Submissions

The manuscripts submitted to Vista should be submitted electronically after registration in the system.

Please refer to the Editorial Process here.

Length

• The final articles and interviews should have 5,000 to 8,000 words, including title, footnotes, and references.
• Reviews should have 1,500 to 3,000 words, including title, footnotes, and references.
• For visual projects, the visual essay should not exceed 20 separate images. Should the audiovisual format be adopted, the file should not exceed 10 minutes, and the file compression should provide quality viewing on different devices. The description cannot exceed 700 words. Whenever the work includes both text and image, the former should not exceed 2,000 words; this option does not replace the submission of the description (whose maximum number of words will be considered separately). It must include an abstract and keywords.
• Both the title and the subheadings should not exceed 120 characters with spaces.
• The abstract should have 200 to 300 words and define up to five keywords.
• The biographical note should not exceed 150 words.

Formatting

Manuscripts should be edited single-spaced on standard pages (A4), font Times New Roman, 12 pt.

Graphs and tables must be editable.

Information Structure

The manuscript's first page should include the following information in Portuguese and English: title, abstract, and keywords.

To ensure a blind peer review, any information that may identify the author should be removed from the manuscript. So, a separate document (with the article's title) should contain the following information:

• author(s) name(s);
• biographical note of up to 150 words, complete institutional addresses (including street, postal code, city, and country), email address, and ORCID. This data will be available in the published version, and by providing it, you consent to its disclosure;
• complete information on the affiliation of all authors, including the name of the home institution at three levels (ex: Postgraduate Programme/Department/Centre, Faculty/School and University), city and country;
• acknowledgements and funding (optional) with identification of the funding entity;
• individual contribution of each author according to the principles established in the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRedit) methodology. That does not apply to works with only one author or introductory notes.

Interviews must be provided with a statement of consent from the interviewee, who has to approve the transcription.

Texts in Portuguese must be consistent with the new Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990.

Furthermore, considering the differences in spelling among Portuguese-speaking countries, it is recommended that the wording specificities of Portuguese spelling in all its variants (Brazil, Angola, Mozambique...) be respected, despite the new orthography.

Style guidelines

Vista follows the APA style (7th edition).

In-Text Citations and References

• Citations should be translated into the language of the text. The original version of the citation should not be footnoted.
• Citations of less than 40 words should be incorporated in the body of the text and within double quotation marks (" "), in plain text, not italic. Citations of 40 or more words should be detached from the body of the text, in a free-standing block on a new line, indented tabs, one size smaller font, and without quotation marks.
• References for embedded citations follow the following format: (Kovarick, 2010, p. 134).
• Expressions such as idem, ibidem, apud, op. cit... are excluded.

Reference List

The three main types of references used in academic works include books, book chapters, and articles in scientific journals:

Balonas, S. (2011). Publicidade sem código de barras. Húmus.

Pires, H. (2011). De passagem. Nos rastos de um percurso imaginário. In M. Martins, J. B. Miranda, M. Oliveira, & J. Godinho (Eds.), Imagem e pensamento (pp. 167-188). Grácio Editor.

Pereira, S. (2013). More technology, better childhoods? The case of the Portuguese 'One laptop per Child' programme. Communication Management Quarterly, 29, 171-198. https://doi.org/10.5937/comman1329171P

Please refer to https://apastyle.apa.org/ for further information.

Code of Ethics

Authors should ensure that the sources of references used in scientific work are accurate and comprehensive and must obtain permission from copyright holders to reproduce illustrations, tables, or figures.

Authors should identify the organisations funding their work, following the guidelines previously provided.

Authors should ensure that authors' and co-authors' names are correctly introduced in their respective publications and provide due acknowledgement to other collaborators, when applicable, following the guidelines provided above.

Any request for further clarification should be addressed to  vista[at]ics.uminho.pt.