Guidelines for Authors

Author Guidelines

 

1. Article Submission

Article propositions for publishing on the International Journal of Digital Law must be sent through the electronic submission system (free of cost) and access through login and password. Propositions sent by e-mail will not be accepted. The Journal has the right to accept or reject any originals received, according to its Editorial Board’s recommendations, including the inadequacy of the article’s theme to the journal’s editorial profile, as well as the right to propose modifications.

 

2. Author Qualification

At  least  one  of  the  authors  must  own  either  a  PhD  degree  or  a  Doctor  of  Juridical  Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D), Doctor juris (Dr. iur. or Dr. jur.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) ou Legum Doctor (LL.D.) degree. This requirement can be relativized, never exceeding 30% of the articles per edition, in exceptional cases of: (i) authors affiliated to foreign institutions; (ii) articles written in English.

 

3. Originality and exclusivity

Articles for publication in the International Journal of Digital Law must be original and exclusive, except in case of articles written in a foreign language and published outsi-de Brazil. After the publication of the article in this journal, it can also be published in books and compilations, as long as the original publication is mentioned. We ask the authors to commit to not publish the article in other journals or reviews, as well as not to submit it to other journals at the same time.

 

4. Languages

Articles can be submitted in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

 

5. Registration of the metadata in the electronic submission system

5.1. At the time of submission of the article to the electronic system, the metadata fields must be filled in according to these guidelines, under penalty of preliminary re-jection of the submission.

5.2. Authors

5.2.1. First name/Middle name/Last name: indication of the full name of the author(s) with only the initials of each name in capital letter. In case of articles in co-authorship, the names of all coauthors must be inserted in the system in the order that should appear at the time of publication.

5.2.2. E-mail: indication of the e-mail address of the author(s) for contact, which will mandatorily appear in the published version of the article.

5.2.3. ORCID iD:indication of the number of the author’s ORCID identifier. The ORCID identifier can be obtained in ORCID register. Authors must have to accept the patterns for presentation of ORCID iD and include the full URL (e.g.: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-1726).

5.2.4. URL: link to the author’s full curriculum. In the case of Brazilian authors, the link to the Lattes Curriculum should be indicated.

5.2.5. Affiliation: indication  of  the  author’s  main  institutional  affiliation  (or  two  main  affiliations if both of the links with them have the same importance). The main institution is where the author is professor or student, or, in case of not being professor or student anymore, the institution where the authors obtained their major academic title (PhD, J.S.D., LL.M, B.A., etc.). The institution’s name must be written in full (not abbreviated) and in the original language of the institution (or in English for non-Latin languages), followed by an indication of the country of origin of the institution between parentheses. If the author is a professor and also a PhD, J.S.D or LL.M candidate in another institution, the main affiliation will be the institution where the author is candidate.

5.2.6. Country: indication of the country of the author’s main institutional affiliation.

5.2.7. Bio Statement: indication of the author’s abbreviated CV, with the information organized in the following sequence: first, the indication of the institution to which the author is affiliated as a professor; second, between parentheses, the city, state/province (if applicable) and country of the institution; third, indication of academic titles (starting with the highest); fourth, other bonds with scientific associations; fifth, profession; etc.

5.3. Title and Abstract:

5.3.1. Title: title in the language of the article, with only the first letter of the sentence in capital letter.

5.3.2. Abstract: abstract in the language of the article, without paragraph or citations and references, with up to 200 words.

5.4. Indexing:

5.4.1. Keywords: indication of 5 keywords in the language of the article (in lower case and separated by semicolons).

5.4.2. Language:  indicate  the  acronym  corresponding  to  the  language  of  the  article  (Português=pt; English=en; Español=es).

5.5. Supporting Agencies: articles resulting from funded research projects should indicate in this field the source of funding.

5.6. References: insert the complete list of references cited in the article, with a space of one line between them.

 

6. Text Presentation and pre-textual elements

6.1. The article must have between 15 and 30 pages (size A4 – 21 cm × 29,7 cm), including introduction, development and conclusion (not necessarily with these titles) and a bibliographic reference list. The maximum number of pages can be relativized in exceptional cases, decided by the Editorial team.

6.2. Edges (margins) must be: top and left with 3 cm, bottom and right with 2 cm.

6.3. The text must use Font Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5, and spacing 0 pt before and after paragraphs.

6.4. References  must  use  Font  Times  New  Roman,  size  10,  simple  space  between  lines.

6.5. In the development of the text, the paragraphs must contain decrease of 1.5 cm from the left margin. Titles and subtitles must be aligned with the left margin without decrease.

6.6. The structure should observe the following order:

6.6.1. Title  in  the  article’s  language,  in  bold,  centralized,  with  the  first  letter  of  the  sentence in capital letter.

6.6.2. In case of indicating information related to the article (financing from sponsoring agencies, acknowledgments, translators, etc.), it is necessary to insert a footnote with an asterisk (not number) on the right side of the title in the article’s language.

6.6.3. Title  in  English,  with  only  the  first  letter  in  capital  letter,  in  bold  and  in  italic,  centralized. In the case of articles written in English, this element must be substituted by the title in Portuguese.

6.6.4. The  article  must  not  include  the  names  of  the  author(s).  The  information  for  publication purposes will be taken from the metadata entered by the author(s) in the journal’s electronic system at the time of submission.

6.6.5. Abstract in the article’s language (font Times New Roman, 12, simples lines, without paragraph or quotations and references, until 200 words), preceded by the word “Abstract” written in the article’s language.

6.6.6. Indication of five keywords in the article’s language (in lower case and separated by semicolon), preceded by the expression “Keywords” written in the article’s language.

6.6.7. Abstract in English (font Times New Roman, 12, simples lines, without paragraph or quotations and references, up to 200 words), preceded by the word “Abstract”. In case of articles written in English, this element must be replaced by the abstract (“resumo”) in Portuguese.

6.6.8. Indication of five keywords in English (in lower case and separated by semicolon), preceded by the expression “Keywords”. In case of articles written in English, this element must be replaced by keywords (“palavras-chave”) in Portuguese.

6.6.9. Table  of  contents,  indicating  the  titles  of  the  sections  and  subsections,  with  progressive numbering in Arabic numbers.

6.6.10. Development  of  the  scientific  article:  progressive  numbering,  in  Arabic  numbers, must be used to make clear the content’s systematization.

6.6.11. Bibliographic  references  list  must  bring  only  sources  that  were  really  used,  located in the end of the article, separated by a simple space, lined to the left margin (no indent).

6.6.12. For other aspects, apply Brazilian technical norms (ABNT NBR 10520:2002 e 14724:2011).6.6.13. In the case of articles with 4 or more authors, it is necessary to include a foot-note indicating the contribution of each one to the article.

6.7.  Highlights  must  be  made  only  in  italics,  meaning  that  bold,  underlined  or  caps  lock, cannot be used to highlight.

6.8. Images and boards must be inserted in the text, not in the end in form of attach-ments.

 

7. Scientific Methodology

7.1. The  references  of  books,  chapters  in  collective  books,  articles,  theses,  dissertations/essays, monographs of quoted authors used as base to write the text must be mentioned as a reference on the footnotes, with all the information about the text, according to the Brazilian technical norms (ABNT NBR 6023:2018 – summarized in the item 7.1.3 below), and especially, indicating the page of which the information written on the text was taken, right after the reference.

7.1.1. Book’s title (or journal’s title) must be highlighted in italics (bold shall not be used for that purpose).

7.1.2. Articles written in the format AUTHOR-YEAR will not be accepted for publishing.

7.1.3. References shall appear as follows:

7.1.3.1. Books: LAST NAME, Name Middle Name. Title of the book in italics: subtitle not in italics. Number of the edition. City: Publisher, Year.

Example:

KEEN,  Andrew.  Vertigem  digital:  por  que  as  redes  sociais  estão  nos  dividindo,  diminuindo e desorientando. Trad. Alexandre Martins, Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2012. 254p.

7.1.3.2. Chapter in a collective book: LAST  NAME,  Name  Middle  Name.  Title  of  the  Chapter  not  in  bold.  In:  ORGANIZER’S  LAST NAME, Name Middle Name; 2ND ORGANIZER’S LAST NAME, Name Middle Name, and so on, separated by semicolon (Org. or Coord.). Title of the book in italics: subtitle not in Italics. Number of the edition. City: Publisher, Year. first page-last page [preceded by “p.”].

Example:

DOTTA,  Alexandre  Godoy.  Derechos  de  la  Población  LGBT+  en  Brasil:  Vulnerabilidad  Social entre Avances y Retrocesos. In: BRAVO, Álvaro Sánches; CASIMIRO, Ligia Melo de; GABARDO, Emerson. (Org.). Estado Social Y Derechos Fundamentales en Tiempos de Retroceso. Sevilha: Ponto Rojo, 2019. p. 203-228.

7.1.3.3. Articles in journals: LAST  NAME,  Name  Middle  Name.  Title  of  the  article  not  in  bold.  Title  of  the  journal  in  italics,  city,  volume,  number,  first  page-last  page[preceded  by  “p.”],  months  of  publishing  [abbreviated  with  the  first  three  letters  of  the  month  followed  by  dot  and  separated by a slash]. Year.

Example:

GABARDO, Emerson; SAIKALI, Lucas Bossoni. A prescritibilidade da ação de ressarci-mento ao erário em razão de atos de improbidade administrativa. Revista Jurídica – Unicuritiba, Curitiba, v. 1, p. 514-543, 2018.

7.1.3.4. Theses of Full Professor contests, Doctoral theses, Master’s dissertations/essays, Undergraduate and Graduate courses monographs: LAST NAME, Name Middle Name. Title in italics: subtitle. City, year. number of pages followed by “f”. Kind of the work (Degree obtained with the defense) – Department or Sector, Name of the institution.

Example:

SANTOS, Fábio de Sousa. Análise Comparada da Competição na Contratação Pública Brasileira e Estadunidense. Curitiba, 2018. 134f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Mestrado em Direito) – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. Curitiba: 2018.

7.1.3.5 DOI – Digital object identifier: If the document consulted in the research has the DOI number, it is recommended to include, in a complementary way, the number after the end of each reference.

Example:

DOTTA, Alexandre Godoy. Public policies for the assessment of quality of the Brazilian higher education system. Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, Curitiba, v. 3, p. 53-69, 2016. DOI. 10.5380/rinc.v3i3.49033.

7.1.3.6. Documents in electronic media: Documents extracted from electronic media must present after the end of each reference the location of the network where it was found and presented as follows.

Example:

IJDL. International Journal of Digital Law. Regras para a submissão de artigos. Disponível em: https://journal.nuped.com.br/index.php/revista/about/submissions Acesso em: 12 fev. 2020.

7.1.4. The elements of references must observe the following model:

7.1.4.1. Author: LAST NAME in capital letters, comma, Name with the initials in capital letters, Middle Name with the initials in capital letters, followed by a dot.

7.1.4.2. Edition: the information must only be included after the second edition of the book, without ordinal, followed by a dot and “ed.”.

Example: 2. ed.

7.1.4.3. year: it must be written with Arabic numerals, without dot in thousand, preceded by comma, and followed by a dot. Example: 1997.

7.1.5. In case of being impossible to find one of those elements, the absence must be resolved in the following manner:7.1.5.1. Absence of city: replace for[S.l.].

7.1.5.2. Absence of publisher: replace for [s.n.].7.1.5.3. Absence of year: the approximated year must be indicated between brackets, followed by a question mark. Example: [1998?].

7.2. The quotations (words, expressions, sentences) must be carefully reviewed by the authors and/or translators.

7.2.1.  The  direct  quotations  must  follow  this  pattern:  transcription  until  four  lines  should fit in the text body, with normal letter, normal spacing and quotation marks.

7.2.2. It is strongly recommended that long textual quotations (more than four lines) are not used. However, if indispensable, they shall constitute an independent paragraph, with 1,5 cm of decrease related to the left margin (justified alignment), with simple lines and font 10. In that situation, quotation marks must not be used.

7.2.3. It is forbidden the use of “op. cit.”, “loc. cit.”, “ibidem” and “idem” in the foot-notes. The references in footnote must be complete and written out.

7.2.4. For the mention of authors in the text body, it is forbidden the use of capital letters (e.g. for Name LAST NAME...). In this case all mentions shall be written only with the first letter in capital letter (ex.: for Name Last Name...).

 

8. Composition

8.1. Apart from having an adequate scientific language for an editorial publication, the text must be reviewed.

8.2. In the case of articles written in Portuguese, the writing must obey the new ortho-graphic rules in force since the promulgation of the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, from January 1st, 2009.

8.3. Citations of texts that precede the Agreement must respect the original spelling.

 

9. Articles resulted from funded researches

Articles  resulted  from  funded  research  projects  shall  indicate  in  a  footnote,  located  at  the  end  of  the  article  title  in  the  original  language,  the  information  related  to  the  research financing.

 

10. Copyright statement

Authors who publish in this Journal have to agree to the following terms:

10.1. No copyright or any other remuneration for the publication of papers will be due.

10.2. Authors  retain  copyright  and  grant  the  International  Journal  of  Digital  Law  the  right  of  first  publication  with  the  article  simultaneously  licensed  under  the  Creative Commons  Attribution  License,  which  allows  sharing  the  work  with  recognition  of  its  initial publication in this Journal. Moreover, because of their appearance in this open access  Journal,  articles  are  free  to  use,  with  proper  attribution,  in  educational  and  non-commercial applications.

10.3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal webpage) at any point before or during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as increase the impact and citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).

 

11. Authors responsibilities

11.1. Authors are responsible for the published content, committing therefore to participate actively in the discussion of the results of their scientific research, as well as the review process and approval of the final version of the work.

11.2. Authors are responsible for the conducting all the scientific research, as well as its results and validity.

11.3. Authors should report the Journal about any conflict of interest.

11.4. Authors are fully and exclusively responsible for the opinions expressed in their articles.

11.5. When submitting the articles, authors recognize that all statements contained in the manuscript are true or based on research with reasonable accuracy.

 

12. Conflict of interest

The  public  confidence  in  the  double-blind  peer  review  process  and  the  credibility  of  published articles depend in part on how conflicts of interest are managed during manuscript writing, peer review and decision making by the editors.

12.1. It is mandatory that the author of the manuscript declares the existence or not of conflicts of interest. Even thinking that there are no conflicts of interest, the author must declare this information in the article submission act, marking that field.

12.2. Conflicts of interest may appear when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that, apparently or not, may influence the development or evaluation of manuscripts.

12.3.  When  authors  submit  a  manuscript,  they  are  responsible  for  recognizing  and  revealing financial or other nature conflicts that may have influenced their work.

12.4. Authors must recognize all the financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections related to the research. The contributions of people who are mentioned in the acknowledgments for their assistance in the research must be described, and its consent to publication should be documented.

12.5. Manuscripts  will  not  be  simply  dismissed  because  of  a  conflict  of  interest.  A  statement that there is or not a conflict of interest must be made.

12.6. The ad hoc reviewers must also reveal to editors any conflicts of interest that could influence their opinions about the manuscript and must declare themselves un-qualified to review specific documents if they believe that this procedure is appropriate. In the case of the authors, if there is silence from the peer reviewers about potential conflicts, it will mean that conflicts do not exist.

12.7. If a conflict of interest on the part of the peer reviewers is identified, the Editorial Board will send the manuscript to another ad hoc reviewer.

12.8. If  the  authors  are  not  sure  about  what  might  constitute  a  potential  conflict  of  interest, they should contact the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief.

12.9. In cases in which members of the Editorial Team or some other member publish frequently in the Journal, it will not be given any special or different treatment. All sub-mitted papers will be evaluated by double blind peer review procedure.

 

13. Other information

13.1. The articles will be selected by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board of the Journal,  which  will  contact  the  respective  authors  to  confirm  the  text  reception,  and  then forward them to the two ad hoc reviewers’ analysis.

13.2. The received and not published originals will not be given back.

13.3. Authors have the right to appeal of the editorial decisions.

13.3.1.  They  will  be  granted  five  (5)  days  from  the  date  of  the  final  decision  of  the  Editorial Board to appeal.

13.3.2. The written appeal must be sent to the e-mail: <journal@nuped.com.br>.

13.3.3. The appeal will be examined by the Editorial Board within thirty (30) days.