Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The work is original and unpublished.
- The manuscript has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other publication (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor). The content is not subject to other rights by any publication and is not in the process of publication. The fact that the work has been communicated to scientific societies is not an obstacle to publication.
- The article is free of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.
- The manuscript follows the submission format guidelines stipulated in the Author Guidelines.
- In-text citations and the list of bibliographic references are presented according to the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) in its 7th edition in accordance with the Author Guidelines. Inclusion of the DOI or URL is mandatory, whenever possible.
- In case of original research, the article includes the section "Data availability" in which the authors report whether and where the data set used is available. See indications in the Author Guidelines.
- Authors have read, completed and submitted with the manuscript the Declaration of Authorship Responsibility.
- Authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to the manuscript.
- For refereed sections, the authors have prepared an anonymous version of the paper, following the instructions in the Author Guidelines.
Doctrine
Original and unpublished articles submitted to double-blind peer review. These articles should have a minimum length of 3000 words and a maximum of 10000 words (excluding references).
Jurisprudence
Judgments with their respective commentary submitted to double-blind peer review. All jurisprudence commentaries must be accompanied by the complete text of the corresponding sentence. These articles should have a minimum length of 2000 words and a maximum of 8000 words (excluding references).
Brief communication
Scientific communication submitted to peer review, double-blind system. Its objective is to present the development of a study that can be a field or intervention study, with a minimum length of 2000 words and a maximum of 4000 words (excluding references).
Essay and research
This section receives bibliographic reviews, and research advances and results, between 2000 and 6000 words (excluding references). Articles submitted to this section are evaluated by the journal team.
Review
This section receives reviews of legal books, national or foreign, published in the year of the review or one year before, between 1000 and 3000 words (excluding references). Articles submitted to this section are evaluated by the journal team.
Copyright Notice
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