Information for authors
The journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos accepts scientific articles and book reviews for publication. Manuscripts submitted must be original and not published before. Articles can be written in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. The journal translates and publishes in both Portuguese and English articles about African countries that have Portuguese as their official language.
The journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos only accepts proposals for special issues, which must be submitted following the template provided.
Articles proposed for publication in the Cadernos de Estudos Africanos must be submitted via the journal's page on the RCAAP platform, at https://revistas.rcaap.pt/cea/. Submissions must be accompanied by a completed Copyright Statement (EN and PT), as well as a Word document containing:
- Author identification
- Institution
- Current position
- Institutional address
- E-mail address
- ORCID
- CRedit
Texts should be formatted in accordance with APA standards and should also follow these guidelines: they should be double-spaced (this also applies to notes and bibliography), in Times New Roman font, size 12, with margins no smaller than 3 cm. Charts, graphs, and figures must also be sent in the format in which they were produced and in a separate file.
Articles should be between 8.000 and 10.000 words long, including notes, bibliography, tables, graphs, and figures. Each article must be accompanied by a title, an abstract (up to 120 words,) and 6 keywords, in both Portuguese and English. Articles written and submitted in Portuguese must be accompanied by an abstract in English.
The titles of sections in the text should be introduced in bold. Further subdivisions are to be italicised.
Text notes should be footnotes, explanatory, or reminiscent. They should preferably not exceed five lines. References between different parts of the text should preferably be avoided and, if present, should refer to the page number referred to.
Quotations of less than 30 words should be incorporated into the text and enclosed in quotation marks ("). Long quotations (of 40 words or more) should be indented from the left margin only, and presented without quotation marks. For direct quotations, the page number is required.
Book reviews should not exceed 1,200 words. The work cited must be identified by its author, title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, and number of pages. Quotations from works other than the one cited must be made in the text, in brackets, with reference to the author, the work cited, its edition date, and the page to which the quotation refers (e.g. M. Newitt, História de Moçambique, 1997, p.102). If the quotation refers to a work cited in the book under review, this should be made explicit in the text of the review and only the edition date needs to be given.
Peer Review Process
Articles proposed for publication are submitted to a meticulous double-blind peer review conducted by experts in the respective interdisciplinary fields.
Publication Ethics
The journal is committed to following the best ethical practices. Preventing bad publishing practices is one of the responsibilities of the Editorial Board. Any kind of unethical behaviour is unacceptable, and Cadernos de Estudos Africanos does not tolerate plagiarism in any form. Authors who submit articles to Cadernos de Estudos Africanos affirm that the content of the manuscript is original. In addition, they guarantee that their article has not been published elsewhere, in any language, in whole or in part, nor is it being reviewed for publication anywhere. Authors, editors, and reviewers should therefore take into account the rules set out in the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors and the Elsevier Recommendations.
Open Access Policy
This journal offers immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public leads to greater global democratisation of knowledge.
Note on copyright
Authors who submit their articles for publication in Cadernos de Estudos Africanos undertake not to submit them to other journals and, at the same time, grant the Editorial Board of Cadernos de Estudos Africanos the rights to index the published articles in national and international databases. The content of the texts and the opinions expressed in them, as well as references to figures or graphics that have already been published, are the sole responsibility of the authors.
References
Books
One author
Fabian, J. (2000). Out of our minds. Reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press.
If the work is an author's edition, mark the word ‘author’ as the name of the publisher.
Yáñez Casal, A. (2005). Entre a dádiva e a mercadoria: Ensaio de antropologia económica. Amadora: Author.
Multiple authors
If the work has up to six authors, name them all. If there are more than six, cite them all only once, and only mention the name of the first author in subsequent citations followed by ‘et al.’.
Nikiema, J. B., Ouattara, B., Sembde, R., Djierro, K., Compaore, M., Guissou, I. P., et al. (2010, Agosto 31). Promotion de la médecine traditionelle du Burkina Faso: Essai de développement d’un medicament antidrépanocytaire, le FACA. African Health Monitor, special issue 14, African Traditional Medicine Day, pp. 52-57.
Corporate authorship
United Nations Development Programme. (2005). Human development report 2005. International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world. New York: UNDP.
Author not identified
A diocese de Angola e do Congo: Exposição ao Senhor Ministro das Colónias (1915). Coimbra: Typographia França Amado.
Published book chapter
Ginio, R. (2010). African silences: Negotiating the story of France’s colonial soldiers, 1914-2009. In Ben-Ze’ev, E., Ginio, R., & Winter, J. (Eds.), Shadows of war. A social history of silence in the twentieth century (pp. 138-152). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Chapter reprinted or republished
Sprague, S. F. (2002). Yoruba photography: How the Yoruba see themselves. In K. Askew & R. R. Wilk (Eds.), The anthropology of media. A reader (pp. 172-186). Malden/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (Original work published in 1978).
At the end of the entry put ‘original work published in’ in brackets, with the original date.
Chapter in a volume of a series
Goldman, M. (2007). How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion: Ontology and multiplicity in candomblé. In D. Parkin (Series Ed.) & D. Berliner & R. Sarró (Vol. Eds.), Methodology and history in anthropology: Vol. 17. Learning religion: Anthropological approaches (pp. 103-119). New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Citation of a multi-volume work
Smelser, N. J., & Baltes, P. B. (Eds.) (2001). International encyclopedia of the social & behavioural sciences(Vols. 1-26). Oxford: Elsevier.
In a multi-volume work, publication dates should appear in all volumes. Volumes should be identified in brackets immediately after the title of the book.
Citation from book editions
Turner, V. W. (1987). Schism and continuity in an African society. A study of Ndembu village life (4th ed.) Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Immediately after the title of a book, put the edition in brackets (e.g. ‘5th edition’, or ‘rev. ed.’).
Translated works
Fortes, M., & Evans-Pritchard, E. E. (Eds.). (1981) Sistemas políticos africanos (T. Brandão, Trad.). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Obra original publicada em 1958).
Conference proceedings/minutes
Martins, A. F. (1955). Condições de trabalho nas plantações de sisal e sua influência na saúde do trabalhador indígena. VII Assembleia técnica da Associação dos Produtores de Sisal de Moçambique. Discursos, comunicações, discussões (pp. 57- 71). Braga: Livraria Cruz.
Citation of articles with one author
Martins, V. (2015). “Ovimbundu identity attributions in post-war Angola”. Journal of Southern African Studies 41(4): 853-867.
Citation of articles with two or more authors
Khisa, M, Rwengabo, S. (2022). “The deepening politics of fragmentation in Uganda: understanding violence in the Rwenzori region”. African Studies Review 65(4): 939-964.
Citation of articles from monthly journals
Neves, T. (2010, Junho). Missão nas periferias de Nampula. Acção Missionária, p. 3.
Citation of weekly journal articles
Saraiva, J. M., & Ochôa, R. (1998, Junho 20). Franceses combatem na Guiné. Expresso, p. 9.
Newspaper articles
Smith, R. (2010, December 3). Visual culture out of Africa. The New York Times, p. C25.
Author not identified
Manifestação em Lisboa. Guineenses contra o Senegal. (1998, 13 Julho). Diário de Notícias, p. B8.
Reprinted or reissued articles
Gates, H. L. (1994). Authority, (white) power and the (black) critic; it’s all Greek to me. In N. B. Dirks, G. Eley & S. B. Ortner (Eds.), Culture/power/history: A reader in contemporary social theory. New Jersey/West Sussex: Princeton University Press (Reprinted from Cultural Critique, no. 7 (Fall 1987), 19-46).
At the end of the entry, add ‘reprinted from’ in brackets, noting the original edition information.
PhD dissertation/unpublished dissertation
Bordonaro, L. I. (2006). Living at the margins. Youth and modernity in the Bijagós Islands (Guinea-Bissau). Tese de doutoramento não publicada, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Carvalheira, R. (2008). “Aproximar os homens e as culturas”: Etnicidade e discursos sobre a cultura no universo associativo de Nouakchott, Mauritânia. Tese de mestrado não publicada, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Article in a newsletter restricted to the Internet
Manji, F., & Kane, M. (2010, Novembro 30). Novas tecnologias e a ameaça à soberania na África. Pambazuka News, 34. Acedido em 10 Dezembro, 2010, de http://pambazuka.org/pt/category/features/69168
Technical or research reports on the Internet
United Nations High Comissioner for Refugees (2010, October 31). Democratic Republic of Congo: Repatriation fact sheet. Acedido em 10 Dezembro, 2010, de UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency web site http://www.unhcr.org/4cb847c39.html
Document created by private organisation, without page number or date
FRELIMO. (n.d.) Símbolos do partido. Acedido em 10 Dezembro, 2010, de http://www.frelimo.org.mz/