Author Guidelines

Style guidelines

                                                    Instructions for authors

1. Subjects of interest. The Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de la República (The Law School Journal of the University of the Republic) is an academic publication aimed at contributing to the development of the Science of Law and the Social Sciences, by promoting the critical and plural analysis of relevant subjects within the different areas fields of study of our Law School.

We intend to ensure that published scientific research meets the needs of the academic-professional community, both national and foreign, and other users of our publication interested in legal work.

 The journal consists of three sections: papers (research or doctrine articles), case law or annotated legislation, and reviews, the latter being non-refereed. Unpublished papers in any legal or social discipline are accepted for each of the sections.

2. Submission of originals. Papers must be unpublished. The Journal uses the PaperRater® plagiarism detection service.

They must be submitted in English, in soft copy, in Word (.doc) or OpenDocument (.odt) format, to the journal’s email address (editor@fder.edu.uy). The following format must be used: single spacing, Arial 12, A4 sheet, 2.54 cm top and bottom margins, 3 cm left and right margins. Papers must not be shorter than 12 pages nor exceed 25 pages in length, including notes, references, bibliography and appendices, if applicable. The first page must include the title of the paper in English and Spanish, the name(s,) academic affiliation, ORCID identifier and email address of the author(s). The second page must include two abstracts, in English and Spanish, not exceeding 200 words and a minimum of five keywords (in both languages.)

3. Editorial ethics and good practices. The Revista de la Facultad de Derecho adheres to the ethical standards of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). These standards are valid during all stages of the selection and publication processes, and apply to all participants, including authors, reviewers, editors and editorial committee.

For more information, see COPE Best Practice Guidelines.

4. Commitment to the editor and copyright. Submitting an unpublished paper implies the author’s commitment not to submit it simultaneously to other journals. Submitting a paper to the editor implies that the copyright to the paper is assigned to the journal, should the paper be accepted for publication. The author(s) will receive a copy of the journal.  

5. Publishing process. Upon receipt of the submissions, a preliminary evaluation is carried out in order to ensure that each paper complies with the formal requirements and that it is an original, relevant paper of good quality. If there are no remarks in this respect, the process continues.

The journal submits all papers received to arbitration, applying a double blind system, in which revisers do not know the author’s identity and vice versa, resorting to well-known and competent assessors external to the journal. Each assessor has two weeks to submit a written evaluation stating whether or not the paper meets the quality standards required for publication in the journal. In the event of conflicting evaluations by the assessors, a third evaluation will take place. The journal reserves the rights to accept or deny the publication of any submitted papers according to the arbitration’s resolution, and to notify the author in due time of any changes required for the publication of the paper.

GUIDELINES FOR CITATIONS and BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCING

Authors must cite their sources of information stating the name of the author and date of publication of books, journals, thesis and other documents used in the text itself. This method of citing by author-date [last name, year of publication] allows the reader to locate the source of information in alphabetical order, under the REFERENCES list at the end of the paper. The number of the page where the quoted text appears must also be included. The citation must be made between inverted commas if under 40 words. If the citation exceeds 40 words, it must be made in a free-standing indented block of text with no inverted commas.

Citations and bibliographical references must follow the APA (American Psychological Association) rules, 7^th edition. Below are some examples of the usage of these rules and specific variants used by the journal.

All lines after the first one in the references list shall be indented; this is known as the hanging indent method.

a) Books: Last name of author/s, Initial/s. (Year). Title of work (Edition). Publisher.

Ochs Olazábal, D. (2013) La acción de amparo (3^rd ed.). FCU

b) Journals: Last name of author/s, Initial/s. (Year). Title of article. Name of Journal, Volume (Number), pp.

Blanco, A. (2012) Penas y estructura económica. Revista de Derecho Penal, 20, 139-143.

c) Chapter or article in a book: Last name of author/s, Initial/s. (Year). Title of article or chapter. In: Last names and initial/s of author/s, book’s editor or coordinator, Title of work (ed., pp.). Publisher.

Loustanau, N. (2010). Consejos de salarios. In: Raso Delgue, J., Barreto Ghione, H., Loustaunau, N. Las nuevas relaciones laborales en Uruguay (73-120). FCU.

 d) Electronic Journal article [without doi (digital object identifier)]:  Author(s) surnames, initial(s). (Year). Article title. Journal title. Volume number (Issue number), page numbers. http://.......

Bermúdez, J. (2005).  The principle of legitimate reliance in administration’s actions as a limit to the power of governmental authorities to declare their acts void. Revista de Derecho, 18 (2), 82-105. http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S071809502005000200004&Ing=es&nrm+iso&tlng+es

Full reference to cited legislation.  At the end of the bibliographical references, all references to laws and regulations must be listed in chronological order, under the title “Legislation.” Said list must be limited to the regulations that have been actually cited or referred to in the paper. 

In the case of regulations, state:

Country. Number and official name if it has one. Title of official publication, date (day, month and year).

Uruguay. Law No. 18.987, Voluntary interruption of pregnancy. Diario Oficial, 30th,  October 2012.

Full reference to case law. At the end of the bibliographical references, all references to case law must be given, in a list, under the title “Case Law.” Said list will be limited to the judgements that have actually been cited or referred to in the paper. Judgements must be listed in alphabetical order.  In the final list, state:

Country. Jurisdiction: Court, Term Judgement. No./year, date (DD/MM/YY). Drafter’s Surname, Drafter’s initial, Surnames, Initials of members of the Court, Surname, Initial. Discordant member (disc.)

Uruguay. Court of Civil Appeals 5th Term. Interlocutory Decision No 189/2011, 21 September 2011. Simón, L.M. (Drafter), Fiorentino, B., Gradín, M.E. (Signatories)

It is also recommended to state volume, year, sections, page, DOI or URL, if applicable. Where a judgement has been published by two different printing houses, the writer must only cite the one used in his paper.

Notes

The use of the page notes will be limited to clarifications or clarifications of matters elaborated in the body of the text. These digressions, should be reduced to the minimum possible and therefore will be written in a brief and concrete (up to 50 words).
They should not be used to transcribe Bibliographic References.

If they refer to sources consulted and not cited in the text, which is considered useful to suggest to delve into the subject of the article presented, they will be included in a Bibliography list at the end of the document.

The list of NOTES must be placed on a new page, following the bibliographic references, in sequential order. The automatic numbering of the word processor should be used.

Use Arabic numerals as superscripts. Example: a note1

Finally, a BIBLIOGRAPHY that contains the sources consulted and not cited in the text, which is considered useful to deepen the subject of the article presented, may be included.

The Journal declines any responsibility for possible conflicts arising from the authorship of the works it publishes.

6. Digital preservation policies.

The Organization of the United Nations for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) proposes a notion of Digital Preservation as "the processes destined to guarantee the permanent accessibility of digital objects".

Journal of the Faculty of Law recognizes the importance and interest of preserving the content of our publication for future generations of readers and complies with the following procedures:

1 - Identify the final electronic documents for publication.

2 - Backup, in non-proprietary formats, the final files on external hard disk.

3 - Once published, weekly backups of the software (Open Journal System) and its full content are made on the institution's servers.

4 - Storage on external hard drives of the complete publication of the magazine and its content is updated in quarterly periods.

5 - Storage in Colibrí institutional repository.

6 - As an accredited journal in SciELO you will have access to LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe).

7. Data availability

In all original work submitted for publication in the Journal, the author must state whether the data on which his research is based is available and, where appropriate, indicate where they can be accessed.
Thus, in the event that the author has his research data on a server, he must declare it within the article, as follows:
"The data set supporting the results of this study are available at...".
Otherwise, you must include a sentence within the article declaring said point, as follows:
"The data set that supports the results of this study is not available."