Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors registration and paper subsmission

The submission of manuscripts is carried out through the journal's website. To start the process, it is necessary to be registered as an author in the journal: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/acfs/login

Manuscripts are accepted only in Spanish.

In the case of several authors, the individual contribution of each author must be indicated (it is recommended that this be done in a footnote at the beginning of the manuscript).

Exceptionally, originals may be sent by e-mail to danieljgl@ugr.es

Extension

The extension of the articles in the monographic and open sections will be 10,000 words, including notes and documentary references. The articles for the bibliographical review section must not exceed 3,500 words and must not be less than 2,000 words, including notes and documentary references. The bibliographical review must include: identification of the book (title, author, publisher, city, year, edition number, etc.); introduction; content of the book (parts of which it is composed); what is the fundamental contribution of the text; comments of the person making the bibliographical review (topicality and novelty of the contribution with respect to the state of knowledge on the subject); conclusions; and the documentary sources used to write the review.

Title, summary, keywords, and authors' data

The first page will include, centered, the title in Spanish and English, name of the author, academic affiliation, country, professional address of ordinary mail and electronic mail. Articles should include a 100-150 word summary written in Spanish and English. They must also include between 5 and 10 keywords in Spanish and English.

The reviews will have a title, in Spanish and English, related to their content and must refer to the work reviewed as follows: AUTHOR, title, editorial, place, year, number of pages.

All authors must attach some brief curricular lines (maximum 150 words) that, in addition to recording their institutional affiliation, account for their main publications and reflect the thematic areas cultivated.

Latin characters (Roman script) and academically appropriate language should be used.

Notes

They will be placed at the bottom of the page, numbered by Arabic characters and in superscript format. They will only contain additional text and bibliographic citations. In no case will they include complete bibliographical references, which will be included at the end of the article.

Quotations

Quotation system of all originals, including those in the bibliographical criticism section, must conform to the guidelines of the American Psychological Association. More information at https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/. To facilitate indexing, citations must be in Latin characters (Roman Script).

Examples:

Quotations from books and articles in the text will appear in the body of the text. They will be indicated in parentheses the author's last name in lowercase, followed by the year and page of the publication.

(Pitch, 1998, p. 31)

If two or more documents have the same author and year, they will be distinguished from each other with lowercase letters after the year and within the parentheses.

(Bobbio, 1990a)

Documents with two authors will be cited by their first surnames linked by “and”. (Nussbaum and Sunstein, 2004)

For documents with more than two authors the quotation will be abbreviated indicating only the last name of the first author followed by “et al.”.

(Koselleck et al., 1972)

When the last name of the cited author is part of the text of the work, the year and page (s) of the cited work must always be indicated in parentheses:

As Zambrano (1958, p. 12) states, ...

Bibliographic references

Bibliographic references will be included at the end of the articles. Only the works, sources or documents cited in the text will be referred to. References will be sorted alphabetically by the author's first name following the instructions of the American Psychological Association. More information at https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/

References to cities will be made in the language of the text of the body of the article, that is, in Spanish if there is a common term of common use (eg Milán but not Milano, London but not London, Gerona but not Girona). The names of publishers, universities and other institutions must appear in their original form (New York University, London School of Economics, Universitat de Girona, and so). To facilitate indexing, citations and references must be in Latin characters (Roman Script).

If two or more works by an author published in the same year are cited, they will be distinguished by means of a letter:

Bobbio, N. (1990a). Saggi his Gramsci. Milán: Feltrinelli.
Bobbio, N. (1990b). L’età dei diritti. Turín: Einaudi.

If a reissued work is cited and the date of the first edition is considered relevant, it will be indicated in square brackets:

Díaz, E. (2010) [1966]: Rule of law and democratic society. Madrid: Taurus.

Below are examples for the most used types of documents:

Books

—One author

Pitch, T. (1998). A disciple per due. Milán: il Saggiatore.

—Two or more authors

Nussbaum, M. and Sunstein, C. (2004). Animal Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Koselleck, R., Brunner, O., Conze, W. (1972). Geschichtliche Grundbegriff. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Book Chapters

Resta, E. (2000). The unconfessable community and fraternal law. In Silveira Gorski (comp.). Community identities and democracy (pp. 211-234). Madrid: Trotta.

Articles from academic journals

Puigpelat, F. (1986). On the science of law and rational discourse. Yearbook of Philosophy of Law, 3, 229-248. http: //dx.doi. org / 10.7203 / CEFD.34.8927

Reports

Amnesty International (2017). First, do no harm: ensuring the rights of children with variations of sex characteristics in Denmark and Germany. Londres.

Thesis

Escudero Alday, R. (1999). Sistema jurídico y justicia: sobre la relevancia moral de la estructura jurídica [doctoral thesis]. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Available at: http: //hdl.handle. net / 10016/11184

Rubio Castro, A. (1984). La filosofía jurídica académica en España (1900-1936) [unpublished doctoral thesis]. Universidad de Granada.

Anonymization of originals and evaluation reports

To ensure the integrity of the review process of the originals and the anonymity of authors and reviewers, it is necessary to avoid that the characteristics or properties of the texts sent allow knowing the identity of their authors. Hence:

- Authors and reviewers will omit any reference to their identity in their texts.
- Authors should substitute their names and the names of their publications in the citations and references, using the formula "Author, year" instead of their own name or the name of their publications.
- In Microsoft Office documents, the identity of the author must be deleted from the document properties (see File in Word), proceeding as follows: in File, in the main Office menu, File> Save As> Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security> Delete personal information from file when saving> Save.
- In PDFs, authors must also delete their names from the document properties, in the file menu in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.

Admission

The Editorial Board shall decide on the admissibility of the originals. Reasons will be given for the rejection of articles. The criteria for rejection of papers shall include, among others, the following: (a) that the content of the work cannot be presumed to be of interest to an academic or scholarly audience, (b) that the text does not affect the field of knowledge cultivated by the journal, (c) that it exceeds or does not notably reach the indicated length (d) that the text presents serious formal defects and (e) that the text is poorly written, with academically inappropriate language or with a sexist use of language, as they may alter the quality of the research, causing misunderstandings and confusion from the point of view of knowledge. Likewise, the manuscript will be submitted to an anti-plagiarism application; if detected, it will be rejected. Finally, an “ethical” use of artificial intelligence is recommended (on this point see the recommendations of the University of Granada).

Guidelines for the use of inclusive language
The selection of the following guidelines has not only been based on the postulate that human theoretical knowledge (scientific or philosophical) must respect fundamental rights, but also responds to the objective of guaranteeing clarity in its communication. For this reason, it is committed to avoiding the socio-cultural uses of language that mediatise, bias and distort it. To the extent that inclusive language contributes to eliminating these biases, the following guidelines are proposed:

- Use of collective nouns, which refer to a certain group or set of individuals of the same species, thus referring to a plurality (e.g. ‘the legal academy usually accepts a conception of law...’, ‘the legislating powers or bodies...’, ‘the citizenry’...).

- Use of abstracts, meaning nouns which designate thoughts, opinions, qualities, actions or feelings (e.g.: ‘The philosophy of law has dealt with the subject matter...’).

- Use of periphrasis, which is an expression made up of several words to express what could be expressed with only one, but which is nevertheless a sexist construction (e.g. ‘The procedural representation...’).

- Use of generics that have a unique masculine or feminine form (e.g. ‘person’, ‘individual’, “victim”, ‘party’).

- Use of splitting, understood as the simultaneous use of the feminine and masculine forms of a word (e.g. ‘las magistradas y magistrados’)

- Use of slashes, the slash being a diagonal line drawn from top to bottom and from right to left, which, in this case, is placed between a word and a morpheme to indicate the existence of two or more possible options (e.g. it is found in the following expression: ‘El/la estudioso/a del derecho...’).

- Omission of the determiner before nouns of unique form, which prevents the gender of the group or person alluded to by the noun, whose unique form allows its use indistinctly (e.g. ‘Specialists in the matter pointed out that...’).

- Use of determiners without gender marking, such as ‘each’, which are used interchangeably for the masculine and feminine (e.g. ‘Each student...’).

- Use of pronouns without gender marking, such as ‘who’, which are used interchangeably for masculine and feminine (e.g. ‘Those who held that natural law...’)

- Avoiding the subject, i.e. using impersonal verb forms which do not refer to a man or woman to whom the action or state to which the verb alludes can be attributed (e.g. ‘It was held that justice...’).

- Opting for symmetry, giving the same linguistic treatment to men and women, when referring to the same (e.g. ‘Professor Martínez argued that... while Professor Jiménez defined...’).

- In order to avoid confusion and to avoid leaving the solution to a communicative context linked to socio-cultural uses which do not guarantee the absence of bias, it should be noted whether the use of the masculine is generic or specific.

(These guidelines have been extracted from various guides, available at https://www.inmujeres.gob.es/servRecursos/formacion/GuiasLengNoSexista/docs/Guiaslenguajenosexista_.pdf and https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000114950).

Data processing

ACFS recommends that research source data should be gender-sensitive in order to allow for the identification of possible differences. In the case of data-related research, whenever possible (1) Disaggregated collection and processing of data contained in registers, surveys, statistics or other information systems used in the articles is recommended. (2) The use of statistics that provide sex-disaggregated data is recommended. In the case of research involving the review of studies or legal-theoretical texts, the name and surname of those who wrote them should be indicated.

Evaluation

All the originals of the monographic and open sections will be informed by two evaluations that will not know the identity of the authorship (peer review, double blind).
The evaluations will be selected by the Editor, who will preferably choose expert personnel external to the Editorial Team. The Editorial Board will carry out evaluations only in exceptional cases. In any case, at least 50% of the evaluations of each issue will come from people external to the Editorial Board of the Journal. It will also be taken into account that the total number of reviewers for each issue corresponds, as far as possible and in accordance with the topics dealt with, to the percentage recommended by the legal regulations on gender equality regarding the composition of review bodies (40%-60%).

The evaluators will respond to the evaluation form that will be provided to them. In it, they will find instructions on the criteria that will guide the evaluation of the text, with the aim of guaranteeing the originality, relevance, methodological rigour and formal presentation of the texts. In any case, they will conclude by recommending (a) whether the original can be published without modifications, (b) whether its publication is conditional on the introduction of revisions or corrections to the text, or (c) whether it is not publishable. In the event of a discrepancy between the reviewers, i.e. if there is a negative and a positive report (conditional or not), the judgement of a third reviewer will be used. Unless expressly indicated by the reviewers, their identity will not be known to the author. Reasons must be given for the reports, in particular when they suggest revisions or advise against publication.
The publisher will inform the author of the decision of the evaluations, enclosing the reports. Once the evaluation is known, the author must inform the publisher whether he/she will revise the text in the sense expressed in the evaluation reports or, if not, whether he/she will desist from publication. In the first case, the author must revise the text within the period indicated by the publisher and send a definitive corrected version, without annotations or comments and, together with it, a separate document explaining how the evaluators' observations have been satisfied. The editor will assess whether the conditions of the evaluations have been adequately met, with the assistance of the evaluators if necessary or if this has been expressly requested. If the editor considers that the text satisfies the observations of the evaluations, he/she will inform the author that it is accepted for publication. If this is not the case, additional revisions may be requested. If they are satisfied, the text will be accepted, and if the editor considers that they are not, he/she will submit the case to the Editorial Board, which may reject the publication.

The approximate deadlines from the submission of the manuscript are: 1) preliminary evaluation (formal and thematic line) by the Editorial Team: 1/2 week; 2) external evaluation (double blind): 3 months; 3) if modifications are recommended: 1 month for the author to send the final manuscript.