The Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política (RPCP)  – the Portuguese Journal of Political Science – is an annual journal, with a circulation of 750 copies, expectedly composed of around 250 pages. The scope of journal’s circulation will be mainly national and regional. Its distribution will also be assured to the Portuguese scientific communities abroad with an interest in the domain of political studies. The RPCP meets the standards of referencing of the Latindex Catalog – System of International Information of Scientific Journals and of the European Reference Index for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation.

1. The articles must preferably have up to 75 000 characters, i.e., approximately 20 pages, including notes, bibliography, and tables; Times New Roman, 12 (one and a half spacing).

2. Book reviews  must not exceed  10 000 characters, i.e., approximately 3 pages at Times New Roman, 10 (one spacing).

3. Bibliographical references must be included in footnotes. The Bibliography at the end must not exceed 2 pages, and must only comprise the quoted works, arranged alphabetically.

4. Footnotes must be small in number and size.

5. Illustrations, tables, figures and maps must be numbered and placed at the end of the text, the latter indicating the places where they must be placed.

6. The citations and references to authors follow the following rules: surname, name, title of work (italics), place, publisher, year, or, for articles, surname, name, ‘article title’, journal (italics), number of volume, date, pages.

7. Articles must be accompanied by an abstract of about 750 characters, in Portuguese and in English, 4 keywords and a file in Word format with data from the author (institution, category, areas of expertise and contacts).

8. The authors, individual or collective, of the published papers cede to the RPCP the exclusive right of publication in any form and receive one copie of the magazine.