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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.
  • Philósophos does not accept submissions in a continuous flow, but only in response to thematic calls published during specific periods. There is currently no open call.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • The authors hold a doctorate degree at the time of submission of the text.

Author Guidelines

Norms

 

  1. This Journal accepts unpublished academic works in: Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. They could be Papers, Reviews, Translations and Debates.
  2. The journal does not charge any fee for publishing articles. The editorial board values the policy of free access to information, thus, does not charge any fee for the submission, review, publication, distribution or download of articles. 
  3. Papers should be submitted only via this site  (it’s necessary to make the registration as “author” and obtain a password). Our email: revista.philosophos@gmail.com.
  4. The publishing of translations is constrained by copyrights. The usage of any third party translation has to be authorized by the author, unless it is in the public domain.
  5. The works should have a clear argumentative structure, be articulated and present a relevant and original analysis of the subject.
  6. The editorial board has the right to accept, refuse or send back to the author the original with suggestions of changes and/or improvements.
  7. The Papers should not have more than 12,000 words; reviews and debates should not exceed 5,000 words. The Journal editorial board will judge special cases.
  8. According to the journal's editorial policy, only papers by PhDs in Philosophy, or even PhDs from other areas, as long as they are dedicated to research in Philosophy, will be accepted for evaluation. The author must have a PhD at the time of submitting the text to the journal's website. In the case of papers written in partnership, texts with a maximum of two co-authors will be accepted for evaluation, and both must have a PhD.
  9. Manuscripts should be accompanied by:
    1. Abstract with a minimum of 50 a maximum of 200 words.
    2. Keywords (maximum of five).
    3. Must not contain any kind of identification. The academic position, address and e-mail of the author shall be inserted in paper submission act and will be stored in the site database.
  10. The cotes:
    1. In citations, the author's surname, inside or outside the parentheses, must be in lower case with the initial letter capitalized. E.g.: Quine (2001), (Quine 2001).
    2. Different titles by the same author published in the same year will be identified by a letter after the date. Ex.: (Quine, 2001a), (Quine, 2001b).
    3. The symbol "/" serves to separate pages not continuous and the symbol "-" continuous pages. Ex.: (Quine, 2001a, p. 21/32), (Quine, 2001b, p. 21-32).
  11. The bibliography must be presented at the end of the text, sorted alphabetically in ascending order and according to the following pattern.
    1. In the case of books: surname (in upper case), name of the author; title of the book in italics, place, Publisher, year of publication, Edition. E.g.: QUINE, W. V. O. Pursuit of truth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
    2. In the case of collection: family name (in upper case), name of the author; title of the text, In: last name (in upper case), the organizer's name (ed.), book title in italics, place, Publisher, Edition, year of publication, home-page end. E.g.: SACRISTÁN, Jose Gimeno. Políticas de la diversidad para uma educación democrática igualizadora. In: COMPAÑE, Antonio Sipán (org.). Educar para la diversidad en el siglo XXI. Zaragoza: Mira Editores, 2001. p. 123-142
    3. In the case of article: last name (in upper case), author name, paper title, journal title in italics, place, number of journal: home-page end, month (if you have one), year of publication. E.g.: SCHOLLMEIER, Paul. Aristotle on Practical Wisdom. Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, v. 43, n. 1, p. 124-132, jan./mar. 1989.
    4. In the case of academic thesis: family name (in upper case), name of the author; title of the thesis in italics. Year of publication. Number of pages. Dissertation (master degree) or thesis (PhD), institution, place and date. E.g.: VELLOSO, Araceli. The "moderate" holism of W. V. O. Quine: a new verificationism "without the dogmas”. 2004. 228p. Thesis (PhD in philosophy) – Federal University do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2004.

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