Journal

The manuscript submitted should be original and should not be under consideration at another journal. The papers accepted can not be published in other publications even if in other language without written consent of Notas Económicas.
Authors wishing to submit a manuscript to be considered for publication in Notas Económicas should send an e-mail to notas-economicas@fe.uc.pt. The manuscript should follow the model of Notas Económicas.

Accepted languages are Portuguese, English and French.

The authors are responsible for obtain prior authorization to use or reproduce information protected by copyright.

Notas Económicas may be published in regular number or supplement, conference proceedings under proposal by the organizers. In this case, the reviewers are chosen by the Editors and the organizers.

The organizers should advise the authors that their communications will be subject to a peer review process, and therefore it's automatic publication cannot be guaranteed.

General Procedures

Authors

• Besides the title, the first page should include the following details about the authors: name institution address phone number e-mail;
• Authors should be exclusively named on the first page that is independent of the rest of the text. In case of more than one author, the corresponding author should be identified on the first page.   

Papers

• The paper should not have more than 20 pages (30 lines of 60 characters each), including notes and references;
• All submissions should include abstracts in Portuguese, English and French of no more than 800 characters each;
• If accepted for publication, the final version of the paper should be sent by email to notas-economicas@fe.uc.pt in Word format and according to the guidelines for text format and presentation.

Text format and presentation

Format

• The papers should be presented: in Word Format; double-spaced typescript; 3 cm lateral margins; formulas, figures, graphics and tables should be written with the same font and size as the text;
• Authors may use freely italic, subscript and superscript but bold should only be used on titles (chapters, sections, illustrations...);
• DO NOT use: styles (headings, hyperlinks...); text in columns; headers; more than one font; underline; automatic hyphenation; automatic numbering of chapters; sections or paragraphs.

Decimal

• Numbers In Portuguese and French, the decimal numbers should be separated by commas (,) and in English by a single point (.), i.e. 1,5 or 1.5, respectively.    

Footnotes

• Footnotes should be sequentially numbered and appear at the bottom of each page.

Illustrations

• Illustrations (figures, graphics and tables) should be sequentially numbered;
• The title should be inserted in the text instead of being part of the illustration;
• Figures should be sent in GIF, JPEG or TIFF with a resolution of 300 dpi;
• Graphics originally created in Excel must be sent with the paper;
• Tables inserted in the text should be plain and simple;
• No pre-formatted style should be used as the tables will be further formatted according to the Notas Económicas model.   

Acronyms

• All acronyms should be listed at the end of the text, except if there are just a few entries. In this case they can be written in full where they first appear inside brackets.   

Formulas

• The author should use Microsoft Equation from Word rather than other equation editors such as Math Type;
• Formulas should be written in the same font and size as the text. 

Citations

• The citations are always made on the body of the text as defined in the guidelines to citations and references.   

References

• The reference should be listed at the end of the text and following the appropriate model defined in the guidelines to citations and references.