ISSN 0103-166X printed version
ISSN 1982-0275 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Presentation
• Article categories
• Authorship
• Manuscript judgment process
• Conflict of interests
• Formats and preparation of manuscripts
• Submission of manuscripts
• Checklist
• Documents

Estudos de Psicologia  (Studies in Psychology) is a quarterly journal published by the Post-Graduation Psychology program of the Life Sciences Center at the Catholic University of Campinas  (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas). Founded in 1983, it is classified as A-National in the Qualis list and is indexed in the national and international databases SciELO, Lilacs, Latindex, Clase, PsycINFO and Index Psi.

Estudos de Psicologia invites contributions from the national and international scientific community and is distributed to readers all over Brazil and also in several other countries. To ensure that the studies receive both national and international coverage, the aim is for the number of articles from authors in institutions in the state of São Paulo to correspond to 40% of the total, with the remainder preferably earmarked for the works of authors in other states and regions of the country, or from overseas.

Original work is accepted covering all types of research, in any field of Psychology, which aim to encourage and disseminate scientific and technical knowledge in the areas of psychology as well as to discuss the significance of practices employed in both the professional and research fields, by means of the publication of original material in the following categories:

- Research report: original articles based on empirical data, comprising a maximum of twenty pages, including tables, figures, charts and references;

- Review article: critical review of literature dealing with themes pertinent to psychology, leading to the challenging of existing models and to the construction of hypotheses for future research, comprising a maximum of twenty pages, including tables, figures, charts and references;

- Clinical article, case study: articles of interest which introduce an element of originality. They should illustrate clinical, laboratory and evolutionary aspects of interest, comprising a maximum of fifteen pages, including tables, figures, charts and references.

- Communication: brief text synthetically listing the research along with an opinion about any relevant matters, comprising a maximum of ten pages;

- Book Reviews: critical analysis and interpretation of books published in the last two years in Psychology, with a maximum limit of five pages;

- Information Bulletin: information concerning scientific events, research in progress, dissertation and thesis defenses.

Authors shall accept full responsibility for their contributions, and must observe the recommendations of the Federal Council of Psychology and the National Health Council.

The original material shall be submitted, without the name(s) of the author(s), to two members of the Editorial Council of the journal Estudos de Psicologia, or to two ad hoc consultants among specialists in the respective subject matter. Two favorable opinions are required for final acceptance for publication. In the event of any disagreement, the original documents shall be sent to an additional consultant for further evaluation.

The identity of the authors of the opinions shall be kept in strictest confidence. A decision on whether the study is to be accepted or refused will be communicated to the authors. Work receiving recommendations for alteration shall be passed back to the authors for the appropriate corrections to be made, together with any opinions issued, and should be returned within a maximum period of twenty days.

 The editors shall always have the final decision whether or not to publish the manuscript. Minor alterations to the text may be made by the journal's Editorial Council, in accordance with internal operating criteria and standards.

Copies: typographical copies will be sent to the others for correction of printing errors. The copies should return to the Núcleo de Editoração on the stipulated deadline. Other changes in the original manuscript will not be accepted during this phase.

Should any conflict of interest arise on the part of the reviewers, the Editorial Committee shall pass the manuscript to another ad hoc reviewer.

Estudos de Psicologia adopts the standards of publication employed by the American Psychological Association – APA (5th edition, 2002). The originals shall be typed in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. All original documents must include the title and abstract in both Portuguese and English.

Every initial submission to the journal should be accompanied by a letter signed by all the authors, authorizing publication and indicating acceptance of the journal's guidelines.

The declaration should contain a statement that the study has not been presented, in its entirety, in any other media, as well as the authorization and/or rights granted by third parties, where figures, tables or passages (more than 200 words) produced by other authors, are transcribed. Mention should also be made of any funding connections or agreements between the authors and institutions which may have a vested interest in the original documents being published.

In order to submit the article for evaluation by the Editorial Council of Estudos de Psicologia, the authors should send four paper copies of the printed manuscripts to the journal's Publishing Center, double spaced, and accompanied by a copy on diskette or CD-ROM. The file should be typed using a text editor similar or superior to Word (Windows) version 97-2003. The name of the author and filename should be marked on the label of the diskette or CD-ROM.

Of the four copies mentioned in the previous paragraph, three should not include the identity of the authors, so that the evaluation may be conducted in confidentiality; but for this detail, however, they must be complete and identical to the original. It is essential that the article does not contain any means of identifying the authorship, including any reference to previous studies by the same author(s), the institution of origin etc.

The text should comprise 10 to 20 pages, in Arial font, size 11. The sheets should be numbered starting with the cover page, which should display page number 1. The size of the paper must be A4, with formatted top and bottom margins (at least 2.5cm), and left and right margins (at least 3cm).

- Reformulated version

Three complete copies of the reformulated version should be submitted, in paper form, and on labeled diskette or CD-ROM, showing the submission reference number, version number, names of the authors and the filename.

Modifications should be highlighted in blue, along with a letter to the editor, repeating their interest in having the work published in this journal and advising of the alterations processed on the manuscript. If there is any disagreement with the consultants' recommendations, the author(s) should present the arguments justifying their position. The manuscript's title and code must be specified. If the study is a joint collaboration, the letter should be signed by all the authors. An authorization should also be sent for the publication of the abstracts in English and Portuguese, and also for the whole study for the online version of the Estudos de Psicologia journal.

The study should contain the following elements, observing the order suggested below:

- Cover page identifying the authors, containing:

• Full title in Portuguese: It should be concise and avoid the use of superfluous and/or redundant verbiage, such as "evaluation of..." "considerations in respect of ..." "An exploratory study of...";
• Suggestion for an abbreviated title for the header, not exceeding five words;
• Full title in English, consistent with the Portuguese title;
• Name of each author, in full, followed by their institutional affiliation. Do not abbreviate the given names.
• All data in respect of title and affiliation should appear in full, and not in the form of an acronym.
• Note of the full addresses of all universities with which the authors are associated;
• Note of addresses for correspondence with the editor for the processing of the originals, including fax, telephone and email address;
• If necessary, provide a note on any updates to institutional affiliation;
• Include a footnote containing details of financial support, acknowledgments for the collaboration of colleagues and experts, in a paragraph not exceeding three lines. This paragraph should also provide information on the origins of the study and other information considered to be relevant, such as, if the work has previously been presented at an event, if it originates from a thesis or dissertation, if data collection was conducted in an institution different from that recorded as being the authors' institution of origin etc.

- Separate sheet containing the abstract in Portuguese

The abstract should contain a minimum of 100 and a maximum of 150 words, that is, between five and ten lines. It is expressly forbidden to use acronyms and citations. At the end, it should list between three and five keywords, which precisely describe the contents of the study, in accordance with the APA Thesaurus, in order to facilitate its indexation. These words should be composed in uppercase and separated by a period. The abstract should include a brief reference to the problem under investigation, sample attributes, data collection methodology, results and conclusions. Only digests may dispense with abstracts.

- Separate sheet containing the abstract in English

The abstract should be compatible with the text in the Portuguese synopsis. It should follow the same criteria, and be accompanied by keywords which are consistent with the Portuguese keywords.

- Organization of the work

 The text of any work submitted for publication should be clearly organized with titles and subtitles which facilitate its reading. For the research reports, the text must comprise introduction, methodology, results and discussion.

- Illustrations

Tables, charts and figures should be limited to five, in total, and should be numbered consecutively and independently, in Arabic numerals, according to the order in which the data is mentioned. They should appear on individual, separate sheets of paper, with an indication as to their location within the text. A brief title should be assigned to each.

The author shall be responsible for the quality of the figures (drawings, illustrations and graphs), which should be capable of reduction without loss of definition, to a size of one or two columns (7cm and 15cm, respectively). Landscape format is not allowed. Digital figures should contain the file extension jpeg and have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

The words Figure, Table, Appendix appearing in the text should be written with the first letter in uppercase and be accompanied by the number (Figures, Tables and Appendices) to which they refer. The suggested location for the insertion of figures and tables should be indicated in the text. The titles should be concise. Provide information of the physical location and year of the study.

The cost of publishing any color images shall be borne by the author(s).

Should the author(s) demonstrate an interest, Estudos de Psicologia will arrange for a quotation of the costs involved, which may vary according to the number of images, their distribution across different pages and the accompanying publication of color material by the other author(s).

Once the author(s) receive(s) the quotation for the corresponding cost of materials in which he/they may be interested, he/they should make a bank deposit. Account information will be provided at the appropriate juncture.

- References and citations in the text

The articles should contain around thirty references, except in the case of review articles, which may include approximately fifty. They should be shown in alphabetical order, according to the main author's last name.

Where the last name is identical, work created by individual authors should precede the works of multiple authors. In the case of works where the first-named author is the same, but the co-authors are different, the co-authors' last names constitute the criteria for the alphabetical order. Works by the same authors should appear in date order, starting with the earliest work.

Works by the same authors and with the same date should be listed by the alphabetical order of their title.

The formatting of the references should facilitate the task of reviewing and editing; for this purpose, in addition to having a spacing of 1.5 between lines and a font size of 11, the paragraph should be normal, without indent and without offset margins.

The titles of periodicals should be reproduced in full. Citations/references from end of graduate course treatises, abstracts from, inter alia, Congresses, Symposiums, Workshops, Meetings will not be accepted. Unpublished texts (examples, classes, inter alia), should be avoided. Italic font should be used for emphasis. In the body of the text, denotations should be made as follows: (surname of author(s), year of publication), and should be consistent with information contained in the references.

In cases where the cited works were not consulted at source (secondary citation), this should be mentioned in the body of the text in the following manner: (surname of original author, apud surname of author read, date). In the references, only cite the work which was consulted, together with the date.

In the case of earlier citations, which have been superseded by newer editions, the citation should include the two dates, namely that of the original work and that of the edition read by the author.

The citation of articles by multiple authors should be treated as follows:

- Article with two authors: cite both authors whenever the article is referred to;

- Article with between three and five authors: cite all the authors upon the first appearance in the text; from the second mention onwards, use the surname of the first author followed by et al. (and the date, if it is the first citation in the paragraph);

- Articles with six or more authors: cite the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year, as from the first appearance in the text.

In the case of a literal citation, the passage should appear between quotation marks with, immediately after the author's surname and date, an indication of the page(s) from which it was taken. Passages consisting of more than 40 words should be placed in a separate block, without quotation marks and not italicized, with an offset of five spaces in relation to the left margin.

The accuracy and propriety of references to works which have been consulted and cited in the text of the article are entirely the responsibility of the author, in the same way in which the content of the study is their exclusive responsibility. All the authors whose works are cited in the text should be followed by the date of publication and listed in the References section. The citations and references should be made in accordance with APA criteria.

For guidance purposes, we are presenting below some examples of the most common cases:

Articles from scientific journals

Simons, L. G., & Conger, R. D. (2007). Linking mother-father differences in parenting to a typology of family parenting styles and adolescent outcomes. Journal of Family Issues, 28 (2), 212-241.

Articles from scientific journals in press

Note, in place of the date, that the article is in press. Include the name of the periodical after the article's title. Do not refer to the date and volume numbers, fascicle or pages until the article is published. In the text, cite the article indicating that it is in press.

Sampaio, M. I. C., & Peixoto, M. L. (no prelo). Periódicos brasileiros de psicologia indexados nas bases de dados LILACS e PsycInfo. Boletim de Psicologia.

Books

Rodrigues, M. C. P., & Azzi, R. G. (2007). Psicologia do esporte: trilhando caminhos em busca de iniciação na área. Taubaté: Cabral.

Book chapters

Schmidt, M. (2004). Stress e religiosidade cristã. In M. E. N. Lipp (Org.), O stress  no Brasil: pesquisas avançadas (pp.177-186). Campinas: Papirus.

Old works republished at a much later date

Erikson, E. H. (1963). Childhood and society (2nd. ed.). New York: Norton. (Originally published in 1950).

Secondary citation

If the original was not read, cite the authors in the following manner: "Selye (1936, apud Lipp, 2001) ...". In the reference section, cite only the work consulted (in this instance, Lipp, 2001).

Unpublished theses or dissertations

Cusatis Neto, R. (2007). Construção e validação da escala de estressores ocupacionais das linhas de produção. Tese de doutorado não-publicada, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas.

Corporate authorship

World Health Organization. (2006). WHO rapid advice guidelines on pharmacological management of humans infected with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus. Washington, DC: Author.

Work presented in congress published in annals

Malagris, L. E. (2006). A terapia cognitivo-comportamental frente ao stress ocupacional e a síndrome de Burnout. Annals of the VI Latin American Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy (Vol. 1). Buenos Aires.

Electronic material

Articles from journals

Candiotto, C. (2007). Verdade e diferença no pensamento de Michel Foucault. Kriterio,  48(115). Recuperado em janeiro 16, 2009,  disponível em http://www.scielo.br  doi: 10.1590/S0100-512X2007 000100012

Text

National Cancer Institute. (2003b). Câncer no Brasil: dados dos registros de base populacional. Retrieved  February 22, 2006, from http://www.inca.gov.br/regpop

Personal contact (letter, email, conversation)

Cite the text only, providing the initials and surname of the source, plus the date. Avoid this usage. Its use should be sporadic and should be included in the footnote, not the references.

- Appendices

Avoid. They may be included when they contain information which is integral to the understanding of the text.

- Declarations of responsibility and transfer of copyright signed by each author;

- Send the editor four copies of the original (one original and three copies) and a diskette or CD-ROM labeled with the following information: names of authors and filename. On representation, include the submission reference number;

- Include title of original, in both Portuguese and English;

- Check if the text, along with tables and references, is reproduced in Arial font, size 11 and double spaced, with formatted top and bottom margins (at least 2.5cm), and left and right margins (at least 3cm).

- Include abbreviated title, not to exceed five words, to be included in the header of every page printed;

- Include keywords;

- Include abstracts with up to 150 words in the two languages, Portuguese and English, or in French or Spanish where applicable, along with indexation terms;

- Cover page with requested information;

- Include name of funding agencies and the process number;

- Indicate if the article is based on a thesis / dissertation, and note the title, name of establishment, year of the defense and number of pages;

- Check if the references are standardized according to the APA parlance – 5th edition;

- Include permission of editors for the reproduction of published figures or tables.

DECLARATION OF RESPONSIBILITY AND

TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT

Each author must read and sign the documents: 1) Declaration of Responsibility and 2) Transfer of Copyright.

- Title of the manuscript:

- Name of the authors must be consecutively according to the orders in which they were mentioned in the text.

- Author responsible for the negotiations:

1. Declaration of responsibility

I hereby certify that:

- I have participated in the conception of the study and make public my responsibility for the content;

- I have not omitted any funding ties or agreements between the authors and companies which may have an interest in the publication of this article;

- This is an original article, and the work, either in part or in its entirety, or any other work of my authorship which contains substantially similar content, has not been sent to any other journal, and shall not be sent as long as its publication is under consideration by Estudos de Psicologia, either in printed or electronic form.

Signature of the author(s)                Date               /            /            

2. Transfer of copyright

I hereby declare that, in the event of this article being accepted for publication, its copyright shall pass to the journal Estudos de Psicologia, and shall become the exclusive property of the journal, with any reproduction, either in full or in part, being forbidden in any other form or means of printed or electronic communication, without the request for prior necessary authorization and, if obtained, I shall attribute the appropriate acknowledgment to the journal.

Signature of author(s)                        Date               /            /

All correspondence should be sent to Revista de Estudo de Psicologia  at the address below

Núcleo de Editoração SBI/CCV - Campus  II

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