Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Scope of the Journal

POLISSEMA – Revista de Letras do ISCAP is an international scientific journal, with anonymous peer review, published since 2001 in printed format and, since 2019, exclusively in digital format.

POLISSEMA aims to disseminate pedagogical and scientific research in the fields of Translation, Interpreting, Localization, Linguistics, Languages for Specific Purposes, Technologies Applied to Language Teaching, Interpreting, Translation, Technical Communication, Multimodal Communication, and Creative Writing, among others.

1.1 Contributions

The journal publishes research results in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish and German.

It is the sole responsibility of the author(s) to ensure that the contribution is original, unpublished and that it is not under review or for publication by another journal (in the same or other language).

There is no fee to publish an article in POLISSEMA.

Contributions can be:

1. Articles (5000-6300 words), including titles, tables, affiliation and bibliography.

2. Studies, Reports, Proposals (5000-6000 words), including titles, tables and bibliography.

3. Review Articles (5000-6300 words), including titles, tables and bibliography.

4. Critical Reviews (1500-5000 words), including titles, tables and bibliography.

4. Translations, up to 5000 words.

All contributions must comply with the American Psychological Association (APA 7) Publication Standards, guidelines for publication and structure of their manuscripts (point 3, below) and the Submission Preparation Checklist.

Authors may submit contributions between January 1 and August 31 of each year, to be published by December of that same year.

2. Editorial Policy

2.1 Peer Review and Criteria

The Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor are responsible for accepting or rejecting the submitted contributions, supported by an Editorial Board and an Editorial Review Board, composed of national and international internal and external reviewers, and a system of double-blind peer review.

Based on the scientific reports of the reviewers, the Editorial Board decides to accept or reject the submissions, according to the following criteria:

1. a) Originality;
2. b) Relevance and impact: development of scientific knowledge;
3. c) Reliability and scientific validity: verified methodological quality (only for articles);
4. d) Organization (logical coherence and formal presentation);
5. e) Clarity and correctness of the text.

2.2 Publication Process

POLISSEMA acknowledges the receipt of the authors’ submission and keeps them informed, by e-mail and on the platform, of the acceptance/rejection process, as well as of the editing process, in case of acceptance. In point 3 and under Submission Preparation Checklist, authors can find guidelines for submission, publication and structure of their manuscripts.

2.2.1 Preliminary Acceptance

Up to 15 days after the date of submission of the manuscript, the contact author will be informed if the document has passed the preliminary acceptance phase for review by the Editorial Review Board.

If the submitted document:

1. contains formatting errors, does not fall within the scope of the publication or does not meet POLISSEMA’s quality criteria, in general, the Editorial Board will reject the manuscript. In this case, resubmission is not possible.
2. contains superficial errors, it will be returned to the author for correction before the peer-review process. The author must resubmit the corrected document within one week. In this case, the official date of acceptance is the date on which the corrected version is received.
3. contains a structure that does not respect the categories listed in 1.1, the guidelines for publication and structure of their manuscripts and the Submission Preparation Checklist, the Editorial Board will advise for resubmission in another category, when possible.

After a blind peer review, manuscripts will be accepted or rejected for publication. Authors may also be requested to introduce stylistic changes and/or to review texts that exceed the maximum length allowed while respecting the original content.

2.2.2 Acceptance and Editing

Once the preliminary acceptance process is completed, the manuscript will be sent for blind peer review. This process may take approximately 8 weeks. Manuscripts evaluated positively but requiring changes, both minor and major, must be resubmitted within a maximum period of 15 days from the receipt of the notification via the PARC platform.

Authors will receive anonymous evaluation reports in order to make the requested changes.

Authors of articles accepted for publication will receive proof of the final texts for correction in PDF format before final publication. The revised versions must be returned within 3 working days of receipt in order to be published.

3. Guidelines for publication and structure of their manuscripts

The text should follow the rules indicated below. In omitted cases, APA Standard rules apply.

3.1 Formatting:

a) Page formatting: A4 size, side margins - 3 cm; top and bottom margins - 2.5 cm; spacing 2 pt.

b) Font: Garamond, size 12 for body text and title; size 11 for highlighted quotations and references; size 10 for footnotes (no line spacing).

c) Title: centred, written in capital letters and in bold.

d) Paragraph indentation: 1cm

e) Highlights in the text: use italics instead of bold or underlined.

f) Do not use header or footer, except to indicate the page number.

 3.2 Structure

If you are submitting an "Article", the text must follow the structure presented below.

In the “Study”, “Report” and “Proposal” categories, more flexibility is allowed in sections 5 and 6. The "References" section is mandatory in all categories (except in "Translation").

The title, abstract and keywords must always be in English and in the working language (if it is English, a Portuguese version is required). The use of automatic translation, without post-editing, is not accepted since linguistic correction and style are quality criteria.

a) Title (in English and Portuguese/work language)

It should be concise but informative and have a maximum of two lines (80 characters with spaces).

The editor may request changes to the title if it does not cover the direction of the work correctly.

d) Abstract (in English and Portuguese/work language)

It should be 200 to 250 words in length and describe, in a concise way, the motivation and the objective of the research, the methodology used, the most relevant results and the main conclusions, with the following structure: justification of the theme, objectives, study methodology, results and conclusions.

It should be written in an impersonal way.

e) Keywords: minimum 4, maximum 8 (in English and Portuguese/work language).

f) Introduction: justify the study and refer to its objectives, using citations, as well as the review of the most relevant literature on the subject, at national and international level.

g) Material and methods: the sample and model forms should be described, as well as the type of analysis used, so that the reader can understand and confirm the development of the research. When an original methodology is used, it is necessary to explain the reasons that led to its use and describe possible limitations.

h) Results and Analysis: should highlight the most important observations and impartially describe the observations made with the material and methods used, as well as the most relevant results of the investigation.

Essential tables or figures should appear consistently in the text.

i) Discussion and conclusions: should relate the results and summarize the main conclusions, linking the observations of the study with other studies of reference.

j) Contributions and limitations: should highlight research contributions to the field and indicate limitations, without restating data already commented on.

Reference should be made to the implications of the results and limitations, including deductions for future research, as well as relate the conclusions of the objectives of the study. Conclusions not fully supported by the research data presented should be avoided.

l) References: only those cited in the text should be included. Whenever available, indicate DOI. The URLs must be in reduced format (e.g. http://bit.ly/2JkuWs8); centred; size 11.

Footnotes: should be avoided and used only when the information is relevant and impossible to cite in the text. Size 10, single space.

All sections of the text must be separated by 1 space.

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