Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The typeface of the article shall be 12 point with 1.5 line spacing for the text and 10 point with single spacing for footnotes; italics shall be used instead of underlined words (except for URL addresses); all illustrations, figures, and tables shall be placed within the text in the rightful place, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions about ensuring a blind review have been followed.
Author Guidelines
Deadlines General conditions and ethical statements "Juan Larrea Holguín" International Award Articles Communications, reports and debates Reviews Copyright Notice
Deadlines for submissions
Papers can be submitted in the following periods (January-May) – (July – November); nevertheless, articles sent after November 1st of every year will be published in the next year’s edition. Notwithstanding, once the Editorial Committee approves of papers, these will be immediately uploaded to our electronic version.
General conditions and ethics statements
Submitted articles may be rejected due to spelling and grammar errors such as vague use of vocabulary, incorrect punctuation, lack of clarity, syntax errors, unnecessary use of Anglicism, etc. We positively recommend thorough revision of paper’s grammar before submission, in order to avoid complications. All articles must comply with our ethical standards (based on COPE standards) and, at the end process, authors must sign a Statement of originality and authorization for the publication.
Moreover, papers will be revised on several plagiarism detection tools, as Viper, Plagium, Quetext, Grammarly, Plagiarisma, iThenticate or Copyleaks. To avoid ghostwriting practices (a failure to declare as authors who have written, spoken or contributed substantially to research), the Editor will eventually be able to ask for some clarification about individual contribution of each co-author in the research, in acquisition of data, in analysis and interpretation, in drafting the article or in revising it critically, as well as information about sources of research funding.
Papers that do not comply with all our edition, ethic and style norms will not be accepted.
Style
Format must comply with the following rules:
- Fort the text’s body: Times New Roman Font, size 12, left spacing 6 and right spacing 0. Line spacing 1.5. No indentations.
- Footnotes: Times New Roman, size 10, left spacing 6 and right spacing 0. Line spacing 1. Notes will be numbered in order and located at the bottom of the page.
- References: Times New Roman, size 10, left spacing 6 and right spacing 0. Line spacing 1. No indentations.
"Juan Larrea Holguín" International Award
This section includes the papers that have won the aforementioned award. Papers must comply all conditions provided for "Articles" section. Submitted papers must be original, unedited and they must not be actually in process of publication by any other institution or journal. Articles
This section will check if the winner paper fulfills the originality criteria and if it is appropriate to the Journal’s content. Submitted papers must be original, unedited and they must not be actually in process of publication by any other institution or journal. Recommended length goes from 8,000 to 12,000 words including the list of references. The bibliography must be included at the end, annotations should be written in footnotes, and APA 7 rules must be followed. Papers that do not comply with our edition norms will not be accepted. In this section, papers must have:
(a) Page 1:
- Title and authors.
- Author identification information, including the institution to which he belongs, his relationship to the institution (professor, researcher, etc.). Complete postal information, email address, web page and ORCID number.
- Research scholarships or competitions that funded or promoted the paper’s creation (if pertinent).
(b) Page 2:
- The paper’ title ( Spanish and English).
- Abstract (Spanish and English). We recommend to use 150-250 words, with the following content: scope, method, papers structure and conclusion.
- Five keywords ( Spanish and English) separated by semicolons (;) and in alphabetical order. We recommend that the authors rely on the Unesco Thesaurus.
(c) Page 3 and following:
- The title will be posted on the first line.
- The text without identification information, to allow for anonymous evaluation.
(d) References: Bibliographic information should use the American Psychological Association APA 7 standards. Bibliography will also include references used to write the paper, and will be ordered alphabetically following the author’s last names.
Every explicatory note should be posted at the bottom of the page. Communications, reports and debates
Works submitted to this section could be papers, communications or speeches previously presented at congresses or conferences, as well as unpublished reports of human rights or debates between two authors about some personal right. Finally, publication must follow APA rules. Works that do not comply with our edition norms will not be accepted.
Reviews
This section includes articles that contain abstracts of law papers up to two pages long (approx.), or more if contains a deep study of historical books. This section will publish reviews to relevant recently published books or to books with great historical value. In general, we recommend not to use footnotes in this section.
For the Reviews Section, articles must include, as a title the information of the summarized book, in the following manner: Last Name1 Last Name2, Name. (Year). Book Title. Place of publication: Editorial.
Copyright Notice
Authors publishing in our Journal comply to the following terms:
1. Authors keep their work’s copyrights, but they guarantee Ius Humani Law Journal to be the first publisher of their papers. They grant the Journal will a Creative Commons Attribution License, under which their work can be shared with the condition that it is appropriately cited.
2. Authors are aware and accept that the Ius Humani Team will try to give the greatest diffusion to the Journal, which means, among other things, that its printed and electronic editions will be distributed among different databases and scientific indexes.
3. Authors can establish further clauses for non exclusive distribution, such as publication on a separate book or placing in an institutional data-base. Nevertheless, a note should be always added to explain that the paper was originally published in Ius Humani Law Journal.
4. We permit and encourage authors to share their work through Internet before and during the editorial process to receive further recommendations and wider references (we recommend you read the article The Effect of Open Access).
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be available for any other purpose or another person. The user may at any time exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting the following email address: revista@derecho@uhemisferios.edu.ec
