 4 keywords in Portuguese and 4 keywords in English. Articles written in languages other than the previous ones should also present a title, abstract and keywords in the original language of the text;

    14. The titles of the texts submitted to SOCIOLOGIA ON LINE must be different from the titles of other publications and communications by the authors;

    15. Authors must specify the following information regarding their affiliations: institution discriminated at three levels (g. University, School, Department or Research Unit); Postal Code; City; Country and e-mail address. The correspondence author must present the complete institutional address;

    16. If the manuscripts include a section of “Acknowledgments”, this should be included after the “Conclusions” and before “Notes” and “References”;

    17. Citations, references in the text and bibliographic references must comply with the APA 6th Edition;

    18. The Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia retains copyright of all published manuscripts.

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