« Oikos : Care for Our Common Home »
Guidelines for authors
The «Oikos: Care for Our Common House» Collection is an ouptut from the research project «Common Home and new ways of living interculturally: public theology and ecology of culture in post-pandemic times» (2020 - 2024), led by CITER - Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, in partnership with academic institutions coming from 14 countries, with around 90 researchers from 20 different areas of knowledge , organized into 10 working groups.
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The project is in the final stage of publication, which constitutes this collection of 10 volumes and intends to be a toolbox for thinking about issues related to the complexity of the Common Home.
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The project also foresees the creation of a Digital Lexicon that aims to help the unfamiliar reader approach the issue of the Common Home, as well as can serve as an introduction to the volumes of the collection. Here, authors will be able to make use of this tool to provide a structural vocabulary of their research perspective in introductory language, which can be accessed through hyperlinks inserted in their chapter(s).
The collection will be published by Universidade Católica Editora (UCP) in partnership with the Global Compact on Education Bureau of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC PR), with Alex Villas Boas (UCP), Alexandre Palma (UCP) and Fabiano Incerti (PUC PR) as general coordinator, and each volume includes the respective Workgroups coordinators.
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The collection will be published in e-book format and will be made available in opens access, to be downloaded for free. The collection will also be published in English by Globethics.net Publications, affiliated with the World Council of Churches.
1. Project scope
1. The scope of the project is scientific innovation, being requested by the author, an original work.
2. In this way, therefore, the author is asked in the introduction that:
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present which gap your chapter intends to fill, through a synthetic description of the State of the Art of the subject in your area of ​​knowledge.
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what is the goal of the chapter and what results it intends to achieve
3. The author may use the writing of introductory «entries» in order to compose a structural vocabulary of his text that will be made available in the Digital Lexicon tool, and which can be linked to the chapter through a hyperlink.
4. The collection assumes an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach, so it is important that we avoid using concepts without some general indication of their use, because of the plurality of areas which consists the research team of the project. Also for this the authors can use introductory «entries».
5. As part of the process of an academic publication by the UCE, the chapters will be submitted to a double blind review process, with specialists in the respective themes, including authors of the collection. We believe that this process can be a great opportunity for dialogue and enrichment between specialists from different areas who focus on a common object of investigation from different angles.
6. The reviews will be sent to the authors who will have one month to respond to the observations.
2. Genereal guidelines
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Our ideal reader is not necessarily an expert, but someone interested in issues surrounding the Common Home.
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Direct language marked by logical and conceptual rigor.
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No que diz respeito à língua portuguesa, e devido ao público intercontinental, a coleção irá respeitar o Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa nas suas variantes portuguesa, brasileira e africanas, respetivamente a nacionalidade de cada autor(a).
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Authors from other languages ​​can send the text in the original languages, which can be in English, French or Spanish.
3. Formal structure of chapters
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Model: Title and subtitle; Section headings and subheadings (use sequential numbering: example: 1, 2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3, 4...); Conclusion; References.
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Identification: i) Name(s) of the author(s); ii) Academic affiliation; iii) email; iv) ORCID identification; v) Scopus identification (if any); vi) brief cv containing: vi.1) training; vi.2) professional performance deemed relevant to the readers of the collection; vi.3) link containing a curriculum management platform (Ciência Vitae, Lattes, other national platforms or institutional pages...); vi.4) recommendation of authorial publications in connection with the chapter.
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Abstract: present the main theme and the goal of the chapter, as well as the importance of this theme given the lack or little research in this area.
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Keywords: three to five.
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Size: between 44,000 and 55,000 characters with spaces (between 12 – 15 pages).
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Font: Font size 12, space 1.5, type times new roman.
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Document type: word or rtf.
4. Standard of references
For citations and references, footnotes will be used and will be followed The Chicago Manual of Style (17ª ed).