Editing Rules

Submission of original documents: the proposed texts will be submitted to a review from specialists in the respective areas, on a basis of anonymity. The list of evaluators will be published every two years. The final decision will rest on the coordinators of each number and ultimately on the CICS Direction.

The texts can be published in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

Correspondence (including subscriptions): Configurações Magazine, att. Ângela Matos, Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, PORTUGAL.

See the Rules for submitting articles

Instructions for authors:

All articles will undergo a preliminary selection process conducted by the Editorial Board to ensure their pertinence regarding the thematic scope of this special issue. Selected articles will subsequently be submitted to the blind refereeing of two experts.

All texts must conform to the following norms:

1. All texts must provide the identification of their author(s), their institutional affiliation(s) and e-mail(s).

2. Texts must not exceed, overall and except for abstracts, 35.000 characters, including spaces.

3. Each article must be accompanied by two abstracts (in Portuguese, English and French) with the maximum length of 750 characters (including spaces) each. The abstract in Portuguese will be part of the main file (article); other abstracts must be sent in as an independent file.

4. All files, in Word format must be sent through e-mail.

5. All quotations must be translated.

6. All originals must: a) contain the final, ready to print version of the text, duly revised; b) include a title; c) contain 4 or 5 keywords, following the abstract, and in the three previously specified languages.

7. Regarding text composition and formatting, authors should abide by the following guidelines:

a) Using no more than two titling levels; Introduction and Conclusion are not numbered; the remaining of the text with Arabic numbering;

b) Quotations will be bracketed with inverted commas as long as they do not exceed four lines; longer quotations will constitute independent paragraph(s), with no quotation marks;

c) Terms in other languages will be written in italic;

d) Non-textual elements must be presented in tables, charts or figures, with independent Arabic numbering;

e) Footnotes will be numbered, no brackets;

f) Bibliographic references will obey the following model: (Rodrigues, 1993: 103); (Costa & Almeida, 1991: 80-84); (Greenwood, 1997a); (Greenwood, 1997b);

g) The bibliography at the end of the article will be presented as follows:

- SURNAME, Name (year), Title of the book, place of publication, publisher.

- SURNAME, Name (year), “Title of the article”, Title of the journal, volume (number), number of first and last pages.

- SURNAME, Name (year), “Title of the article/ chapter”, in Name and Surname of the editor(s) (eds.), Title of the collective book, place of publication, publisher, number of first and last pages.

- Internet Document: SURNAME, Name (year), Title of the document [online], available at: address [access: date].

- Internet sites and personal or institutional pages: Name [online], available at: address [access: date].

- Articles in online journals: SURNAME, Name (year), “Title of the article”, Title of the Journal, volume (number), number of first and last pages [online], available at: address [access: date].