Iuris Dictio

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Author Guidelines

General Information

  • Articles must be original and unpublished. Authors must identify themselves and indicate their affiliation; if they do not have an affiliation, they should write “Independent researcher.”
  • Articles may be written in Spanish or English, the journal’s two official languages.
  • Articles must be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters in length (excluding spaces).
  • In addition, they must include an abstract of up to 750 characters (excluding spaces, approximately 10 lines) in Spanish and English at the beginning. Keywords (a maximum of six) must also be provided in both languages.

Basic Style Guidelines

  • Format: Times New Roman font, size 12, single-spaced, without tabs. The document margins should be 2.5 centimeters (top and bottom) and 3 centimeters (left and right).
  • Title: The title at the top of the article should be centered, in size 14, and in bold. It must not exceed 15 words. Below it, on the right, the author’s name must be indicated. On the next line, the name of the university or affiliated institution, the city, and the country must be listed. If the author has no affiliation, “Independent researcher” may be used. Next, include the author’s email address, and on the fourth line, their ORCID identifier. If the research for the article received funding, this must be explained in a first footnote. In a second footnote titled “Declaration of Contribution by Each Author,” the type of participation of each co-author of the article must be stated (defining responsibilities, degree of contribution, and division of work).
  • Abstract: A concise and engaging summary appears before the body text and below the title. The words “abstract” and “keywords” should be highlighted in bold. There should be a maximum of six keywords, separated by commas. All of this text should be justified. If you have questions about the use of keywords, we recommend the website: https://seranking.com/keyword-suggestion-tool.html 
  • Body text: If necessary, the main text should be divided into sections numbered with Arabic numerals in 12-point font. Both section and subsection titles should be left-aligned, set in bold, separated by a space, and without a period.
  • Indents: Paragraphs in the body text should have no leading and be indented, except for the line following a title, subtitle, or quotation, which should not be indented.

Please use the following template as a guide.

 

Figures and Tables

Figures and tables must be inserted using the word processor’s built-in feature and must be in .jpg or .png format, appear within the body of the text, and be centered. Captions must be written in Times New Roman 10. Images must be in the public domain or the authors must obtain the necessary permissions, which are the authors’ responsibility.

Footnotes, Citations, and Bibliographic References

The journal follows the APA Sixth Edition style for footnotes, citations, and references. Below is a summary of the most important guidelines:

  • Footnotes should not correspond to references for citations and should appear on each page, not at the end of the document. They must be single-spaced, in the same font as the text (Times New Roman) and size 10. The reference number will be indicated after the word and before the punctuation mark using superscript Arabic numerals.
  • Footnotes must not contain URLs or other information regarding citations, whether digital or online. All such information must appear at the end of the article, in the bibliography. Never in a footnote.
  • Short quotations should be enclosed in quotation marks within the text, while longer quotations (more than forty words, approximately three lines) must appear in a separate paragraph, in the same font and size 11, with a 1.5-centimeter indentation. A blank line must be left before and after each quotation. When there are intentional omissions within the quotation (ellipses), these must be indicated using square brackets [...].
  • In-text citations must follow the author/year/page format, listed in parentheses and separated by commas.

Example:

“It is the notion of person in fundamental positivism [...] in the criminal code of that same year” (Montesdeoca, 2000, p. 35).

  • When the reference is to an entire work, page numbers should be omitted, and only the author’s last name and the year of publication should be indicated.

Example:

Bolivian legislation from a criminal law perspective has already been studied in the past (Montesdeoca, 2000).

  • When referring to the same work repeatedly, it is not necessary to include the author’s name.

Example:

The notion of the person in legal positivism is central to the criminal law text from that same year (Montesdeoca, 2000, p. 35). Indeed, Article 25 contains the exact Spanish translation of Kelsen’s text (2000, p. 35).

  • If the same author has published a work in the same year, the texts should be listed alphabetically by chapter and book title, with a letter added after the year (starting with “a”).

Example:

It was the works carried out at the beginning of the millennium that revealed how Kelsen was adapted into Bolivian legislation (Montesdeoca, 2000a, 2000b).

  • The “Bibliographic References” should include only the cited texts and will be listed alphabetically at the end of the article, using the same font and size as the main text. If a book reference spans more than one line, it should be indented starting from the second line.

Types of bibliographic references

  • Books: last name of the author, followed by the initials of the name and year of publication in between parenthesis, followed by a period. Place of publication, followed by column and publishing house. In the case of more than one author, publications will be listed by last name and initials of the names of the authors, they will be separated by commas with an "and" before the name of the last author.

Examples:

Petit, E. (2000). Tratado elemental de Derecho Romano. Barcelona: Paidós.

Benhaviv, S. (2005). El Derecho de los Otros. Madrid: Castalia, vol. II.

Alessandri, A., Somarriva M., y Vodanovic A. (1994). Tratado de los derechos reales.  Santiago: Editorial Jurídica de Chile.

  • Articles and chapters in collective books: the last name of the author, followed by the initial of the first name and the year of publication in between parenthesis, followed by a period. The title of the chapter will not use bold or italics and will be followed by a period. "In" followed by initials of the first name and the full last name of the authors, followed by (Eds.) The title of the book will go in italics, the page of the chapter in between parenthesis, followed by a period. The last information will be the place of publication followed by a colon, and the publishing house.

Example:

Corral, F. (2016). Las palabras de la Ley. In D. Falconí Trávez (ed.). A medio camino. Intertextos entre la literatura y el derecho (pp. 397-411). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.

  • Articles of periodicals: The last name and initial of the first name, followed by year of publication in between parenthesis. The title of the article will not use bold or italics, and will be followed by a period. The title of the publication is in italics, followed by a comma, then the volume, number and pages of the publication.

Example:

Torres, L. F. (2013). El activismo judicial en la era constitucional. Revista Iuris Dictio, 15 (13), 65-80.

  • Web publication: online texts follow the same rules as printed texts, but they need to include the url.

Example:

Zapatero, J. L. (2015). El expediente judicial electrónico. Justicia Electrónica. <http://justiciaelectronica.es/tag/eje-dje-expediente-judicial-electronico-documento/>. 

  • Rulings: The name of the court or organism that made the ruling, followed by the year in parenthesis. The name of the ruling (in italics). Date of the ruling. Number of the ruling. All rulings must be listed under an underlined subtitle that states "Rulings", within the bibliographic references.  

Example:

IACHR (2015). Marcel Granier and Other vs. Venezuela. Preliminary Exceptions, Background, Reparations and Costs. Ruling 22 June 2015. Serie C No. 293.

ECHR (2012). B.S. vs. Spain. No. 47159/08. Ruling 24 July 2012.

  • Conventions, treaties and conferences: the name of the sanctioning organism, followed by the year of ratification/conclusion (in italics). The name of the document (in italics) and, if necessary, after the colon, its acronym. Date of adoption. All documents should be listed under an underlined subtitle called "Conventions, treaties and conferences", within the bibliographic references.  

Example:

UN (1965). International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Descrimination: CERD. Adopted by the General Assebly on 21 December 1965.

  • Observations, opinions, recommendations and reports: name of the sactioning organism, followed by the year of ratification/conclusion (in italics). If necessary, the name of the department or section. The name of the document. The date of adoption. All documents should be listed under an underlined subtitle called "Obsevations, opinions, recommendations and reports", within the bibliographic references.

Example:

UN (1989). Human Rights Committee. General Observation No. 18. No discrimination. 10 November 1989.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements:

  • There is no conflict of interest regarding the article; if one exists, it must be disclosed in a footnote.
  • The author must notify the editorial team of any other potential conflicts of interest.
  • We recommend that the author, if a student, be a master’s or doctoral candidate. Alternatively, the author should be a practicing attorney or an independent researcher.
  • The submission has not been previously published nor submitted for consideration by any other journal.
  • The submission file is based on the submission template provided in the author guidelines.
  • Wherever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text is single-spaced; 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate locations within the text, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines, which appear under About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Blind Review must be followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of the work.
  2. Texts published in the journal Iuris Dictio are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (BY-NC-SA) license, which allows the work to be shared with third parties, distributed, publicly communicated, and used for derivative works and commercial purposes, provided that the authors, the initial publication in this journal, the publishing institution, and the license terms are acknowledged. The full text of the license can be found at: <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/> 
  3. Authors are permitted to enter into separate additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work published in the journal—for example, in institutional repositories, websites, or books—provided they expressly indicate its initial publication in Iuris Dictio. 
  4. Authors are encouraged to publish the manuscript online prior to publication, both before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges as well as earlier and increased citation of published works (see: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html ).

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