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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  • The manuscript submitted is original and unpublished and is not under review or in the process of being published by another journal. If this is not the case, you should provide a justification in “Comments to the Editor”
  • The submitted files are in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format (provided they do not exceed 2MB).
  • The URLs of all items in the list of references were provided when available
  • In case you are submitting a piece for peer-reviewing, please make sure that the instructions available under Ensuring a Blind Review were followed.
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Authors' Instructions, in the About the Journal section.

Author Guidelines

Antropologia Portuguesa publishes original research articles, book reviews and interviews. Whenever needed video can be attached to the works. The submitted manuscripts, after analysed by the editorial board will be sent to peer-review only if observed the following guidelines:

– Title in English, or title in the original language of the paper and title in english;

– Authors and co-authors should provide their name, ORCID and institutional affiliation; 

– Email of the correponding author;

– Abstract and keywords (maximum of six) in the language used in the text and in English; if the text is in English, authors should chose another language adopted by the journal. The abstract should consist of 200 words;

– The original research articles should not exceed 8000 words (including tables, references, etc.);

– Main text separated under appropriate headings and subheadings using bold;


– Tables, figures and maps must be cited in the text and inserted in the more appropriate place, with the respective legends. All figures must be submitted in a separate file and have quality to allow reproduction. All images copyright are from the entire responsibility of the author (or authors);

– Footnotes should be limited to the minimum;

– In the text, references to the literature should be cited by author’s surname followed by the year of publication as follow: one author (Malinowski, 1927), two authors (Bogin and Malina, 2001) and for more than three authors (Smith et al., 2001);

– A semicolon should be used to separate two or more references (Waldron, 1994; Cockburn, 2000) or works from the same author but with different dates (Dias, 1998; 1999). When using elements of authors cited in another work, only
the last one should be used (Martín, 1901 in Neto, 1957);

– References will be arranged alphabetically, not chronologically, by author’s or authors’ surname in the following style: Author’s name (or names), year of publication, complete title, volume, and inclusive pages as follows:

Book
Darwin, C. 2009 [1871]. A origem do homem e a selecção sexual. Lisboa, Relógio d’Água.
Douglas, M. 1984. Implicit meanings: essays in Anthropology. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul.
McElroy, A.; Townsend, P. K. 2004. Medical anthropology in ecological perspective. 4th edition. Boulder, Westview Press.

Edited book
Swedlund, A.C.; Herring, D.A. (eds.). 2003. Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Book chapter
Carlesworth, H. R.; Kreutzer, M. A. 1973. Facial expressions of infants and children. In: Ekman, P. (ed.). Darwin and facial expressions: a century of research in review. London, Academic Press: 91-168.

Article published in Proceedings

Bremón, M. R. 2009. La antropologia física e los museos. In: Cerdá, M. P.; Garcia-Prósper, E. (eds.). Investigaciones histórico-médicas sobre salud y enfermedad en el pasado. Actas del IX Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, Morella (Castelló), 26-29 Septiembre de 2007. Valencia, Grupo Paleolab & Sociedad Española de Paleopatología: 27-32.
Cruz, A.; Matos, V.; Xavier, S.; Quintais, L.; Santos, A. L. 2007. O Hospital-Colónia Rovisco Pais e os múltiplos desdobramentos da lepra: etnografia e interdisciplinaridade. In: Cruz, F. (ed.). Actas do II Congresso Internacional sobre Etnografia, Montemor-o-Novo, 7-8 Julho de 2006. [CD-ROM]. Póvoa do Varzim, Associação AGIR: 68-79.

Journal article
Fagundes, N. J. R.; Bonnatto, S. L.; Callegari-Jacques, S. M.; Salzano, F. M. 2002. Genetic, geographic, and linguistic variation among South American Indians: possible sex influence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 117(1): 68-78.
Kjellström, A. in press. Possible cases of leprosy and tuberculosis in medieval Sigtuna, Sweden. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. [Published online: 7-9-2010]. DOI: 10.1002/oa.1204. [The DOI (Digital Object Identifier) should be included after the reference when the article was consulted online or in other digital format (ex. PDF)].

Article in an electronic journal
Schaible, U. E.; Kaufmann, S. H. E. 2007. Malnutrition and infection: complex mechanisms and global impacts. PLoS Medicine [Online], 4(5): e115. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040115.
Fonseca, F. T. 2007. The social and cultural roles of the University of Coimbra (1537-1820): some considerations. e-Journal of Portuguese History [Online], 5(1). [Accessed in 22-3-2010]. Available at: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue9/pdf/ffonseca.pdf.
[When the journal does not have DOI, present the full URL]

Unpublished monograph
Cardoso, H. F. C. 2000. Dimorfismo sexual na estatura, dimensões e proporções dos ossos longos dos membros: o caso de uma amostra Portuguesa dos séculos XIX-XX. Dissertação de Mestrado em Evolução Humana, Departamento de Antropologia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra.
McCloy, R. A. 1990. A new model of job performance: an integration of measurement, prediction, and theory. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota.

Contribution in an electronic monography 
American Anthropological Association. 2009. AAA Style guide 2009. [Online]. Arlington, VA, American Anthropological Association. [Accessed in 6-10-2010]. Available at: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm.

Online pages [provide full URL]
World Health Organization. 2010. Social determinants of health:
key concepts. [Online]. [Geneva], World Health Organization.
[Accessed in 20-09-2010]. Available at: http://www.who.int/
social_determinants/thecommission/finalreport/key_concepts/
en/index.html.

Corresponding author of an accepted manuscript will receive an e-mail notification
when proofs are available for review (alterations to the main text are not accepted
at this point).


The first author of each article will receive two printed volumes of the journal. The
author(s) of interviews and reviews will receive one printed copy.


A publishing agreement is determined between the author(s) and the journal,
including that Antropologia Portuguesa is granted the exclusive right to publish and
distribute an article.

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