Submissions

Author Guidelines

Types of Documents Accepted

Articles

This section accepts original and unpublished texts in the form of articles that present relevant and inovative contributions to the area of sociology, with the potential to stimulate academic debate, and demonstrate theoretical and methodogical rigor in their construction. Preference will be given to works resulting from empirical research and/or related to that address current social issues and topics that have not yet been sufficiently debated in the social sciences.

Papers envolving only bibliographical review will no be accepted.

Contributions may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English.

Reviews

This section accepts reviews of works recently published in Brazil (within the last two years). Reviews of papers written in foreign languages that have not and yet been published in Portuguese are also accepted, provided they address topics relevant to the social sciences.

Submissions either in Portuguese or Spanish are accepted.

Interviews

This section accepts transcriptions of the interviews conducted with academics/intellectuals whose work offers relevant contribution to the area of sociology, provided the interview presentation text discusses the interviewees’ work and other author’s work with which his/her work dialogues, including references.

Contributions may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, French ou English.

Dossie

Section with dossie selected through an annual international call for papers on specific topics.

Authors’ Contribution

Author’s contribution must be detailed on the title page and follow CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) taxonomy standard. All contributors who qualify as authors of the article must have their contribution described using this taxonomy. Contributions that do not qualify for authorship must be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section.

Manuscript Preparation

Manuscript submissions must comply with the criteria detailed below in order to qualify for editorial and peer review.

Conditions for Submission

For submissions to the Articles and Interviews sections, at least one of the authors must hold a PhD degree and, in the case of co-authorship, the first author mus hold at least a Master’s degree. Manuscripts with a maximum of four authors are accepted.

For submissions to the Reviews section, auhtors must have at least a Masters degree.

Submission Form

Submissions for publication in Sociologias must be made exclusively through the journal’s page on the SEER/UFRGS platform.

For submission of/To submit the manuscripts to any section of the journal, authors must access Sociologias page on the SEER platform with their login and password. But in case they do not have any of them, they must complete the registration process, including their ORCID registration and mini-biography (including education and role at their affiliated the institution). Afterwards, they must begin the five-step submission process, following guidelines on the plataform.

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

To ensure anonymity in the evaluation, the manuscript should not contain any identification of authorship (self-references, aknowledgements, or name of the properties of the submitted file). Self-references in the text should be replaced by the word “Auhtor” followed by the year of reference (example: Author, 2020) and completely excluded form the list of references.

Article Submission Format

Text Structure

The abstract must celarly state the subject of study, the goals of the paper, the methods used, and the results or conclusions.

Manuscripts submitted to the Articles and Interviews sections must be no longer than 10.000 words, including abstract and references.

Manuscripts submitted to the Reviews section must not be no longer than 4.500 words, including abstract and references. This section accepts reviews of papers, either in Portuguese or Spanish, recently published in Brazil (within the last two years). Reviews of papers in foreign languages that have not yet been published in Brazil are also accepted, provided they addres stopics relevant to the social sciences.

For all sections, the submitted manuscript must be presented in its final version whitout highights or revision marks, writen clearly and with correct spelling and grammar, using inclusive language and avoiding, as far as possible, obscure and infrequent terms that may hinder reading without any contribution to knowledge in the area in question.

Footnotes must be limited to an essencial minimum. Attachments and appendices will not be accepted, unless they are indispensable to the understanding of the main text.

Section titles and subtitles must not be in uppercase, with only the first letter capitalized, and must clearly indicate their hierarchy: first-level subtitles should use 12-point font and be bolded, second-level subtitles should use 12-point font in bold italics, and third-level subtitles must use 12-point font in italics without bold.

Digital Assets

Drawings, graphs, maps, tables, charts and fotographs must be numbered, contain a title and source, and be included at the end of the document, with a clear indication throughout the text of where they should be inserted. In addition, they must be included as suppalementary documents in the original fortmat in which they were created (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

Citations and References

Citations through the text must follow the author-date system, without using capital letters for the name (example: Moser, 1985). The list of references must be arranged in alphabetical order by the main author’s last name and follow the ABNT standard. The list must not use continuous dash for papers by the same author, but rathe repeat it. Full names (LAST NAME, first name) must be used in the list, and not just the last name followed by the initial. The list must contain only the references cited in the text.

Short literal citations (less than three lines) will be integrated into the paragraph, enclosed by quotation marks and followed by author’s last name as mentioned in the text, year of publication and page(s) of the cited text, all enclosed in parentheses and separated by commas. Citations longer than three lines will be highlighted from the text in a special paragraph, in 11-point font, without italics and quotation marks and a indented 4cm form the left margin.

The list of references must follow the ABTN NBR 6023 standard, as shown in the following examples:

a) Book

MOSER, Anita. A nova submissão: mulheres da zona rural no processo de trabalho industrial. Porto Alegre: EDIPAZ, 1985. (Coleção Debate e Crítica).

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

b) Book Chapter

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.

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.

d)Article in Newspapers and Magazines

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

e) Thesis and dissertations

SILVA, Nelson do V. Black-white income differentials in Brazil. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia). Universidade de Michigan, Michigan, 1978.

f) Entry

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.

g) Information from websites and blogs*

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

* The access date is only necessary when dealing with unstable or frequently updated information.

Additional Documents

Along with the manuscript file, the author must submit the following documents:

• Declaration of Authorship and Originality signed by all authors. (Download the declaration either in português or in inglês)
• Title Page properly completed. (Download the Title Page)

Financing Statement

In the acknowledgments, list sources of support for the work, including sponsors’ names, contract numbers (if applicable), along with explanations of the role of these sources.