Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

conneXions - international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional is aimed at promoting and developing the practice, research, pedagogy, methodology, and technology of international professional communication and its constituent communities.

This objective answers the need for efficient and effective communication in the various single and multimedia (written, oral and electronic) in local, national, international, and global worksite and civic settings--business and industry, commerce and services, economy and finance, education and the academy, government and politics, media and the arts, medicine and health, research and non-profit, science and technology, the home and public places.

The journal also caters for the need of the professional communication and the translation researcher, practitioner, student and emerging scholar communities, traditionally related to different parts of the world--the professional communication community in the United States, the translation one in Europe--to better acquaint themselves with the knowledge and expertise of the other community, regardless of their place in the world. In this way, the journal helps prevent the recreation or omission of existing findings and bring forth new ways of interpreting previous findings and experiences or wholly new understandings and skills.

The journal’s subject areas cover the management, design, development, translation and delivery of international professional information, as well as issues relating to the education and training of its practitioners and researchers.

The journal accepts contributions from the domains of:  Aesthetics,  Anthropology,  Applied Linguistics,  Business Studies,  Cognitive Psychology,  Communication,  Comparative Studies,  Computer Science,  Cultural Studies,  Design,  Ethnomethodology,  Feminist Studies,  Genre Studies,  Graphic Design,  Information Design,  Information Architecture,  Information Technology,  Intercultural Studies,  Knowledge Management,  Language and Composition Studies,  Media Studies,  Organizational Communication,  Pedagogy,  Philosophy,  Rhetoric,  Technical Communication,  Translation Studies,  Usability Studies,  and other fields proper to professional communication.

The journal’s key topics lie at the intersection of international professional communication and:

  • Communication and Information Management  (authoring, documentation, and content management).

  • Communities of Practice and Ethics (communities of practice, specialties, roles, ethics).

  • Education and Professional Development (pedagogy, approaches, programs, knowledge and competencies).

  • History, Theory/Theories, Research (history, theory/theories and application, research methods and application [quantitative, qualitative, usability studies]).

  • Human-Computer Interface and Interaction.

  • Information Delivery and Quality (types of publishing, content repurposing; best practices, editing, styleguides, reviews, testing [usability, accessibility], documentation control, quality evaluation, copyright protection).

  • Information Design and Visual Communication (design theory, needs assessment and analysis, information architecture, accessibility, content planning, visual and instructional design).

  • Information Development and Artifacts (writing techniques and domains, LSP, artifact genres, types [oral, electronic and print single and multimedia], media and evaluation).

  • Knowledge Domains, Databases, Terminology (knowledge domains and subject matters, database design, terminology, corpora, lexicography).

  • Rhetoric and Functional Communication.

  • Tools and Technologies.

  • Translation, Interpretation, Internationalization, Localization, Globalization, Controlled Languages.

  • Types of Communication and Work Processes (verbal and non-verbal, synchronous and asynchronous, intrapersonal, interpersonal, group and mass communication, online communication and virtual communities, inter- and crossdisciplinary, and inter-, cross- and multicultural, local, national, international and global communication, collaboration and teaming).

The journal's main publishing language is English. It equally favors work written in Portuguese. The journal also publishes manuscripts written in Spanish and French.

The journal ensures an international editorial team in sufficient number to carry out blind reviews of the submitted manuscripts, to guide the growth and development of the journal, and to promote the overarching area of international professional communication, in the journal's various languages, domains and topics.

conneXions: international professional communication journal | revista de comunicação profissional internacional (ISSN 1647-2373) is a publication of the Center for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Letters.

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Authors should send: the cover page and the complete manuscript.

The cover page should contain the title of the manuscript, name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation, e-mail address(es), telephone number(s) for contact, and a biography of up to 100 words for each author, describing his/her education, professional experience, research fields and most important publications (optional).

The manuscript:

  • The first page should include (1) the title, (2) an abstract of up to 200 words (written in English and the language of the text, when other), and (3) five keywords written in each of the abstract languages following the abstract text.
  • The abstract may be descriptive or informative, with preference being given to informative abstracts.
    - Descriptive abstracts (up to 100 words) should provide the context or background for the study, the purpose or research objective(s) or the hypothesis tested by the study, method and methodology, and scope of the article.
    - Informative abstracts (up to 200 words) should provide the context or background for the study, the purpose or research objective(s) or the hypothesis tested by the study, method and methodology, and scope of the article, the findings/results and conclusions/implications of the research, and the author’s recommendations.
    - Abstracts written from a Humanities perspective should describe the problem, with references, the author’s position/argument and provide an overview of the contents.
  • The body of the paper should be 3000 to 5000 words long. Longer articles will be considered. 
    The body of the paper should be divided into sections, duly titled. Manuscripts may use up to three levels of headings.
  • Illustrations, color reproductions, tables, figures, charts and other visuals should be submitted, in their original format, (a) in the body of the paper, accompanied by a descriptive caption, (b) in separate filed, one per visual. All visuals should read as well in color as in black and white.
  • Author-date citations should be used within the text (Burke 263).
  • Notes should be formatted as endnotes.
  • A complete list of “Works Cited” should be included.

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Teaching Cases

Authors should send: the cover page and the complete manuscript.

The cover page should contain the title of the manuscript, name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation, e-mail address(es), telephone number(s) for contact, and a biography of up to 100 words for each author, describing his/her education, professional experience, research fields and most important publications (optional).

The manuscript:

  • The first page should include (1) the title, and (2) an abstract of up to 100 words stating the main points of the manuscript (written in English and the language of the text, when other).
  • The body of the paper should indicate the practical problem addressed, the scenario and its population, the learning objectives and teaching material and methods, the learning outcomes and the implications for the professional and academic communities.

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Book and Artifact Reviews

Reviews should contain most of the following elements:

  • bibliographic information (author, title, edition, publisher, place of publication, year of publication).
  • description of the subject, aim and scope of the book or artifact.
  • outline of thesis and bias.
  • evidence-based evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the book or artifact.
  • survey of topics not covered.
  • overall assessment of the book or artifact.

Editors
  • Alcinda Sousa, (Coord.), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
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Summaries of Articles

Editors
  • Alcinda Sousa, (Coord.), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
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Thesis and Dissertation Abstracts

Abstracts of completed theses and dissertations should be accompanied by the following information:

  • Name and e-mail address of author.
  • Title of thesis or dissertation, award granted, awarding institution, and date of award.
  • Availability: URL (if online), or where a hard copy is available.
  • Four to six keywords in English, and the language of the thesis or dissertation, when other.
  • Abstract included in the thesis or dissertation, in English and the language of the thesis or dissertation, when other.

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Peer Review Process

Articles submitted to the journal will be reviewed by three reviewers. The reviewers' comments will be returned to the author.

Teaching cases, and reviews of books and artifacts submitted to the journal will be reviewed by one reviewer. The advice of a second reviewer may be sought. The comment(s) of the reviewer(s) will be returned to the author.

Once a manuscript is accepted for publication, it will be copyedited, proofread, and prepared for the online environment. It will then be published.

 

 

Publication Frequency

The journal will publish one volume per year. 

 

 

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

 

Roles and Responsibilities of Journal Members

Editor

The Editor manages the journal.

 

Reviewers

Reviewers submit reviews in the area(s) for which they have been invited to the journal's web site.

 

Associate Editors

Associate Editors guide the growth and development of the journal in the topic for which they have been invited. The roles of associate editors include:

  • aiding the Editor by participating in the editorial process 
  • suggesting themed issues 
  • contributing editorials
  • encouraging the submission of high-quality manuscriptsfor the journal in the area for which they have been invited, by personally contacting authors and assisting with outreach
  • consolidating the journal’s reputation among the communities it serves
  • identifying reviewers to become part of the reviewer database.

Regional Editors

Regional Editors assist with the growth and development of the journal in the language area for which they have been invited. The roles of regional editors include:

  • participating in the editorial process 
  • encouraging the submission of high-quality manuscriptsfor the journal in the language for which they have been invited, by personally contacting authors and assisting with outreach
  • consolidating the journal’s reputation among the language community they represent.

Book, Artifact and Article Review Editor

Book, Artifact and Article Review Editor assists with the promotion of the area of international professional communication. The roles of book, artifact and article review editor include:

  • maintaining contact with publishers to request copies of books, artifacts and journals
  • deciding which books, artifacts and articles will be reviewed or summarized
  • recruiting writers and reviewers
  • writing reviews of books and artifacts, and summaries of articles
  • deciding which submitted reviews and summaries will be published
  • coordinating the review and summary process.


Consulting Editors

Consulting Editors act as counselors, guides and resource people to the Editor and Assistant Editors.

 

Copyeditors

Copyeditors:

  • edit submissions to improve grammar and clarity, work with authors to ensure everything is in place, and ensure strict adherence to the journal's bibliographic and textual style
  • produce a clean, edited copy to be turned into galley files
  • read over the galleys, checking for typographic and formatting errors.

 

 

Duration of Terms

Editorial team members are asked to serve for three-year terms, automatically renewable unless otherwise asked by either party.


 

Payment

As a non-for-profit and open access publication, the journal does not pay the review board members for their contributions, nor does it require payment from authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication.

 

 

Disclaimer

The Publisher and Editors will not be held liable for errors or any consequences arising from the use of information contained in the journal.



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