Opinião Pública publishes scientific articles by Brazilian and international researchers on theory and methodology in public opinion, social and political behavior, political culture and democracy, media studies, elections, and political representation, articles which base their themes or hypotheses on theoretical frameworks and on empirical, quantitative, qualitative, or documentary research data in order to generate findings and support conclusions.

Opinião Pública is progressively aligning with open science procedures by adopting the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) license, providing open access to data, analysis methods, and other research materials used in investigations (available on this site, at the end of the page referring to the article, section Public Opinion Journal), and allowing the submission of the author’s original version of a manuscript that has been previously posted on preprint servers: Scielo (https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo), Social Science Research Network (https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/) and ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/).

Opinião Pública also accepts articles presented in conference proceedings. If approved, its publication is subject to the withdrawal of the Annals or Collection where it was previously published.

Articles shall be submitted (in .doc format) exclusively through the online submission system Scielo/ScholarOne: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/op-scielo. The articles cannot be submitted for publication or consideration in any other journal. The publications included in the Public Opinion Journal are submitted to a process of anonymous review by specialists (double-blind review). Articles from the preprint server go through the one-blind review evaluation process.

The journal Public Opinion publishes articles in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. In order to guarantee anonymity in the evaluation, the name(s) of the author(s) shall NOT appear in the body of the text, nor shall there be any other reference that enables identification.  If the article is approved for publication, the copyright must be assigned to Cesop/Unicamp, mentioning agreement with the publication, which must also include the name, full address, telephone, fax, e-mail, title and the institution to which author is linked. The author must also share databases, codes, methods and other materials used and resulting from the research presented in the published article.

The publication of a new article from an author whose work has been previously selected for publication in past issues must wait the period of one (1) year from the publication of the prior edition.

The abstracts must come in four versions: Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish, and must be a maximum of 200 words. The abstracts must contain the description of the analyzed object and the article objectives; type of research methodology or approach used; results; implications; and originality of the article. The article must be between 20 and 40 pages, including images, notes, and references. The page layout must be A4 standard with 1.5 cm left and right margins, Times New Roman 12-point font, and 1.5 line spacing. The title of the article cannot exceed the maximum of 20 words and must be presented in all four languages, in addition to five keywords that identify the content. Frames, maps, tables, etc. must be in their proper place in the body of the text. In the event an article is selected for publication, the author(s) shall deliver all content as separated files, as objects in Word, enabled for editing.

Citations must be done in the body of the text and composed as follows: (Last Name of the Author, date) or (Last Name of the Author, date, page). E.g.: (Souza, 1976; Assis, 2000) or (Souza, 1976, p. 64). Different titles by the same author published the same year shall be identified by a letter after the date. E.g.: (Almeida, 1989a), (Almeida, 1989b). In the event that two authors are cited for one publication or two publications are attributed to the same author, the citations must appear as follows: (Souza and Almeida, 1990; Sanches, 2000, 2005).

The bibliographical references used must be presented at the end of the article, listed alphabetically, according to the ABNT norms (NBR 6023), as in the following examples. Please pay special attention not only to the elements, but also to the font types and punctuation. Whenever a link is available, it is necessary to include it for publication.

Book: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated). Title in italics: subtitle without italics. Edition number, if it is not the first. Location of publication: name of the Publisher, year.

Chapter: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated), Title of the chapter. In: Book: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated) of the author(s) or organizer(s). Title in Italics: subtitle without italics. Location of publication: name of Publisher, page range, year.

Compilation: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated). Title of essay. In: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated) of the organizer(s). Title of the compilation in italics: subtitle without italics. Number of edition, if is not the first one. Location of publications: name of the Publisher, year.

Article in journal: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated). Title of the article in quotation marks. Name of the journal in italics, location of publication, volume and number of the journal, page range, publication time period, year.

Dissertations and theses: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated). Title in quotation marks. Location, total number of pages. Academic degree and field of study: Master’s thesis or Doctoral dissertation. Institution at which the work was presented, year.

Internet (electronic documentation): Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated). Title in italics (online). Producer, date. Available at: <>. Accessed on: day month (abbreviated) year (e.g.: 5 Jan 2012).

Work presented at events: Last Name of the Author in Start Case, Name (abbreviated). Title of the work presented in quotes. In: Annals of the event (numbering and title if any), city of the event, pages of the document (if any), date of publication.

Once again, bear in mind that whenever Internet links to the referred works exist, they must be included in the bibliographical references.

Titles of the section of the article must be formatted in bold and the subsections in italics, not in bold.

The sections and subsections of the article must not be numbered. If there are any citations and/or references to sections of the own article throughout the text, reference must be made to the title of the section. E.g.: As addressed in the section “Opinions and attitudes toward democracy.”

When it is necessary, in the body of the text, to reference the article itself, it must be referred to as “article” and not as “paper,” “work,” “study,” etc.

The graphics and whichever pictures in the text in ‘Word’ must be separated from the text and sent as objects of Word (and not as images). The graphics and other images, except tables, must be colored. In the file of the text, references as to their placement must be clear.  If necessary, also submit them in the original format (excel, spss, etc.). A pdf file of the article must also be submitted with the images in their proper places.

Titles and images and table fonts must be complete (whenever these are elaborated by the author(s) of the article, the data on which they are based must be described. E.g., Author’s own elaboration based on TSE database).

The titles and fonts must be separated from tables and graphics.

The % symbol, and others, must be withdrawn from the interior of tables and graphics, whenever the case, placing them together with their respective titles.
E.g.: Table 1

Title: Frequency of variables indicative of “steals, but gets things done” (%).

Dataset availability. The dataset the authors used in the article must be assigned to the journal and shall be available for access in the Cesop website. 

We ask that close attention be paid to the spelling of names and to the dates of publications cited in the text and in the bibliographical references in order to minimize any discrepancies.

The Public Opinion journal team will ultimately revise typographical errors, spelling, grammar, spelling of proper names, acronyms, publication dates in the citations, and bibliographical references; however, the more careful the contributors are with all of these aspects, the lesser the chances of errors in the article to be published.

The license used by the Public Opinion Journal is the CC-BY open licensing policy, which includes commercial purposes.

More information is available at: 
http://blog.scielo.org/blog/2015/06/19/scielo-adota-cc-by-como-atribuicao-principal-de-acesso-aberto/

Public Opinion uses tools for the detection of both plagiarism and self-plagiarism.