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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The text follows the style guidelines and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors, found on the page About > Submissions.

  • The contribution is original and has not been previously published and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; if this is not the case, a justification should be presented in “Comments to the editor”, except for preprint cases as detailed below.
  • Limit on the number of authors. Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS has set the maximum number of authors for submissions to the Articles, Interviews, Translation, and Presentation sections at four. All authors must have at least an academic master’s degree completed.
  • When submitting a manuscript, it's mandatory that authors provide all information on the DILEMAS platform, including academic background since earning a bachelor's degree, institutional affiliation, e-mail, ORCID ID, and a mini-bio of all authors.
  • The submitted document should have a limit of 2MB, be sent in format .doc or .docx, and standardized according to the norms ABNT NBR 6023/2018.
  • If the work is submitted to a section that has peer review (for example articles), the instructions available in Ensuring blind peer evaluation will be carried out by the editorial team to ensure the anonymity of the authors.
  • All manuscripts submitted to DILEMAS must be accompanied by the Open Science Compliance Form duly completed to inform: (a) if the manuscript is a preprint and, if so, its location; (b) whether data, software codes and other materials underlying the manuscript text are properly cited and referenced; and, (c) whether opening options are accepted in the peer review process.
  • By requirement of Capes, all authors must inform their ORCID ID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) at time of submission. For this reason, we request that anyone who has still not registered with ORCID, do so on the ORCID platform, as soon as possible and include the number issued (ID) and URL (link) in their registration on the journal’s portal. Link to register with ORCID: https://orcid.org/

    It is important that after registering with ORCID, that you access your data on the DILEMAS portal using your login and password and insert the information from ORCID in the specific fields. At this Content Mind link you will find instructions and a video with guidance about how to register on ORCID, if you have any questions.

Author Guidelines

DILEMAS - Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social publishes in a continuous flow original and previously unpublished scientific contributions, preferably based on empiric research, in the form of articles, reviews and interviews in the social sciences (with priority for sociology and anthropology). Its mission is to promote scientific development and discussion of ideas in the field of studies of conflicts and social control in the social sciences, such as:

- Deviant behaviors
- Violences
- Criminality
- Morality
- Social movements and collective action
- Urban conflicts
- Criminal justice
- Public safety
- Public and private institutions for social control

The contributions should be appropriate to an academic publication with a non-normative content and use the language and approach typical to this medium. 

All submissions will be initially evaluated by the Editorial Commission to decide their pertinence to the editorial line of DILEMAS. Once accepted, they will be submitted to independent reviewers, and the authors and reviewers will remain anonymous. Each article will always be submitted to at least two evaluations. In case of controversy, the article will be sent to a third reviewer. If the controversy persists, the article will be evaluated by the Editorial Commission and the final decision can be made by the editor. All authors will receive the reviews of their articles, with the comments made by the reviewers and by the Editorial Commission, when applicable, or by the editors of DILEMAS. Publication is dependent on approval by the reviewers. The estimated time for approval and publication averages from 6 (six) months to one year. In the case of accepted articles, in order to ensure the shortest time possible between approval and publication, DILEMAS has adopted since 2023 the continuous publication format.

DILEMAS publishes articles, reviews, interviews, lectures, dossiers and special issues. The texts will be published in Portuguese, except for articles that are originally written in Spanish, English or French, which will be published in the original language, with abstracts in this language, and in Portuguese and English. For submissions to the Articles and Review sections, as of 10 August 2020, DILEMAS has required that all authors have academic master’s degrees.

Limit on the number of authors. Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS has set the maximum number of authors for submissions to the Articles, Interviews, Translation, and Presentation sections at four.

Definitions and Specific Standards

Article: this is a previously unpublished text that reports on a new study, with an explicit methodology, or introduces an original theoretical discussion. Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS will limit the number of authors to a maximum of four. As of 10 August 2020, DILEMAS began to require that all authors of articles have an academic master’s degree. It must contain from 6,000 to 12,000 words (including bibliographic references, in Times New Roman font, 12 (twelve) pts, line spacing of 1.5 (one and a half). Notes should be limited to two per page and should only have comments strictly necessary to the text.

Preprint: manuscript ready for submission to a journal that is deposited on an open-access Web server, either previously or in parallel with submission to a journal, for evaluation with a view to its formal publication as a peer-reviewed article. These servers are identified as preprint servers and must comply with a series of conditions to be recognized as trusted servers and, thus, authenticated by DILEMAS.

Translation: contribution in the form of an article by another author or by the own author, originally produced in non-Portuguese language and translated into Portuguese, always in thematic areas of interest to DILEMAS. Articles and book chapters may be translated, provided they are duly authorized by their authors and / or rights holders. They must be typed in Times New Roman font, 12 (twelve) pts, with 1.5 (one and a half) line spacing, following the same quote and reference guidelines for articles. Translations can be signed by more than one author. Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS will limit the number of authors to a maximum of four.

Interview: contribution in the form of a transcription of a conversation, with a person of interest to the themes addressed by DILEMAS. Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS will limit the number of authors to a maximum of four. It should be no more than 8,000 words, presented in Times New Roman, 12 (twelve) pts, 1.5 (one and one half) spacing. The interview should be presented in question-and-answer form and should be preceded by an explanatory introduction of up to one page (included in the total limit). This should present the issue and the background of the interviewee.

Review: contribution in the format of an analytical and or opinionative text about a written, dramatic or audiovisual work in the field of the journal published in the previous two (2) years. It should be signed by only one author. It must contain from 2,000 to 4,000 words, in Times New Roman font, 12 (twelve) pts, line spacing of 1.5 (one and a half). The notes must be limited to three per page and only have comments that are strictly necessary to the text. The bibliographic reference for the work reviewed should be included in an introduction. As of 10 August 2020, DILEMAS has required that all authors have academic master’s degrees.

Memory: This section aims to offer a space for recognized researchers and authors to address methodological issues and fieldwork challenges faced in the research and writing of one of their main published works. Submissions must follow the same rules as articles, with the editor-in-chief being responsible for deciding on whether the publication is adequate in case it can't be analyzed by reviewers.

Presentation: this section aims to accommodate the presentation text of dossiers and/or special issues, which may or may not, at the discretion of the editor-in-chief, be published as an article. If the author/authors prefer it to be submitted as an article, the text must follow the same publication standards as articles. If this is not the case, the text can be submitted only as a presentation, containing at least one citation in the text followed by its references. It must contain from 2,000 to 4,000 words, in Times New Roman font, size 12 (twelve) pts, 1.5 (one and a half) spacing. Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS will limit the number of authors to a maximum of four.

Dossiers: DILEMAS occasionally publishes thematic dossiers, which may be initiated by the editors – for which it promotes a call for papers – or upon receipt of proposals, which can be sent at any time to the journal by e-mail. Proposals for dossiers are evaluated by the editors and by the Editorial Commission. A dossier is a group of at most 5 articles about a single theme, which are presented together for evaluation and publication in a single edition. Once the dossier proposed is approved, the responsibility for soliciting the articles is up to the organizers. All of the texts – except for the presentation of the dossier, which is analyzed by the editors – will be submitted to the criteria and norms of publication, and to all of the procedures for evaluation applied to any article sent to the journal.  

Special Issues: DILEMAS occasionally publishes special thematic issues, with numbering distinct from the regular issues. This may be done when the editors understand it to be of interest – and when they will conduct a public call for papers – or to receive proposals based on content associated to an event or to another non-routine situation that influences the timing of publication. A proposal can be sent to the journal by email at any time and is evaluated by the editors and the Editorial Commission. The special issues of Dilemas result from proposals for dossiers about a single theme that have more than 05 articles to be published in a single edition.

Once the special issue proposed is approved, the responsibility for soliciting the articles is up to the organizers. This special issue will include the collaboration of a special editor related to the theme and its texts will be submitted to the same criteria and publication norms, and to all the evaluation procedures applied to any article sent to the journal – except when authors are invited to submit special articles. These will be evaluated by the editors, the Editorial Commission and by the special editor.

Guidelines for colaborations:

The submitted document should have a limit of 2MB, be sent in format .doc or .docx, and standardized according to the norms ABNT NBR 6023/2018, and obey the following formal criteria:

General standards:

Cover page: all of the submissions must be accompanied by a cover page with an abstract of 650 characters (with spaces), in Portuguese (resumo) and English, with the title translated into Portuguese; five keywords (also in both languages); and a brief summary of the authors curriculum, in the format:  

NAME and LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR (e-mail) and [positions, beginning with the most important and with the complete names of the associated institutions (with initials in parentheses, and the city, except when it is explicit in the name, and the country, even if it is Brazil)]. And [education, from the highest to the lowest, including undergraduate level]. Orcid: [insert Orcid address].

Authorship and coauthorship: the people designated as authors must have participated actively in the drafting of the article, so that they can publicly assume responsibility for its content. The qualification of someone as an author presupposes involvement in the: a) conception and outlining or even analysis and interpretation of data, or both; b) writing of the manuscript or its critical editing; and c) review and final approval of the version to be published. In the case of submissions with multiple authors, the individual contributions of each one of the authors should be expressly indicated at the end of the text, only by the initials, as in the following example:

GFM worked in the conception and in the final drafting of the article and CMG worked on the analysis or interpretation of the data and on the final drafting of the article.

Starting on April 1st 2026, DILEMAS will limit the number of authors to a maximum of four.

DILEMAS recommends the CRediT Taxonomy document.

Quotes: should be presented, as they are traditionally, within quotation marks, up to a limit of three lines of text. If they are longer than this, they should be placed in a separate block, with a single line of spacing before and after the text, in font 10 (ten) pts., with margins of 1 (one) cm to the left and single spacing.

Images: should be placed in the body of the article but should also be sent in separate files as a supplementary document, preferentially in JPEG format (with resolution of 300 dpi). If graphs or tables are used, in addition to being incorporated into the body of the article, they should be sent in image files that correspond to them, and if possible, the spreadsheets from which they originated.

Bibliographic references: only the works cited in the body of the text should be included. The bibliographic references should be up to date with advances produced in each thematic field and object of research. We urge our authors to remain familiar with the updated bibliography in their field of study and we emphasize that this is an important criteria related to the currentness of the contribution published, and will be considered in the analysis by the reviewers and specialists, who are scholars that work in the same field of studies and research. Indexing databases of academic publications and similar catalogs usually recommend giving priority to bibliographic references and citations that were published in the past five years. URLs for the references were informed when possible. When placed within the text, references should always be presented in parentheses, in the format: (AUTHOR, year, p. page number), for example: (WEBER, 2004, p. 117). If the pages cited form a sequence, use "pp.", followed by the initial-final page, as in the example: (BECKER, 2008, pp. 256-258). In the list of references, they should contain the complete names of the authors (for ex.: WEBER, Max) and should obey the following standards, without abbreviations:

Books:

LAST NAME, Name. Title of book in bold: Subtitle. City: Publisher, YEAR.

Ex.: CARDOSO DE OLIVEIRA, Luis Roberto. Direito legal e insulto moral: Dilemas da cidadania no Brasil, Quebec e EUA. Rio de Janeiro: Relume- Dumará/Núcleo de Antropologia Política, 2002.

 

Book chapters:

LAST NAME, Name. "Title of chapter: Subtitle". In: LAST NAME, Name; LAST NAME, Name (orgs). Title of book in bold: Subtitle. City: Publisher, YEAR, pp. first page-final page.

Ex.: APPADURAI, Arjun. "The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process". In: The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 64-91.

 

Journal Articles:

LAST NAME, Name. "Title of article: Subtitle". Name of journal in bold, vol. N, n. N, pp. first page-final page, YEAR.

Ex.: MISSE, Michel. "Violência e teoria social". Dilemas, Rev. Estud. Conflito Controle Soc., Rio de Janeiro, vol. 9, n. 1, pp. 45-63, 2016.

 

Dissertations:

LAST NAME, Name. Title of dissertation in bold: Subtitle. Dissertation (Master’s degree in X) – University, City, YEAR.

Ex.: MACHADO DA SILVA, Luiz Antonio. Mercados metropolitanos de trabalho manual e marginalidade. Dissertação (Mestrado em Antropologia Social) — Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 1971.

 

Theses:

LAST NAME, Name.Thesis title in bold: Subtitle. Thesis (Doctor of X) – University, City, YEAR.

Ex.: TEIXEIRA, Cesar Pinheiro. A teia do bandido: Um estudo sociológico sobre bandidos, policiais, evangélicos e agentes sociais. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) — Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2013.

 

Articles in newspapers and magazines:

LAST NAME, Name. "Title of article". Title of newspaper or magazine in bold, City, year. N, n. N, day month year, Section, pp. first page-final page.

Ex.: OTTA, Lu Aiko. "Parcela do tesouro nos empréstimos do BNDES cresce 566 % em oito anos". O Estado de S. Paulo, São Paulo, ano 131, n. 42656, 1 ago. 2010. Economia & Negócios, p. B1.

 

Articles in online journal or magazine:

LAST NAME, Name. "Title of article". Title of journal or magazine in bold, Section, day month year. Available at: address. Accessed: day month year.

Ex.: EXTRA. "Isso não é normal". Extra, Guerra do Rio, 16 ago. 2017. Available at: https://extra.globo.com/casos-de-policia/guerra-do-rio/isso-nao-normal-21711104.html. Accessed: 6 May 2019.

Science Communication

Eventually, if the manuscript is accepted for publication, in order to promote the circulation and visibility of the scientific community’s work among a wider audience, authors must submit a photo, image, and/or illustration related to the accepted manuscript, as well as a short text of 3–4 lines written in accessible language for the purpose of science communication. These materials will be shared on the social media channels associated with DILEMAS.

Questions, suggestions, comments and outstanding issues should be sent to: coordenacao.dilemas@gmail.com

Copyright Notice

Upon submitting a text, the authors retain copyright and grant DILEMAS - Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons License type attribution BY (CC-BY), which permits sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal. The authors are aware that the work will circulate free of charge, in a digital version. The journal is not responsible for opinions, information and or concepts presented in the texts that it publishes; for which the authors have sole and complete responsibility. The editors reserve the right to make changes only in the form of the articles to guarantee correct grammar, clarity and compliance with publication standards, while respecting the content of the text.

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