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Author Guidelines

Every work sent to this Journal must strictly comply with our Editorial Guidelines. 

You can DOWNLOAD the Editorial Guidelines at the following link: 

Editorial Guidelines Rev Der UdeC (ENG) 2023

PREPARATION OF THE PAPER 

It will be the responsibility of each author to adapt his or her work to these editorial standards. Disagreement between the work presented and these standards will be sufficient reason to return the work with the pertinent observations, and its author must correct them within the deadline indicated by the Editorial Production. Without prejudice to the above, Editorial Production will have the power to make the adjustments required for the final edition of the work.

The publication has the following permanent sections:

Research Articles (max. length 12,000 words)
Jurisprudence Commentaries (max. length 4,000 words)
Bibliographic Reviews (max. length 3,000 words)
Jurists (max. length 10,000 words)

The “Jurists” section corresponds to a category of works dedicated to highlighting the life and work of important national and international jurists.

The maximum number of words established considers the entire text, including the title, summary, footnotes and bibliography. Exceptionally, a longer length will be admitted for justified reasons, qualified at the discretion of the Journal Management.

The writings must be sent in Spanish or English, in a digital file in Word (doc) format, letter size, Times New Roman font, character size 12, single spacing, justified text and 3 cm margins in every direction. Verbatim words or phrases must be enclosed in English quotation marks. Italics will only be used for words in a foreign language and exceptionally when the author wants to highlight or emphasize a word or short phrase.

The following characteristics must be considered for the presentation of papers:

- Cover: title in Spanish and English, name of its author.
- In the footer: institutional affiliation, city and country, title and/or academic degree of the author, email, ORCID identifier and source of funding for the research, if any, which must be marked with an asterisk ( * ).
- Summary (maximum 10 lines) and key words (6 words or phrases), in Spanish and English (Abstract and Keywords). 
- Within the text, titles and subtitles must follow a hierarchical order.
Tables, charts or graphs cannot exceed the size of one page and must use size 10 font.
- Bibliography, including the regulations and jurisprudence cited, if any.
- When an author is named in the text of the article, the small caps will be used for his or her. For example: Elinor OSTROM, or OSTROM.

In the case of Jurisprudence Commentaries, in addition to complying with the above, it must be structured in a way to include two sections, namely: the Doctrine, consisting of a descriptive paragraph of the main ideas of the commented sentence or sentences, and the Commentary, where the author will develop the topic, reproducing the sentence only in what is pertinent. 

QUOTES AND REFERENCES

The Universidad de Concepción Law Review will follow the Chilean Standard No. 1143.Of1999 (ISO 690) in its work, with the modifications expressed below. Consequently, citations or references of cited works must follow the following instructions:

1.- Bibliographic references and notes to the text must be made at the bottom of each page, following numerical order, in Times New Roman font, character size 10, single spacing and justified text.

2.- The reference number must come after the punctuation elements.

3.- Every last name must be in Small caps (Versales Font). The citation will be used using a single last name for each author. Exceptionally, when there are authors with the same surname cited in the work, both will be used to differentiate them.

4.- The way the reference is constructed will vary depending on the type of publication in question according to the following rules: 

i.- Books:

SURNAME and name of the author, title of the book, publisher, place of publication, year of publication of the edition used, number and type of edition if applicable, volume if applicable, and page number(s). s) cited(s).

Examples:

• With one author: RAMOS, René, Family Law, Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Santiago, 2007, 6th edition, T.I, p. 157.
• With two or more authors: HALABI, Fuad; SAFFIRIO, Carlos, The precarious action before doctrine and jurisprudence, Jurídica ConoSur Ed., Santiago, 1996, 117 p.
• With two or more authors with identical surnames: DOMÍNGUEZ BENAVENTE, Ramón; DOMÍNGUEZ ÁGUILA, Ramón, Inheritance law, Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Santiago, 2011, 3rd edition, T.2, p. 901.

ii.- Thesis:

SURNAME and name of its author, “title of the thesis”, type of thesis, University, place, indicate whether or not it is published, year, number of the page(s) cited. Example:

CORTEZ, Gonzalo, “Precautionary protection in the Chilean civil process. Comparative study with the new organization in Spanish Law”, Doctoral Thesis in Law, University of Valencia, Spain, unpublished, 2003, p. 90.

iii.- Article or work from a collective work:

SURNAME and first name of its author, “name of the article or work”, in: SURNAME and initial of the name of its editors (eds.) or coordinators (coords.), name of the collective work, publisher, publication location, year of publication, edition used, number and type of edition if applicable, volume if applicable, number of the page(s) cited.

Example:

• DOMÍNGUEZ, Ramón, “Delay for payment and illiquid obligations”, in: DOMÍNGUEZ; GONZÁLEZ, J.; BARRIENTOS, M; GOLDENBERG, J. (Eds.), Civil Law Studies VIII, Legal Publishing Thomson Reuters, Santiago, 2012, p. 283.

iv.- Journal articles:

SURNAME and name of the author, “name of the article”, name of the journal, year of publication, volume and/or number of the journal, number of the page(s) cited.

Example:

PEÑAILILLO, Daniel, “Some reforms to the resolution for non-compliance”, Universidad de Concepción Law Review, 2012, No. 231-232, p.13.

v.- Bibliographic references for subsequent citations of the same work:

If reference is made to a work that has been previously cited, the LAST NAME of its author will be indicated, followed by the word “cit.” and, in parentheses, the number of the citation in which the work appears for the first time will be added, with the abbreviation “n.”, finally the number of the cited page(s) will be indicated.

Example:

- DIEZ, cit. (n. 5), p. 55.

vi.- Legislation quotes or references:

The Legislation quotes and references must indicate the number of the law and the year of its publication. The rules must be capitalized  (e.g. Law, Decree, Regulation, etc.). If the standard is foreign, the country of origin must be indicated at the end, in parentheses.

Examples:

- Law No. 19,947, 2004.

- Law No. 12,965, 2014. (Brazil).

vii.- Jurisprudence citations or references:

They must indicate their Court or Entity (Country of origin if the jurisprudence is foreign), Date of the ruling or opinion, Identifier (Journal number, Role of the case or database).

Examples:

Supreme Court, September 23, 1997, D.J., T. 94, sec. 1 p. 85.
Supreme Court, June 30, 2009, Role No. 2665-09.
Supreme Court, September 10, 2013, legalpublishing.cl, N° CL/JUR/2008/2013.
Comptroller General of the Republic, May 3, 2019, Opinion No. 2361.
Superior Court of Justice (Brazil), April 11, 2012, Special Appeal 5916-RJ (2012/0257814-0).

EVALUATION PROCESS

Regarding the Research Articles, the Journal Management will entrust their evaluation to two external evaluators in a “double blind” mode, who will arbitrate within the period indicated to them. The editor in charge of the article will send the anonymized manuscript to two specialist researchers. Taking into account the journal's Article Review Form, the referees will determine if the article is:
• Accepted, without corrections
• Accepted with suggestions to its author
• Accepted with corrections (to be made to the work)
• Rejected, not publishable

Each arbitration report must conclude whether or not the work can be published and, if so, whether suggestions or observations are made to the author. If there are contradictory evaluations of the same work, it will be submitted to a third arbitration. The final opinion of the Editorial Committee, informed by the observations issued by the two or three reviewers, will be final.
In relation to Commentaries on Jurisprudence and Bibliographic Reviews, upon admissibility, these will be submitted to arbitration.
The suggestions and observations made will be communicated to the author, so that he or she can adapt his or her work as appropriate, granting a deadline for this purpose.
The Journal may always present the author with additional observations regarding his or her work. Likewise, you may insist on the observations already made, when it is considered that they have not been properly addressed, returning the work to its author so that they can make a new adjustment, within the period indicated. If the article is publishable with observations, the author must send the corrected version for a new evaluation within the deadline established in the evaluation report. The corrected article will be reviewed to confirm the incorporation of the observations and thus be able to proceed to publication.
The Journal reserves the right to decide whether to accept or reject the publication of a work and, if accepted, decide in which edition it will be published, due to the miscellaneous nature of the Journal and based on criteria of opportunity.
The rejection of a paper will always be duly justified.
A rejected work cannot be submitted again to the editorial process of this journal until at least one year has elapsed after its rejection, and only by demonstrating that the observations and objections made have been corrected in the new text, an issue that will be qualified by the Editorial Team of the Law Review.
Notification to authors: The main author will be notified of receipt of the work and subsequently the result of the peer evaluation to the email box registered in our OJS Platform.
For more details about the editorial process, also refer to our Ethical Standards section.

You can DOWNLOAD the Editorial Rules of the Law Journal at the following link: 

Editorial Guidelines Rev Der UdeC (ENG) 2023