- Articles may be submitted in one of the following languages: Portuguese and English.
- Articles should not exceed 8000 words in length, including footnotes, bibliographic references, tables, graphics and figures.
- Articles should be free from jargon, biased and offensive language.
- Abstracts should have 250 words maximum, followed by a maximum of five keywords.
- Abstracts must be provided in English and in Portuguese.
- The Journal does not provide translation services. However, it may exceptionally translate abstracts into Portuguese at the authors' request.
- Articles should be provided in editable formats (not PDF).
- Articles should be 1,5 spaced throughout (including all quotations, footnotes and references), with generous margins on both sides of the pages and pages numbered consecutively.
- The style applicable is the Turabian Style (see also Norms on Bibliographic References).
- Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the Journal style.
- Articles must be submitted online in perspectivasjournal.cicp.pt at Document Submission.
On-line Anonymity Policy
Details about the author(s) and/or academic/professional affiliations must be provided only where requested during the on-line submission process as to ensure the anonymity of the submission.
For further information please contact cicp@eeg.uminho.pt
Guidelines for Style and References
Footnotes
Notes should be marked clearly in the text at the point of punctuation by superior numbers, and listed consecutively at the bottom of each page.
References
Please follow the Reference List Style, citing sources in brackets in the text by author's last name and date of publication.
For references follow these examples:
Book
One author: Doniger, Wendy. 1999. Splitting the difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Two authors: Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. 2000. Primate conservation biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Four or more authors: Laumann, Edward 0., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. 1994. The social organization of sexuality: Sexual practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Chapter of a book
Wiese, Andrew. 2006. "The house I live in: Race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States". In the New Suburban History, ed. Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, 99119. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Book published electronically
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The founders' Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://prcss-pubs.uchicago.cdu/founders/ (accessed June 27, 2006}.
Article in a print journal
Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639-40.
Article in an online journal
Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharv and Mary A. Whooley. 2002. Quality-of-life and depressive symptoms in postmenopausal women after receiving hormone therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen / Progest in Replacement Study (HERS) trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 287, n.5 (February 6), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/ rfull/jocI0I08.html#aainfo (accessed January 7, 2004).
Book review
Gorman, James. 2002. Endangered species. Review of The last American man, by Elizabeth Gilbert. New York Times Book Review, June 2.
Web site
Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees. Evanston Public Library strategic plan, 20002010: A decade of outreach . Evanston Public Library. http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00. html (accessed June 1 , 2005}.
For more information, you may wish to consult the 7th Edition of Kate L. Turabian's Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations.
Figures and tables
- Figures and tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals, consecutively.
- Figures and tables must be inserted in editable format at the end of the article's text.
- The text should indicate clearly where figures and tables are to be inserted definitely.
- Figures and tables should be black & white.
Formatting
- One font size throughout.
- Do not justify to the right.
- Do not indent paragraphs.
- Separate paragraphs by two hard returns.
- Abbreviations consisting of capital letters, acronyms ans contractions should not take full points. E.g.: UN, NATO, OSCE, EU.
- Spell out numbers one to nine; use figures for numerals 10 and over.
- Write dates as follows: 15 June 1975.
- Quoted material should be in single quotes, whether in text or notes.
- Double quotes should be used for a quote within a quote.
- Long quotations (30 words or more) should be indented without quotation marks.
- Quotes within an indented quote have single quotation marks.
Headings and Subheadings
Type headings and sub-headings at the left margin, using the following hierarchy:
- First-level headings in bold, with an initial capital letter or any proper nouns.
- Second-level headings in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
- Third-level (and subsequente if necessary) in italics, with an innitial capital letter for any proper nouns.
Revised articles
When submitting revised articles, authors must signal directly in the text all revisions made.
Authors may also send a file with a direct response to the reviewers´comments, with no reference to contacts, names or institutional affiliations. This file will be sent to reviewers, hence the importance of keeping anonymity.
Answers and revisions should always be as neat and detailed as possible as to avoid any misinterpretations.
The revised articles and any other files should be sent to the Journal using the author's login area, and following the articles’s identification provided by the Journal.
