ISSN 0102-8529 printed version
ISSN 1982-0240 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and Policy
• Manuscript Format and Structure
• Remittance of manuscripts

The editorial policy for Contexto Internacional establishes that the papers should have academic interest and be preferably placed in the thematic area of international relations, foreign affairs or areas alike such as political science, sociology, economics and law.

All the articles will be submitted to the Editorial Council and the Editorial Advisory Board depending on their approval for being published. Any eventual suggestion will be previously discussed with and approved by the author.

Articles are the sole responsibility of their authors. Reproduction is allowed as long as the full reference is given.

Some criteria are of special importance for coming to a decision of which articles and book reviews are about to be published, among the many ones received during the year. Though, they should fulfill the following standards:

- thematic adequacy on the area of knowledge developed by the Journal;
- the theme is up-to-date and relevant, also original in its focus;
- universality of the theme assuring that the papers can reach a non-specialized public;
- consistence of data and sources that base the empirical investigation and theoretic discussion;
- clear and well written argument and methodology of the paper work.

1. Contexto Internacional accepts original manuscripts such as articles and book reviews.  The texts should be of academic interest and relate to the area of International Relations and similar areas of studies.

2. All the articles will be submitted to the Editorial Council and the Editorial Advisory Board depending on their approval for being published. Any eventual suggestion will be previously discussed  and approved by the author.

3. The papers may be sent all over the year by post or email. The format should be in Arial or Times New Roman, size 12, double spacing between lines, margins with 3 cm, and saved in Word for Windows, version 2003 or under.

3.1 The book reviews should have approximately 8 pages (16.800 characters with space) and the articles about 30 pages (63.000 characters with space). They should also present in Portuguese and English the following items:  a) title;  b) 4 key-words; c) an abstract of about 200 words in which should be clear a summary of the proposal, the method employed and the main conclusions of the text; and d) one sentence in Portuguese referring to the articles objective in order to be included in the online version.

3.2 A biographical note must be sent separately and it should include the author's academic degree, the institution where he/she got the degree, the present work and recent publications.

4. Contexto Internacional adopts the rules of the Brazilian association of Technical Norms (ABNT).

5. The quotations in foreign language should be translated to Portuguese. The short quotations (3 lines or less) should be included in the text with quotes and not in italic. The long quotations (more than 3 lines) should be detached and placed with a 4 cm left margin, Arial or Times New Roman, size 10, simple space between lines and no quotes. The reference should be placed right after the quotation and before the punctuation sign.

6. The footnotes should be of substantive nature, having strictly to do with additional commentaries of the text.

7. The bibliographical references, when necessary, should appear in the body of the text, with the inclusion of the author's surname, followed by the year of publication and number of the page, when necessary.

Example 1:
A tese de Hobbes de que valores e normas são uma criação humana, significa, para Johnson, sua sujeição a mudanças e a interpretações pessoais, refletindo apenas um certo arranjo de poder em um certo tempo na história (JOHNSON, 1996, p. 246). O realismo, conclui o autor, ainda é a doutrina mais apta a identificar e analisar os arranjos de poder. Hobbes, no entanto, certamente não concordaria com a ausência de preocupação ética desta leitura de sua obra.

Example 2:
Analisando os ciclos hegemônicos, Fernand Braudel (1998) constatava que, sempre que os lucros do comércio e da produção se acumulavam além dos canais possíveis de investimento, este era um “sinal do outono” (ver DUPAS, 2002). As expansões financeiras daí decorrentes provocavam duas tendências complementares: hiperacumulação e competição intensa por capital. Expansões do comércio e da produção [...], sustentando uma atividade financeira divorciada da produção.

8. At the end of the article, there should be listed the bibliographic references in alphabetical order, observing the following rules:

For books
Author's surname (caps lock), author's first name, book's title (in bold), edition's  issue/number (if it is not the first issue), place of printing, publisher's name, year of publication.
Example: CAMARGO, Sonia de; OCAMPO, José María Vasquez. Autoritarismo e democracia na Argentina e Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Convívio, 1988.

For articles
Author's surname (caps lock), author's first name, article's title, Journal's name (in bold), place of printing, Journal's volume, Journal's issue/number, pages numbers.

Example: HERZ, Mônica. A dimensão cultural das Relações Internacionais e os atores não-governamentais. Contexto Internacional, ano 4, n. 8, p. 69-82, 1988.

For Books Chapters
Author's surname (caps lock), author's first name, title of the chapter, followed by the expression “In:”, Surname of the book's author, initials of the book's author first name, function developed by the book's author in parenthesis and abbreviated, title of the book in bold, place of printing, publisher's name, year of publication, pages of the chapter.

Example: PUTNAM, Robert D. Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of Two-Level Games. In: EVANS, P. B.; JACOBSON, H. K.; Putnam, R. D. (Ed.). Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988-1993. p. 431-468.

For newspaper's articles
Author's surname (caps lock), author's name, article's title, newspaper's name (in bold), city, day, month and year of publication.

Example: MORALES-SOLÁ, Joaquín. La Argentina frente el nuevo orden mundial. La Nación, Buenos Aires, 23 fev. 2003.

For dissertations and thesis
Author's surname (caps lock), author's first name, title of dissertation or thesis, year of presentation, number of pages, type of document (thesis or dissertation), academic institution, place and date of presentation.

Example: SANTANA, Helton R. P. Área de Livre Comércio das Américas (ALCA): determinantes domésticos e política externa brasileira. 2000. 135 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Relações Internacionais) – IRI/PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, 2000.

Paper presented in a seminar
Author's surname (caps lock), author's first name, title of paper presented, followed by the expression “In:”, name of event, number of the event (if there is), year when it happened, city where it happened.

Example: LIMA, Maria Regina Soares de; SANTOS, Fabiano. O Congresso Brasileiro e a política de comércio exterior. In: ENCONTRO DA LATIN-AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (LASA), Chicago, 1998.

Internet Documents
Author's surname (caps lock),  author's first name, title of the document, name of the source in bold, day, month and year of the document, URL address, date when the document was checked.

Example: KHALIL, Ashraf. Iraq’s women see victory in constitution. Middle East Online, 4 mar. 2004. Available in: < http://www.middle- east-online.com/English/?id+9089>. Checked in: 10 mar. 2004.

9. The author will receive three copies of the Journal that come with his/her article published.

All correspondence should be sent to:

Contexto Internacional / Núcleo de Pesquisa e Publicações
Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI/PUC-Rio)
Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 – Vila dos Diretórios, Casa 20 – Gávea
Rio de Janeiro – RJ – 22453-900 – Brasil
E-mail: npp@puc-rio.br
Tel/Fax: (55 21) 3527-1557 / 3527-1558 / 3527-1559 / 3527-1560