Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

I. Nature of the texts

The e-Letras Com Vida: Journal of Global Studies — Humanities, Sciences and Arts accepts proposals for the publication of thematic and multithematic articles, and critical readings.

The texts may be submitted in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, or Italian, and, in exceptional cases, the Board may decide to publish them in another language.

 

II. Submission of texts

The texts must be submitted on the digital platform http://www.e-lcv.online/index.php/revista/about/submissions. For this purpose, authors must observe the following steps:

1) To register at http://www.e-lcv.online/index.php/revista/user/register.
2) After the registration, they must authenticate on the journal's portal at http://www.e-lcv.online/index.php/revista/login.
The registration and subsequent access, through login and password, are mandatory for the submission of texts, as well as for monitoring the editorial process in progress.
3) After accessing the journal's portal, click on the SUBMISSIONS button and then on NEW SUBMISSION.
4) Then, they must fill in the form fields:
a. to choose the section of the journal in which they want to submit the article; to write, if relevant, some comments to the editor;
b. to transfer the manuscript;
c. to insert metadata (title and subtitle; abstract; author and keywords);
d. lastly, to complete the submission.

Articles must always include a short abstract in Portuguese (or in the language of the text) and in English (up to 700 characters without spaces) and four keywords, in the same languages.
Images, tables, etc. (if any), should be included in the text, and sent by email (revistaletrascomvida@gmail.com), in TIF or JPEG format (with a minimum quality of 300 dpi).

 

III. Guidelines for the submission of texts

a) Format: the texts must be sent in Word software with the following format:

  • Page size - A4;
  • Margin size - normal (2.5 cm at the top and bottom margins and 3 cm at the right and left edges);
  • Font - Times New Roman;
  • Font size - 12;
  • Space between lines - 1,5;
  • Paragraph spacing - 0;
  • Title - bold, centred, and letter size 14;
  • Authorship - after the title, in bold, right-aligned, font size 12;
  • Abstracts - the word «Abstract» in bold, font size 11, followed by colon (:) and keywords, separated by semi-colon (;) - font size 11, justified, spacing 1,15, first word with capital letter;
  • Epigraphs: if they exist, they should be highlighted (8 cm indented at the left), font size 11, spacing 1,15, without quotation marks and with a footnote to indicate the complete bibliographic reference.
  • Institutional affiliation - in footnote (for the University of Lisbon, the respective standards published in Diário da República must be followed: Despacho no. 234/2016, DR, 2nd Series, no. 4, January 7, 2016). Example: CLEPUL, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.
  • Subtitles - if they exist, they should be numbered (arabic numerals), at left, font size 12, in bold;
  • Page numbering - in the lower right corner;
  • Captions of images, tables, etc. (if any) - immediately below the image or corresponding table, font size 10, justified;
  • Footnotes - end-of-page, small size, justified text, Times New Roman, font size 10, with single spacing between the lines.

b)  Number of pages: Each article should not exceed 15 pages (including abstract and notes); critical readings should not exceed 1500 words.

c) Quotations: quotations that exceed three lines should be highlighted (with 2 cm indented at left), font size 11, spacing 1.15. In these cases, no quotation marks should be applied.

d) Critical readings: they must be preceded by the complete bibliographical reference of the work, according to the norms described below, and at the end of the reference the number of pages of the work enumerated must be added.

 

IV. Other standards

a) Orthographic Agreement: as a rule, texts must be presented according to the current Portuguese Orthographic Agreement (1990), and are subject to revision in case their spelling is not updated (except when the author expresses the desire to keep the former orthografic rules).

b) Uppercase and lowercase: the norms of the 1990 Orthographic Agreement are followed and, in cases where they allow double spelling, the author must use uppercases, namely in:

- holy names (Saint Isabel);
- in the names that refer to fields of knowledge (Philosophy, History, Classical Languages ​​and Literatures);
- in words used in categorization of public places (street names), temples and buildings (Church of S. Domingos, Tibães Monastery);
- in the forms of addressing and reverence (Pope Francis, Mr. João Antunes)

Book titles: the first word in capital letter, and the following should be written in lowercase, except for the cases mentioned above, in cases where the rule requires the use of initial uppercases, periodical titles (uppercases) and titles in English (uppercase initials).

c) Numerals: written in full from 1 to 9, and in numerals from ten on. In the case of ordinal numbers, they should be presented in the following format: 2nd.

d) Abbreviations (open list)

We present some abbreviations that should be used in bibliographical references:

art. (article)
b. (bundle of documents)
cf. (confer/compare)
chap. (chapter of books)
cit. (opus citatum)
col. (column) / cols. (columns)
coord. (coordinator) / coords. (coordinators)
ed. (edition or editor) / eds. (editors)
exp. (expanded edition)
ff. (following pages)
fl. (folio) / fls. (folios)
f.n. (footnote)
introd. (introduction)
n.º (number) / nos. (numbers)
n.d. (no date)
n.n. (no name)
n.p. (no place)
off. (offprint)
org. (organization or organizer) / orgs. (organizers)
p. (page) / pp. (pages)
rev. (revised edition)
sel. (selection)
suppl. (supplement)
t. (tome) / ts. (tomes)
trans. (translation)
vol. (volume) / vols. (volumes)

e) Quotation marks: «angular quotation marks» shall be used. When there are quotation marks inside a quotation, ”curved quotes” shall be used. If necessary, ‘single curved quotes' shall be used. Order for the use of quotation marks: « _“ _ ‘_’_”_»

f) Brackets: The [angular brackets] should always be used in the cited texts, in cases of suspension or alteration of the text - [...]

g) Dash: This dash is always used —

 

V. Norms for bibliographic reference in the body of the text

In the context of citation, the bibliographic reference must appear in the body of the text, using the model (author last name, date: page), reserving the complete reference for the final bibliography.

- If the quotation is preceded in the body of the text by the name of the author and title of the work, the reference should include only the number of pages in parentheses.

- When there are two authors, the last name of both should be used, separated by and, but if there are more than two authors, only the first author name should be used, followed by et al. Example: (Cunha and Cintra, 1996: 17), (Santos et al., 1997).

- When there is a need to quote more than one work for the same idea, all necessary references must be used, separated from each other by (;). Example: (Flores et al., 1988; Winograd, 1986; Cunha and Cintra, 1996).

 

VI. Bibliography

- The word “Bibliography” appears in full, aligned to the left, with capital letter and in bold.

- Bibliographic references are separated by ; (semicolon).

- When necessary, the bibliography is subdivided into manuscript, printed and digital.

 

Presentation of bibliographic references:

The standards listed below are adapted from the APA - American Psychological Association (http://www.apastyle.org). For this purpose, we follow the model presented at https://www.uc.pt/fcdef/documentosbiblioteca/Bibliotecadigital/Normas.

a) Start the 1st line of each reference at the left margin of the page, and advance 3 spaces in the following lines.

b) The listing must be arranged in alphabetical order of the last name of the first author. When referring to more than one work by the same author, they should be listed in order of publication date, starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent, repeating the author's name in each publication.

c) When there is more than one work by the same author, whose year of publication is the same, it is listed in the bibliography in alphabetical order of the title, adding a lowercase letter to the year to prevent any confusion.

d) Reverse the names of all authors in each reference, placing the last name first and using only the initials of the other names.

e) When there is more than one author, the names of all authors must be used, and the name of the last author must be preceded by and.

f) The date of the publication is after the author's name, between brackets, followed by the book or article title.

g) In bibliographical references of books, use uppercase only in the first letter of the title, in the first letter of the subtitle, where it exists, as well as in proper names. Use italics for the whole title of the book.

h) In the bibliographic reference of articles in periodicals or in edited volumes, use uppercase only in the first letter of the title, in the first letter of the subtitle, where it exists, as well as in proper names. A period should be used after the article title.

i) Place the name of the periodical after the title of the article, use italics for the whole of its title and start each name of the title with a uppercase letter.

j) In references to periodicals, a Arabic numbered volume should be provided in bold, followed by the pages relating to that article, separated by hyphen (Example: 34: 120-128).

k) In the case of legislation, the reference should begin with the identification of the legal diploma. Example: Decree Law no. 238/98 of 1 August. Diário da República 176/98 - I Series A. Ministry of the Environment. Lisbon.

 

Examples

Books by a single author:

Costa, J. (1995). Caracterização e constituição do Solo. 5th ed., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisboa.

Books by various authors:

Cunha, C. and Cintra, L. (1996). Breve gramática do Português contemporâneo. 9th ed., Edições Sá da Costa. Lisboa.

Ferreira, J.C., Strecht, A., Ribeiro, J.R., Soeiro, A. and Cotrim, G. (1999). Manual de agricultura biológica — Fertilização e protecção das plantas para uma agricultura sustentável. 2nd ed., AGROBIO. Lisboa.

Various works by a single author:

Santos, J.Q. (1995). Fertilização e poluição: Reciclagem agro–florestal de resíduos orgânicos. Self published. Lisboa.

Santos, J.Q. (1996a). Fertilização — Fundamentos da utilização dos adubos e correctivos. 2nd ed.. Publicações Europa-América. Lisboa.

Santos, J.Q. (1996b). [Other book published in the same year by the same author.]

 Publication by a collective institution:

Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing (1997). Código de Boas Práticas Agrícolas para a protecção da água contra a poluição com nitratos de origem agrícola. MADRP. Lisboa.

Legislation:

Portaria no. 809/90, September 10. Diário da República no. 209/90 — Series I. Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing. Lisboa.

NP 405-1 (1994). Norma Portuguesa para referências bibliográficas: Documentos impressos. Instituto Português da Qualidade, Ministério da Industria e Energia. Lisboa.

Article from a collection (compilation of works under the responsibility of one or various editors):


Silko, L.M. (1991). The man to send rain clouds. Em: W. Brown and A. Ling (eds.), Imagining America: Stories from the promised land. Persea. New York.

 Article from a scientific journal:

Ramírez, P.M., Castro, E. and Ibáñez, J.H. (2001). Reutilização de águas residuais depuradas provenientes da ETAR de Albacete (S.E. Espanha) em campos hortícolas. Tecnologias do Ambiente. 44: 48-51.

Sadiq. M. and Alam, I. (1997). Lead contamination of groundwater in an industrial complex. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 98: 167-177.

 References to articles published in books of proceedings:

Arroja, L., Oliveira, G. and Capela, I. (1999). Contribuição para a descontaminação de solos — Metodologias de implementação. Actas da 6a Conferência Nacional sobre a Qualidade do Ambiente. Centro de Congressos da AIP, Lisboa. 2ndVolume. pp. 607- 616.

Champ, D.R. and Schroeter, J. (1988). Bacterial transport in fractured rock. In: Olsen, B.H. & Jenkins, D. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Water and Wastewater Microbiology, Newport Beach, USA, 8-11 February 1988. pp. 81-87.

 Masters or doctoral theses:

Horta-Monteiro, M.C.S.M. (1994). Utilização de Água Residual Urbana na Cultura d Azevém (Lolium multiflorum Lam.). Masters thesis in Vegetal Nutrition, Soil Fertility and Fertilization. Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Universidad Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa. 150 pp. 7.

Tingle, C.C.D. (1985). Biological control of the glasshouse mealybug using parasitic hymenoptera. Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Biological Sciences, Wye College, University of London. 375 pp.

 Newspaper article or from a non scientific periodical:

Barringer, F. (1993, March 7). Where many elderly live, signs of the future. The New York Times, p. 12.

Trillin, C. (1993, February 15). Culture Shopping. The New Yorker, pp. 48-51.

CD-ROM:

Moore, K. and Collins M. (eds.). (1997). Forages. [CD-ROM]. 5th ed. Iowa State Univ. Press: Ames.

West, C. (1987). The dilemma of the black intellectual. [CD-ROM]. Critical Quaterly, 29: 39-52. SilverPlatter File: MLA international.

 Electronic bibliographical references:

Article from the Internet but also in print:

VandenBos, G., Knapp, S. and Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology undergraduates [Electronic version]. Journal of Bibliographic Research, 5: 117-123. Accessed in October 13, 2001, in: http://jbr.org/articles.html.

 Article of a periodical publication only available online:

Fredrickson, B.L. (2000, March 7). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3, Article 0001a. Accessed in November 20, 2000, in: http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/pre0030001a.html.

 Document available online in the website of a University, institution or corporation:


Chou, L., McClintock, R., Moretti, F. and Nix, D.H. (1993). Technology and education: New wine in new bottles — Choosing pasts and imagining educational futures. Accessed in August 24, 2000, in the website of: Columbia University, Institute for Learning Technologies: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/papers/newwine1.html.

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (2003). Índices de Preços na Produção Industrial. Accessed in November 24, 2003, in: http://www.ine.pt.

 

VII. Assessment of texts

A first evaluation is made by the directors of the journal and by the Board of Directors. The texts are then submitted to the critical evaluation of expert Referees, and all information that allows the identification of the author is removed, in order to guarantee maximum objectivity and impartiality. Authors will be contacted if their texts are not accepted or for clarification of any issues.

 

VIII. Publishing rights

The authors grant to e-Letras Com Vida the right to publish their texts in open access digital media.