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Authors Style Guidelines

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1. Authors are given the freedom to write their texts in accordance with the rules of the new orthographic agreement or the old spelling.

2. The articles may be written in Portuguese (from Portugal or Brazil), Spanish, French or English.

3. The text should be presented in Word format, Times font, size 12, with 1.15 cm spacing between lines.

4. Each article’s text is preceded by a short Summary, an Abstract and Keywords, all in Portuguese and English and in footnote size (10).

5. The paragraphs begin by moving to the right in relation to the body of the text and there will be no vertical spacing between them.

6. The words written in foreign language, including Latin, are written in italic and without quotes.

7. The transcription of portions of texts from other authors appears in quotation marks (“…”) without italics.

8. The articles do not contain a final bibliographic list.

Footnotes

1. Footnotes are presented in Word format, with continuous numbering, Times font, size 10 and simple spacing.

2. There should be left a single space between the number of each footnote and its text.

Sample citations

           The following examples illustrate the notes system of The Chicago Manual of Style, the international citation style we choose. Sample notes show full citations followed by shortened citations for the same sources. For more details and many more examples, see chapter 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style.

• Journal article

Note

1. Susan Satterfield, “Livy and the Pax Deum,” Classical Philology111, no. 2 (April 2016): 170.
2. Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem, “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality,” Journal of Human Capital11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 9–10, https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
3. Peter LaSalle, “Conundrum: A Story about Reading,” New England Review 38, no. 1 (2017): 95, Project MUSE.

Shortened note (used for a previously cited article) 

4. Satterfield, “Livy,” 172–173.
5. Keng, Lin, and Orazem, “Expanding College Access,” 23.
6. LaSalle, “Conundrum,” 101.

• Book

Note

1. Zadie Smith, Swing Time(New York: Penguin Press, 2016), 315–316.
2. Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 12.

Shortened note

3. Smith, Swing Time, 320.
4. Grazer and Fishman, Curious Mind, 37.

• Chapter (or other part of a book) 

Note

1. Henry David Thoreau, “Walking,” in The Making of the American Essay, ed. John D’Agata (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 177–178.

Shortened note

2. Thoreau, “Walking,” 182.

• Thesis or dissertation

Note

1. Cynthia Lillian Rutz, “King Learand Its Folktale Analogues” (PhD Thesis, University of Chicago, 2013), 99–100.

Shortened note

2. Rutz, “King Lear,” 158.

• E-book

Note

1. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851), 627, http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.html.
2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders.
3. Brooke Borel, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 92, ProQuest Ebrary.
4. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), chap. 3, Kindle.

Shortened note

5. Melville, Moby-Dick, 722–723.
6. Kurland and Lerner, Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4, doc. 29.
7. Borel, Fact-Checking, 104–105.
8. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chap. 14.

• Website content

It is often sufficient simply to describe web pages and other website content in the text (“As of May 1, 2017, Yale’s home page listed . . .”). If a more formal citation is needed, it may be styled like the examples below. For a source that does not list a date of publication or revision, include an access date (as in example note 2).

Note

1. “Privacy Policy,” Privacy & Terms, Google, last modified April 17, 2017, https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
2. “About Yale: Yale Facts,” Yale University, accessed May 1, 2017, https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.
3. Katie Bouman, “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole,” filmed November 2016 at TEDxBeaconStreet, Brookline, MA, video, 12:51, https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_bouman_what_does_a_black_hole_look_like.

Shortened note

4. Google, “Privacy Policy.”
5. “Yale Facts.”
6. Bouman, “Black Hole.”

• News or magazine article

Note

1. Rebecca Mead, “The Prophet of Dystopia,” New Yorker, April 17, 2017, 43.
2. Farhad Manjoo, “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera,” New York Times, March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap-makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the-camera.html.
3. Rob Pegoraro, “Apple’s iPhone Is Sleek, Smart and Simple,” Washington Post, July 5, 2007, LexisNexis Academic.
4. Tanya Pai, “The Squishy, Sugary History of Peeps,” Vox, April 11, 2017, http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/11/15209084/peeps-easter.

Shortened note

5. Mead, “Dystopia,” 47.
6. Manjoo, “Snap.”
7. Pegoraro, “Apple’s iPhone.”
8. Pai, “History of Peeps.”

• Cases

We add a rule for citation of case law more adapted for citating cases from Portuguese courts. When citating foreign case law follow the more common national style.

Note

1. Ac. STJ, de 23-10-2003, Recurso n.º 2509/03, CJ Supremo, XI (2003), n.º 3: 108-111.
2. Ac. STJ, de 2-02-2006, P.º 05B3578, in www.dgsi.pt.
3. Ac. Rel. Lisboa, de 2-03-2010, P.º 776/07.4TCSNT.L1-1, in www.dgsi.pt.

Shortened note

4. Ac. STJ, de 23-10-2003.
5. Ac. Rel. Lisboa, de 2-03-2010.