Author guidelines

Author guidelines

Teoría & Derecho

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

I. DOUBLE-BLIND PEER-REVIEW PROCESS

Evaluation of the submissions

To evaluate the texts being published, submissions done to the sections «debates» and «studies» will be reviewed through a double-blind peer-review external process. Both the identity of the author and the reviewers will remain anonymous at all times.

Once the contribution is submitted, the double-blind peer-review external process will start. It will be carried out by two reviewers (a third one will be asked in case of need). They will issue a report containing their reconsiderations about the text.

Reviewers, when performing their evaluation will take into consideration the following items:

1. the topic suitability
2. the scientific quality and the competence of the arguments presented
3. the appropriateness of the text's structure
4. the opportunity and relevance of the submission in a given research area; and lastly
5. the adequacy of the data and resources used.

For the text to be published, it must obtain a two positive evaluations. Authors will receive the reviewers’ considerations on an anonimous report. The Editorial Team will give to authors an appropriate period of time to implement in their texts the suggestions made by the reviewers. Once the authors make the final changes to their texts, and the final version of the article is submitted, the Editorial Board of the Journal might suggest to them to introduce grammatical and writting-style corrections, if necessary.

Teoría y Derecho journal does not charge authors with any fee to publish their work.

II. GENERAL CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE JOURNAL TEORÍA & DERECHO

1. Allmanuscripts submitted for consideration should be original and unpublished.
2. «Debate» and «Estudios» original texts should average between 8.000 and 14.000 words in length, spaced in 1.5, and 12p for the body type. «Temas de Hoy» should be original notes or short texts up to 3.500 words, spaced also in 1.5 and 12p.They all must be submitted electronically, preferably in Word (or other similar revisable format).
3. Submissions are required to be sent before May 1st (for December’s issue) and before November 1st (for next year’s June’s issue).
4. At the beginning of the article, authors must indicate the title of the paper, full name of the author(s), position of the author(s), and the institution they come from.
5. Authors must send their contact information (specifically: address, telephone numberand e-mail) within their submission form in order to allow the Journal to mantain contact with them.
6. Teoría & Derecho recommends the use of inclusive language in its texts to take into account the presence and situation of women in society and the principle of equality. To this end, it is recommended to replace, as far as possible, the use of the generic masculine for gender-valued terms, to use explanatory syntagms or, if the former is not possible, to use split formulas.
7. Submissions must include an abstract of 10 lines or 1000 characters and a list of 5-6key words in Spanish and English languages in any case. Titles must be written in Spanish and English.
8. Submissions should include a Summary, where titles of the different sections of thetext are written. Submission structure must follow the so-called «Decimal Numbering System for Chapters and Subheading», and they should be written only with Arabic  Sections will be numbered consecutively starting on number 1. Each one can be divided in n sections, from 1 to n; each subsection can also be divided from 1 to n, and so on: (1., 1.1., 1.2., 1.2.1...) (4., 4.1., 4.1.1., 4.1.2...).
9. Submissions to the section «Temas de Hoy» may omit, fully or partially, the formalrequeriments mentioned (abstracts, peer review, length and to be an unpublished work), althougth the manuscript submitted may accomplished some or all of them. In this case, the Journal Teoría & Derecho would mention it.
10. In the case of texts and translations submitted to the «Varia» section, there is noneed to comply with the formal requirements mentioned above.

III. CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE JOURNAL

Manuscripts should be sent to this e-mail address: [email protected]

Authors must send two different files in Word (or compatible format). First the manuscript which must be completely blind. This is, no reference may let the reviewer know the authorship. In this one, the title, the abstract and the keywords must be include in English and Spanish. Moreover, all the properties of the file referring the author/s must be also erased. The second file should contain: the title, name and surname/s of the author/s, institution, current position, email address, and the acknowledgments and references to the research projects or so on within which the research has been developed.

Attached to the former ones, the form related to the personal data protection and its treatment should be submitted to the editorial, according to the current regulations. This form can be downloaded at the website of the journal: teoriayderecho.tirant.com

Manuscripts can be also sent through postal mail to Revista Teoría & Derecho. Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch, C/ Artes Gráficas 14, entresuelo, 46010 Valencia.

IV. QUOTES CITATION FORMAT

Only two citation systems can be used:

1. Taking into account the nature of the Journal, which is orientated to theoretical thought, it should be preferred to include the bibliographical references at the end of the article, through a bibliographic note which reflects the state of the question, the most relevant articles and the fundamentals of the author’s thesis or reasoning.
2. The date / author citation system (or Harvard system) could also be used. In this case,a list of bibliography must be placed at the end of the document.

Doing this, citations should go in brackets, including author’s surname, date of publication and the page / s. For instance, (Vives 2011:129).

If it is a second or later edition, this will be indicated with a superscript, written just before the year of publication. For instance, (Vives, 22011: 129).

– At the end of the article, a complete list of bibliography should be included according to the following criteria:

If several papers of the same author are cited, they should follow a chronological order. In second and subsequent mentions, authors’ surnames and names will be substituted by a double line (––), followed by a space, and no punctuation before the brackets, with the year of publication.

If the articles or books are published by the same author in the same year, they will be ordered alphabetically with lowercase letter written in italics (2001a).

If the paper referenced is written by two or more authors, the order will be changed only in relation to the first author’s name and surnames. For instance, Pérez López, José, Marisa Fernández García y Javier Rodríguez Jiménez (2015): «Los delitos económicos», Revista de Penología, 23 (2), 45-64.

The previous system will be preferible to the one in which the first author’s name is followed by the expression et al. (italics) or «and others», although the latter is also allowed.

In the main text and in the bibliography, Latin / Spanish quotation marks (« ») will be used, not English quotation marks (“ “). English quotation marks can be used whenever an expression and / or part of a sentence is already quoted, within the major sentence (« “ “ »).

– In any case, bibliographical references must be quoted in the following manner:

Books: Author’s or Authors’ Surname / s, Name (at least the first), year of publication (with brackets followed by colon), Title of the book (italics and capital letter only the initial of the first word, not all the words), place of edition (colon), editor’s name, and, eventually, collection.

For  instance:  Vives  Antón,  Tomás  S.  (22011):  Fundamentos  de  derecho  penal, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.

Book chapter: Author’s or Authors’ Surname / s, Name (at least the first), year of publication (with brackets followed by colon), Title of the chapter (double quotation marks), person in charge of the edition (editor, coordinator, compilator..., preceded by «in»; name of person in charge may be written witth the initial before the surnames), title of the book (italics and capital letter only the first letter of the first word, not with all the words), place of edition (colon), editor’s name, eventually, collection, and pages (without any graphical symbol).

For instance: Pérez Pérez, María y Laura Martínez Martínez (2014): «Algunas acotaciones sobre los actuales modelos de teoría de la legislación», en P. Rodríguez Pérez y M. Ramos Ramos (comps.), Nuevos modelos de teoría de la legislación, Madrid: Teorema, 34-51.

Article of Scientific Journals: Author’s or Authors’ Surname/s, Name (at least the first), year of publication (with brackets followed by colon), Title of the article (double quotation marks), title of the journal (italics and capital letters), eventually volumen and issue of the journal, and pages (without any graphical symbol).

For instance: Cotterrell, Roger (2015): «The politics of jurisprudence revisited: a Swedish realist in historical context», Ratio Juris, 28 (1), 1-14.

Electronic Resources: References to an electronic resources in the list of bibliography is not compulsory when the resource is only available online ant it is not published in a journal or book (even electronic ones). If so, the reference should be as follows: Author’s or Authors’ Surname/s, Name (at least the first), year of publication (with brackets followed by colon), Title of the resource (double quotation marks), format between square brackets («[on line]»), link and availabilty, beginning always with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) and it will be between broken brackets, followed by a stop after the end (<   >.), and date of reference (with square brackets and full stop before the end square bracket).

For instance, Romero Carrascal, Susana (2008): «Archivos y delitos. La actuación de la Fiscalía de Patrimonio Histórico» [en línea], <http://www.arxivers.com/index.php/documents/formacio-1/jornades-d-estudi-i- debat-1/228-jed-080528-romero-1/file>. [Date of reference: 12/06/2014.]

V. COPYRIGHTS AND OPEN ACCESS

The authors of submitted texts agree to assign their reproduction rights to the Journal. Therefore, the Journal will have exclusive rights to authorize the reproduction, public display and / or distribution of the work. The authors authorize the Journal to make their articles available to the public and to share their contents in scientific databases in which the Journal is indexed, in order to foster a greater citation and impact of them.

The contents of the online version of Teoría & Derecho magazine are distributed under a use and distribution licence «Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)». More information about this licence can be found here. This statement must be included in every required situation, allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. 

Teoría & Derecho strongly supports and fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access. Contents publish have no embargo period, they are full available to everyone by no requiring registration, and only are charged when requiring a printed version.

It is not allowed to deposit in any repository any other version than the one pusblished by the publishing house.

VI. DATABASES

All the databases, impact and evaluation plataforms were Teoría & Derecho is included can be found here.