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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Author Guidelines

1. How to Submit a Proposal for a Thematic Issue

The proposals must be addressed to the Editors, should be approximately 3-4 pages in length and address each of the following criteria: 

- Title of the special issue;

- Scientific and historiographical basis, including guiding question, contribution to current historiographical debates and new perspectives that the special issue will bring to the debate;

- Structure: names of coordinators, names of authors and titles of articles (it can be provisional, but coordinators will have to select and contact authors beforehand). Special issues should have between 4 and 8 articles. 

2.  Submission of articles, reviews, and news

Articles and reviews proposed for publication in the Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura (RHSC) must be submitted using the OJS (Open Journal Systems) editorial management platform, which can be accessed through the following link http://impactum-journals.uc.pt/rhsc/submission/wizard.

All submitted texts must include the following details:

  • Author’s name;
  • Academic affiliation (max. 2), observing the following format: University, Faculty, Research and Development Unit (Ex.: University of Coimbra, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Centre for the History of Society and Culture);
  • ORCID ID;
  • Email address;
  • Contacts.

3.  Publication of articles

 3.1. Presentation and length of the text

Articles can be written in European Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, and Italian. Submitted texts must include a title and an abstract up to 150 words, both in English and in the language of the article; a list of 3 to 5 keywords in the languages of the title and the abstract; and a final bibliography limited to the cited works.

Texts must not exceed a maximum of 60.000 characters with spaces, including abstract, footnotes, bibliography, etc. An introduction and a conclusion are required, and the titles (in bold) should be numbered.

Footnotes shall be used primarily for clarifications or occasional comments, while bibliographic references are to be inserted in the body of the text. Footnote numbers must come before punctuation marks.

 3.2. Text formatting

Texts must be typed in Microsoft Word, ISO A4 page size, 12-point Times New Roman font, with 1.5 line spacing and fully justified paragraphs (except for long citations and footnotes, which must be single spaced and typed in a 10-point font). Pages and footnotes shall be numbered consecutively.

Quotations that do not exceed three lines in length shall be enclosed in curved quotation marks (" "). Longer quotations must be separated from the text by one space line and written in an 11-point font, followed by an abbreviated reference to the cited work.

4. Bibliography and source citations

The rules for citing bibliography and sources used by RHSC generally correspond to the current version of Portuguese Standard NP 405. Throughout the text, references should be made in footnotes. At the end, a list should be provided, in alphabetical order, structured as follows: Printed Sources; Manuscript Sources; Bibliography.

 4.1. Books

CAFFIERO, Marina – The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy. From the Renaissance to the Restoration. London and New York: Routledge, 2024.

HESPANHA, António Manuel – Uma monarquia constitucional. Elementos estruturais do constitucionalismo português. Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2025, p. 5 ou p. 23-50.

4.2. Book chapters

JURADO, Carolina – “Domestic Rights in Indigenous Communal Lands”. In BASTIAS SAAVEDRA, Manuel (coord.), Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1850). The Normative Role of Kinship and Community. Leiden: Brill, 2025, p. 190-226.

GOUVEIA, Jaime Ricardo – “The Inquisition and the Demonisation of Heresiarch Lust: Moral Discourses, Mental Representations and Figurative Constructions (16th-18th centuries)”. In BUENO, Irene, LAVENIA, Vincenzo, PAIVA, José Pedro e REINHARDT, Nicole (eds.), Inquisitions, Iconography and Memory (13th-19th century). Rome: Viella, 2025, p. 191-224.

FONTES, Paulo – “O catolicismo português no século XX: da separação à democracia”. In AZEVEDO, Carlos Moreira (dir.), História Religiosa de Portugal. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 2002, vol. 3, p. 129-351.

4.3. Articles

MESTRE NAVAS, Pablo Alberto – Escrituras al servicio del poder. Los usos epigráficos de la monarquía castellana (1252-1369). Studia Historica. Historia Medieval. 43, 2 (2025) 159-184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14201/shhme.31540

GHOBRIAL, John-Paul – Moving Stories and what they tell us: Early Modern mobility between Microhistory and Global History. Past & Present. 242, Supplement 14 (2019) 37-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz049

ALMEIDA, João Miguel – Mudanças e conflitos nos paradigmas missionários católicos no colonialismo tardio em Moçambique. Lusitania Sacra. 2.ª série, 51 (2026) 81-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34632/lusitaniasacra.2025.16035

4.4. Manuscript sources

Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Lisboa) (doravante ANTT), Tribunal do Santo Ofício, Inquisição de Coimbra, Processo n.º 1660, fl. 41.

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisboa) (doravante BNP), Manuscritos Reservados, Cód. 887, fl. 112v.

Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra (doravante AUC), Devassas do arcediagado de Penela, Livro 1, fl. 14.

4.5. Printed sources

VELOSO, Maria Teresa (ed.) – Livro Verde da Universidade de Coimbra. Coimbra: Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra, 1992, p. 18, 24.

4.6. Online references

Web pages and websites should, as far as possible, include bibliographic details such as the author, title and date. It is essential to include the URL and the date of last access.

CAMÕES, Luís de – Os Lusíadas. Lisboa: Antonio Gonçaluez, 1572. http://purl.pt/1/3  (consultado em 1 de fevereiro de 2026).

Catálogo de livros de emblemas nas Bibliotecas Portuguesas, Coimbra, Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos, https://www.uc.pt/iii/ciec/Cata_logo_livros_emblemas_nas_bibliotecas_portuguesas.pdf  (accessed on 12 June 2024).

5. Footnote citation

The first reference should be in full, and subsequent ones abbreviated.

First occurrence:

THOMAZ, Luís Filipe – A expansão portuguesa: um prisma de muitas faces. Lisboa: Gradiva, 2021, p. 34.

SCHWARTZ, Stuart – “A economia do império português”. In BETHENCOURT, Francisco e CURTO, Diogo Ramada (dirs.), A expansão marítima portuguesa, 1400-1800. Lisboa, Edições 70, 2010, pp. 21-22.

TRIVELLATO, Francesca – What Differences Make a Difference. Journal of Early Modern History. 27 (2023) 7-31.

Bullarum collectio quibus serenissimis Lusitaniae Algarbiorumque regibus terrarum… jus patronatus a summus pontificibus liberaliter conceditur. Lisboa: Valentini A. Costa Deslandes, 1707, p. 181-183.

Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (Lisboa) (doravante ANTT), Tribunal do Santo Ofício, Inquisição de Coimbra, Processo n.º 1660, fl. 41.

Second occurrence:

THOMAZ – A expansão portuguesa…, p. 34.

SCHWARTZ – “A economia do império…”, p. 26.

TRIVELLATO – What Differences…, p. 10.

Bullarum collectio…, p. 181-183.

ANTT, Tribunal do Santo Ofício, Inquisição de Coimbra, Processo n.º 1660, fl. 41.

6. Figures

Graphs, tables, and other figures must be sent in individual files with good resolution and the text must mention where each element is to be inserted.

It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to publish images subject to copyright laws.

7. Publication of reviews

The work under review will be identified in accordance with the model used in the bibliography, plus the ISBN. Reviews must not exceed 10.000 characters with spaces.

Authors will be sent proofs for correction. Changes to more than 5% of the original text will not be accepted.

For any questions or clarifications, please contact the Editorial Assistant. 

EDITORIAL POLICIES

All articles submitted for publication will be assessed by outside experts, in accordance with the double-blind peer-review system. This process will be directed by the Editor Chief, the Director and the Editorial Board of the RHSC.

Failure to observe any of the aforementioned procedures (points 2-6) will result in the rejection of the submitted article.

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