A) That they carried out the work they are presenting and that they are fully responsible for what is written in the articles;
B) That they respected the international ethical and methodological standards in force in the scientific area of Psychology, proposed by the American Psychological Association (APA) and by the European Science Foundation (European Code of Conduct for Integrity of Research);
C) That the they did not submit the work simultaneously to another journal for publication;
D) The journal will use all means to guarantee the above criteria, namely, being able to request proof of documents and through the use of plagiarism software (Urkund). Authors will be informed in case there are indicators of plagiarism, being able to comment on these indicators before the article is rejected.

2. Psique owns the copyright on the publication, however, each author has the copyright from your own text; in case it is later republished elsewhere, a reference to the publication in Psique is requested. The journal does not embargo any articles. The author(s) may publish the article in self-archiving systems or in institutional repositories. Under no circumstances does the journal charge publication, acceptance, dissemination, or other charges.

3. Articles submitted for submission must be sent electronically via the platform. Scholar One via the link: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/psique

4. The first page of the article must include the full name(s) of the author(s) (without abbreviations), ORCID ID, affiliation, location and country, as well as the contact email(s) of all authors of the article.

5. The texts may be presented in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English.

6. The proposed articles are submitted to a scientific arbitration process, a blind peer review carried out by at least two specialists (PhDs in Psychology) who are part of the journal's Editorial Board, and whose majority are external to the Autonomous University of Lisbon.

7. The manuscript submission and evaluation process will follow these steps:

• Articles are received by the journal Editor and sent to two reviewers. Articles will be sent without the authors' names to the reviewers. The entire process of reviewing the articles is done under the anonymity of the authors to ensure a “blind peer review”. In the evaluation process, reviewers will also be kept anonymous to authors;
• The reviewers will evaluate the articles and express their opinion on the quality of the article, on the pertinence of its publication in the journal and may indicate suggestions for improvement as specific as possible for the reformulation of the article. In case the opinions of the reviewers are in disagreement, the Editor may decide on the publication, after his own analysis of the article, or he may request another opinion from a third reviewer;
• Authors will be informed of the editorial decision, within an average period of three months, which may consist of:
  • a) Accepted (the manuscript has been accepted for publication in its current form);
  • b) Conditionally accepted, through minor reformulations, in this case, after the changes introduced, the reformulated article can be accepted by the editor;
  • c) Invited to re-submit after substantial reformulations (the topic interests the journal, however, the article needs a profound reformulation). In these cases, authors are invited to reformulate the article according to the reviewers' suggestions and to resubmit it to the journal. After the articles have been reformulated, they will be sent back to the reviewers for a second evaluation;
  • d) Rejected (when it was considered that the manuscript did not meet the criteria for publication in the journal).

8. The base language for sending the original files is “.doc”.

9. Articles are limited to 30 pages, excluding the list of bibliographic references, tables, and figures.

10. Images (diagrams, maps, tables, and graphs) should be referenced and identified in accordance with the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).

11. The structure of articles must comply with the rules of the latest edition of the APA Publication Manual. The title and abstract must be written in the article's original language and in English, as well as the article's keywords. The abstract has a maximum length of 200 words, followed by a maximum of five keywords.

12. Citations and bibliographic references are made in accordance with the guidelines of the latest edition of the APA Publication Manual, for example:

A) Scientific Journal Articles: Herbst-Damm, KL, & Kulik, JA (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225–229. http://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225
B) Books`Author: Mitchell, TR, & Larson, JR, Jr. (1987). people in organizations: An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill.
C) Book Chapters: Bjork, RA (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In HL Roediger III & FIM Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory & consciousness (pp. 309–330). Erlbaum.

13. Whenever justified, without prejudice to their inclusion in the document in ".doc" format, the original files of the tables and figures may be sent separately, in JPEG, TIFF or XLS format.

14. Footnotes are formatted according to the guidelines of the latest edition of the APA Publication Manual.

15. Psique publishes five types of articles:

A) Empirical articles that present reports of original scientific investigations.
B) Literature review articles that develop critical analyzes of previously published material.
C) Theoretical articles in which the author develops advances on innovative or previously published theories.
D) Methodological articles that present new methodological approaches, modification of existing methods or discussions on quantitative or qualitative approaches in scientific research.
E) Case studies that report on case material obtained in the course of working with individuals, groups, a community or an organization.

16. The journal Psique has a maximum publication limit of one article per author per volume.

17. The editorial board of Psique, responsible for evaluating published articles, consists of at least 75% members from academic institutions external to the host institution of Psique.

18. The publication is semi-annual, with publication dates ranging from January 1st to June 31st and from July 1st to December 31st.

19. Psique subscribes to the codes of ethics and good editorial practices, namely:

The Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, from the Committee on Publication Ethics – Committee on Publication Ethics (2011). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Retrieved from http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf

The White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, from the Council of Science Editors – Scott-Lichter, D. & Editorial Policy Committee, Council of Science Editors (2012). CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications. Retrieved from https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/wp-content/uploads/entire_whitepaper.pdf

For more details on the ethical obligations of authors, reviewers and editorial coordination, consult the Editorial Ethics and Good Practices tab.

20. At no stage of the editorial process are costs incurred by the authors. Psique is a non-profit scientific publication.

21. In case of publication, the authors allow the use of their work through the use of the Creative Commons license, CC-BY [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/], which allows the copying, distribution and transmission of the content, as well as its adaptation for commercial use.

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