Submission 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 each;
(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, as well as occasional interviews and obituaries. It also welcomes the submission of books for review.
2.Articles may be submitted in Portuguese or English.
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.Articles should be submitted by email in a Word file to analise.social@ics.ul.pt. Books submitted for review should be sent to: Marta Castelo Branco, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Prof. Aníbal Bettencourt, 9, 1600-189 Lisboa.
6.The cover page of the paper must always include the title of the article, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, e-mail and postal address, Orcid, as well as a biographical note not exceeding 100 words. For papers with several authors, provide complete information for each author and indicate the corresponding author.
7.Background 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).
8.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). In the list of bibliographic references, the citation for this article should read “Author ( 2021)”.
9.Notes must be numbered. All tables, figures, illustrations, maps, etc. must be numbered and identified with a title, and included separately at the end of the main text, along with an indication of where they should be inserted in the text. The bibliography should be included following the tables/illustrations and must contain only those sources actually cited in the text, and be alphabetically ordered.
10.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.
11.Citations in the bibliography should follow these examples:
12.All articles are available in Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(CC BY 4.0).
13.Análise Social does not charge submission fees, page charges or any processing charge in the case of eventual acceptance.
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