Submissions

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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 includes the names of all authors, their emails, ORCID iDs, and current affiliation.
  • The submission file is written in (European or Brazilian) Portuguese or (American or British) English. In the case of Portuguese, articles that follow or do not follow the Orthographic Agreement of the Portuguese Language (1990).
  • The Identification and Publication Consent Forms (check Guidelines for Authors) have been filled out and attached alongside the submission file.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration for another journal (alternatively, an explanation can be provided in the Comments for the Editor section during submission).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Guidelines for Authors.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The submission file is in Word, RTF, or OpenOffice format.

Author Guidelines

For more information on the types of manuscripts accepted in the journal, rules for formatting manuscripts (text, figures, and tables), cartographic rules and bibliographic rules, authors should consult the Guidelines for Authors. A Template is available to make this a straightforward process.

The following documents should be filled out and attached alongside the manuscript during submission:

During submission or in the Identification Form, authors can choose among three distinct peer review systems:

  • Single-blind peer review: anonymous reviewer/disclosed author.
  • Double-blind peer review: anonymous reviewer/anonymous author.
  • Open peer review: disclosed reviewer/disclosed author.

In the absence of a specified preference, the default protocol is a double-blind peer review process.

Copyright Notice

It is up to the authors of the manuscripts to obtain authorization for the publication of material subject to copyright.

Editing Rights

Editing rights belong to Ponteditora.

The editing of a text submitted to the Legal Journal (J2) for publication implies that it is an original.

Publication implies acceptance of the Guidelines for Authors.

  1. The opinions expressed in the texts submitted to J2 are the responsibility of the authors.
  2. The journal retains the copyright and authors grant the journal the right to first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  3. The Plagiarism Checker X tool will be used for plagiarism detection.
  4. Whenever the text needs to undergo changes, at the suggestion of the Scientific Reviewers and/or the Scientific Council, the authors commit to accept these suggestions and to introduce them under the conditions requested. Whenever there are changes that the authors disagree with, the respective justifications must be presented, case by case.
  5. The reproduction of material subject to copyright has been authorized in advance.
  6. The texts are original, not published or submitted to other journals.

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