Submissions

Author Guidelines

Writer Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES

Law Journal

Studies in Law and Political Science in Latin America and the Caribbean

Division of Legal Sciences of Universidad del Norte

1. Articles must be uploaded on the Open Journal system on US Letter (A4)

size paper: http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/derecho/

They must be unpublished and the original Word file should be written with 1.5 spacing (including references), in Arial, font size 12 points , with 3 cm margins on each side and its length should not exceed 30 pages. Articles will be accepted in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Articles will be received in Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

2. Ethical Responsibility

The writer list should include only the professionals who contributed to the completion of the work.

Data gathering or participation in any technique is not considered a criterion for writer profile.

3. Each writer agrees to explicitly sign over the economic rights derived from the publication of his/her work. Thus, they must complete the form of cession of economic rights.

The writers must fill out the form writerizing the cession of economic rights, which is in the link below:

http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/documentos/revista_derecho/authorization.docx

The completed form should be sent to the account rderecho@uninorte.edu.co

4. Articles can be:

Articles of scientific and technological research. It is a document that presents in detail, the original results of completed research projects. The structure usually contains four important parts: introduction, methodology, results and conclusions.

Case report. It is a document that presents the results of a study on a particular situation in order to make known the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific case. It includes a commented systematic review of the literature on similar cases.

Others

Verification of compliance with the formal requirements. If the article does not fit any of the categories established by the Journal or does not meet the formal submission requirements, it will be returned to the writer, who may re-send it to the editor when it meet the requirements. The Editorial Committee gives priority to the publication of research articles, discussion and review articles (Articles type 1, 2 and / or 3 of the Colciencias Publindex).

5. The Journal has the following sections:

• Guest researcher

• Research articles

6. Being a refereed publication, the Editorial Board sends the preselected articles to anonymous evaluators, who on the basis of the scientific criteria will decide on the relevance of their publication. The evaluators shall be selected by their high intellectual capacities and academic level (Master's and Doctoral Studies).

The technique of double blind evaluation is used: the writer does NOT know which peer evaluator his/her article was submitted to, and the evaluator does NOT know who wrote the article he/she will evaluate. This is done in order to prevent the results of the evaluation from being influenced by the bias of the observer. Once the evaluation is issued by the evaluator, the Committee reserves the right to accept the article in the version it was presented, request modifications to it, make its publication conditional to meeting these requirements to the satisfaction of the Committee itself and/or of the anonymous evaluators or just reject it.

7. Written notice will be given on the evaluation of articles and if accepted the journal will inform in which number the article will be published, if this is possible. The Law Journal is a biannual publication. The receipt of an article implies that it has not been published, accepted or is not being evaluated for publication by another journal.

The journal has greater preference for texts that are submitted by authors with previous publications and citation index in bibliographic databases.

8. With article submission for consideration by the Law Journal it is understood:

Implicit authorization for the publication and reproduction of it in any medium of circulation employed by the Journal.

It is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Its publication is accepted by all writers.

It will not be published in the same form, in English or any other language.

9. The first page of the article should contain:

- Article Title: No more than 12 words.

- Full name of the writer or writers.

- Summary of headings and subheadings that make up the article, in Arial font size 9.

- A footnote to the writer's name must specify: Academic titles and institutional affiliation, current position, main address, city, country and email address.

- A footnote to the article’s title must indicate: funding sources of the project which the article reports about (if applicable), grants or other funding for its implementation.

10. The second page should contain: a summary of no more than two hundred (200) words (must refer to the nature of the document, the general objective of the research, the research methodology and the main conclusion or evidence of the document) in the language the article was written and in English. Also, it should indicate the keywords that will enable indexing the article (maximum six) in the language it was written and in English.

11. General Instructions for Submission of Article:

- Use margins of 3 cm on each side of the sheet.

- Number all the pages in the upper right corner.

- The whole article must be 1.5 spaced.

- Do not insert tabs or extra spaces between paragraphs.

- Do not insert page breaks.

- Use a common default (Arial) 12 point font size.

- The bibliographical references and of some other nature shall be entered in accordance with the standards of the sixth edition of the American Psychological Association (APA).

a) Articles

-DOI-Article

Sarmiento Erazo, J. P. (1998). Territorio sin Estado. El caso de los pueblos palafíticos en la Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta. Revista de Derecho, 43, pp. 110-157. doi http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/dere.43.7475

-Articles without DOI

Zuñiga Romero, M. & Del Águila Cazorla, O. (2008). La problemática de las comisiones en la administración de los regímenes de pensiones latinoamericanos: especial referencia al sistema colombiano. Revista de Derecho, 44, 247-268.

b) Books/ chapters

Basic ways to complete books

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. City: Publisher.

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. Available in http://www.xxxxxx.xxx

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. doi: xx.xxxxxxxx

Surname, A. A. (Ed.). (Year). Title. City: Publisher

-Book author

Sarmiento Erazo, J. P. (2010). La responsabilidad patrimonial del Estado por Omisión Legislativa, entre el juez administrativo y el juez constitucional. Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

-Book publishing

Bernal Crespo, J. S. & Guzmán Mendoza, C. E. (Ed.). (2014). Los derechos humanos: una mirada transdiciplinar. Barranquilla: Editorial Universidad del Norte.

- Book in electronic version

Guzmán Mendoza, C. E. & Insignares Cera, S. (Eds.). (2010). Política y derecho: retos para el siglo XXI. Available in http://www.uninorte.edu.co/documents/72553/aca48249-dd65-4200-b3b3-a906a025eb0e

- Basic forms for a chapter in a book or entry into a work of

reference

Surname, A. A. & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of chapter or entry. In

Surname, AA (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. Xx-xx). City: Publisher.

c) Technical Report

-Basic form

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. (Report No. Xxx). City: Publisher.

OIT (2000). Informe sobre el Trabajo en el Mundo 2000. La seguridad de los ingresos y la protección social en un mundo en plena transformación. Ginebra: Comisión de Empleo y Política Social-Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Available in: http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/standards/relm/gb/docs/gb279/ pdf/esp-7.pd

d) legislation and jurisprudence

European Court of Human Rights (1989). Soering judgment c. United Kingdom N 14038

- At the end of the article a list of the references and other sources used in alphabetical order by writer or, alternatively, by title, apart from that respecting the guidelines for references to footnotes.

- The document should be submitted in as Word 2003-2007 file, or future versions without editing restrictions.

12. Research and reflection articles, case reports and short articles that are submitted to the journal should have the following structure:

• Introduction: This part should contain the problem statement, description of the research and the objectives.

• Question and Rationale: This part should explain the hypothesis and the importance of developing the research.

• Methodology: It should explain the specific methods that were used for the collection, analysis, and database systematization, and procedures used by the researcher to validate or refute the hypotheses based on the chosen data.

• Conclusions: This part should present the solution or possible solution of the problem and what the contribution is to the scientific community.

13. DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

In an effort to continue the rigorous standards of scientific quality, as of this year 2014, the magazine assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to articles published.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a unique and permanent identifier for electronic publications. It also provides information on the description through metadata, the digital object (author, title, publication data, ...) and its location on the Internet.

The DOI system allows the identification of electronic resources, managing intellectual content, metadata management, among other benefits.

Therefore, the articles submitted to the journal must reference the DOI in the literature, if the magazine or book referenced have this code.

14. When submitting the article by Open Journal System (OJS), please attach the original files of figures or tables that appear in the article, i.e. in the program they were originally created.

15. It is the responsibility of the writer to get the permissions and rights to attach materials or illustrations from other sources.

16. The opinions appearing in the articles published in this journal are the exclusive responsibility of the writers.

17. If you have any questions or comments, please write to email: rderecho@uninorte.edu.co