Submission Guidelines

Sociologias welcomes high-quality original works in the form of articles, essays, reviews and research papers in social sciences, which bring innovative and relevant contributions to advance sociological knowledge in the focused area. Contributions can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English.

Manuscripts submitted in English or French will be evaluated in their original language and, once approved in the evaluation process, should be translated into Portuguese and published in both languages. Authors should be responsible for the translation, which may be performed by translators of their choice or chosen from a suggested list by the journal.

Manuscripts should be submitted exclusively to Sociologias, i.e., they should not be under consideration by another journal. The journal does not assume responsibility for concepts expressed by the authors.

Before submitting a manuscript, authors must ensure that it is in strict compliance with submission guidelines, including exclusion of any elements that prevent blind evaluation, such as self-references, acknowledgments and identification in the document's properties. They must also ensure that the manuscript has gone through a careful grammatical review. Manuscripts with writing problems will be dismissed without going through stages of scope assessment.

To be eligible for peer reviewing, contributions must meet the following criteria:

Conditions for submission

For submissions to the Articles, Interfaces, Interviews and Brazil Today sections, at least one of the authors must hold a PhD degree and, in case of co-authorship, the first author must hold at least a master's degree. Manuscripts with a maximum of four authors are admitted.

For submissions to the Reviews section, authors must hold at least a master’s degree.

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively through the Sociologias's webpage at: <https://seer.ufrgs.br/sociologias>

To submit manuscripts to any section of the journal, authors must access the webpage of Sociologias http://www.seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/index/user/register and login or register if they have not yet signed up. We recommend fill in the complete registration form (including Orcid, institutional affiliation and role at the affiliation institution). Then, start the five-step submission process, following instructions on the platform.

The manuscript must be presented in A4 format, Times New Roman 12 font, 1.5 space, first line indentation of 1.25 cm and top and left margins of 3 cm, and bottom and right of 2 cm. It must contain title and abstract (up to 250 words) in the language in which it is being submitted and in English, up to five (5) keywords that allow the proper indexing of the article and list of references organized according to ABNT norms.

To ensure anonymity during the evaluation process, the manuscript must not contain any identification of authorship (self-references, acknowledgments, or name in the properties of the submitted file). Self-references in the text should be replaced by the word “Author” followed by the year of the reference (e.g. Author, 2020) and completely excluded from the list of references.

Text structure

The abstract must necessarily clearly state the object of study, the objectives of the work, the methods used and the results or conclusions.

Manuscripts submitted to the Articles, Interfaces and Interviews sections must have a maximum of 10,000 words, including abstract and references.

Manuscripts submitted to the Brazil Today section must have a maximum of 850 words. Contributions to this section must be written in a language accessible to non-specialists and make clear the contribution of research to understanding Brazil today. The expanded abstracts must include the complete bibliographic reference of the publication or other original production related to the research summarized, in Portuguese, together with the link, if the work is available online.

Manuscripts submitted to the Reviews section must have a maximum of 4,500 words, including abstract and references. This section welcomes reviews, in Portuguese or Spanish, of books that bring relevant approaches to the social sciences, either recently published in Brazil (two years ago or less) or still unpublished in Portuguese.

For all sections, the submitted manuscript must be presented in its final version without any highlights or revision marks, written clearly and grammatically revised, using inclusive language and avoiding, as far as possible, stilted writing that can make reading difficult without contributing to the knowledge in the area in focus. Footnotes should be limited to an essential minimum. Attachments and appendices must be avoided, unless they are essential for the understanding of the main text.

Citations throughout the text must obey the author-data system, without using capital letters for the name (e.g., Moser, 1985). The reference list must be arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of the main author and follow the ABNT standard. The list should not use the 3-em dash for repeated names. In the list, full names must be used (e.g., MOSER, Anita). The reference list must contain only the references cited in the text.

Drawings, graphs, maps, tables and photographs must be numbered, have title and source and be included at the end of the document, with clear indication throughout the text of the place where they must be inserted. In addition, they must be included as supplementary documents in the original format in which they were created (Excel, Power Point, etc.).

Section titles and subtitles should not use capital letters, having only the first letter capitalized, and should make their hierarchy clear: font 12 in bold for 1st level subtitles, font 12 in bold and italics for 2nd level subtitles, and font 12 in italics for 3rd level subtitles.

Short literal quotations (less than three lines) will be integrated into the paragraph, in quotation marks and followed by the quoted author’s surname, year of publication and page within parentheses and separated by commas (e.g., MOSER, 1985, p. 56). Citations of more than three lines should be indented from the left in a block, in font 11, without using italics or quotation marks.

The list of references must follow the ABNT NBR 6023 standard, according to the following examples:

1. a) Books

MOSER, Anita. A nova submissão: mulheres da zona rural no processo de trabalho industrial. Porto Alegre: EDIPAZ, 1985.

 

CÂNDIDO, Antônio et al. A personagem de ficção. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1968.

1. b) Book chapters

LEMOS, Carlos A. O morar em São Paulo no tempo dos italianos. In: DE BONI, Luis A. (org.). A presença italiana no Brasil. Porto Alegre: Escola Superior de Teologia, 1990. p. 401-409.

HASENBALG, Carlos; SILVA, Nelson do V. Notes on racial and political inequality in Brazil. In HANCHARD, Michael (ed.) Racial politics in contemporary Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. p. 154-178.

1. c) Journal article

NOGUEIRA, Ronidalva. Michel Foucault numa breve visita às prisões de Pernambuco. Cadernos de Estudos Sociais, v. 6, n. 2, p. 269-282, 1990.

1. d) Magazine and Newspaper articles

O REI está nú (2): adianta, porém, constatar o óbvio? Isto é, São Paulo, n. 1189, p. 15, 15 jul. 1992. Editorial.

1. e) Theses and Dissertations

SILVA, Nelson do V. Black-white income differentials in Brazil. Dissertation (PhD in Sociology), University of Michigan, Michigan, 1978.

1. f) Dictionary entries

PISTONE, Sérgio. Bonapartismo. In: BOBBIO, Norberto; MATTEUCCI, Nicola; PASQUINO, Gianfranco. Dicionário de política. Brasília: Ed. da Universidade de Brasília, 1986. p. 118-119.

BAUMGARTEN, Maíra. Tecnociência e trabalho. In: Antonio David Cattani; Lorena Holzmann. (Orgs.). Dicionário Trabalho e Tecnologia. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS, 2006, v. 1, p. 283-288. 

1. g) Websites and blogs

INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE INFORMAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA. Conheça o IBICT. Disponível em: <http://www.ibict.br/ibict/frame.htm>.

IDB - Interamerican Development Bank. BID, Banco Mundial y Colombia auspician seminario internacional sobre factores raciales y étnicos en censos de América Latina. Press release, 7 Nov., 2000. http://www.iadb.org/es/noticias/comunicados-de-prensa/2000-11-07/bid-banco-mundial-y-colombia-auspician-seminario-internacional-sobre-factores-raciales-y-etnicos-en-censos-de-america-latina,799.html