Submissions

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.

• Title in English, Spanish and French.
• Abstract in English, French and Spanish, with a maximum of 200 words.
• 3 to 5 Keywords in English, Spanish and French.
• Article text in Microsoft Word file, without author identification, with Times New Roman font, size 12, spaced in 1.5 lines, with a maximum of 8500 words excluding abstract and keywords.
• Citations and references formatted in APA standards, 7th edition.
• Fill out and send by e-mail the clinical material content form (About the Journal -> Ethics and Anonymity)

Author Guidelines

The Portuguese Journal of Psychoanalysis (Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise — RPP) is the official journal of the Portuguese Psychoanalytic Society (SPP) and is its legal and intellectual property. RPP publishes original articles of a theoretical and epistemological, theoretical-clinical, conceptual, empirical (qualitative and quantitative) nature, in the field of psychoanalysis and in other scientific disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, with which the psychoanalytic field maintains a sustained scientific dialogue.

Psychoanalytic articles submitted for publication in the journal must be unpublished and may not be under simultaneous evaluation by another scientific journal. Articles must also display theoretical-conceptual, clinical and empirical rigor. The subject and thematic approach of the article must be both current and innovative, and the argument must be precise, well articulated and adequately grounded. Articles that comply with the RPP Publication Rules set out below will be accepted for review.

Scientific review prior to the editorial decision on publication is carried out by peer review, with reviewers assigned anonymously and randomly in a double-blind process. If the submitted article is accepted for review, authors may consult the reviewers’ reports, regardless of whether the opinion on publication is favorable or unfavorable.

RPP reserves the right not to publish clinical or theoretical-clinical articles that do not comply with the ethical standards of research in the social sciences and humanities, namely those in which the patient’s identity has not been preserved through anonymity or in which the confidentiality of verbatim or graphically illustrated material (drawings and figures) in clinical vignettes is not scrupulously respected. To ensure compliance with these rules, authors must complete the specific form available for this purpose on the website (see About the Journal > Ethics and Anonymity) and send it to rpp@rppsicanalise.org. In the event of reasonable doubt, the Journal’s Editorial Board reserves the right to require proof of informed consent from the patient or from their legal representatives (parents in the case of children’s graphic material).

The journal’s editorial board is also particularly attentive to detecting cases of full or partial plagiarism in articles submitted for publication; in such circumstances, the article will be rejected and the authors will be informed of the reason for that decision.

The publication date of the article will be decided by the journal’s editorial board, according to criteria defined by that board.

Articles must be submitted online through the website of Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise, https://rppsicanalise.org.

The article title must always appear in English, French and Spanish, as must the abstract, also in these three languages, which must not exceed 200 words.

Between three and five keywords must also be provided in Portuguese, if this is the original language, and in English, French and Spanish, to facilitate the indexing of the article and its visibility in search engines. Endnotes and the use of italicized terms should be avoided.

Charts, tables and figures must have good graphic quality (300 dpi minimum) and be well integrated into the text (at the editing stage they must be sent as separate documents). It is particularly important that they can be reproduced at an appropriate scale without loss of sharpness or ease of consultation of the information they provide to the reader.

Articles should not exceed 8500 words, excluding references, abstract and keywords, in Times New Roman, 12 pt, with 1.5 line spacing.

The Editorial Board of Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise reserves the right to decide on the final editorial formatting of the article accepted for publication.

In-text citations and bibliographic references must be formatted according to the APA 7th edition guidelines (available at https://apastyle.apa.org/).

Reviews of books, films or plays may also be submitted for publication; they must be up to 1500 words and identify the title and the author/director/stage director and, for books, also the publisher, year of publication and translator if the book reviewed is a translation of the original work.

Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise follows the Portuguese New Orthographic Agreement.

The published article may be freely used for non-commercial purposes, in accordance with the Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license, which requires citation of the author, the article title, and the title and issue number of the journal, together with the article’s URL or DOI.

Copyright Notice

The author grants RPP the right to publish the article in both print and online versions. Copyright remains with the author, although the right of first/original publication belongs to RPP. The article may be used for educational and other non-commercial purposes, provided that the author, the title and issue number of the journal, and the article’s full URL or DOI URL are cited. The author has the right to keep the article in the repository or scientific documentation archives of the organization to which they belong, for example a university or university institute, and may also use the PDF version of the article published by the Editor. Readers of the online version of RPP articles may share the article or its abstract on social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, always safeguarding the journal’s editorial ownership of the shared content.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

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