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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
Bibliographical references and notes are at the end of the document, not in the footnotes.
The authorship identification of this paper has been removed from the file and from the Properties option in Word, thus ensuring the journal's confidentiality criteria if submitted for peer review (e.g. articles).

Author Guidelines

Ciencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião publishes original and previously unpublished articles in Portuguese and Spanish.

All submissions are verified by a plagiarism identification system.

The journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs).

Articles sent to Ciencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião must fulfill the following criteria. Otherwise, the articles cannot be included in the evaluation process.

Texts submitted for review must be written in Spanish or Portuguese and proofread by native speakers in the case that the author has not written the article in their first language. Texts must be sent through the journal’s platform, attached in .doc format.
The texts must be unpublished, original, and must not be simultaneously submitted to another review or publishing process. The journal reserves the right to exclusivity for a period of 12 months once the article has been submitted for review. Translations of articles published in other languages will not be accepted unless requested by the editors. Papers that have been presented in academic conferences or meetings will be accepted as long as they involve substantial reworking, which must be indicated in an explanatory note.
The journal publishes research articles, dossiers, and reviews.

Peer review process

Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Ciências Sociais e Religião operates a double anonymized review process. All contributions are initially assessed by the Editorial Committee for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the paper's scientific quality. In case of receiving contradictory opinions, the article is evaluated by the Editorial Committee or by a third external referee. In general, ad hoc reviewers are external to the Department of Anthropology at UNICAMP. The originality of the submission, its theoretical-methodological rigor, and its general quality will be evaluated.

Four possible results from this evaluation are:

a) To accept without content modifications,
b) To accept with some modifications,
c) To accept if the author makes significant modifications on the points mentioned, and
d) To reject due to the reasons mentioned above.

The Editorial Committee is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. Editors are not involved in decisions about papers that they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures, with peer review handled independently of the relevant editor and their research groups.

The average time between the reception and the conclusion of the article evaluation process is six months. The submission process lasts an average of nine months until the article's publication. The rejection rate for articles in the year 2022 was 40%.

Special Editions

In collaboration with expert Guest Editors, Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Social Sciences and Religion publishes Special Editions on topics of interest to the field of social sciences of religion in Latin America. The Guest Editors are responsible for evaluating the suitability of submissions for the journal and the dossier. All submissions to dossiers undergo the double-blind peer review process indicated above. The Guest Editors are responsible for the final decision on whether to accept or reject the article, following the rules stipulated by the Editorial Committee.. The entire editorial process of evaluating submissions to Special Editions is monitored by the journal's Editorial Committee, which is responsible for ensuring good editorial practice on the part of the Guest Editors.

Conference on Religious Alternatives in Latin America

Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Ciências Sociais e Religião also publishes, on an extraordinary basis, lectures held at the Conference on Religious Alternatives in Latin America, a biennial event organized by the Association of Social Sciences of Religion of Latin America (ACSRAL). All publications related to the event are duly registered as such and are not submissions to the journal. The lectures published are evaluated by the Editorial Committee and do not undergo the double-blind review process.

Articles

The correct manuscript format is A4 paper in Times New Roman font size 12, 1.5 line spacing, with margins predetermined by the word processing software: top and bottom: 2.5cm; left and right: 3cm. The length of the manuscript must not exceed 10 thousand words including the bibliography, sources, and appendices. The manuscript must not contain the name of the author and care must be taken to ensure that the author’s identity is not revealed in the text. This is a necessary condition to guarantee the anonymity of the review process.

The author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email must be entered into the system’s registry.

The manuscript must be titled in Portuguese, Spanish, and in English, and include an abstract in all three languages of up to 150 words, single-spaced. At the end of each abstract between 3 and 5 keywords or descriptors must be included, in all three languages. The author must indicate whether they are keywords provided by the author or descriptors taken from a Thesaurus.

The abstract must detail the article’s structure, stating its proposals, questions, methodology, and main conclusions. If the article proposes contributions to a theoretical framework this must be indicated – along with the proposed hypotheses – before describing the methodology.

The manuscript must be clearly divided into sections (and subsections if necessary), with appropriate sub-headings. The Introduction, Conclusions, Bibliography, and Sources must be unnumbered. Words or phrases in foreign languages must be italicized, and technical terms must be placed in inverted commas. Underlining must be avoided.

Tables, figures, and graphs must be incorporated into the body of the text and numbered. Explanatory notes must be placed at the end of the article and must not be used for bibliographical references but exclusively for comments, expanding on a point, or relevant clarifications supporting the arguments contained in the body of the text.

Direct quotations not longer than 2 lines must be demarcated with double comma quotation marks inside the paragraph. Quotations of three lines or more must take the form of a separate paragraph without quotation marks and with a left margin of 1.25cm offset from the rest of the text.

For citations, authors should be guided by the norms of ABNT, so that in the text, the reference indication in direct quotes should bring authors, year of publication, and pages; in indirect citations, the page indication is optional, depending on the model:

a) According to Hassen (2002: 173), "There is a great lack of teaching materials in this field, especially if combined with playfulness."
b) We know the great lack of teaching materials in this field (Hassen, 2002).

All references cited in the text must be included in the Bibliography section. Likewise, all items included in the Bibliography must appear in the article. Bibliographical references must be ordered alphabetically at the end of the text, following the ABNT as models:

a) Book (and guides, catalogs, dictionaries, etc.) all: author, title (in italics and separated by a colon from the subtitle, if any), edition number (if indicated), place, publisher, publication year:

ASAD, Talal. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam and Modernity. California: Stanford University Press, 2003.
FORTES, Meyer; EVANS-PRITCHARD, Edward (org.). African political systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.

b) Part of the book (fragment, article, chapter in collection): author, tile of the excerpt followed by the expression "In", the author of the book, title (in italics and separated by a colon from subtitle, if any), edition number (if indicated), place, publisher, year of publication, page (s) of the referenced part:

HERVIEU-LÉGER, Danièle. Por una sociología de las nuevas formas de religiosidad: algunas cuestiones teóricas previas. In: GIMÉNEZ, Gilberto (org.). Identidades religiosas y sociales en México. UNAM, México, pp. 31-32, 1996.

c) Article in a scientific journal: author, article title, journal name (in italics), place, year and/or volume, number, first and last page of the article, date:

FRIGERIO, Alejandro. El futuro de las religiones mágicas en Latinoamérica. In: Ciencias Sociales y Religión / Ciências Sociais e Religião, v.1, n.1, pp.51-88, 1999.

d) Article in the newspaper: author, article title, journal name (in italics), place, date, section or notebook, page (if there is no specific section, the page preceding the date):

TOURAINE, Alain. O recuo do islamismo político. Folha de São Paulo, São Paulo, 23 set. 2001. Mais!, p. 13.
SOB as bombas. Folha de São Paulo, São Paulo, p. 2, 22 mar. 2003.

e) Academic works: complete reference followed by document type, degree, academic affiliation, place, and date of defense as paper of approval (if any):

GIACOMAZZI, Maria Cristina Gonçalves. O cotidiano da Vila Jardim: um estudo de trajetórias, narrativas biográficas e sociabilidade sob o prisma do medo na cidade. 1997. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social)–PPGAS/UFRGS, Porto Alegre, 1997.

f) Event: event name, number (if any), year and place (city) of accomplishment, document title (annals, minutes, summaries, etc., in italics), place of publication, publisher, and date Posted:

REUNIÃO DA ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE ANTROPOLOGIA, 21., 1998, Vitória. Resumos… Vitória: Departamento de Ciências Sociais/UFES, 1998.

g) Paper presented at an event: authors, the title of the work presented followed by "In:", event name, number (if any), year and place (city) of accomplishment, document title (annals, records, summaries, etc., in italics), place of publication, publisher, date of publication and first and last page of the referenced part:

STOCKLE, Verena. Brasil: uma nação através das imagens da raça. In: REUNIÃO DA ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE ANTROPOLOGIA, 21., 1998, Vitória. Resumos… Vitória: Departamento de Ciências Sociais/UFES, 1998. p. 33.

Apresentação

Política padrão de seção

Reviews

An introductory section must be included with the following details: author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email.

We especially encourage authors of Master’s and Doctoral theses to submit summaries of their work, clearly specifying their methodology and the text’s structure. The title of the piece submitted must be the same as the thesis. The proposals, questions, and hypotheses must be clearly stated, as well as the object studied and its dimensions, the methodology employed, and the main conclusions. The bibliography and subsections must be reduced to a minimum.

Ciencias Sociales y Religión/Ciências Sociais e Religião also receive reviews of books, journals, websites, scientific meetings, and other spaces of production and communication of scientific knowledge related to the subjects covered by the journal. Reviews must be headed with the complete bibliographical data of the work according to the norms stipulated below regarding the bibliography. In the case of books and journals, the ISBN or ISSN number must be included. Subsections must not be included.

The text must be evaluative and provide the author's position concerning the reviewed work. The potential readers, the structure (chapters or parts of books or journals; sections in the case of web pages, etc.), and all information considered relevant must be specified. The reviewed work must be evaluated concerning its context of publication and to similar works. Its original contributions must be indicated.

It is recommended that the review should be kept to a reasonable length; for more exhaustive literature reviews a short article is more appropriate.

Reviews and thesis summaries are not evaluated by external evaluators but by the journal's editorial board.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in the journal Ciencias Sociales y Religión accept the following terms and conditions:

1. Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows the sharing of work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are authorized to take additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g.: publish in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (eg in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes as well as increase the impact and the citation of published work (See The effect of open access).

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