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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

RULES FOR THE PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

  1. The paper should be original and not simultaneously proposed for any other publication.
  2. The paper should be presented in its definitive version in Portuguese (according to the new spelling agreement), in English, Spanish or French, and should be between 3000 to 4000 words long, including notes, captions of figures and tables and bibliographic references.
  3. The proposal should be sent in Word format, Times New Roman font, size 12, with a line spacing of 1.5:

- Author(s) biographical nota: up to 50 words per author (which must include institutional affiliation, email and, whenever possible, Orcid or Science ID)

- Title in Portuguese, English and in the language in which the text is presented (when it is not presented in Portuguese or in English) 

- Abstract: between 150 to 200 words in Portuguese, English and in the language in which the text is presented (when it is not presented in Portuguese or in English) 

- Keywords: between 3 to 5 words in Portuguese, English and in the language in which the text is presented (when it is not presented in Portuguese or in English) 

- Body of text: include introduction and conclusion/ final reflections, with or without chapters and/or subpoints   

  1. Footnotes can be used to include additional information, but it is recommended its limited use and only if strictly necessary.
  2. Figures, tables and images should be included in the body of text captioned in the following fashion:

“Figure 1.(…)”, “Figure 2.(…)”, …  |  “Table 1.(…)”, “Table 2.(…)”, …

  1. All non-original elements should identify its source, expliciting if needed the authorizations obtained from the respective owners for their reproduction.
  2. Bibliographic references: maximum of 20 references by alphabetical order of the author's last surname, formatted according to the norms of the APA - 7th edition (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples/):

Examples:

Book

Costa, A. F. (1999). Sociedade de bairro. Celta Editora.

E-book

Torres, A., Costa, D., & Cunha, M. J. (2018). Estudos de Género: Diversidade de Olhares num Mundo Global. ISCSP. http://cieg.iscsp.ulisboa.pt/images/eBook/eBook_estudos_de_genero_diversidade_de_olhares_num_mundo_global.pdf

Book chapter

Esteves, A. J. (2003). A investigação-acção. In A. S. Silva & J. M. Pinto (Orgs.), Metodologia das Ciências Sociais (12th ed., pp. 251-278). Edições Afrontamento.

Article

Redondo-Sama, G., Matulic, V., Munté-Pascual, A., & de Vicente, I. (2020). Social Work during the COVID-19 Crisis: Responding to Urgent Social Needs. Sustainability, 12(20), 8595. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208595

 

 

 

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