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 paper must be original and cannot be simultaneously submitted to other journals. Publicum’s team strives to provide fast responses to submissions.
  • A master's degree is required for publication purposes. Regarding co-authorships, at least one of the authors must comply with this requirement.
  • The papers must be submitted in .doc or .docx format, A4 sheet size with 3cm upper left margins and 2cm bottom right margins.
  • Body text should be formatted in Calibri font, size 10; citations of more than 3 (three) lines and footnotes should also formatted in Calibri font, size 9.
  • Papers must contain an abstract in Portuguese — as well as in another language (English or Spanish) — of 150 to 250 words each. Five keywords should also accompany submissions, both in Portuguese and in the second chosen language.
  • References throughout the text can be formatted in author-date style – e.g.: (SUNSTEIN, 2004, p. 34) – or in numeric style (as footnotes), according to ABNT rules (NBR 6023). Bibliographical references should be included at the end of the paper in accordance with NBR 6023.
  • Papers must be between 7,000 and 16,000 words long (including abstracts, footnotes and bibliographical references).

  • An attached document to the submission must be sent, containing a brief bibliography, the qualification and the institutional affiliation.

    * The sections of the paper must be numbered progressively according to NBR 6024/2003.


Author Guidelines

Publicum accepts submissions on a continuous basis throughout the year, and occasionally issues calls for thematic special issues.

Submission preparation checklist·Author guidelines·Submission types·How to submit·Copyright notice·Privacy statement

Language: the Journal accepts manuscripts in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish.

Length: papers must be between 7,000 and 16,000 words, including abstracts, text body, footnotes and references. The Scientific Committee may exceptionally accept contributions of a different length.

Hyphenation: disabled.

Page numbering: disabled.

Typographical emphasis: italics in the body text (for emphasis and foreign words); underlining for URLs; quotation marks for literal quotations of up to three lines; and bold in the references, both in footnotes and in the final list.

Citation format: references must follow NBR 6023 of the ABNT, the standard adopted by the journal. Manuscripts written in English may alternatively follow the 20th edition of The Bluebook and the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, in which case footnotes should be used rather than endnotes; the rules are available at Peter Martin’s Introduction to Basic Legal Citation.

Structure: (i) a TITLE of up to 15 words; (ii) an ABSTRACT of 150 to 250 words, in the original language and in a second language, preferably English; (iii) 5 KEYWORDS, in the original language and in the second language; (iv) an INTRODUCTION; (v) sections forming the TEXT BODY; (vi) a CONCLUSION; and (vii) an alphabetical list of the REFERENCES cited in the manuscript. Tables, charts, graphics and images should appear within the text.

Book reviews and case comments should be between 1,800 and 6,000 words, structured with an introduction, a body and a conclusion, and should follow, wherever possible, the guidelines set out for scientific articles and the ABNT standards.

No fees are charged to authors for the submission, editing or publication of manuscripts.

How to submit

The step by step inside the system, from creating an account to confirming the submission.

Before you start

Submissions are made through the journal’s system and involve five main steps. An account is needed to begin. If you do not have one, it can be created at Register, ticking the option that allows the journal to contact you as an author. Those who already have an account can go straight to Login.

To submit, have two files ready:

  • the manuscript, in .doc or .docx, formatted according to the submission conditions. Since review is blind, anything that could identify authorship must be removed: names, acknowledgements, first-person references to your own work, and the properties of the Word document;
  • a separate document with the names of the authors and a short biography of each, giving degree and institutional affiliation.

Before going on, check the submission conditions to make sure the rules on length, font, margins, abstract, keywords and reference style have been followed. Submissions that do not meet them are returned to the author.

The five steps

1. Start. Choose the main language of the work and the section it is intended for. Tick each of the submission conditions and, if you agree with them, accept the copyright statement and the privacy statement. The Comments for the Editor field is optional and is where to raise anything the editor should know before screening, such as a conflict of interest.

2. Upload Submission. Upload the text and mark it as Article Text. Once the file is in, the system asks for a file name and lets you add others; the biography document goes in as Other. Images, tables and datasets, where they exist, have components of their own.

3. Enter Metadata. Title, subtitle and abstract, in the exact form in which they should be published. Add any co-authors, with the affiliation and email address of each. Anyone not entered here will not appear in the publication. Enter the five keywords and paste the references into their own field.

4. Confirmation. On the review screen, check what has been sent and complete the submission.

5. Next Steps. The system confirms receipt and sends an email. From then on the submission is available in the author dashboard.

After submitting

Everything that follows happens inside the system. The journal first carries out an editorial screening, which checks fit with the scope and compliance with the formal conditions. Once the work passes, it goes to blind peer review. Decisions and reports arrive by email and are recorded on the submission page, which is also where revised versions are uploaded.

If you have questions about the process, write to revistapublicum@gmail.com.

Papers

Política padrão de seção

Reviews

Revista Publicum will invite authors to write book reviews. Occasionally, there will be a open call for reviews, which will go through double peer review.

Book Review

As notícias bibliográficas serão elaboradas pela Equipe Editorial da Revista Publicum após seleção interna de obras consideradas relevantes no cenário acadêmico e em sintonia com a política editorial da revista.

Copyright Notice

The author(s) of the paper declare(s) to know and agree to the following rules:

1) The author(s) undertook the work presented to the journal, being entirely responsible for the ideas and concepts therein transmitted, which do not necessarily correspond to the point of view of Publicum’s Editors.

2) The ethical principles alluded to in the evaluation policy of the journal   were met in the conduction of the work presented to submission.

3) The author(s) assume(s) authorship and responsibility for their work, declaring that it does not infringe any third party intellectual property rights.

4) The author(s) take(s) full responsibility for moral or patrimonial damages that the distribution of the work may generate to third parties.

5) The author(s) retain(s) copyright in the paper and grant(s) the journal the right of first publication, in any media – in particular in digital form – in an electronic archive on the Internet.

6) The author(s) confer(s) the right to the editors to modify the text submitted, without prejudice of its contents, when necessary to standardize the presentation of the works and to meet the norms of the journals’ own edition.

7) The author(s) agree(s) to the final form of the paper approved by the journal.

8) The author(s) authorize(s) the disclosure of the paper in the channels of communication of the Faculty of Law of UERJ.

9) The author(s) agree(s) with the reproduction of short extracts from the paper in other UERJ publications.

10) The author(s) recognize(s) that, through the abovementioned authorizations, he/she/they will not receive payment under any modality, meaning these will have the nature of scientific collaboration.

11) The author(s) is(are) aware that publication of the work may be refused if it is not considered appropriate, for any reason, whatsoever, and such refusal does not create responsibility and/or burdens of any kind to the journal or UERJ.

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Publicum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Authors retain copyright in the works published. The licence allows the material to be shared and adapted for non-commercial purposes, provided that the authorship and the original publication in this journal are credited. Authors may deposit the published version in institutional or personal repositories and disseminate it by any means, indicating the source.

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