Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Análise Social is a journal that publishes original scholarly work in the Social Sciences in the following formats:
(i) Research articles articles up to a limit of 9000 words;
(ii) articles for thematic dossiers, comprising no more than four articles, each with a limit of 7000 words, or special issues comprising 7 to 10 articles;
(iii) bibliographic essays up to 6000 words.
(iv) methodological essays up to 6000 words.

The journal also publishes book reviews of up to 1500 words and occasional interviews and obituaries. It also welcomes the submission of books for review ( Address: Revista Análise Social, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Aníbal de  Bettencourt, 9, 1600-189 Lisboa).

2. Articles may be submitted in Portuguese or English. Exceptionally Spanish is also accepted. 

3. The Editorial Board examines the submissions with a view to their suitability for the journal. After this screening process, articles and essays are sent for critical evaluation by at least two blind reviewers. Only articles and essays approved through this evaluation system are published. All reviews will be evaluated by an editor with expertise in the field.

4. Opinions expressed in work(s) published in Análise Social are those of the author(s), and do not represent the opinion(s) or policy(ies) of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the Universidade de Lisboa, or of the editor(s) of the journal.

5. The paper's cover page must always include the article's title, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, e-mail, postal address, Orcid, and a biographical note not exceeding 100 words. For papers with several authors, provide complete information for each author and indicate the corresponding author.

6. Research articles, dossier articles, and bibliographical essays must be accompanied by a 100-word abstract and four keywords in the language in which they are written and in English. The disciplinary and/or thematic area(s) of the proposed paper should also be explicitly indicated by the author(s).

7. All information concerning the author, such as self-citations or references to previous works, must be blinded, both in the text and in the final bibliography, in order to guarantee anonymity. For example, the in-text citation of an article published by the author of the manuscript Maria Santos in 2021, should read: (Author 2021). The citation for this article should read  “Author     (2021)” in the list of bibliographic references.

8. Notes must be numbered. All tables, figures, illustrations, maps, etc. must be numbered and identified with a title in the place where they should be inserted in the text. The bibliography should be included at the end of the text, alphabetically ordered,  and must contain only those sources actually cited.

9. Citations and references should be made in the following way: “(Pinto, 2002)” when referring to a work in general; “(Pinto, 2002, pp. 32-33)” when citing a specific feature or reproducing a direct quotation; “Pinto (2002a)” when referring to one of two or more works of Pinto that appear in the bibliography; “Pinto and Ferreira (2003)” and Pinto, Ferreira and Sousa (2003), when referring to a work having two or three authors; “Pinto et al. (2002)” when referring to a work having more than three authors.

10. Citations in the bibliography should follow these examples:

Books

• PINTO, J. M. (2007), Indagação Científica, Aprendizages Escolares e Reflexividade Social, Porto, Afrontamento.

Collections

• PROSSER, J. (ed.) (2000), Image-Based Research — A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers, Londres, Routledge and Falmer Press.

Articles in collections

• EISENSTADT, S. N. (2005), “Axial civilizations and the Axial Age reconsidered”. In J. P. Arnason, S. N. Eisenstadt, B. Wittrock (eds.), Axial Civilizations and World History, Leiden, Brill, pp. 531-564.

Articles in journals

• PARR, J. B. (2004), “The polycentric urban region: a closer inspection”. Regional Studies, 38 (3), pp. 231-240.

Online Publications

• COFFEY, A., HOLBROOK, B., ATKINSON, P. (1996), “Qualitative data analysis: technologies and representations”. Sociological Research Online, 1(1), Disponível em, em 31-1-2006.
• MOREY, C. C. et al. (2015), “The color-sharing bonus: roles of perceptual organization and attentive processes in visual working memory”. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 3, 18–29. https://doi.org/10.1037/arc0000014

Doctoral Dissertations

• FIDALGO, J. M. (2006), O Lugar da Ética e da Auto-Regulação na Identidade Profissional dos Jornalistas. Tese de doutoramento, Braga, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho.

Reprinted Historical Sources

• ESPINOSA, B. (1988 1670), Tratado Teológico-Político (trad. D. P. Aurélio), Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.

11. Análise Social does not charge submission fees, page charges, or any processing charge in the case of eventual acceptance (ACP).

12. The journal follows COPE’s guidelines (Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines. The editors will prevent plagiarism, falsification, or citation manipulation using the plagiarism detection software Urkund.