Opinião Pública publishes original articles written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Articles must be submitted (in .doc format) exclusively through the Scielo/ScholarOne online submission system: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/op-scielo.

All manuscripts submitted to Opinião Pública must be unpublished and cannot have been submitted for evaluation by other publications. Works not published in whole or in part in journals, books and websites are considered unpublished. Manuscripts published in the proceedings of scientific events, on personal profiles on academic platforms or on preprint platforms are also considered unpublished.

If the article is approved for publication, the author must also share databases, codes, methods and other materials used and resulting from the research presented in the published article, which will be made available on the Opinião Pública website, or the author must indicate the repository where his/her data and materials are deposited.

Manuscript Preparation

When submitting the manuscript, the responsible author must provide the following information for all authors: Full name, ORCID, institutional affiliation, email, mini CV stating the title, sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any). Submissions with incomplete data will be rejected immediately.

Article Submission Format

The article must be between 7,000 and 14,000 words long, including images, notes and references. The submitted article must include an abstract of no more than 900 characters, which contains a description of the object analyzed and the objectives of the article; type of research, methodology or approach used; results; implications and originality of the article. The abstract has a specific field to be filled in on the submission platform. Articles submitted with abstracts cut for exceeding the number of characters allowed will be returned. The title of the article must have a maximum of 20 words, and be presented in four languages, as well as the five keywords that identify its content.

Digital Assets

Charts, maps, tables, graphs, etc. must be in their proper places in the body of the text, in jpg format (300 to 500 pdi), with title, caption and source. If the article is approved in the evaluation process, these figures must be sent in their original formats, so that they can be edited.

Citations and References

Bibliographic citations follow the ABNT: NBR 10520 standard and should be made in the body of the text and follow the following scheme: (Author's Surname, date) or (Author's Surname, date, page). Ex.: (Souza, 1976; Assis, 2000) or (Souza, 1976, p. 64). Different titles by the same author published in the same year will be identified by a letter after the date. Ex.: (Almeida, 1989a), (Almeida, 1989b). In the case of two authors and two publications by the same author, the citation should be as follows: (Souza and Almeida, 1990; Sanches, 2000, 2005).

The bibliographical references used must be presented at the end of the article, listed in alphabetical order, following the ABNT: NBR 6023 standards, as shown in the following examples. Please, note not only the order of the elements, but also to the kinds of sources and the punctuation conventions used in each citation.

Book: Author's surname in small caps, First name (abbreviated). Book: Author's surname in small caps, First name (abbreviated). Edition number, if not the first. Place of publication: name of publisher, year.

Chapter: Last name in small caps, First name (abbreviated), Chapter title. In: Last name in small caps, First name (abbreviated), of author(s) or organizer(s). Book title in italics: Subtitle without italics. Place of publication: Publisher's name, page range, year.

Collection: Last name in small caps, First name (abbreviated). Title of essay. In: Last name in small caps, First name (abbreviated) of organizer(s). Title of collection in italics: subtitle without italics. Number of edition, if not the first. Number of edition, if not the first.

Journal Article: Surname in small caps, First name (abbreviated). Title of the article in quotation marks. Name of the journal in italics, place of publication, volume and number of the periodical, page range, period of publication, year.

Dissertations and PhD theses: Author´s last name in small caps, First name (initials). Title in quotation marks. Place. Total number of pages. Academic level and area of studies: Master's thesis or Doctorate's Dissertation. Academic institution, year.

Internet (electronic documents): Author´s last name in small caps, First name (initials). Title in italics, [Online]. Producer, date. Available at: < >. Access: day month, year (E.g.: 5 jan. 2012).

Paper presented at an event: Author´s last name in small caps, Name (abbreviated). Title of the work presented in quotation marks. In: Proceedings of the event (number and title, if any), city of the event, document pages (if any), date of publication.

The article section titles should be formatted in bold and the subsection titles in italics.

Sections and subsections of the article should not be numbered. If there are citations and/or references to sections of the article itself throughout the text, reference the section title. E.g..: As discussed in the section “Opinions and attitudes about democracy...”.

Whenever there is a reference to the article itself, it should be named as “article” and not as “paper”, “work”, “study”, etc.

Table titles and sources must be complete (when they are "created by the author", specify the data on which they are based. E.g.: Created by the author based on data from the TSE).

Titles and sources should be outside of tables and graphs.

The “%” and other symbols should be removed from tables and graphs, when applicable, and placed next to their respective titles.

E.g.: Table 1 - Title: Frequency of variables indicating “steals, but does” (%)

We ask that you pay attention to the spelling of proper names and dates of publications cited in the body of the text and in the bibliographic references to minimize ambiguities.

The Opinião Pública team will review any typographical errors, spelling, grammar, spelling of proper names, acronyms, and publication dates in the bibliographic references in the body of the text and in the references at the end. However, the more care is taken with all these aspects, the less likely there will be errors in the version to be published.

The article’s DOI is assigned by the Opinião Pública editing and layout team when the article is prepared for publication.