The journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos accepts academic articles and book reviews for publication. All submitted manuscripts must be original. After a close reading by the Editorial Board, the submissions will be evaluated anonymously by two external referees, who will then present their evaluation results. In the case of issues organized by one or more researchers, he/she/they will act as additional referees. These evaluations shall be taken into account in the Editorial Board’s final decision, which will be communicated to the authors, in due time.   

 

Authors take full responsibility for published articles.

Articles to be submitted must be original, and written in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish.

Submitted articles must be sent to one of the following email addresses: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The following should be included in a separate sheet of paper:

a)      Author’s name

b)      Affiliation

c)      Current position

d)     Institutional address

e)      Email

f)       Phone and/or Cell phone number

 

6. Body text, footnotes and bibliography must obey the following format:

7. Tables, graphics and images should be sent in the original format

8. Articles should not exceed 60.000 characters, including line-spaces (circa 30 pages), notes, bibliography, tables, boards and images.

9. Each article must include: title, abstract (maximum of 120 words) and 6 key-words.

10. Title, abstract and key-words must be both in English and Portuguese or, alternatively, in the text’s original language. 

11. Text sections should be introduced by sub-titles, with the exception of the first one. 

Footnotes and not endnotes should be used for reference and explanatory purposes. Preferably, they should not exceed five lines. Inner-textual references should be preferably avoided and, when used, must be accompanied by the corresponding page number.

 

Quotations should come between quotation marks (“”) and italics should not be used. When longer than three lines, quotations should be indented, with no quotation marks, and in font size 11. In either case, all quotations must be followed by the author’s last name, publication date and page number (e.g. Malyn, 1997: 73). Quotations may come in the text’s original language or may be translated. Those translated by the article’s author must explicitly include this information (e.g. Malyn, 1997: 73 – my translation)

 

Foreign language expressions and highlights (ex. traditional authority in Mozambique) should come in italics.

 

All authors submitting articles for publication in Cadernos de Estudos Africanos must agree not to submit those same articles to other academic journals. Simultaneously, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos holds the right to the articles’ indexation in national and international databases. Articles’ contents, expressed opinions, as well as references to images or graphics, which have already been published, are the authors’ exclusive responsibility.  

   

Bibliography. All quoted or referenced works in the body text must be compiled at the end of the article, by alphabetical order, starting with the author’s last name and including the date of the publication used, complete title, place and publisher. Whenever the article’s author quotes an excerpt from a work’s later edition, the original publication date must follow the reference to the used text’s publication date, in between square brackets – [ ]. The authors’ full names must be mentioned and the works’ titles should come in a decreasing time sequence (from the most recent to the oldest). Works by the same author, in the same year, should be differentiated by letters, in alphabetical order (e.g. Costa 2002a, 2002b, etc.). Works with more than three authors use only the name of the first author follow by “et al.” (in italic). In citations inside the article where the work as more them one author use “and” to separate authors names (ex. Comaroff and Comaroff.).

 

Publishing places should be referred to in the language used by the article’s author (e.g. “Londres” instead of “London”, for articles written in Portuguese). References to audio-visual and sound material should be compiled in separate sections (e.g. discography, films, etc.). The final bibliography must obey the format exemplified by the following: 

Newitt, Malyn (1997). História de Moçambique. Mem Martins, Publicações Europa-América. 

Weber, Max (1983 [1922]). Fundamentos da Sociologia. Lisboa, Rés.  

Eagly, Alice H.; Chaiken, Shelly (1993). The Psychology of Attitudes. Forth Worth, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers 

Le Bris, Emile; Le Roy, Etienne; Mathieu, Paul (orgs.) (1991). L’appropriation de la terre en Afrique noire. Manuel d’analyse, de décision et de gestion foncières. Paris, Karthala. 

Tajfel, Henri (1983). «Categorização social, identidade social e comparação social», in Henri Tajfel, Grupos Humanos e Categorias Sociais – II. Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 289-303. 

Gerth, Hans; Mills, Charles Wright (orgs.) (1991). From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. London, Routledge. 

Bayart, Jean-François (1986). «Civil Society in Africa», in Patrick Chabal (org.), Political Domination in Africa: Reflections on the Limits of Power. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 

Cassen, Robert et al. (1986). Does Aid Work? Report to an Inter-Governmental Task Force. New York, Oxford University Press. 

Abba, Souleymane (1990). «La chefferie traditionnelle en question», Politique Africaine, 38, 51-60. 

Busino, Giovanni (1999). s.v. «Sociedade», Enciclopédia Einaudi, 38, «Sociedade-Civilização». Lisboa, Porto e Coimbra, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 11-64. 

Ribot, Jesse (2001). «Gouvernance, ‘Accountability’ et Subsidiarité», in Gouvernance et Gestion Commune des Ecosystèmes Forestiers d’Afrique Centrale, Actes de la 3ème CEFDAHC. Yaoundé, IUCN, 38-48. 

Alpers, Edward A. (1998). «Recollecting Africa: Diasporic Memory in the Indian Ocean World», paper presented at the conference «African Diaspora Studies on the Eve of the 21st Century», Department of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 30 - May 2, 1998. 

Boletim Oficial (de Macau) (1958) n.º 2, de 6 de Novembro. 

Boletim Oficial (1907) n.º 26, de 1 de Julho (Suplemento). 

Medeiros, Eduardo, s/data. «Evolução Demográfica das Comunidades Chinesas em Moçambique, 1858-1975» (não publicado). 

Book reviews should not exceed 8 000 characters (including spaces). The reviewed work should be identified by the author’s name, title, publication place, publisher, publication date and number of pages. Quotes from other works besides the one being reviewed should come in the body text, in between parentheses, and should include the author’s name, the cited work’s title, its publication date and the quote’s page number (e.g. M. Newitt, História de Moçambique, 1997: 102). In the case of a quote referring to a work cited in the book being reviewed, this should be made clear in the review’s body text, and only the publication date needs to me mentioned.