Guidelines and Instructions

Abstracts must be submitted by the authors through their respective personal areas.

Before submitting your abstract, please read the submission guidelines carefully and also check the available thematic areas and sections.

To submit your work:

1. Access your personal area on the website by clicking Login in the top right corner. If you do not yet have a user account, please click Signup Now and follow the steps.
2. In your personal area, select Abstracts from the left side menu, and then choose the Abstracts sub-option.
3. Click the + add Abstract button and complete all fields.

When submitting an abstract, the following fields must be filled in:

1. Thematic Area/Section
2. Type of presentation (in person or online)
3. Title
4. Abstract (between 1750 and 2500 characters without spaces)
5. Keywords
6. If there is more than one author, indicate their order, name, institutional affiliation and email address.

You can participate with a maximum of three abstracts, but you can only submit two abstracts as first author (i.e. two abstracts as individual author or one abstract as individual author and another as first author of an abstract with several co-authors, or two abstracts as first author of a collective work).

Due to the need for the timely definition of panel composition and the preparation of the communications programme, at the time of registration for the congress, authors presenting communications must make a definitive choice regarding the mode in which they will participate in the congress, either online or in person.

Language and participation limit

Abstracts can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French; you can participate in a maximum of three proposals, but you can only submit two proposals as first author (i.e. two proposals as an individual author or one proposal as an individual author and another as first author of a collective proposal, or two proposals as first author of a collective work).

Abstract Evaluation

The result will be expressed in one of the following ways:

1. Communication proposal accepted at TS/TA
2. Communication proposal not accepted at TS/TA

It may also happen that a proposal submitted to a particular Thematic Area is considered by the respective evaluators to be better suited to another Section/Thematic Area, and is therefore forwarded to that Section/Thematic Area in order to be evaluated there.

Full Article

It is not necessary to submit a final paper in order to present your work at the congress.

After the congress, a new submission/review phase will open for inclusion in the proceedings of the 14th Portuguese Congress of Sociology, where participants with papers presented will be able to submit the final article. The writing guidelines will be made available on the website in due course.

After the Congress, the Proceedings will be published in electronic format, with ISBN. Acceptance of the abstract and presentation of the paper at the Congress does not guarantee publication of the final text in the Congress Proceedings. The texts will be subjected to an evaluation and selection process under the responsibility of the current coordinators of the sections/areas in collaboration with the new coordinators who will be elected in the electoral process for the Thematic Sections that will take place after the Congress.