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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  • The work is original and unpublished.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.

Author Guidelines

Submissions

The journal receives manuscripts all year round, submissions must be made online, through the OJS platform. Since 2024, preprints are accepted.

Manuscript format

All contributions must be in editable digital format (preferably .doc or .docx), A4 size, margins: top and bottom: 2.5 cm; left and right: 3 cm, in Times New Roman font, size 12 and 1.5 point line spacing, justified alignment and indentation on the first line of 0.7 cm.

As of 2020 Revista de Derecho publishes its articles following the APA (American Psychological Association) Standards. Papers should follow in all sections the guidelines of the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition (see synthesis).

In all cases, the author should present his/her paper with a title (no more than 40 words in length, including the subtitle), an abstract (no more than 150 words in length, summarizing purpose, method and main results or conclusions) and five key words. The title, abstract and keywords should be presented in Spanish, English and Portuguese. 

Each manuscript must respect the length that corresponds to the section to which it applies. In case of exceeding this length, authors should send a letter to the scientific editor justifying the length of the text. Admission will be at the discretion of the editor.

In addition, each paper should be accompanied by a brief CV of the authors, indicating area of specialization/research.

Data availability: for articles resulting from original research, authors must explain whether their data is available in an open repository and where to access it. This information is completed in the Declaration of Authorship document. Possible open data repositories are: SciELO Data, Mendeley Data, Zenodo, DANS, DataHub, FigShare.

Authorship Responsibility Statement

All authors of the article must read, complete and sign the following Authorship Responsibility Statement. This must be included in the submission, together with the manuscript and the anonymous version.

Anonymous version

Authors applying to peer-reviewed sections in the double-blind system must attach an anonymous version of the paper, i.e., a file that does not contain any information that could reveal their identity to potential reviewers.

Authors should consider the following aspects:

  • The paper should be classified as an “anonymous version” when uploaded to the platform and should not contain author information in the file name.
  • The anonymous file will not contain the names of the authors or their institutional affiliations, nor footnotes or funding information that reveals the institution to which it belongs.
  • In those passages where institutions or specific geographic coordinates are mentioned, the text will be replaced by crosses or, if necessary for comprehension, by a description of the deleted item, in straight brackets. Examples: “The study was conducted among the students of the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”; “The study was conducted among the students of [study center]”.
  • Citations to previous work by any of the authors of the manuscript should be replaced by the word “Author”. In the list of references, entries only identified with the word “Author” and the year in parentheses will be placed at the beginning, all the other data must be deleted.
    Example in the text: “As already studied (Author, 2019)”.
    Example in the reference list: Author. (2019).
  • Authors should check in the word processor that there is no metadata left in the file that identifies any user by first or last name. In Word for Windows, this information can be checked and removed in the “Information > Inspect Document” menu. In Word for MacOS, this can be done under “Protect document > Remove personal information when saving”.

Doctrine

Original and unpublished articles submitted to double-blind peer review. These articles should have a minimum length of 3,000 words and a maximum of 10,000 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 2,000 words and a maximum of 8,000 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 2,000 words and a maximum of 4,000 words (excluding references).

Essay and research

This section receives bibliographic reviews, and research advances and results, between 2,000 and 6,000 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 1,000 and 3,000 words (excluding references). Articles submitted to this section are evaluated by the journal team.

Copyright Notice

If the manuscript is accepted, the authors agree to transfer the copyright to the journal according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), open access system, with the authors retaining responsibility for the content and opinions expressed, which do not reflect the views or scientific policy of the journal.

The authors or assignors hereby declare that their work does not infringe on the rights of third parties and that they are the sole holders of the property rights being transferred, allowing them to dispose of these rights without any limitations or encumbrances. They also declare that, in creating the work subject to this transfer, they have not violated any third-party intellectual property rights. Consequently, the authors or assignors are obliged to guarantee the authorship and originality of the work’s content to the journal and ensure the peaceful exercise of the transferred rights. The authors or assignors will be responsible for any claims made by third parties regarding intellectual property rights over the work, thus exempting the journal from any liability. They will also be liable for any damages that may be caused to the journal due to such claims.

The article’s content will not be subject to any other rights by any other publication, nor has it been previously published. If tables or figures from other publications are reproduced, written permission from the authors or copyright holders will be provided as appropriate. In all cases, the APA guidelines for presenting tables and figures will be followed.

Privacy Statement

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