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Author Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

I. Objective and Policy

Revista de Estudios de la Justicia publishes original and unpublished articles of legal or interdisciplinary research, which are reviewed by external experts (peers) who have previously published similar research. Evaluations are conducted anonymously and focus on the quality and validity of the arguments expressed in the articles.

Works are not accepted unless at least one year has passed since the author's last publication. Additionally, more than one proposal (whether as a sole author or co-author) is not evaluated simultaneously. If a work is received before the specified timeframe has elapsed, the author will be informed of this circumstance, and the editorial process will not commence until the work is resubmitted after the elapsed time.

II. Publication Ethics

If any ethical misconduct is detected during the review process or after the publication of the article, the journal will take appropriate legal actions to sanction the author responsible for the fraud.

III. Form and Preparation of Articles

III.1. General Guidelines

All articles submitted to the REJ must be written in Spanish or English, address topics of legal or interdisciplinary interest, and be original and unpublished. The article's length cannot exceed 12,000 words (including abstract, keywords, footnotes, and bibliographic references).

III.2. Mandatory Documentation

Authorship Declaration and Publication Authorization: Must be signed by all authors and sent along with the submitted article. With this document, the author commits, among other things, not to submit the article to another journal, book, or any other medium or platform for dissemination until receiving the editorial decision of the REJ.

In the case of co-authored works, the category of co-authorship and the percentage of contribution of each participant must be indicated, as relevant, according to the CRedit taxonomy available at the site https://credit.niso.org/

III.3. Characteristics

III.3.1 First Page

The following should be included on the first page:

• TITLE: In Spanish and English;
• AUTHOR'S NAME (or authors): Institutional affiliation, city and country, profession and academic degree should be included in a footnote, as well as the author's email address;
• ABSTRACT: A brief text in both the article's language and English, mentioning the most important ideas of the research (between two hundred and four hundred words);
• KEYWORDS: In the original language of the article and English (minimum 5, maximum 10);
• If the study has been presented as an abstract at a conference or has any background, this should be specified with the corresponding citation.

III.3.2 Text body

• The text should be written in Times New Roman or Garamond font, size 12.
• Tables, charts and graphs can be used.
• Bibliographic references will consist only of those cited in the text and will be alphabetically ordered

III.3.3 Standards for Bibliographic References

The bibliographic references made in the article must be updated, relevant, elaborated with necessary information, without omitting any relevant reference for the study, and scrupulously complying with academic ethics standards. These references must be made according to the standards available on the site https://tipografica.io/manual-estilo-revistas-cientificas/ 

III.3.3.1 General Orthotypographic Issues

• Footnotes always come after punctuation. Avoid having two consecutive footnotes.
• Ellipses are marked with three suspension points enclosed in brackets [...].
• The use of italics should be limited to expressions in foreign languages (except for quotes or names of foreign institutions). Exceptionally, italics can be used to emphasize a word or phrase.
• As a general rule, Latin abbreviations in citations and references should be avoided, such as et al., e.g., idem., ibid., and op. cit.

III.3.3.2 Quotations and Quotation Marks

• Short quotations should be included within the text and "in quotation marks," indicating the source or reference in parentheses. Long quotations, four lines or more, should be separated into a separate paragraph and should not be in quotation marks.
• As a general rule, Latin quotation marks («…») are preferred over English ones (“…”). In the case of a quoted phrase within another quoted phrase, English quotation marks can be used for the inner phrase.

III.3.3.3. Internet Resources

• Email addresses and URLs are not marked with angle brackets (< >), as is usual in some publications, but they should be hyperlinked and verified.
• For long addresses, it is advisable to use a URL shortener.

III.3.3.4 Graphic Elements

• All graphic elements should be numbered sequentially according to their type (image 1, image 2... table 1, table 2) and contain a title or caption.
• All graphic elements should have at least one internal reference in the text (for example, "see table 1").

III.3.3.5 Anglicisms

• We consider that there are a series of anglicisms that are difficult or impossible to replace in Spanish, and their use has already been incorporated into our language and should be written in round brackets. Most of these cases come from the world of technology. They are as follows: bitcoin, chat, copyright, hacker, hardware, ranking, software, wifi, web.
• In other cases, the form in our language is preferable: "correo electrónico" is better than "email."

III.3.3.6 List of References

General Format: The general format of a reference consists of four consecutive fields: author, year, title, publication details. To facilitate searching in a list of references, we prefer the year to be enclosed in parentheses immediately after the author's name (which differs from the Chicago-Deusto Style Manual). The title of the resource is always a separate field. Publication details may indicate the source of the resource (the journal where the article is published, for example), the publisher and the city of publication (in the case of a book), and the respective links if the resource has an online version available.

Order of Entries: Entries in a list of references should be sorted alphabetically. In the case of resources by the same author, the order is by publication date. If the author's name and publication date coincide, resources are alphabetically ordered by adding a lowercase letter to the year: 2011a, 2011b, 2011c, and so forth.

Dash Substitution: If the author's name is repeated in two or more entries, it is advisable to use a dash followed by a period (—.) from the second repetition onwards.

URL of the Resource: If the resource has an available online version—regardless of whether the researcher consulted a printed version—the URL must always be included.

Date of Online Resource Access: It is common for researchers to include the date they accessed an online resource. This is unnecessary. The publication of an article assumes the verification and availability of all online resources. A resource included by a researcher in their article that is not available online at the time of publication cannot be a reference.

DOI of the Resource: When the resource has a DOI assigned, it can replace the URL, but it must always be hyperlinked.

Scientific Journal Names Abbreviations: Abbreviated names of scientific journals should be unspaced.

Consistency of the Reference List: All resources included in the reference list of a scientific article must have some reference in the body of the article. Similarly, all references in the body text must point to an entry in the reference list.

Toponymy: When present, Spanish toponyms should be used in city names (Nueva York, Londres, Berlín, París, etc.). In the case of the capital of our country, the form "Santiago de Chile" should be avoided. Simply "Santiago" is sufficient.

Publisher's Name: It is advisable to avoid the expression "editorial" when accompanying the publisher's name; the name alone is sufficient.

III.3.3.7 Examples of Entries in the Reference List:

- Book by one author or editor. In the reference list, the author's name should be inverted, with the last name(s) first followed by the first name, separated by a comma. The publication year is enclosed in parentheses.

Cremades, Javier (2007). Micropoder. La fuerza del ciudadano en la era digital. Madrid: Espasa.

- Book by two or three authors or editors. In this case, only the first name is inverted in the reference list; the rest should be maintained as it appears in the source.

Fabra Valls, Modesto y José Luis Blasco Díaz (2007). La administración electrónica en España: Experiencias y perspectivas de futuro. Valencia: Universitat Jaume I.

- Book by four or more authors. All authors should be included in the reference list entry. However, in the text, the citation can mention only the last name of the first author listed followed by the phrase "et al."

Barnes, Peter, Chris Dibona, Sam Ockman y Mark Stone (1999). Voices from the Open Source Revolution. Nueva York: O’Reilly Media.

- Volume of a work. The volume of a work comes after the title, ideally in Arabic numerals and without abbreviations.

Arce, Miguel y Julio Báez (2013). Código Penal, comentado y anotado. Vol. 3. Buenos Aires: Cathedra.

- Mention of the edition number.

Blanco Cordero, Isidoro (2015). El delito de blanqueo de capitales. 4.ª ed. Pamplona: Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.

- Mention of the translator.

Kaufmann, Armin (2006). Dogmática de los delitos de omisión. Trad. desde la 2.ª edición alemana por Joaquín Cuello Contreras y José Luis Serrano González. Madrid: Marcial Pons.

- Chapter or part of a book.

Gómez Puntes, Marcos (2007). «La administración electrónica». En Martín Rebolledo (compilador), La autorización administrativa, la administración electrónica y la enseñanza del derecho administrativo hoy (pp. 11-56). Pamplona: Aranzadi.

- Article in a printed journal. In the text, include the page number consulted. In the reference list, provide the page range where the article appears in the journal.

Zúñiga, Francisco (2001). «Apostillas: Ley y reglamento en la Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional (de la germanización al practicismo)». Revista Ius et Praxis, 7 (2): 209-257.

- Article in an online journal with URL.

Cerda, Alberto (2003). «Intimidad de los trabajadores y tratamiento de datos personales por los empleadores». Revista Chilena de Derecho Informático, 2: 35-59. Disponible en http://bit.ly/2sHqKMc.

- Article in an online journal with DOI.

Bello Lagos, Nicolás (2014). «La apropiación de obras en el dominio público a través de su digitalización». Revista Chilena de Derecho y Tecnología, 3 (2): 11-65. DOI: 10.5354/0719-2584.2014.31656.