Thematic Issues Proposition Guidelines

Thematic Issue Proposal – Revista de Ciências Sociais (RCS)

The proposal must contain:

- Name of proponents and organizers, as well as their respective degrees, institutional links, main lines of research and ORCID number;
- Definition of the theme and delimitation of the scope of the articles to be submitted; 
- Justification containing relevance of the theme, feasibility of the dossier (for example, if there are already articles ready for publication, if it is the fruit of WGs, possibility of invitation to national and/or foreign experts); relevance and originality in the approach to the proposed theme. 
- The call for papers must be submitted in Portuguese and at least one other language, English or Spanish                                         


After the approval of the proposal by RCS’s Editorial Board, the organizers of the dossier should prepare a public call for articles, to be published on the website of the Journal, also containing a schedule with the deadlines for submission, evaluation of articles and dissemination of results, adjustments of accepted articles and submission of the dossier to the Editorial Board.

Rules for dossiers

  1. The dossier must have a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 5 articles.
  2. Dossier organizers do not need to worry about the single articles that are always published.
  3. The issue organizer must submit each article or set of articles to at least two blind-referee (a referee may evaluate more than one article if necessary).
  4. All articles should be submitted through the journal's website.
  5. Articles should be written according to the journal's rules.
  6. Some of the articles in the dossier may be from invited authors, and others should be selected from a public call for papers to be made on the Journal's website.
  7. Preferably, there should be international or Brazilian renowned
    researchers among those invited to participate in the dossier.
  8. All articles, even those of invited authors, should be submitted to blind peer-review.
  9. The dossier organizers are responsible for verifying that the selected articles contain all the mandatory metadata filled in, including titles and keywords in foreign language and the authors' registration number in the ORCID platform.