Submissions

Author Guidelines

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) in published manuscripts

• All works approved, upon their final publication in Civitas: Revista de Ciências Sociais, will receive their Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/about/submissions

Types of Accepted Documents 

Civitas: Revista de Ciências Sociais publishes original/unpublished works in the form of articles or reviews in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Each year, a call for thematic dossiers is announced on the journal’s website, and three proposals are selected to compose the annual issue. Submissions for dossiers must be made within the deadlines previously established and announced on the Civitas website and social media. Reviews are accepted only when linked to a thematic dossier. Individual articles are received on a continuous submission basis.

Author Contributions

Authors grant the journal the right of first publication and retain copyright of their work under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is properly cited. Below is an example of how to properly attribute credit to the journal:

“This text was written by [Author’s Name], originally published in [Link to the original text, if applicable], and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).”

When a submitted text has more than one author, each contributor must complete a statement including:

• title of the text; names of co-authors;
• identification of the co-author: name, nationality, identity document, full address;
• description of their specific contribution to: 1) research conception and design; 2) data collection and processing; 3) data analysis and interpretation; 4) detailed account of their contribution to the preparation of the final text.
• statement approving the final version and assuming ethical and academic co-responsibility for the entire content;
• place, date, and signature.

This document must be attached in PDF format as a supplementary file.

Manuscript Preparation 

The submission must be original and unpublished and must not be under evaluation for publication by another journal.

The maximum number of authors per article is three. Only one submission per author is accepted for each call for papers, whether for a thematic dossier or for the Articles section.

Authors whose work has been published must observe an interval of 18 months from the date of publication before submitting a new article.

Author information must be entered in the “Contributors” tab, including the following data: full name; email; ORCID; institution; and academic qualifications.

At submission, it is mandatory to upload the title page and the AI usage declaration, according to the templates available here. When applicable, the co-authorship declaration must also be submitted, in accordance with the guidelines provided below.

Submission Format for Articles 

Articles in Portuguese, Spanish, or English must be submitted in anonymized form, as continuous text in an open format, preferably Word.

The submitted article must not exceed 45,000 characters (including spaces). This character count includes titles, abstracts, and keywords in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, the main text, notes, and references. Below the title (in Portuguese, Spanish, and English), there must be an abstract of up to 1,000 characters (in Portuguese, Spanish, and English), summarizing the objectives, methods, and conclusions of the work, as well as a list of 3 to 5 keywords, separated by periods and with the first letter capitalized.

Reviews must not exceed 15,000 characters including spaces.

Text highlights, such as author emphasis, words in a foreign language, and titles of works, should be in italics. Notes, when indispensable, should appear as footnotes, be brief and substantive, numbered sequentially, and without specific formatting.

Citations of up to three lines should be enclosed in double quotation marks and included within the body of the text. Citations exceeding three lines should be indented and presented in a separate paragraph, with a 4 cm indentation and smaller font size. Citations must include the author’s name, the year of the work, and the page numbers.

Graphs, images, and tables must be submitted as separate files.

Internal fonts must be standardized and of sufficient size to ensure readability.

Graphs, figures, and tables must not contain titles, source information, or notes within them. Titles should precede them and appear only in the textual part. Data sources and notes should be placed immediately below, in a smaller font size.

Tables must not use vertical dividing lines. The layout should have a background and horizontal black lines. 

Throughout the text, references to figures or tables should be written in lowercase and in full. When in parentheses, references to figures may be abbreviated, for example, fig. 1.

It is mandatory that graphs and tables (in Word format) be attached at the time of submission.

Digital Assets

Graphs, figures, and tables must be submitted as separate files (in step 4 of the submission process, “Upload Supplementary Files”). Images must be in high-resolution PNG or JPEG format, not exceeding 1.5 megabytes, and may be in color. In the final layout, graphic elements must not exceed the journal’s page dimensions (16.5 × 11.5 cm). Sequential numbering and titles, as well as data sources, must be included in the text as placeholders.

Internal fonts must be standardized and of sufficient size to ensure readability.

Graphs, figures, and tables must not contain titles, source information, or notes within them. Titles should precede them and appear only in the text. Data sources and notes should be placed immediately after them, in a smaller font size.

All graph axes must be labeled so that the information is understandable without reference to the text. 

Tables must not include vertical dividing lines. Their layout should have a white background and horizontal black lines only. 

Graphs, figures, and tables must be in high-resolution JPEG or PNG format, not exceeding 1.5 megabytes, with a resolution of 300 DPI.

Throughout the text, references to “figure X” or “table X” must always be written in lowercase and in full. When in parentheses, references to figures may be abbreviated, as in “(fig. 1)”.

It is essential that graphs and tables (in Word format) be attached to the system at the time of submission as supplementary files.

Citações e Referências

Civitas follows the Chicago style, 17th edition. www.chicagomanualofstyle.org. Chicago - General Rules.

References are cited within the text according to the following format: (Author year, xx) or (Author1 year, xx; Author2 year, xx). When there is more than one work by the same author in the same year, it should be distinguished by sequential letters of the alphabet. Example: (Author 1998a; 1998b) or, when page numbers are indicated, (Author 2020, 33).

The reference list is presented at the end of the work, in alphabetical order and without numbering, following the Chicago author-date style, 17th edition. Examples:

1. a) book: Surname, Name. Year. Title in italics. Edition. Publisher.

Example with 1 author: Fernandes, Florestan. 1987. A revolução burguesa no Brasil: ensaio de uma interpretação sociológica. 3rd ed. Editora Guanabara.

Example with 2 authors: Baraldi, Claudio, and Tom Cocburn. 2018. Theorising childhood: citizens, rights and participation. Palgrave.

1. b) chapter: Surname, Name. Year. Title of the chapter. In Title of the book in italics, edited by Name Surname. Publisher.

Example with 1 author: McCarthy, Thomas. 1992. Practical discourse: on the relation of morality to politics. In Habermas and the public sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun. The Mit Press.

Example with 3 authors: Sarmento, Manuel, Rita Marchi e Gabriela Trevisan. 2018. Beyond the modern 'norm' of childhood: children at the margins as a challenge for the Sociology of Childhood. In Theorising childhood: citizens, rights and participation, organized by Claudio Baraldi e Tom Cocburn. Palgrave.

1. c) article in academic journal: Surname, Name. Year. Title of the article. Title of the journal in italics year-or-volume (n. number-or-issue): xx-yy. DOI link.

Example with 1 author: Benhabib, Seyla. 2012. O declínio da soberania ou a emergência de normas cosmopolitanas? Repensando a cidadania em tempos voláteis. Civitas 12 (1): 20-46.

Example with 4 authors: Castro Seixas, Eunice, Catarina Tomás, Maria Fernandes e Niccolò Giacchetta.2022. The impact of Covid-19 on children’s play in the tourist city: a case study of a Lisbon urban park. Children Youth and Environments 32(1): 152-172. https://doi.org/10.1353/cye.2022.0006

1. d) Dissertation or thesis: Surname, Name. Title of the dissertation or thesis. Thesis in Sociology, in Education etc./Dissertation in Education, in Political Science, in History etc., University, year.

Ex.: Souza, Luiz Gustavo da Cunha. 2014. Reconhecimento, redistribuição e as limitações da teoria crítica contemporânea. Thesis in Sociology, Universidade de Campinas. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280479.

1. e) blogs and similar: Surname, Name. Year of the post. Title of the post. Name of the blog (blog), Title of the page if any. Date of the post. URL.

Ex.: Candido, Antonio. 2019. O significado de Raízes do Brasil. Café com Sociologia, 3 jan. 2019. Accessed on 23 jan. 2020. https://cafecomsociologia.com/o-significado-de-raizes-do-brasil-por/.

1. g) newspapers and magazines: Surname, Name. Year. Title of the article. Title of the newspaper or magazine, date of publication, pages or section. URL if online.

Ex.: Saldaña, Paulo. 2019. Apenas 0,8% dos brasileiros de 25 a 64 anos concluíram curso de mestrado. Folha de S. Paulo, 10 set. 2019, Educação. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/educacao/2019/09/acesso-a-mestrado-no-brasil-e-16-vezes-menor-do-que-em-paises-ricos.shtml.

All literature must be submitted to verification of the existence of DOI at http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery

When the URL is long, we recommend shortening it. There are several sites on Google that do this.

Supplementary Documents

Open Science Compliance Form, author agreement form, declaration for multiple authors.

Funding Statement

Sources of support for the work, including sponsor names, contract number (if applicable), and explanations of the role of these sources must be provided in the field available on the title page, according to the template. If necessary, this information may also be included in the text, in a footnote.

Additional Information

Originality and novelty

By submitting the manuscript, authors ensure that the work has not been previously published and is not under review by another journal. At the time of submission, authors assume responsibility for not using false or copied data. Plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, manipulation of citations, and false authorship will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Literal copying of previously published excerpts is not acceptable, except in exceptional cases, in the form of citation. Civitas uses similarity detection software: copied texts will be identified, and the work will be returned to the authors. Illustrations and graphs from other sources must be properly credited or accompanied by permission from their copyright holders, if applicable.

Correction of errors and retractions

After publication, authors must notify the editor if any error is identified, in order to publish an erratum, addendum, or notice. If editors are informed of any allegation of misconduct, they will handle the claims appropriately. Civitas follows COPE guidelines to retract or correct articles. Editors are willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary. Appropriate measures will be taken to identify and prevent the publication of works with errors or ethical misconduct in research.

Confidentiality

The article submitted for evaluation is a privileged document and will be protected against any form of exploitation. Members of the editorial team and reviewers are instructed not to cite an article before it is published and not to distribute or use the information it contains to advance their own research. During the review process, the article must not be shown to or discussed with others, and no one else should be involved in the review, except, in special cases, individuals who may provide a specific opinion. In such cases, the reviewer remains responsible for ensuring the confidentiality of the file. The reviewer must inform the editor of others who have made significant contributions to the review.