Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. The articles submitted for publication in the magazine must be unpublished and not be approved for publication in any other magazine.

2. The articles should adhere to the following technical publication rules. The originals that do not comply will be returned to their authors for adaptation and revision, before being sent to the individuals in charge of the evaluation.

First.- Content of the originals.

1. Dereito publishes original research work about any of the specialties in Law, as well as essays related to teaching at university level, characterized by their originality and quality.

2. Dereito is published semiannually, with the possibility of an extra monographic issue per year.

3. Each regular issue consists of the following permanent sections:

• Essays: research papers

• Commentary and features.

• Comments of sentences, drafts of legal norms, new legal norms or technical-legal documents.

• Summaries of the contents of congresses, courses, seminars or other academic events of legal interest held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

• Descriptions of teaching innovation experiences.

• Notes
• Reviews.

Occasionally, a fourth section called “Reports” can be added to the magazine, by decision of the Editorial Office. The Reports are works of dissemination of the main normative, jurisprudential or technical-juridical newness occurred in a sector of an area or legal matter in the autonomic, state or international scope. Its objective is to describe the modifications introduced in the respective sector and to carry out a critical analysis of them.

Second.- Length and format of the originals.

Minimum and maximum lengths are:

• Doctrinal essays: 15-45 pages.
• Commentaries and features: 5-15 pages.
• Notes: until 15 pages.
• Reviews: 2-5 pages.
• Reports: 15-30 pages.

Format must comply with the following criteria:

a) The articles will be signed by the author or authors, with name, surname, professional category and reference to the institution they belong to.

b) The articles should include in first place a summary, in the article’s language, Spanish and English, between 125 and 150 words long, between 3 and 5 keywords and, in second place, the body of the article and an alphabetically ordered bibliography.

c) Titles should explain, as far as possible, the theme or thesis that will be defended in the article. Summaries should show the main ideas used in the reseach work. Keywords will be extracted from a general diffusion thesaurus. The authro’s professional affiliation will consist in indicating the author’s professional category and the institution he/she is linked to or his/her academic degree and the institution he/she is linked to.

d) The standard format of the magazine is based in DIN-A4 pages, with 2,5cm. margins, size 12 Verdana font (footnotes in the same font, but size 10), and line spacing of a space and a half (a single space for footnotes).

e) The title of the article will be presented in capital letters, centered and bold. The authors’ names will be displayed below the title, centered, in lower case italics. Below the name will be the category or academic degree and below that, the University or institution the authors’ are linked to (not in bold or italics) as well as the contact e-mail.

f) The text will be structured in justified paragraphs with no indentation, with a 6pt first spacing and 0pt last. (Footnotes will be both 0pt).

g) The structure of the article will follow this model: 1. TITLE OF THE SECTION (capital, roman, block); 1.1. Title of the subsection (lower case, roman, block); 1.1. Title of the subsection (lower case block italics), 1.1.1.1 Title of the subsection (lower case italics) y 1.1.1.1.1 Title of the subsection (lower case roman).

h) Quotes will be made in APA style:

i) It is compulsory to include as a link (URL) the DOI of every work included in the bibliography, if they have it. The CrossRef portal can be used to look for those works, in order to check if they have a DOI and to find it. Here is an example of a reference of an article with DOI:

• E. BONET, "A challenge for Harmonic Serialism with Optimal Interleaving", Phonology, 30, 399-421, 2013. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952675713000201>.

j) References to quotes will be recorded as footnotes with continuous numbering.

k) Words, expressions and quotes in a language different to that of the article will be written in italics.

l) No underlining admitted.

m) The abbreviations used in the article will be stated in a note at the beginning of it. In all cases, the word page will be abbreviated in p. or pp. as needed, En una nota al principio del trabajo se indicarán las abreviaturas empleadas en el mismo. En todo caso: la palabra página se abreviará p. o pp., and following will be ss.

n) Acronyms will be written with no full stops (ex. EBEP). The first time an acronym appears in an article, the expanded name should be written followed by the acronym in parenthesis.

o) Textual quotes of sentences or author opinions should be written between the symbols: « ».

p) No drawings, pictures or illustrations allowed.

Third.- Sending, evaluation and acceptance of the original.

1. The esssays should be unpublished and not approved for publication in other magazines. They will be sent in a “Microsoft Word” compatible format.

2. Submission deadlines for articles to be published are the last day if March and September.

3. The articles submitted to Dereito will undergo confidential evaluation by two experts. The articles with two negative evaluations will not be published. Those with one positive and one negative evaluation will be sent to a third evaluator and will only be accepted for publication in the case of that third evaluation being positive.

4. The Secretary of the Editorial Office will notify the authors of the acceptance or rejection of the originals by the Editorial Office, as well as, that being the case, the issue of the magazine in which they will be included. The Magazine will state the submission and acceptace dates of the published originals.