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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Editorial policy
• Kinds of accepted contributions
• Manuscript selection procedures
• Submitting articles
• Text format
• Quotations
• References
• Abbreviations
• Copyright

The Periodical´s mission
Psicologia em Revista, periodical of the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), is open to the various theoretical trends and practices, classical or new in the area of Pshychology. Issued every three months, Psicologia em Revista publishes in Portuguese and Spanish. Texts in other languages, IF accepted, must be translate into Portuguese.

Psicologia em Revista is a bilingual periodical, and publishes original texts in Portuguese and in Spanish. Once accepted, texts in other languages are to be translated into Portuguese. The periodical has two large sections:

1 - The section of articles which comprises research reports, literature reviews, theoretical studies and professional experience reports (minimum of 15 and maximum of 25 pages, including the front page).

2 - An open section which welcomes the following categories:

• Foreign authors’ articles or similar texts, already published abroad but not in Portuguese (minimum 15 and maximum 25 pages);

• Reviews of national or foreign publications, as well as thesis or dissertation abstracts (maximum of 3 pages);

• Lectures given in relevant events (maximun of 10 pages)

• Other contributions (maximum of 4 pages) of interest to the academic community, related to scientific events, as well as to technical, scientific and social issues relevant to the field of psychology, interviews etc.

Psicologia em Revista has a Chief Editor, three Executive committee members and many Brazilian and foreign professionals in the Scientific Editorial Body, working in cooperation to organize and prepare the publication. The Chief Editor and the Executive Committee members are in charge of receiving and evaluating the manuscripts initially, appointing and sending them to ad-hoc experts, assisting the editorial process of each article, and making the final revision of the periodical, which implies constant contact with the Editora PUC Minas and the University library. They are also in touch with the Scientific Editorial Body, in order to help selecting ad-hoc experts and mainly deciding what texts to publish in case the experts’ opinions concerning their scientific quality should differ.

Manuscripts submitted to the periodical Psicologia em Revista undergo the following process, always preserving the authors’ and experts’ identity:

a) Checking initially its adequacy to the editorial line and format norms determined in the guidelines to authors. In case one or both conditions are not complied with, the manuscript is return to the author(s) with instructions for sending the reformulated text or another text. Once the conditions are complied with, in the weekly meeting of the Executive committee, with basis on suggestions from members of the Scientific Editorial Body, if necessary, two ad-hoc experts are nominated to evaluate the text.

b) The experts are consulted as to the possibility of giving their opinion and, once they accept, they may refuse, approve or suggest alterations as a condition for the publication of the manuscript. In any case the author is communicated. If alterations are suggested, the manuscript and the expert opinion are sent to the author(s) to make them, in a period of 10 days, in case he (they) is(are) still interested in the publication. Alterations, when carried out, are assessed by the experts, who authorize or not the publication.

c) In the final selection of manuscripts for publication, compliance with the editorial norms of the periodical, originality, theme relevance and the quality of the scientific methodology are evaluated. Authors are entirely responsible for content and accuracy of quotations. Originals, even if not accepted, are not returned to the author(s).

d) Should two ad-hoc experts’ opinions differ, one approving and the other refusing the manuscript, a third expert, one of the members of the Scientific Editorial Body, is nominated to define the situation.

e) After this process, if the manuscript is refused, the author(s) receive a letter from the Editor explaining the reasons and stating the possibility to send new manuscripts. In case of approval, the author(s) are communicated of the periodical issue where the article is to be published and the manuscript is sent for revision of Portuguese or Spanish. The Chief Editor and the Executive committee reserve the right to approve language corrections, but, in case of substantial alterations, those corrections are submitted to the author(s) evaluation.

f) The manuscripts then follow the normal procedures of the PUC Minas Publishing House, under the Chief Editor’s and the Executive Committee’s supervision.

g) Once the editorial process is concluded, the Chief Editor and the Executive Committee also supervise the sending of the periodical to the author(s), the faculty and administrative staff of PUC Minas, in Belo Horizonte and in the State of Minas Gerais. The Library of PUC Minas also distributes the publication.

1 - Adress: articles are to be sent to: psirevista@pucminas.br. A printed copy and the file in diskette or CD should be sent to the following address: Mestrado em Psicologia da PUC Minas – Av. Itaú, 525 – Bairro Dom Bosco – CEP. 30.730.280 – Belo Horizonte – MG – Phone numbers: (31) 3319-4568 and 3319-4922.

2 - A letter submitting the article for publication in Psicologia em Revista.

3 - A document transferring copyrights, containing each author’s signature and written in compliance with the model below:

“I (we) submit the article entitled ... to the evaluation of the periodical Psicologia em Revista, and agree that copyright referring to the text become the exclusive property of Editora PUC Minas, any total or partial reproduction being forbidden, in any other part or printed/electronic communication medium, without the necessary and previous authorization requested in written form and given by the Publishing House.

Psicologia em Revista complies with the norms of the APA – American Psychological Association, version 2001. Texts must be digitised in Word format, Times New Roman font, size 12 (size 16 accepted for titles); double space between lines in the whole text; page configuration with 2.54 cm margins, in A4 paper (210x297 mm), portrait-oriented. The first line of paragraphs must be 5-7 space indented.

Tables, graphs and figures, which cannot exceed 25% of the total article, must be numbered with Arabic numerals, and their reference is only mentioned in the text, for they are to be sent separately. Only one side of the paper is to be used, with all pages numbered, including that of the title. The use of Word footnotes is restricted to relevant cases that cannot be included in the logical sequence of the text.

Text sequence

• Depersonalised title page with the full title in Portuguese, a suggestion for the concise title and the full title in English.

• Personalised title page with the full title in Portuguese, a suggestion for the concise title, full title in English, and each author’s name followed by his/her academic qualifications and institutional affiliation, complete and in full (for example: Instituto de Psicologia da PUC Minas), as well as the complete mailing address and e-mail. Funding source or acknowledgement to technical support to the development of the paper must be referred to;

• Page with the abstract and key words. All originals must contain one page with three abstracts of the same content, in Portuguese, English or Spanish. In case the manuscript are in a language other than the ones mentioned, it must include the abstract in the original language and one in English. Abstracts are to identify clearly aims, methodology and conclusions of the article, necessarily in 120-150 words. Key words, from 3 to 5, separated by semi-colon, in the language of the abstracts.

• Book reviews must contain book title, city, publishing house, number of pages, and author’s and translator’s names (when applicable). Reviews do not comprise an abstract and key words.

• Thesis and dissertation abstracts must include title, author’s name (academic qualifications and institutional affiliation, mailing address and e-mail in a footnote), and advisor’s name.

• Interviews must contain data presenting the interviewed, venue and date of the interview, in a footnote.

• Lectures must include venue and date of the presentation, in a footnote.

• Articles or similar texts published in foreign periodicals, but not in Brazil, must inform where and when they were published, in a footnote.

Free quotations

They must include the author’s surname and the publication date between brackets. Ex.: (Lévy, 2001).

In case there are two or more quoted works by the same author in the same year, after the date, letter ‘a’ will refer to the first quotation, letter ‘b’ will refer to the second, and so on. Ex.: (Lévy, 2001a) – (Lévy, 2001b).

Text quotations

• Short quotations (less than 40 words) are inserted in the text between inverted commas, followed by the author’s surname, publication date and page number between brackets.

• Long quotations (more than 40 words) must form an independent paragraph, indented 5 spaces from the left margin, with single spacing and without quotation marks, followed by the author’s surname, publication date and page number between brackets.

Quotations within quotations, when absolutely necessary:

They are to be inserted in the text, and to include authors and dates of the two texts (Ex.: Anderson, quoted by Márquez, 2003). In the Reference section, only the secondary source is to be mentioned.

Bibliographical references appear in the end of the article, in alphabetical order of surnames. Articles may be refused without content review once the reference list does not comply with the adopted norms. Authors must make sure references quoted in the text are included in the list of references with precise dates and correctly spelled authors’ names. Authors are fully responsible for reference accuracy. Personal communications, unpublished works or works in print may be quoted if absolutely necessary, but only in the text or in a footnote. The reference list must follow the examples below:

Periodical articles (one author)

Barus-Michel, J. (2002). Certeza, crença, ilusão: as práticas da ilusão. Psicologia em Revista, 8 (11), 72-81.

Periodical articles (two authors)

Carreteiro, T. C. & Farah, B. L. (2002). Reality-shows, exclusão social e instantaneidade: os riscos do esquecimento. Psicologia em Revista, 9 (12), 24-31.

Periodical articles (five or less authors all should be cited. When there are more than five authors, the first five shoud be cited, followed by the expression et al.)

Tous, J. M. et al. (2006). Estructura factorial de los lineogramas del psicodiagnóstico miokinético – revisado y digitalizado (PMK-RD) según una muestra de hombres y una muestra de mujeres. Psicologia em Revista, 12 (19), 11-21.

Books

Roudinesco, E. (2003). A família em desordem. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar.

Book chapters

Pinto, J. M. (1999). Servidão ao saber e discurso do analista. In: A. Furtado et al. Fascínio e servidão. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, p. 67-80.

Freud, S. (1976). Além do princípio do prazer. Edição standard das obras psicológicas completas de Sigmund Freud (Vol. XVIII, p. 17-85). Rio de Janeiro: Imago. (Texto original publicado em 1920)

Thesis and dissertations

Kind, L. (2003). A desconstrução da morte: representações sociais do câncer no contexto de tratamento quimioterápico. Dissertação de mestrado, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte.

Electronic-format periodical articles

Enriquez, E. (2003). A construção amorosa. Psicologia em Revista [on-line]. 2003, 9 (13), Disponível em: <http://www1.pucminas.br/imagedb/documento/DOC_DSC_NOME_ARQUI20041214093745.pdf>. (Acessado em 28/8/2005).

Abbreviations, when first appearing in the text, must indicate the full corresponding name. From then on, the abbreviated form is to be used, the full name not being repeated.

Authors are requested to send a signed term of copyright transference, with each author’s signature, according to the model below:

“I (We) submit the article entitled ... to the appreciation of the periodical Psicologia em Revista, and agree that the copyright referring to it become the exclusive property of Editora PUC Minas, no partial or total reproduction being allowed, in any other printed or electronic medium, without the necessary and previous authorization requested in written form and issued by the Publishing House”.