Guidelines for preparation and publication of manuscripts

PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

1. INTRODUCTION

ex æquo publishes texts from various disciplinary areas that make a contribution to knowledge in the field of women's studies, feminist studies, and gender studies. Texts may be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, or English, and must use non-discriminatory, inclusive language that promotes equality.

2. TYPES OF TEXTS

i. The journal publishes the following types of texts:

• Research articles, with a maximum length of 40,000 characters (including spaces, tables, notes and references, and excluding abstracts);

• Book reviews, with a maximum length of 10,000 characters (including spaces, footnotes and references). The reference to the book reviewed must be included at the end of the text;

• Other types of text, such as interviews or literature reviews, may be accepted for publication if the Editorial Board considers that they fit the objectives of the journal. In these cases, the character limit is 25,000 (including spaces). Proposals will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and may be discussed between authors and editors prior to submission.

ii. Texts submitted for publication must be original, not having been previously published or undergoing review for publication. An exception is made for works published in conference proceedings or deriving from theses and dissertations; in these cases, the first author of the article must be the same as the author of the original project. The proposed text must contain references to any previous versions, with the relevant details (author, title and date of the conference, institution, year of thesis or dissertation defense, etc.). Articles submitted for publication are the sole responsibility of the authors, who guarantee that they do not infringe any copyright or other rights of third parties or entities.

iii. Only in very exceptional cases, and with express justification, will ex æquo accept the submission of articles or other texts with more than 4 authors.

iv. ex æquo does not accept the indication of artificial intelligence tools as authors, as they cannot be held responsible for the content. If they have been used, they must be mentioned in a footnote as follows: During the preparation of this work, [name of tool(s), model or service] version [number and/or date] was/were used for [justify reason(s)]. After use, the content was reviewed and edited in accordance with the scientific method. The author(s) assume full responsibility for the content of the publication.

3. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Each article proposed for publication must be formatted according to the templates provided. The proposal must include two Word files:

a) 1 text file with the identification of the authors, including the following items for each author, according to the template provided here:

i. Name;

ii. ORCID ID (https://orcid.org/);

iii. Name and acronym of the main institution to which the author is affiliated and its full postal address, including postal code, city and country;

iv. Email address;

v. Biographical note, with a maximum limit of 500 characters, which should include references to other institutions to which the author is affiliated, if any;

vi. Specify acknowledgements (which should include references to any collaborators and/or funding);

vii. Declaration of conflict of interests or lack thereof;

viii. Identification of each author's contribution, following the CRediT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/), whenever a collectively authored text is submitted. The table below must be filled in.

ix. If you wish to make your research data available, you must register this before the references. See section 5 of these Guidelines.

b) 1 anonymized text file, proofread for typos, in Word format, according to the template provided here. Articles must include:

• A title and an abstract with a maximum of 750 characters. Both the title and the abstract must be translated into three languages (Portuguese and English are mandatory; the third language may be Spanish or French). For research articles, abstracts must contain the following elements: (1) background and research question; (2) main methods of research production and analysis; (3) summary of the main conclusions of the article. Non-standard or unusual abbreviations should be avoided in the abstract.

• 4 or 5 keywords, translated into the same languages as the abstracts, presented in lowercase (except for the first one in the list), separated by commas and ending with a full stop.

• An abbreviated title (maximum 4 words), intended for the header.

c) The following guidelines must be considered when composing and formatting texts:

• Texts should be formatted according to the template provided.

• It is suggested that a maximum of three levels of titling be used, without numbering or with Arabic numbering.

• Quotations under 40 words (up to 4 lines) should be inserted in your text and enclosed within double quotation marks; longer quotes should be placed in a free-standing text block, indented on the left, without quotation marks or italics.

• Words in languages other than the one in which the article is written should be formatted in italics, without quotation marks.

• All quotations must be translated into the language in which the text is published. The original text, however, must be included in a footnote.

• Texts in Portuguese must follow the New Orthographic Agreement for the Portuguese Language (1990). If you have any questions, please check the following site: http://www.portaldalinguaportuguesa.org/?action=lince

• Non-textual elements must be organized into tables, graphs or figures, and identified with continuous Arab numbering for each type of element; each one must have a title (at the top) and indicate the respective source (at the end). Use Word's “Insert Table” function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors. In addition, all the images and tables must be sent in a separate file, in png or jpeg format, indicating clearly where they are to be placed in the text.

• For footnotes, use superscript numbers with no parentheses

d) ex æquo adopts, with some adaptations, the Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date system), whose guidelines may be consulted here: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

We summarize and exemplify below some of these guidelines.

in-text citations

• In parentheses, as in the following examples (no comma between the author’s last name and the publication date, and a comma preceding the page numbers). E.g.: (Leach 1993, 103); (Balibar & Wallerstein 1991, 80-84); (Yuval-Davis 1997a); (Yuval-Davis 1997b).

• When citing works with more than three authors, only include the surname of the first author, followed by the expression et al.

• When citing different authors or works on the same issue, insert citations in chronological order, from the oldest to the most recent; for works with the same date, place the authors’ last names in alphabetical order. E.g.: (Rosende 2002; Miller & Clark 2008; Lo Sasso et al. 2011; Riska 2011).

List of Works Cited

At the end of the article, a list of all the sources cited in the text (and only these) should be included in alphabetical order. Whenever the publication has an associated DOI, it must be included.

Some examples:

• Book with one author: Last name, First name. Year. Book title (in italics). (edition) (if relevant). Publisher.

E.g.: Lamas, Maria. 1948. As Mulheres do Meu País. Actuális Lda.

• Book with 2 to 6 authors: Last name, First name, First name Last name, First name Last name, First name Last name, First name Last name, & First name Last name. Year. Book title (in italics). (edition) (if relevant). Publisher.

E.g.: Pimentel, Irene Flunser, & Helena Pereira de Melo. 2015. Mulheres Portuguesas – História da vida e dos direitos das mulheres num mundo em mudança. Clube do Autor.

• Book with more than 6 authors: Last name, First name, First name Last name, First name Last name, et al. Year. Book title (in italics). (edition) (if relevant). Publisher.

• Chapter or part of a book: Last name, First name. Year. “Chapter title.” In Book title (in italics), edited by First name Last name, First name Last name, & First name Last name, first and last page numbers separated by hyphen. Publisher.

E.g.: Piscitelli, Adriana. 2009. “Gênero: a história de um conceito.” In Diferenças, igualdade, edited by Heloísa Buarque de Almeida, & José Szwako, 116-149. Berlendis & Vertecchia.

• Journal article: Last name, First name. Year. “Article title.” Journal title (in italics) volume (number): first and last page numbers separated by hyphen. DOI

Ex: Checa-García, Irene. 2024. “Third Gender Marking in Spanish: Evaluation of Current Options from a Linguistic Change Point of View.” ex æquo 49: 123-138. https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2024.49.09 

Crenshaw, Kimberle. 1993. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43(6): 1241-1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039

• Article with 2 to 6 authors: Last name, First name, First name Last name, ..., & First name Last name. Year. ‘Title of article in quotation marks.’ Journal title (in italics) volume (number): first and last page numbers separated by hyphen. DOI

• Article with more than 6 authors: include the first 3 names as indicated above, followed by et al.

E.g.: Decker, Michele R., Charvonne N. Holliday, Zaynab Hameeduddin, et al. 2019. ‘“You Do Not Think of Me as a Human Being’: Race and Gender Inequities Intersect to Discourage Police Reporting of Violence Against Women.” Journal of Urban Health 96: 772-783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-019-00359-z

• Theses and dissertations: Last name, First name. Year. “Title of thesis or dissertation.” PhD dissertation /Master's thesis, Name of Institution. URL

E.g.: Bristow, Lora J. 2013. “Work: Social Relations of Quilting.” Master's thesis, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/1227/

• Internet document: Last name, first name. Year. Title of document. URL

• Article in online journal: Last name, first name. Year. “Title of article.” Title of journal volume (number): first and last page numbers separated by hyphen. DOI or URL

• Internet sites and personal or institutional pages without a date: Name. Title of document. URL

• If you have any questions or require other types of references, please consult the following webpage: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

4. SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

• Computer files must be submitted via the OJS platform, available at https://apem-estudos.org/ojs. In order to do so, you need to create an account on this platform by clicking on “Register” (top right-hand corner) and follow the steps indicated. If you already have an account, click on “Log in” (top right-hand corner) and insert your username and password.

• When submitting your article on the platform, you will be asked to indicate (in the field “For the editorial team”) at least four experts who have work/publications on the topic addressed in your article, as well as their email addresses, so that they can be contacted to review your text if it passes the initial screening (see section 6 infra). If you are submitting a book review, you do not need to indicate experts.

5. INCLUSION OF SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS ONLINE

Supplementary materials can be made available online through the article published on the journal’s website. The decision is made on a case-by-case basis.

Whenever requested by the authors, links to supplementary materials stored in open access repositories may be included. All the data in open access are managed by the authors of the articles and are subject to the conditions of the platforms in which they are stored. This information should be included in a separate section, before the final list of references.

The journal is not responsible for the access to, and/or maintenance of, the data or links provided.

6. ARTICLE REVIEW PROCESS

• Articles submitted to the journal undergo an initial screening (carried out by the Editorial Team) to verify that they comply with the guidelines presented here and that they are original, using plagiarism detection software. Those that clear the initial screening are sent for peer review.

• In the case of submissions made by members of the Editorial Board or by editors of thematic issues, the journal's usual double-blind peer review process is conducted by other members of the Editorial Board.

• Articles submitted for publication are reviewed by two people (double-blind peer review), who are specialists in the field covered by the text. The texts are sent anonymously to the referees, who are asked to take the following aspects into account in their opinions: the relevance, originality, clarity and coherence of the content; its appropriateness and timeliness; the appropriateness and clarity of the methodology and information; the clarity of the writing and its formal coherence and balance. Reviews should include a recommendation regarding possible publication, from among the following: publishable with minor modifications; publishable with substantial modifications and resubmission; not publishable. Suggestions and their justification for improving the quality of the article will also be requested and sent by the Editorial Board to the author(s).

7. PUBLICATION RIGHTS 

• The authors of the texts published in ex æquo authorize the transfer of edition, publication, distribution and reproduction rights to the journal, in both print and digital formats. The transfer of these rights is made free of charge, and ex æquo will not offer any compensation for them.

• If authors wish to republish, reuse, distribute or deposit an article accepted for publication in ex æquo in an institutional repository, they may do so, provided that they reference the original publication in ex æquo, as defined by the license adopted by the journal.

• ex æquo adopts the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY license, which allows others to redistribute, adapt and build upon published works, even for commercial purposes, provided that the original work is given due credit (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).