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 (RPP) is the official publication of the Portuguese Society of Psychoanalysis (SPP) and holds its legal and intellectual property rights. RPP publishes original articles of theoretical and epistemological nature, theoretical-clinical, conceptual, empirical (qualitative and quantitative), in the field of psychoanalysis and other scientific disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, including literature, art, and philosophy, with which the psychoanalytic field engages in consistent scientific dialogue.

Psychoanalytic articles submitted for publication in the journal must be unpublished and must not be under simultaneous evaluation in another scientific publication. The articles should also exhibit qualities of theoretical-conceptual, clinical, and empirical rigor. The theme and thematic approach of the article should be both current and innovative, and the argumentation should be precise, well-articulated, and appropriately substantiated.

Articles that adhere to the Publication Standards of RPP, as indicated below, will be accepted for review. The scientific review process preceding the editorial decision on publication is conducted through the method of "peer reviewing," with scientific reviewers assigned anonymously and randomly (double-blind). If the submitted article is accepted for review, authors may consult the reviewers' reports, regardless of whether the opinion is favorable or unfavorable for publication.

RPP reserves the right not to publish clinical or theoretical-clinical articles that do not comply with ethical standards of research in the social and human sciences, particularly in cases where the patient's identity has not been preserved through anonymity and where the confidentiality of verbatim or graphically illustrated material (drawings and representations) in clinical vignettes is not scrupulously respected. In cases of reasonable doubt, the Editorial Board of the journal reserves the right to demand proof of informed consent from the patient or their legal representatives (parents in the case of child graphical material).

The editorial team of the journal also pays particular attention to detecting situations of total or partial plagiarism in submitted articles, which, in such circumstances, will be rejected, with authors being provided with the reasons for this decision.

The publication date of the article will be decided by the editorial team of the journal, in accordance with editorial criteria established by the same.

Articles will be submitted online on the website of the Portuguese Journal of Psychoanalysis, https://rppsicanalise.org.

The article title should always appear in English, French, and Spanish, as should the abstract (also in the three languages), which should not exceed 200 words. Between three and five keywords should also be indicated (in Portuguese if it is the original language, and in English, French, and Spanish), which will facilitate the indexing of the article and its appearance in search engines. Footnotes and the use of italicized terms should be avoided.

Tables, charts, and figures should have good graphic quality (minimum 300 dpi) and should be well-integrated into the text (at the time of editing, they should be sent in separate documents). It is particularly important that their reproduction can be done at an appropriate scale without loss of clarity or ease of information access for the reader.

Articles should not exceed 8,500 words, excluding references, abstract, and keywords, in Times New Roman font, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing.

The Editorial Board of the Portuguese Journal of Psychoanalysis reserves the right to make decisions regarding the final editorial formatting of articles accepted for publication.

Citations in the article text and bibliographic references should be formatted according to the 7th edition of the APA (available at https://apastyle.apa.org/).

Reviews of books, films, or plays can also be submitted for publication, with a maximum length of 1,500 words, identifying the title and author/director/playwright, and, in the case of books, also the publisher, year of publication, and translator (in the case of a Portuguese version of the original work).

The published article can be used freely for non-commercial purposes, in accordance with the Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International, which requires citation of the author, article title, and the title and number of the journal, along with the URL or DOI of the article.

Copyright Notice

The author grants the RPP Journal the right to publish articles in both the printed and online versions. The copyright is retained by the author so that the first/original publication right is in the RPP Journal. The article may be freely used for educational and other non-commercial purposes, provided that the author is quoted, as well as the title and number of the journal and the full URL of the article, or the DOI URL. The author has the right to keep the article in the publication archives/repository of its own organization, e.g. a university, and use the pdf version of the publisher. Readers of the online version of RPP have the opportunity to share articles or their abstracts on social media such as Facebook or Twitter, always preserving the editorial ownership of RPP over the shared contents.

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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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