Author Guidelines
INTERNATIONAL LAW
REVISTA COLOMBIANA DE
DERECHO INTERNACIONAL
PUBLICATION GUIDELINES
Articles shall be sent to the Journal's editor electronically. They shall be double-spaced, 8.4 x 10.7 inches sheet size (A4 paper format), Times New Roman (12 points) font, 1.2 inches margins.
As the Journal is subjected to peers evaluation, Editors will appoint anonymous peers to assess the article, and on the basis of their evaluations, and taking into account scientific criteria, Editors will decide on merits for publication. Editors reserve the right to either accept the article as submitted; request changes thereto or condition its publication to the introduction of modifications that are satisfactory to Editors and/or anonymous peers, or simply reject it.
The evaluation of articles by academic peers will be informed in writing and in case of acceptance for publication, the issue in which the article will be published will be informed if possible. The Journal is published every six months.
For the Journal, the reception of one article presupposes that it has neither been published nor accepted for publication in any other journal or that it has been published as a previous version, as a working paper or at the World Wide Web. As well, it presupposes that at the expense of authors and/or third parties, only the title, the abstract, keywords and the Journals hyperlink may appear at the World Wide Web.
When sending an article for evaluation, its author accepts the assignment of copyrights to the Journal, both for the print and the electronic publication.
Editors favour the publication of articles featuring the results of academic research or with a strong theoretical basis as well as the product of theoretical or critical approaches to the state of the question.
Articles described above cannot exceed 35 pages. Editors may accept other types of articles as notes, communiqués, lectures, summaries, reviews, which cannot exceed 15 pages.
As the Journal is an international publication, articles in languages and idioms other than Spanish are accepted.
Articles have to include an abstract in the original language, in English and in Spanish (along with the title in the original idiom); they also have to indicate the general purpose of the document (whatever the manuscript seeks), the research methodology adopted and the main conclusions not exceeding 200 words in length. They will include also keywords describing its contents, preferably 4 or 6 keywords in the languages above mentioned and a table of contents presenting the titles and subtitles of the articles following the example below:
I. The international commercial law recent issues
A. About contracts
B. About treaties
1. Recent treaties regarding environmental law
II. Analysis of those issues
The title of the article shall be followed by an asterisk must indicate the nature of the document (whether is a product of research, particular study or revision of a determined subject matter) and the institution that supported the investigation. The title of the article also shall be followed by the author's name, and the latter shall be followed by another asterisk whereby a footnote will be indicated and that shall include the author's academic degrees, current affiliations, entities he or she participates in, city, country and e-mail address.
The submission of the article shall be accompanied by a special card indicating article title, author or authors, institution authors belong to, academic degrees, publications either in volumes or in journals, full address, phone number, fax number and electronic address.
Bibliographical references and other types of references shall be footnoted and its listing shall be continuous throughout the extension of the manuscript.
References shall be presented following the international handbook for the topics of the area (generally The Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation shall be followed) as it follows:
- Books: initials or name, title of the book in italics, volume or issue, page (s) (only numbers) and next (all in parenthesis) edition, publishing house, place of publication and date. Example: Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, 1, 64-66 (6th ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003).
- For contributions in collective books (chapters, lectures, etc.): initials or name, last name, title of the chapter, lecture, etc., in italics, “in” title of the manuscript in italics, pages (only numbers) and next (all in parenthesis): initial or name, last name, followed by ed./coord., publishing house, place of publication and year. Example: A. Coudert, Direct Foreign Investment in Undeveloped Countries, in Foreign Investment, 123-176 (G. Crane, ed., Yale University Press, New York, 2003).
- For academic papers: initial or name, last name, title of the article in italics, volume (only the number), title of the magazine in italics, numbers, pages in which the article appeared (only numbers), pages cited (if it's the case), year in parenthesis. Titles in English shall be referenced with initials in capital letters. Example: Kevin P. Gallagher & Melissa B.L. Birch, Do Investment Agreements Attract Investment? ―Evidence from Latin America, 7 Journal of World Investment and Trade, 6, 47-56, 52 (2006).
- For working papers: initials or name, last name, title in italics, pages and next (all in parenthesis): entity, “Working Paper”, followed by number, year in parenthesis. Example: S. Slovsky, International Political Economy 75-86 (The World Bank, Working Paper R-423, 2002).
- For mimeographed works: initial or name, last name, title in bold case and between quotes, and “mimeo” in parenthesis along with the date. Example: F. Lans, “Undeveloped Countries” (mimeo, 1987).
- For treaties and other international agreements: treaty name or agreement name, article (if it is the case), date, official publication.
- For international jurisprudence, resolutions or other international documents the parameters of citation of official publications shall be strictly observed, respecting all elements and order thereof.
At the final part of the article, the bibliography will be indicated in alphabetical order following the author's name or by title, observing footnotes citation guidelines and dividing the sources in the following categories: books and contributions in collective books; articles from journals and magazines; working papers; treaties and other international agreements; International jurisprudence, resolutions and other international documents; national laws and jurisprudence.
Textual citation of more than five lines shall be included by using lower case, indented and in quotes. Cites shall keep a balance as to contents and extension with the manuscript as a whole.
Indents shall be used at the beginning of each article, even that following the cites, but indents shall not be used in the paragraph following the title.
Titles hierarchy shall be the following: Roman and Small Caps with Initial; capital letter in italics; regular Arabic number. The journal's cornices shall be in Small Caps with Initials, regular case, and they shall be single spaced.
Highlights shall be made in italics, even if in citations they appear underscored or in bold case, and the expression “original underscored” shall be added (if that is the case).
Contributions shall be sent to:
Revista International Law
Revista Colombiana de Derecho Internacional
Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Internationallaw@javeriana.edu.co
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