Submissions

Author Guidelines

JOURNAL’ SECTIONS

Sexualidad Salud y Sociedad publishes the following types of contributions, in Portuguese, Spanish and/or English:

Articles

Unpublished articles must be based on original empirical research and have a maximum of 50,000 characters with spaces, including title, abstract and keywords (in Spanish, Portuguese and English), notes and bibliographic references.

Each article may have a maximum of 4 (four) authors. In exceptional cases and upon justification sent to the Journal by the main author, this limit may be exceeded.

The texts will be analyzed by ad hoc reviewers in a double-blind or informed evaluation processes, according to the author's preference.

Thematic dossiers

The dossier must consist of 5 to 8 unpublished articles in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The editorial board may be consulted to evaluate specific cases. The organizers of the dossier must submit the proposal to the Editorial Board of Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad. The submitted document must include:

1. The general title of the proposal;
2. The titles and institutional affiliations of the organizers and other authors involved in the proposal;
3. A presentation and general justification of the discussion focused on, taking into account the relationship of the organizers with the proposal and the thematic scope of the Journal (up to 2,500 characters with spaces);
4. Title, abstract and up to 5 keywords of each of the articles that will be part of the dossier. The abstract and keywords must total a maximum of 1,000 characters with spaces;
5. Indication of at least three names and email contacts of potential reviewers for each article; taking into account, as far as possible, the institutional diversity of the reviewers.

When formulating a dossier proposal, it should be noted that the Revista Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad establishes that

• In the event of there being more than one proponent, they must work in institutions located in different regions of the country or in different countries in Latin America
• For dossiers consisting of 5 or 6 articles, the organizer(s) cannot also be authors of any of the included articles; their authorship is limited to the dossier's introduction.
• For dossiers consisting of 7 or 8 articles, the organizer(s) can be authors of only one of the articles, besides authoring the dossier's introduction.

Failure to comply with these guidelines will result in the rejection of the submitted proposal.

The proposal should be sent to the email address sexualidadsaludysociedad@gmail.com The subject line of the email should be: “Thematic dossier proposal”. The following will be taken into account in the evaluation:

• The quality of the proposal and the number of articles;
• Institutional and regional diversity of the proponents and authors;
• Compliance with the Journal’s rules regarding the maximum number of authors per article. The editorial board may be consulted to evaluate specific cases.

After the proposal is accepted, the articles will be evaluated by ad hoc reviewers, according to the evaluation system preferred by the author. Each article in the dossier must have a maximum of 50,000 characters with spaces, including the title, abstract and keywords (in Spanish, Portuguese and English), notes and bibliographic references, with the same characteristics indicated in the Articles Section.

Bibliographic essays

This section is intended for the publication of critical essays on topics of interest to the journal's thematic scope, constructed from the analysis of books and/or articles that touch on related subjects.

The essay must have a maximum of 50,000 characters with spaces, including title, abstract and keywords (in Spanish, Portuguese and English), notes and bibliographic references

The texts will be analyzed by ad hoc reviewers, according to the author's preferred evaluation system.

Interviews

The interview must be unpublished and may be conducted by more than one researcher. The text must have a maximum of 40,000 characters with spaces, including title, abstract and keywords (in Spanish, Portuguese and English), notes and bibliographical references.

The interview must have a specific guiding thread appropriate to the thematic scope detailed in our editorial policy; for example, the interviewee's trajectory in the field of studies on sexuality, health and society, his/her path and involvement in the field of activism, dialogues between the interviewee and the academic field and with other authors/social actors in the public debate.

The interview texts must be submitted through the journal's electronic editing system, with the interviewers previously registered as "Authors".

The materials submitted will be evaluated by the editorial team.

Speeches and debates

This section is intended for the publication of conferences, lectures or debates held at academic congresses, symposia and round tables on a subject appropriate to the thematic scope detailed in our editorial policy. The section allows for the individual or joint publication of texts produced for the same event.

Materials submitted for publication in the Speeches and Debates section must have up to 25,000 characters with spaces, including title, abstract and keywords (in Spanish, Portuguese and English), notes and bibliographical references.

Open Science

The section is intended for the publication of reasoned opinions produced during evaluation processes carried out under an open science regime. Ad hoc reviewers of articles approved for publication will be invited by the editorial team to publish in the new section, in the same volume as the evaluated text.

The text will be accompanied by a title and will have between 2,500 (min) and 5,000 (max) characters with spaces, excluding bibliographic references.

Document Collection

The Document collection section is intended for the publication of texts and documents with historical value, such as archival materials, rare or little-known documents, memorials and conferences produced by researchers, collectives and leaders with significant historical involvement in the field of debates on Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights in Latin America.

The submitted materials will be evaluated by the editorial team.

Reviews

Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad welcomes original and unpublished texts that review books related to the issues included in the theme and scope of the journal, published in the last five years, counting from the date of submission in the Journal's system. The proposed review texts cannot be under evaluation and/or about to be published in another journal.

• The maximum length of the reviews is 20,000 characters (with spaces).
• The reviews do not have titles; they must be headed with the complete bibliographic reference of the reviewed book (following the Journal's Author Guidelines regarding bibliographic citations).
• The author/s of the review must include, after the complete bibliographic reference of the reviewed book, their name/s, title, institutional affiliation, city, country and e-mail.
• The reviews must not contain notes.
• If the review text contains other bibliographical references, these must follow the Author Guidelines established for articles, which are detailed in the "Submissions" section.
• Review texts must be submitted through the journal's electronic editing system, with the reviewer having previously registered as "Author".
• Immediately after assessing the thematic relevance and formal adequacy of the reviews received, the Book Review Editors may approve the texts as they were submitted, suggest modifications, or reject them, applying the journal's editorial criteria.

GENERAL RULES FOR SUBMITTING CONTRIBUTIONS

• Texts must be written and edited in Word, in .doc format, Arial 12 font, with 1.5 spacing.
• Page size must be A4, with 3.0cm margins (top, bottom, left and right). Page numbers must be placed in the upper right corner (Arial 10).
• The title of the paper must be centered, in Arial 14 font, in bold, with capital letters and 1.5 spacing. If there is a subtitle, it must be written in lowercase letters. Abstracts must be in Arial 12, with single spacing.
• The abstract and keywords must total a maximum of 1000 characters with spaces.
• Graphs and/or tables must be included in the text, not at the end. They must be inserted in jpg format, with 300 dpi quality, so that direct reproduction is possible. They must have the corresponding titles and numbers, as well as references and sources, if applicable, all in Arial 10 font.
• The standardization of citations, references and captions of illustrations must be in accordance with the style guidelines detailed in the Chicago Manual of Style.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Contributions will be received in a continuous flow on the Uerj Portal platform. When submitting, the section to which the author wishes to submit the material must be selected.

When submitting the proposal, the author(s) must submit, together with the piece under evaluation:

1. Open Science Compliance Form.
2. Minibio.

In the “Open Science Compliance Form” will be informed

1. whether the manuscript is a preprint and, if so, its location;
2. whether data, program codes and other materials underlying the manuscript text are available in any repository and whether these were duly cited and referenced in the submitted material;
3. which evaluation system is desired in the peer review process.

In the case of opting for the double-blind evaluation system, to guarantee anonymity in the peer-review process, the text of the articles should not present any authorship marks, that is, the names of authors should not appear in the body of the text, including references in notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, etc. Such information should be replaced by the symbol $ and will be added throughout the editorial process.

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In the “Minibio” form, authors must provide full name, ORCID number and Lattes link, as well as the full name, city and country of your institutional affiliation (indicate institution + college and department, city, state and country). The names of institutions and programs must be presented in full and in the institution's original language, or in the English version.

As part of the Impact, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Policy of Sexuality, Health and Society, the “Minibio” Form will allow you to fill in information about your social, ethnic and racial profile, sexual orientation, gender identity and being a person with disabilities. This data will not be made public and will only be used to monitor the Journal's inclusion policies.

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EVALUATION PROCESS

The thematic and disciplinary relevance of the texts to be submitted to the peer review process will be defined in advance by the editors.

The original articles will be submitted for evaluation by at least two ad hoc evaluators chosen from a group of recognized experts in the various areas of interest of the Journal, who will give their opinion on the content and quality of the contributions.

To be published, the works submitted for review must obtain favorable determinations from the two evaluators who are experts in the subject. In the event of disparity of opinion, the text will be submitted for critical review by a third ad hoc evaluator, based on which the editorial decision on whether or not to publish will be made.

As a result of the evaluation process, the Journal's Editors compose an Editorial Definition on the article indicating that it is:

- Accepted for publication, or;

- Accepted for publication upon satisfactory compliance with the modifications requested by the results of the review - and may or may not undergo a second round of evaluations, or;

- Rejected.

NOTES, CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

Sexuality, Health and Society - Latin American Journal follows the style and formatting guidelines detailed in the Chicago Manual of Style and the specifications defined by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards for citing official documents.

1. Notes must be in footnote format and cannot consist solely of bibliographic references.
2. Direct text citations, of up to three lines, must be enclosed in quotation marks in the body of the text. Citations with more than three lines must be indented (left margin) by 4 cm, without quotation marks and in Arial 10 font.
3. The authorship reference of a direct citation excerpt must appear in the body of the text in the following format: author's last name | space | year of publication | comma | page number(s), as in the examples:

(Carrara 2015, 324) (Butler 2015, 220-221)

If two or more references have the same author and year, they should be distinguished using lowercase letters (a, b, c) after the year. To paraphrase an idea, use the same citation format, omitting the page number.

4. The complete list of bibliographic references should be inserted at the end of the text

Below is a breakdown of the citation standard accepted by the Journal. Cases not mentioned should be based on the guidelines established by the Chicago Manual of Style:

Books

Bento, Berenice. 2006. A reinvenção do corpo: sexualidade e gênero. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond.

(Bento 2006, 20)

Collections

Heilborn, M. L., Duarte, L. F. D., Peixoto, C., and Lins de Barros, M. 2005. Sexualidade, família e ethos religioso. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond.

(Heilborn et al 2005, 51)

Book chapter

Portnoy, Fabian. 2005. "El embarazo en la adolescencia y los risgos perinatales". In Embarazo y maternidad en la adolescencia. Estereotipos, evidencias y propuestas para políticas públicas, edited by Monica Gogna. Buenos Aires: CEDES.

(Portnoy 2005, 76)

Article published in a journal

Crapanzano, Vincent. 2005. " A cena: lançando sombra sobre o real ". Mana. Studies in Social Anthropology 11 (2): 357-383.

(Crapanzano 2005)

Farias, Juliana, and Natália B. do Lago, and Roberto Efrem Filho. 2020. " Mães e lutas por justiça. Encontros entre produção de conhecimento, ativismos e democracia." Sexuality, Health and Society 36: 146-180.

(Farias, Lago and Efrem Filho 2020)

Dissertation or Thesis

Vianna, Adriana. 2002. Mães e lutas por justiça. Encontros entre produção de conhecimento, ativismos e democracia. Doctoral thesis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Lacerda, Paula. 2006. “O drama encenado: assassinatos de gays e travestis na imprensa carioca”. Master’s dissertation, Rio de Janeiro State University.

Publications in newspapers

With authorship

Last name, name of author(s). 2015. “Title of the article”. Name of the newspaper, name of the section [if applicable], number, volume, , day and month.

(Last name of author 2015)

Without authorship

Name of the newspaper. 2015. “Title of the article”. Section, number, volume, day and month.

(Name of newspaper 2015)

In the case of publications accessible in digital databases, insert link and date of access.

Digital documents and texts

Last name, name of author(s). Year of publication. “Title of document/text”. Title of the source of the publication [Name of the web page], day and month. Available at: Link (Accessed on: date the document was consulted).

In the case of citations of content published on social networks, we adopt the following standard:

Profile name or @ [Facebook, Instagram, X…). Year. “Title or first sentence of the publication”. Name of the social network, day, month, year. Link to the post

URLs must be active at the time of submission of the article for evaluation by the journal.

Laws, regulations and decrees

Bibliographic references relating to laws, regulations, decrees and legal documents must comply with ABNT Standard 6023/2018. This scope includes federal constitutions, constitutional reforms and infra-constitutional legal texts (decrees, ordinances, resolutions, provisional measures, resolutions, etc.). In general terms, it must include: authorship/entity publishing the legal document (in capital letters), document title, menu, place and date of publication, access link and access date. In the case of a printed document, include city, publisher, year and page range.

Example:

BRAZIL. Law 8.069, of July 13, 1990. Institutes the Statute of Children and Adolescents and establishes other provisions. Official Gazette of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Brasília, DF, July 16, 1990. Available at: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/l8069.htm Accessed on: February 10, 2010.