Guide for the Author

Note to Authors

This guide was created to provide instructions to authors for the preparation of articles for submission to the Portuguese Journal of Educational Research.

Failure to follow the guidelines given may jeopardize the deadline of acceptance of proposals or the very consideration of acceptance.

Contacts for questions related to the submission of proposals are for Editorial Advisor: Cristina Palmeirão ().

Formats
The Portuguese Journal of Educational Research integrates 3 different types of collaboration, with the approval of the reviewers (peer-review process) and final acceptance by the Editorial Board:
- Original articles which address research conducted in the field of Education;
- Bibliographic reviews that provide a comprehensive reading on recent and relevant trends in the field of Education;

- Reports on the work developed by national and international institutions in the field of education (these contributions may involve interviews, reports of visits or reports of scientific meetings).

Structure

1. Title

2. Complement of title (optional)

3. Identification of the authors, telephone number, email, institution and department, and address

4. Identification of the author for correspondence, telephone contact, email, fax, institution and department, and address

5. abstract (Portuguese and English)

6. Keywords (Portuguese and English)

7. Introduction

8. Methodology

9. Results

10. Conclusions

11. Acknowledgements (if applicable)

12. Acknowledgements may be included at the end of the document, before the references.

13. Bibliographic references

Layout

See "Template for the Author".

Acronyms - Preceded by full name on first use, followed by the acronym in brackets.
Headers and Footnotes - are not allowed.

The standard for bibliographic references used is APA - American Psychological Association.
The references will be incorporated into the text according to the author-date system. In case of citations, it will add the page number.

Examples:

Foster stated that “the development of education…” (1992, 247)

However, Watson (1994) considers…

Multiple authors (Housen, 1983; Parsons et al., 1987)…

No use of ampersand (&), ‘and’ should be used instead, for example… according to Bechtel e Graham (1999)… or Lakoff and Jonhson, 1980).

The Bibliography, to be included in the final of the text will be organized alphabetically and must obey to the format of the following examples:

Book
Guichard, J., Hunteau, M. (2001). Psychologie de l'orientation. Paris: Dunod.

Book Chapter

Shantz, C. (1983). Social cognition. In P. Mussen (Ed.), Handbook of child development (pp.495-555). New York: Wiley.

Article
Verdasca, J.L. (2005). Analysis of flows and scholar productivity. Portuguese Journal of Educational Research, 4, 111-122.

Communication in scientific meeting

Salmivalli, C., Voeten, M. (2002). Connections between attitudes, group norms, and behavior in bullying situations. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Society for Research on Aggression, Montreal, Canada.

Unpublished Dissertation

Baptista, I. (2005). Ethical capacity and metaphysical desire - an interpellation to the pedagogical reason. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. Faculty of Arts, University of Porto.

References to articles accessed online

Ribeiro, M. (2000). The unrealistic optimism [Online]. Available at: http://www.lse.uk/publish/sciam.htm. [Accessed on 06/09/2002.]

To clarify the cases not considered in these examples, the authors should consult this standard (latest version).