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Author Guidelines

Revista de Derecho is a scientific publication of the Facultad de Derecho of the Universidad de Montevideo, which is published every six months in June and December of each year, in continuous publication mode.  It is aimed at a specialised public and its objective is to contribute to the development of legal knowledge.

Since 2002 it has been published regularly, including the following sections: message from the Dean or the Director, doctrinal articles, lectures and master classes, annotated jurisprudence, information from the Faculty, Masters theses, student monographs, and notes from books and journals.

Guidelines for the publication of academic papers:

1) Manuscripts and the declaration of originality must be submitted via the OJS platform. If you already have a user account, please log in using your existing credentials. If you do not have an account, you will need to register.

2) Manuscripts must be unpublished, original and may be sent either in Spanish or in English.

3) Although there is no strict word-length limitation, we suggest that manuscripts do not exceed 10,000 words.

4) Manuscripts must be sent in Word format, font Times New Roman, size 12, single-spaced.

5) Together with the manuscript, authors must submit a presentation including:

1. Short curriculum vitae of the author (maximum of 6 lines), including:

1. a) Full name.
2. b) Unique identifier of researcher ORCID
3. c) Position and academic institution to which the researcher belongs.
4. d) Email address.
5. e) CRediT Author Contribution. This information is completed in the Declaration of Originality letter.
6. f) Declare the availability or non-availability of data. Manuscripts should be submitted with a section called "Data availability", stating whether the dataset is available and, if so, where to access it. If the author has their research data on a server, this should be stated in the article. The following sentence should be included within the text: "The dataset supporting the results of this study is available at...". Possible repositories for depositing open research data are: REDATA, SciELO Data, Zenodo. In addition, the dataset should be cited. Otherwise, you should include a sentence within the article stating the following: "The dataset supporting the results of this study is not available". 

2. Title of the work in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

3. An abstract of the manuscript in English, Spanish and Portuguese (between 100 and 200 words).

4. Between 3 and 5 keywords of the manuscript in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

6) The different sections must be structured following Arabic numbering: 1, 1.1., 1.1.2. and so forth.

7) Acronyms must be followed by their extended form, between brackets, the first time they appear Example: CC (Civil Code).

8) Formal rules for textual citation:

Citations and bibliographical references of the texts sent to the Revista de Derecho will be made according to the APA (American Psychological Association) standards https://apastyle.apa.org/ and the Estilo APA: guía con ejemplos y adaptaciones para Uruguay of the Grupo APA Uruguay in order to be able to start the arbitration process.

Textual citations will be made according to the author-date system, also indicating the page number of the source. Example: (Bugallo, 2006, p. 484).

If the quotation contains less than 40 words, it is enclosed in double inverted commas.

If the quotation contains 40 words or more, it is written in a block paragraph with an indentation of 1.25 cm.

Paraphrased quotations are also to be made according to the author-date system, the quotation is not enclosed in inverted commas and the format of the paragraph is not changed, it is not necessary to indicate the page of the source. The reference of the paraphrased quotation must be added to the list of bibliographical references.

References of cited sources are listed in a separate paragraph with French indentation of 1.25 cm and are arranged alphabetically under the heading Bibliographical references.

Examples:

Books:

Surname, A. A., and Surname, B. B. (year). Title of the book: Subtitle of the book. Publisher.

Surname, A. A. (year). Title of the book: Subtitle of the book (translations by B. B. B. Surnames and C. C. Surnames, 15th ed.). Publisher.

Bugallo, B. (2006). La propiedad intelectual. Fundación de Cultura Universitaria.

Book chapters:

Surnames, A. A., and Surnames, B. B. (year). Title of book chapter: Subtitle. In C. Surname, D. Surname, and E. Surname (Eds.), Title of the book: Subtitle of the book (nº ed., Vol., pp. 1ª pág.-última pág.). Publisher.

Frega, A. (2007). Capítulo 1 -La formulación de un modelo. 1890-1918. En A. Frega, A. M. Rodríguez Aycaguer, E. Ruiz, R. Porrini, A. Islas, D. Bonfanti, M. Broquetas, I. Cuadro, Historia del Uruguay en el siglo XX (1890-2005) (pp. 17-50). Ediciones de la Banda Oriental.

Journal articles:

Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B., and Surname, C. C. (year). Title of the article: Subtitle. Title of the journal: Subtitle, xx(x), 1st. page - last page of the article. https://doi.org/xxxxxx.

Lorenzo, P. (2020). La protección del medio ambiente como norma imperativa de Derecho Internacional (Ius Cogens). Revista de derecho, 19(37), 41-69. https://doi.org/10.47274/DERUM/37.3

Olivera García, R. (2018). La ley de arbitraje comercial internacional. Primeras reflexiones. Revista de Derecho Comercial, Año 3(12), 33-65.

Servi, A. (2001). Derecho Ambiental. Responsabilidad Ambiental Internacional. Relaciones Internacionales, 10(20), 133-150. https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/RRII-IRI/article/view/1659

For normative legal material such as the Constitution of the Republic, laws, court rulings, jurisprudence published in books or journal articles, etc. consult the Estilo APA: guía con ejemplos y adaptaciones para Uruguay of the Grupo APA Uruguay.