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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Articles should be between 50,000 and 70,000 characters with spaces (including bibliography, tables and diagrams), and book reviews, up to 15,000 characters with spaces;
  • The text is in A4 format, 1.5 spacing, 12 point Times New Roman font, 1.5 cm paragraph, with figures and tables inserted in the text, and it does not use spaces to align tables, only the tab;
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal;
  • Submission files are in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format;
  • Quotes should be in body 10, with indent of 1.5 cm; abstracts in English, Portuguese and Spanish in body 9; bibliographic notes and references, body 10; title, body 16; and subtitle, body 14;
  • The identification of authorship of the work has been removed from the file and the "Properties" option in Word, thus ensuring the journal's confidentiality criteria, if submitted for peer review. If the authors themselves are quoted, the word "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, rather than author name, document Title, etc.;
  • When submitting an article, authors must identify their title and affiliation on the registration form. The title required for publication as the first author of a paper is a doctorate, being accepted the co-authorship of masters. For reviews, MS students are allowed to be authors. The journal publishes articles with a maximum of four authors;
  • All authors must have an ORCID registration. To register, the website is https://orcid.org/. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a permanent digital identifier for an author, as well as DOI is for a digital document.

Author Guidelines

1. Presentation

Sociedade e Cultura - Journal of Research and Debate in the Social Sciences is published by the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais of the Universidade Federal de Goiás and its graduate programs in Social Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology. From 2020 onwards it has been published on continuous flow.

2. Editorial Scope

2.1. Categories of papers that can be published 

The journal accepts original and unpublished submissions of articles and reviews in social sciences. Occasionally, translations and interviews may be published.

Sociedade e Cultura publishes in Spanish or English as long as the paper has not been published elsewhere. 

2.2. Evaluation of the papers 

The editorial board is responsible for the decision about publication. Papers that do not follow the scope and the guidelines of the periodical will not be accepted. Those that follow the guidelines will be sent to two external reviewers following the double blind review system in which the identities of both the authors and the reviewers are omitted. 

The reviewers may suggest the paper be:

a) published in its original format;

b) published after revisions;

c) re-submitted for a new evaluation after the paper has gone through substantial modification;

d) refused for publication.

No additions or modifications will be accepted after the papers have been handed in for the final composition. 

2.3. Rights and responsibilities of the authors 

On submitting the paper the authors assign their copyright to Sociedade e Cultura. The periodical is not obligated to return the received papers. The statements and concepts in the papers are the responsibility of the respective authors.

3. Submitting Papers

3.1. It is through the website of the journal, following the instructions for submission.

4. Format

4.1. Text dimensions

Contributions must be typed in Word or compatible program. Articles may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English. They must be between 50,000 and 70,000 characters with spaces (including bibliography, tables and diagrams) and must be submitted in Times New Roman, size 12, paragraph 1.5 and 1.5 spacing. They must present title, abstract and 5 keywords in the three indicated languages (Portuguese, Spanish and English). The abstract must be up to 1000 characters with spaces and the keywords must be separated by period. Book reviews must be up to 15,000 characters with spaces.

4.2. Footnotes and citations

The footnotes should be substantive in nature, appearing as notes at the foot of the page, preferentially no longer than 3 lines and restricted to additional comments to the text. Bibliographic citations in the text itself should follow the format (AUTHOR, date, page). 

4.3. References 

At the end of the paper the bibliographic references should be listed in alphabetical order observing the rules of the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (NBR 6023: 2018), exemplified in the following models: 

Book:

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. As estruturas elementares do parentesco. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1982.

PRZEWORSKI, Adam; STOKES, Susan C.; MANIN, Bernard (Eds.). Democracy, accountability, and representation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

CALHOUN, Craig et al. (ed.). Classical sociological theory. 2. ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.

Book Chapter:

WOLF, Eric R. Parentesco, amizade e relações patrono-cliente em sociedades complexas. In: FELDMAN-BIANCO, Bela; RIBEIRO, Gustavo Lins (org.). Antropologia e poder: contribuições de Eric Wolf. Brasília: Ed. UnB; São Paulo: Imprensa Oficial, 2003. p. 93-114.

LANZARO, Jorge. Tipos de presidencialismo y modos de gobierno en América Latina. In: LANZARO, Jorge (comp.). Tipos de presidencialismo y coaliciones políticas en América Latina. Buenos Aires: Clacso, 2003. p. 15-49.

Scientific article:

BONELLI, Maria da Gloria; BARBALHO, Rennê Martins. O profissionalismo e a construção do gênero na advocacia paulista. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 2, p. 275-284, 2008.

Thesis or dissertation: 

TAMASO, Izabela Maria. Em nome do patrimônio: representações e apropriações da cultura na cidade de Goiás. Brasília, 2007. 787 f. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia) – Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2007.

Papers presented at events:

BAQUERO, Marcelo. A democracia e capital social na América Latina: Brasil para além do debate acadêmico. In: CONGRESO LATINOAMERICANO DE CIENCIA POLÍTICA, 1, 2002, Salamanca. Política en América Latina: I Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Política. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2002. p. 837-858.

Newspaper article:

BURITY, Joanildo A. Confronto de discursos. O Povo, Fortaleza, p. 6-7, 22 mar. 2008.

Internet text:

SILVA, Mauro Marcelo de Lima e. Crimes da era digital. Net, Rio de Janeiro, nov. 1998. Seção Ponto de Vista. Disponível em: http://www.brazilnet.com.br/contexts/brasilrevistas.htm. Acesso em: 28 nov. 1998.

Two or more references by the same author:

Works by the same author referenced successively on the same page should NOT be replaced in references after the first by a sublinear space (equivalent to six spaces) and period, but as follows.

GARZA, Enrique de la (comp.). Los sindicatos frente a los procesos de transición política. Buenos Aires: Clacso, 2001.

GARZA, Enrique de la (coord). Tratado latinoamericano de sociología del trabajo. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica/Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2000.

Works by the same author published in the same year should be differentiated by the use of letters immediately after the date, without space, following the order of appearance in the text. Example:

REIS, Fábio Wanderley. Mercado e utopia: teoria política e sociedade brasileira. São Paulo: Ed.USP, 2000a.

REIS, Fábio Wanderley. Política e racionalidade: problemas de teoria e método de uma sociologia ‘crítica’ da política. 2. ed. Belo Horizonte: Ed. UFMG, 2000b.

4.4. Complements

Figures, drawings, graphs, maps and tables should be included in the text with good resolution.

 

Note: when submitting an article or review, it is necessary to fill in the authorship data in the system, including name, email, country, ORCID, institution (in full), title and professional activity of each author.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, the work being simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and of the initial publication in this journal;
    2. Authors are authorized to enter into additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and of the initial publication in this journal;
    3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (eg, in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can bring productive change as well as increases the impact and the citation of the published work (see O Efeito do Acesso Livre).

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