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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 has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the editor).

  • The sending file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
  • If possible, URLs are provided for references.

  • Text has a line spacing of 1.5, a font size of 12 points, italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs), and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places of text, Rather than at the end.
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic conditions included in Guidelines for the author.

  • In case of sending the text to the peer review section, the instructions included in Ensure an anonymous evaluation are followed.

Author Guidelines

I. CRITERIA APPLICABLE TO ALL WORKS

 

1. GENERAL ASPECTS.

A. The texts sent must be the final version of the document. Once the document for publication is accepted, no changes will be made to it.

It is required that the dates and numbers of articles of laws, decrees or Constitutions mentioned in the works are corroborated to correct errors that generally cannot be detected in the editorial area.

B. The texts should be sent by e-mail to revistacienciajuridica@ugto.mx with upper and lower margins of 2.5 centimeters and left and right margins of 3 centimeters (they are the ones that apply by default Word for Windows); 1.5 interline; Times New Roman 12 points. At the end of the lines should not be hyphenated and enter.

All sheets must be numbered in order to ensure that there are no missing pages.

C. Abbreviations should not be used, except in two cases: in the case of a work requiring it and containing its respective abbreviations, or in the case of the conventional abbreviations used in the critical apparatus.

D. In the case that the works contain textual passages of another author, the appropriate clarification should be made and the corresponding note of citation indicated.

E. Transcripts exceeding 320 characters (five lines) must be placed in a separate paragraph, which will have a margin equivalent to that of the indentation and will go without quotes. The following is an example of how text should appear:

En cuanto al sistema de prisiones del país, el artículo 18° constitucional instituye que:

Sólo por delito que merezca pena corporal habrá prisión preventiva. El sitio de ésta será distinto para la extinción de las penas y estarán completamente separados.

El sistema penitenciario se organizará sobre la base del respeto a los derechos humanos, del trabajo, la capacitación para el mismo, la educación, la salud y el deporte como medios para lograr la reinserción del sentenciado a la sociedad y procurar que no vuelva a delinquir, observando los beneficios que para él prevé la ley. Las mujeres compurgarán sus penas en lugares separados de los destinados a los hombres para tal efecto. (…)

La Federación, los Estados y el Distrito Federal establecerán, en el ámbito de sus respectivas competencias, un sistema integral de justicia que será aplicable a quienes se atribuya la realización de una conducta tipificada como delito por las leyes penales y tengan entre doce años cumplidos y menos de dieciocho años de edad, en el que se garanticen los derechos fundamentales que reconoce esta Constitución para todo individuo así como aquellos derechos específicos que por su condición de personas en desarrollo les han sido reconocidos. (…)

f. No se devuelven los originales recibidos para su publicación.

. Shipping

A. The item (s) must be captured in the Word for Windows version 2003 or newer processor. Upon receiving the letter of acceptance of the work for publication, the author will send an email in which he will openly express his authorization for publication by print and computer network, according to the criteria of intellectual property and the international licensing to which Writes CJ. Mentioned in the Code of Ethics of the online version.

• All articles should contain the title of the research paper, abstract, keywords and keywords in Spanish and English.

• The extension of a scientific document will be no less than 15 pages and no more than 25 pages, including bibliographical references, annexes and acknowledgments, if incorporated.

• The receipt of all work will be immediately accused and the author will be informed of its final approval within a maximum period of three months. All submissions will be evaluated by peers, who will decide if it is published, whether it is accepted with recommendations or if it is rejected.

• Articles submitted for evaluation will be screened using search and tracking software for plagiarism.

• The editorial committee of the journal reserves the right to introduce the modifications, style correction and editorial changes it deems necessary to adapt the texts to their formats and other editing standards, as well as to improve collaboration and design during the printing process.

• The author of the paper may request information on the arbitration process of the same, to the email revistacienciajuridica@ugto.mx

• This publication will appear in July and January and special and special issues may be published, as the Scientific Committee or the Drafting Committee deems appropriate.

B. For article submission, the author must assign a filename to the document that begins with the author's paternal last name, a hyphen and the first word of the article title. If it begins with a specific article, or undetermined articles, the second word, for example:

Nombre del artículo:

La jornada de trabajo –flexibilización y desregulación, breve referencia al caso español de José Cervantes Herrera

CERVANTES-lajornada.

C. Paragraphs or words that must have character attributes (italics or italics, etc.) will be marked from the processor.

Italics apply to paragraphs or words that are usually underlined or quoted by the author. Example:

Words in another language should be in italics or italics.

Do not use capital letters to highlight or emphasize a word; for that purpose, italics or italics should also be used.

D. Paragraphs should not have indentation in the first line of the first paragraph, in the subsequent paragraphs if they will carry, but should not be indented with tabs or blanks.

E. At the end of a paragraph use a single space after period and do not put space between periods and enter.

F. Do not leave blank lines (enters) between paragraphs.

G. Do not split the words, leave the text as the processor does.

H. The tables, diagrams, tables and graphs should be placed in the exact place that corresponds to them; It is preferable that the archives of those elements are separate and perfectly identified.

If it is necessary to include notes in any of these elements, they must be marked with an asterisk (these notes will not be considered in the numbering of the critical apparatus).

3. NOTES AT BOTTOM PAGE

The notes must be presented at the bottom of the page, written with automatic line spacing, in Times New Roman letter with size of 10 points. The different elements that make them must be separated only by commas.

A. When referring books

1) The order in which the different elements that make up the notes, must appear as follows: author or authors, year in brackets, title in italics or italics (in this case only initial capitalization and in proper names), edition number (the first one should not be indicated), translator , Place of publication (city), editorial, collection, volume or volume, pages.

B. When referring to journal articles

The order of appearance of the data, if there are all the elements, will be as follows: author or authors, year of publication in parentheses, title (With initial capitalization and in proper names), translator (if there is one), title of the journal in italics or italics (in this case, except for prepositions and articles, the other words that make up the proper name of the article Publication must begin with a capital letter), place of publication, series or period, volume or volume, number, period comprising the magazine and pages.

 

Citing documents published on the Internet

All the data of the work will be recorded as if it were printed, later the legend "Online. Available in: "and the corresponding electronic address, then in brackets must go the date of consultation.

E. Second and subsequent references to a work

From the second reference to a work, abbreviations in Latin should be used according to the following cases:

1) When a work is cited for a second or subsequent occasion, it should be used in italic op. Cit., Accompanied by the number of note where the reference first appeared, provided that such reference is not the previous one:

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1986), op. Cit., Footnote 3, p. 47.

2) If there is need to refer to the same work, but different page in the later post, we will use in cursive Ibídem and the page number:

Ibid., P. 108.

3) If it is the same work and even the same page, then we will use in italics the word idem (without further indication). Example:

Idem.

 

ARTICLES OR PRESENTATIONS

A. Papers previously published in Spanish will not be accepted. Neither will be received articles elaborated mainly with parts of other works of the same author published in advance.

In the case of articles that are in another language, the corresponding translation will be ordered.

As for articles already published in another language and for the first time to be published in Spanish, it is necessary that the author attach a letter authorizing its publication in Spanish and stating that the economic rights of the work are committed to another publisher.

B. The length of the article may be from fifteen to twenty-five pages.

C. The articles must necessarily contain and clearly the approach of the theme and its development; It is recommended that the conclusions be duly highlighted, if possible denoted with a subtitle that indicates this.

D. In the article must appear a summary and the abstract of the same, whose extension must be of a paragraph that does not cover more than half a page at most. Also, the respective keywords should be included.

E. The order of the headings and divisions should be as follows:

1) Title, capitalized and focused on English and Spanish.

2) In a separate row and aligned to the right margin, the author's name in the following order: name or names (with initial capital and lowercase letters) and surnames (with capital letters).

Do not put degrees or degrees (graduate, doctor, etcetera). If there is a translator, it should be placed in a bottom linked to the title of the article. In a bottom linked to the name of the author can be placed the name of the academic institution to which it belongs.

3) In case of dedications or epigraphs, these will be placed after the author's name and before the summary, aligned to the right margin.

4) Next, the summary (the summary word should be put as a title, followed by two points). It should only contain the higher hierarchy headings. You should focus and have left and right indentations. The numerals will be in round or normal type and the text, in italics or italics.

5) The titles of the sections in the first level of hierarchy will be centered, in capital letters, with the corresponding Roman numeration, without end period.

6) The titles of the sections in the second hierarchical level will go with Arabic numerals, aligned to the left margin; the number in round or normal type, and the text in italics or italics and without end period.

7) Titles of items that have a capital letter should be indented; the letter in type round or normal, and the text in italics or cursive and without end period.

8) In the sub-entries that are indicated with lowercase, the indicative letter will be italicized or italicized and the text in normal type, without final period and double indented.

Example

EL DERECHO A LA AUTONOMÍA DE LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS: UNA APROXIMACIÓN DESDE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS

Right to autonomy of indigenous peoples of México:
an approach from Human Rights.

José Jesús SORIANO FLORES*

Sumario:

I. Consideraciones Iniciales. II. Discriminación y Pueblos Indígenas: la vulneración de Derechos.III. Algunas referencias relativas a los Derechos Humanos Colectivos de los Pueblos Indígenas.IV. Una aproximación al Derecho a la Autonomía de los Pueblos Indígenas. V. Apuntes Finales.VI. Fuentes

ARTICLES

The articles subdivision presents academic research on legal matters. Therefore, it contains extended bibliographical references about our subjects of interest. The information managed in this journal is presented using formal academic methodology, using different conceptual and statistic tools.

Extension 25 pages maximum.

Each summary should follow a logical order (according to IMRAD model):

  1. Subject and targets
  2. Research Methodology used
  3. Results and conclusions
  4. Consequences and article’s uniqueness

INTERVIEWS

We receive work that emphasizes on remarkable characters, researchers and academic writers theories.

The interviews should take over significant topics with social relevance to our study field. Also, these articles should stimulate debate and academic discussion.

Interviews can include two or more personalities proposing series of questions and answers following an argumentative continuousness. The questions must be structured clearly in the introduction, body and conclusion. Interviews need to be unique and should include a brief informative file that describes both, the meeting and the interviewee (including biographical data). It is hardly recommended to take into the meeting some of our guest bibliography (preselected by him or her). Another recommendation is to record all the interview, the purpose of this is to help the interviewer solve any further doubts.

 

Extension 8 pages.

ESSAY

Here we show speculative studies that gather new suggestions for further investigation work.

C.J gives special attention to rigorous investigation scientific articles.

Extension 5 to 8 pages.

TRANSLATION

The content of this section demonstrates unveiled translations of papers not originally written in Spanish. Translations must cause reflection and debate for all the readers. We will strictly not accept translations of other translations. References of translated versions must be included.

 

Extension 3 to 4 pages.

SUMMARIES

Comments and suggestions about judgments and jurisprudence are welcome. Also, reviews about different law books, preferably recently published (no longer than 5 years).

 

Extension 1 to 2 pages.

NEWS

Embraces recent and relevant analytic and informative papers in the field of law studies. These texts should not have no longer than 6 months of published. References must be included.

 

Extension 3 to 4 pages.

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