Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Sending originals

Papers will be sent online, in Word or RTF format, through the journal’s platform on https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/redur/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

If the contributions are submitted by senior degree or PhD students, they must be sent with the approval of a professor from the Law Department.

2. Selection, evaluation and distribution of originals

The proposals received, prior analysis by the Editorial Council, will undergo a peer-review process. This evaluation will follow the “double-blind” system, in order to guarantee their anonymity, and there will be a minimum of two evaluators per paper. The editors will proceed to evaluate and make the final selection based on the reports collected.

The work is required to be original, although there may be exceptions if, given the relevance or currency of the subject matter, the evaluation team considers it to be of interest to publish work already published by another periodical, prior obtaining the necessary permission.

The articles that are sent will be reviewed using the plagiarism detection tool Turnitin. Any article where plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected shall be immediately rejected.

Those contributions targeted for the monographic section of the REDUR will be selected by also taking into consideration their degree of suitability with the subject object of the monographic.

If a contribution is rejected for publication in the monographic section, it may appear published in the section dedicated to miscellanea.

3. Copyright

The authors of the contributions that appear in the REDUR will not lose their copyright. However, if they decide to publish the same work in another publication, they must expressly state its prior appearance in the REDUR, including the issue number and the URL address.

4. Payment

Contributions will not be paid. Authors may request from the Journal secretariat the issue of a document certifying the title of the contribution and the issue number of the REDUR in which it was published.

5. No fees are charged for sending in articles, nor for their publication once they are accepted.

STYLE GUIDE

1. Authors are asked to please follow these style and editing guidelines in their originals, in order to simplify the editing, with the aim to achieve the highest uniformity and efficiency in the proper transmission of knowledge.

2. In any case, REDUR edits the papers received and reserves the right to amend them, with the sole object to adapt them to the following style guidelines.

3. Length

Except in cases with due justification, the length of the papers will be between 10 and 40 pages. Recensions will be between 5 and 10 pages long, at most.

4. Languages and structural elements

The papers may be written in Spanish or in English. All of them, regardless of the language, must state the title of the paper, the summary and the accompanying abstract, which must not exceed 10 lines, in both languages. Three to five key words will also be included (in Spanish and in English) referring to the content of the article. 

5. Format

The contributions must be sent in Microsoft Word format. The font will be “Times 12” for the main text and “Times 10” for footnotes. Both the main text and the footnotes will be single spaced.

The documents must be headed by the title of the paper (which must be short and reflect the content of the doctrinal analysis), state the author and their academic position or activity they perform, as well as the University or Institution they belong to and their ORCID (if available) and email address.

The title must be centred, in caps and bold font.

The author’s name and surnames will be written in caps and their position in lower case. Both will be centred and without bold font. The email address will appear below the author's position, centred and in lower case.

Each of the sections in which the paper is divided will be aligned to the left, without bold or caps. The first sections will be presented in Roman numerals. The first sub-sections and following sub-sections will be presented in Arabic numerals.

For example:

I. Theories regarding the State

I.1. The 19th century theories

I.1.1. Kelsen’s political thought

6. Citations

Articles shall contain footnotes and not notes at the end.

The initial of the authors’ names will go after their surnames in the citation bibliography. The surnames will be written in capital letters. The surnames and first initial of the name will be separated by a comma.

Italic font will be used for: titles of books or magazines or treaties and when a foreign term or ironic expression, or similar, are used.

• Citations from books will contain the following information: author surnames and initial (capital letters), Title of the work, edition number, place of edition, Publisher, year of publication, page/pages, chap./ chaps. or vol./ vols, etc. (page 23, pages 1-24, pages 2 et seq., chap. III, vol. II)
  Example: FERNÁNDEZ DE BUJÁN, A., Derecho Público Romano. Recepción, Jurisdicción y Arbitraje, 10th edition, Madrid, Civitas, 2007, pages 147-159.
• Magazine article citations will contain the following information: author surnames and initial (small caps), «Title of the specific work», in Magazine title or ACRONYM of the magazine, number, year, pages. In addition, when electronic documents or websites are cited, the URL must be stated after the reference and, separated by a semicolon, the date the texts were accessed in Arabic numerals, separated by a colon after the «date consulted:»):
  For example: MARTÍN-RETORTILLO BAQUER, L., «Derechos fundamentales y medio ambiente», REDUR, 4, 2006, pages 17-30 (available at http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dd/redur/numero4.htm; date consulted: 15.11.2007).
• When the specific article belongs to a collective work, the magazine citation criteria will be followed, but instead of stating the magazine name, the name of the whole book, preceded by coordinator, main author or person who is credited.
• The same criteria will be followed for bibliography lists, always listing the authors alphabetically.
• In the case of works by the same author, the surnames and initial will be stated only for the first one. The others will be preceded by a semicolon and the word idem successively.
• For subsequent citations the author’s first surname will be used (or both surnames to avoid confusion), the title of the work, followed by the expression «cit.» and the page or pages to be referenced.
• The first citation of legal texts will contain the legal ranking, the number, date, name of the legal grounds and, in brackets, the Official Gazette where it was published, with reference to the number and date. For subsequent citations the abbreviation shall suffice.
• The initial citations of case law and other resolutions will contain: the acronym of the decision and court or entity, court room and date, reference of the record where it was published or the original was consulted and name and surnames of the issuing judge. The name of the issuing judge may be omitted in subsequent citations.

7.- Acronyms and abbreviations

When acronyms are used, they must be contained in brackets after the first reference in the text, preceded by the expression «hereinafter» and never by an article.

For example: Pursuant to Civil Procedural Law (hereinafter LEC)

Punctuation in acronyms shall be avoided, except in those cases where it is commonly used: S.A., EE.UU.

On the other hand, abbreviations must be closed with a period, as well as the initials of names: ss. for et sequitur.

8. Use of numbers and symbols

• The use of cardinal numbers will depend on the author’s criteria. However, REDUR recommends their use in the case of listing of several figures, regulation articles and dates.
• If ordinal numbers are used, it is recommended they be abbreviated: 1st, 2nd, 3rd...
• The use of symbols is recommended for percentages: 34%, 56%, 23%.
• As for symbols, common symbols will be used preferably over the written expression: $ instead of dollars, € instead of Euro, §5 instead of paragraph 5.

9. Quotation marks and dashes

• The quotation marks « » shall be used, instead of “ ”.
• Em dashes (–) will be used for specifications inserted within the text, instead of hyphens (-).