Sections

The articles, accompanied by a title, abstract and keywords (in Portuguese and English), should have a minimum size of 40,000 characters (with spaces) and a maximum of 60,000. The abstract, twelve lines maximum, should clearly define the subject under discussion. The keywords should clearly identify the subject under study, the theme or area of concentration of the article, and number between 3 and 5.

The following rules should also be observed:

a) The minimum qualification of the main author required for submission to the journal Mediações is a master’s degree.

b) Only articles with at most 3 (three) authors will be accepted. All people involved in the production of the text must be registered as authors from the start of the submission process. In the case of submissions with more than one author, the parts written by each author, from initial research to the final writing up of the text, should be duly identified in a separate file, to be added as a Supplementary Document of Co-Authorship at the time of submission. Additionally, encourages the use of the CRediT taxonomy to represent information about the individual authors' contributions.

c) Authors who have published in Mediações must wait for an interval of two years before publication of a new article and 18 months after the previous publication date to begin a new submission process.

d) The text must be written in formal Portuguese and in compliance with the standards of ABNT NBR 6023. If the text is observed not to have been undergone an adequate grammatical and orthographical review to ensure it conforms to scholarly scientific language, the manuscript may be rejected.

e) Identification of the authorship of the work must be removed from the file and from the ‘Properties’ option in Word. The rule is mandatory for both types of submission adopted by Mediações, double-blind evaluation and open evaluation.

f) Authors and co-authors must include their ORCID numbers in the identification data, as well as obligatory information (full name, full institutional affiliation, city, State, country, mini-curriculum, Lattes link, funding source(s), possible Interest Conflicts).

g) Authors are entirely responsible for observing the rules of academic good practice, in particular those concerning plagiarism and self-plagiarism, described in the instructions contained in the journal’s Plagiarism section. The maximum amount of self-citation accepted by Mediações is 10%.

h) Authors must ensure that their investigation follows the ethical and legal principles established by the documents that regulate ethical conduct in research involving human beings and/or animals in their area of knowledge, as indicated in journal’s Ethical Principles section, complying with all the requirements determined by the specific legislation in force in the country in which the research was conducted.

i) The authors indicated that they wish to proceed with the informed evaluation modality, having filled out and attached the specific evaluation form provided to their submission by SciELO. They agree that, if this operation has not been carried out, the evaluation modality will be the double-blind.

j) It is mandatory for authors whose manuscripts are available in preprint servers to inform Mediações, at the time of submission, of the virtual location link of the article as well as its DOI, which should be inserted in the 'Comments for the Editor' box.

Once the process of submission by the author(s) is completed, the next stage is screening of the article. The section editor(s) make an initial evaluation of the material, focusing particularly on the article’s adherence to the journal’s editorial line. After screening of the manuscripts, the texts are sent to the reviewers who can give three possible responses in relation to publication of the texts: the article may be accepted without need for alterations, accepted on condition that the requested corrections are made, or rejected (see Evaluation Form). 

Make a new submission to the Articles section.

Dossier

Each issue of the periodical Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais includes a thematic dossier. Any researcher, whether a member of the UEL Department of Social Sciences or from outside, may submit a dossier proposal to the journal in line with the Call for Dossier Proposal Guidelines, which are widely publicized on the journal website and other channels. The Editorial Board decides in an on-site meeting on the proposal’s suitability (and consequently acceptance). Mediações prefers to organize thematic dossiers that help promote to interdisciplinarity within the Social Sciences and, for this reason, does not encourage proposals that take the work of a single author as their theme.

Once the dossier proposal has been accepted, one of two paths may be followed: 1 – when the dossier is being organized by academics not belonging to the Editorial Board, one of the editors assumes responsibility for accompanying the editorial decisions of the dossier organizers; 2 – when the dossier is being organized by a member of the Editorial Board, responsibility for accompanying the editorial decisions of the organizers is assigned to this same member.

A public call for articles for the dossier will be made, with a deadline set for submission (in contrast to other contributions which may be received in continuous flow). In the case of dossiers, there is also an article screening phase during which the organizers must ensure that articles adhere to the dossier theme. It is worth noting that the article selection process for the dossier is even more competitive since there is a maximum limit to the number of contributions that can be published (generally the dossiers contain 6 articles, including the presentation when it has  scientific article character).

After screening of the manuscripts, as occurs with open articles, the texts are sent to the reviewers who can give three possible responses in relation to publication, the same as for open articles: the article may be accepted without need for alterations, accepted on condition that the requested corrections are made, or rejected (see Evaluation Form). Further details on the processing of submitted articles can be found in our Privacy Statement.

The dossier organizers have the same tasks as the editors of the open articles section, meaning that they will tell the managing editors, on completion of the process, which articles will be included in the dossier. Additionally, the dossier organizers’ responsibilities extend to: elaborating the dossier’s presentation text; defining the sequence of articles in the dossier’s final composition; communicating to authors whose articles have not been selected to compose the dossier the filing of their submissions.

Make a new submission to the Dossier section.

Reviews

Mediações accepts Reviews of books not translated into Portuguese published abroad over the last five years – reviews of collectanea will not be accepted. The texts should present both the central ideas of the author(s) and the critical considerations of the reviewer concerning the content of the book or collection. The quality of the reviewed work, as well as the critical analysis made by the review author, are equally important and will be evaluated by the Editorial Board. As occurs with other leading national and international periodicals, the contributions in the form of reviews, translations and interviews follow to blind review, generally evaluated by a section editor.

Make a new submission to the Reviews section.