I. General Information
1. E-cadernos ces publishes papers resulting from colloquiums, conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as research articles produced within advanced training programmes and scientific research projects, critical reviews and debates. It prioritises the publication of original papers within the social sciences and humanities that contribute to inter/transdisciplinary research and promote international comparisons.
2. Papers presented to e-cadernos ces are subjected to a selection and revision process that ensures the anonymity of the author and reviewer (double blind peer review).
3. E-cadernos ces is a thematic publication. Therefore, the articles presented must bear in mind the programmatic text proposed as published online.
4. The Editorial Committee welcomes proposals for the organization of thematic issues, provided they comprise a minimum of five articles and 100 to 250 pages. When presenting a formal proposal, the Organising Committee of the issue should elaborate a programmatic text and a list of contributions to be included. This text will be used for publishing the call for papers, which will be advertised on the e-cadernos ces website six weeks before the deadline for the presentation of articles. This process will be supervised by a member of the Editorial Committee. It will be the Organising Committee’s responsibility to assemble the proposed contributions and to verify that they comply with e-cadernos ces publication norms, sending them to e-cadernos@ces.uc.pt.
5. E-cadernos ces may include a final section (@-cetera) with two to four contributions, where other articles, debates or unpublished critical reviews will be published. These contributions will also be submitted to peer reviewing.
6. Authors may not simultaneously submit their papers to other journals while being considered for publication in e-cadernos ces.
7. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to publish, or not to publish, the papers submitted to e-cadernos ces, committing themselves to informing the authors, within 90 days, of the decision reached as well as its justification. This decision generally requires consulting renowned experts in relevant areas.
8. The Editorial Committee may suggest that authors reduce or make changes to their papers. Once the final text is accepted, alterations will not be allowed.
9. The published texts are the responsibility of the respective authors.
10. Reproduction rights of the texts are e-cadernos ces property, except for exceptional cases, to be evaluated by the Editorial Committee.
II. Recommendations for Authors
1. All original articles submitted for thematic issues must be presented in their definitive version, in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The articles may be long (up to 70 thousand characters) or short (between 20 and 35 thousand characters, including notes and bibliographic references).
2. In the final section (@-cetera), two to four contributions will be published. Authors may submit articles (up to 35 thousand characters), debates (up to 25 thousand characters) or unpublished critical reviews (about 5 thousand characters).
3. In order to protect anonymity, the author’s name must only be included on the front page of the document, where the name of the institution with which s/he is currently affiliated should also feature. No other reference to the author’s identity will be made in the text body, headers or footnotes.
4. Articles must be accompanied by five keywords and an abstract in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The abstract must not exceed 900 characters, including the article’s title, which must not exceed 15 words.
5. The papers must be sent by e-mail (e-cadernos@ces.uc.pt) in Word for Mac or WinWord. The articles must be presented in font Arial 11, 1.5 line spaced, with 3 cm borders (left) and 2.5 cm (right, top and bottom).
III. Preparing the Manuscript
Formatting
1. The article must be numbered using Arabic numeration.
2. The text must be presented as running text, without spaces between paragraphs and without a special format.
3. Tables, graphs or figures must be inserted separately, on the last pages of the document in Roman numeration and with sufficient quality for their reproduction. The text must indicate where the respective contents should be placed (e.g.: insert Table IV ‘about here’). It is the authors’ responsibility to obtain copy right.
4. Epigraphs, when used, must be of reduced length.
5. Footnote numbers and length should be kept to a minimum. The notes must be seriated and included in the respective footer.
6. Numbers remitting to footnotes must be superscript, after the punctuation mark (e.g.: as may easily be confirmed.3).
7. Remissions from one page of the article to another should use usual Latin expressions (cf. supra, cf. infra, always in italics) and written in full.
Quotations
1. All quotations from foreign language texts must be translated, except for special cases where the original quote may be kept.
2. Short-length quotations (2-3 lines) must be incorporated in the text, in double inverted commas (“ ”). Quotations within another quotation should be marked with simple inverted commas (‘ ’). Longer quotations should be indented, printed in a smaller font than that of the text and without inverted commas.
3. Interpolations should be identified by square brackets [ ].
4. Omissions should be marked by ellipsis contained by square brackets [ ... ].
Bibliographic References
1. Bibliographic references must always be made in the text body, in abbreviated form, between brackets, i.e. the author’s last surname, publication date and, where applicable, page number (following colon). In the case of an indirect quotation, these indications are preceded by the word apud.
Examples:
Only one author: (Santos, 2006: 17 ss.).
Two authors: (Reis and Baganha, 2001).
Three or more authors: (Nunes et al., 2006).
Indirect quotation: (apud Tavares, 2005: 7).
2. At the end, in alphabetical order, the complete list will be included under the title “Bibliographic References”, with the authors’ surnames, the works referred to in the course of the text (and only these). In the case of two authors, the names must be separated by ‘and’ (e.g.: Bebiano, Rui and Estanque, Elísio (2007)). In the case of three or more authors, only the first one should be indicated, followed by the abbreviation et al. The first name(s) of the author(s) must never be abbreviated (ex.: Fortuna, Carlos, and not Fortuna, C.). The publishing house should also be indicated. In references to articles in journals or chapters of collected works, the pages of the text quoted must always be indicated. References must strictly follow the sample models presented:
Books:
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2006), A gramática do tempo. Para uma nova cultura política. Porto: Afrontamento.
Collections:
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (Ed.) (2007), Another Knowledge is Possible. Beyond Northern Epistemologies. London: Verso.
Reis, José (2001), “A globalização como metáfora da perplexidade? Os processo geoeconómicos e o ‘simples’ funcionamento dos sistemas complexos”, in Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Ed.), Globalização: Fatalidade ou utopia?. Porto: Afrontamento, 109-134.
Journals:
Ribeiro, António Sousa (2002), "As Humanidades como Utopia", Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 63, 201-209.
Or, in the case where a volume and number is indicated:
Hespanha, Pedro (2002), "Observing cities’ social inequalities: a cartographic case study of Aveiro, Portugal", Cities, 20 (4), 211-25. [in this case: volume 20, number 4].
If there are two or more references to the same author and the same year, the letters a, b, etc. must be added to the date. Examples:
Ramalho, Maria Irene (org.) (2004a), Poesia do mundo: antologia bilingue Vol. IV. Viseu: Palimage Editores.
Ramalho, Maria Irene (2004b), "The Accidental Bridge: Hart Crane’s Theory of the Lyric", in Michael Hinds and Stephen Matterson (eds.), The American Poetry Book. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi.
The edition consulted should always be referred to. The date of the first edition may also be indicated, but only if considered relevant. It must feature at the end of the reference, between straight brackets. Example: [5th ed. 1948].
In the case of on-line publications, besides the author’s name, the title and url address, the date when the document was accessed must be indicated. Example:
MTSS (2007), Livro Branco das Relações Laborais. Accessed on September 2nd, 2008, at http://www.mtss.gov.pt/docs/LivroBrancoDigital.pdf.
III. Review of Articles
1. The review of final papers must be carried out using the text edition tool “track changes” available in Winword and Word for Mac, in order to aid reviewers and editors locate changes when reading reviewed texts.
2. Texts accepted for publication must include a short biographical note (between 3 to 5 lines) at the end of the article, before the bibliographic references, as well as the e-mail address, to be made available for contact with the author.
