Submissions

Author Guidelines

TEXT FORMAT

Psicologia em Revista complies with the norms of the APA –American Psychological Association, version 2010. 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; pageconfiguration 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 thatof the title. The use of Word footnotes is restricted to relevant cases that cannot beincluded 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 withthree 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.

KINDS OF ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS

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 3 pages);
• Lectures given in relevant events (maximum of 10 pages)
• Other contributions 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 (maximum 4 pages).

QUOTATIONS

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.

REFERENCES

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. Riode 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-Graduaçãoem 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), Available in: . (Accessed on 8/28/2005).

ABBREVIATIONS

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.