Instrucciones a los autores

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The work is original and unpublished.
The manuscript has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other publication (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor). The content is not subject to other rights by any publication and is not in the process of publication. The fact that the work has been communicated to scientific societies is not an obstacle to publication.
The article is free of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.
The manuscript follows the submission format guidelines stipulated in the Author Guidelines.
In-text citations and the list of bibliographic references are presented according to the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) in its 7th edition in accordance with the Author Guidelines. Inclusion of the DOI or URL is mandatory, whenever possible.
In case of original research, the article includes the section “Data availability” in which the authors report whether and where the data set used is available. See indications in the Author Guidelines.
Authors have read, completed and submitted with the manuscript the Declaration of Authorship Responsibility.
Authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest related to the manuscript.
For refereed sections, the authors have prepared an anonymous version of the paper, following the instructions in the Author Guidelines.

Review process

The manuscript review process consists of two phases. The first phase is conducted by the editorial team within a maximum of three months, with articles evaluated in the order they are received. This phase includes reviewing formal aspects (format, bibliographic references, plagiarism detection) and ensuring the article aligns with the stated scope and focus criteria. In this phase, the article may be rejected, returned for modifications, or sent directly for external review. The outcome of this evaluation will be communicated to the corresponding author via the journal’s digital platform.

In the second evaluation phase, manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed sections undergo double-blind peer review, maintaining the anonymity of both authors and reviewers. The reviewers are experts in the relevant field, either national or international, and mostly external to Facultad de Derecho at Universidad Católica del Uruguay. This phase typically takes an average of six months.

During this time, each article is sent to two subject matter experts, who have one month to submit their report. Reviewers follow the evaluation form guidelines and may provide contributions, suggestions, and recommendations directly on the manuscript in review format. Reviewers can: a) recommend the article for publication; b) recommend publication after certain changes are made; or c) not recommend the article for publication, providing reasons for their decision.

Articles receiving two negative reviews will be rejected. The Editorial Team can appoint a third reviewer if two reports are conflicting, without prior notice to the author.

For articles with suggested revisions, the scientific editor will organize and send these to the authors for incorporation within a maximum of 20 days. Depending on the nature of the suggestions, reviewers may indicate that the revised version requires another review for final acceptance. If the authors disagree with a reviewer’s comments, they must explain their reasons to the Editorial Team, which will assess the justification and may appoint a third reviewer to resolve the matter if deemed necessary. The scientific editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of articles. This decision is final.

Once the final version of the article is accepted for publication, the journal’s technical team handles the editing and layout of the article and, if necessary, communicates with the authors to make adjustments before publication.

Author Guidelines

The journal receives manuscripts all year round, submissions must be made online, through the OJS platform. Since 2024, preprints are accepted.

All contributions must be in editable digital format (preferably .doc or .docx), A4 size, margins: top and bottom: 2.5 cm; left and right: 3 cm, in Times New Roman font, size 12 and 1.5 point line spacing, justified alignment and indentation on the first line of 0.7 cm.

As of 2020 Revista de Derecho publishes its articles following the APA (American Psychological Association) Standards. Papers should follow in all sections the guidelines of the APA Publication Manual, 7th edition (see synthesis).

In all cases, the author should present his/her paper with a title (no more than 40 words in length, including the subtitle), an abstract (no more than 150 words in length, summarizing purpose, method and main results or conclusions) and five key words. The title, abstract and keywords should be presented in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Each manuscript must respect the length that corresponds to the section to which it applies. In case of exceeding this length, authors should send a letter to the scientific editor justifying the length of the text. Admission will be at the discretion of the editor.

In addition, each paper should be accompanied by a brief CV of the authors, indicating area of specialization/research.

Data availability: for articles resulting from original research, authors must explain whether their data is available in an open repository and where to access it. This information is completed in the Declaration of Authorship document. Possible open data repositories are: SciELO Data, Mendeley Data, Zenodo, DANS, DataHub, FigShare.

All authors of the article must read, complete and sign the following Authorship Responsibility Statement. This must be included in the submission, together with the manuscript and the anonymous version.

Authors applying to peer-reviewed sections in the double-blind system must attach an anonymous version of the paper, i.e., a file that does not contain any information that could reveal their identity to potential reviewers.

Original and unpublished articles submitted to double-blind peer review. These articles should have a minimum length of 3,000 words and a maximum of 10,000 words (excluding references).

Judgments with their respective commentary submitted to double-blind peer review. All jurisprudence commentaries must be accompanied by the complete text of the corresponding sentence. These articles should have a minimum length of 2,000 words and a maximum of 8,000 words (excluding references).

Scientific communication submitted to peer review, double-blind system. Its objective is to present the development of a study that can be a field or intervention study, with a minimum length of 2,000 words and a maximum of 4,000 words (excluding references).

This section receives bibliographic reviews, and research advances and results, between 2,000 and 6,000 words (excluding references). Articles submitted to this section are evaluated by the journal team.

This section receives reviews of legal books, national or foreign, published in the year of the review or one year before, between 1,000 and 3,000 words (excluding references). Articles submitted to this section are evaluated by the journal team.

If the manuscript is accepted, the authors agree to transfer the copyright to the journal according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), open access system, with the authors retaining responsibility for the content and opinions expressed, which do not reflect the views or scientific policy of the journal.

The authors or assignors hereby declare that their work does not infringe on the rights of third parties and that they are the sole holders of the property rights being transferred, allowing them to dispose of these rights without any limitations or encumbrances. They also declare that, in creating the work subject to this transfer, they have not violated any third-party intellectual property rights. Consequently, the authors or assignors are obliged to guarantee the authorship and originality of the work’s content to the journal and ensure the peaceful exercise of the transferred rights. The authors or assignors will be responsible for any claims made by third parties regarding intellectual property rights over the work, thus exempting the journal from any liability. They will also be liable for any damages that may be caused to the journal due to such claims.

The article’s content will not be subject to any other rights by any other publication, nor has it been previously published. If tables or figures from other publications are reproduced, written permission from the authors or copyright holders will be provided as appropriate. In all cases, the APA guidelines for presenting tables and figures will be followed.

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated and will not be provided to third parties. Only the email address of the correspondence author will appear in published articles.

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