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Author Guidelines

HOW TO SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS

All manuscripts should be submitted following the instructions of the section "Make a new submission", at the top of this page.

Content and format: It is only accepted original and unpublished articles, in both Word and PDF format.

Extension: It is suggested that the manuscripts not exceed 15,000 words. Within the section Conjectures and refutations, the latter should not exceed 5,000 words.

Review: All manuscripts will be subject to a first formal revision by the editorial board and, if approved, to a blind peer-review process.

Languages: Manuscripts in Spanish, English, Italian, and Portuguese will be accepted.

To submit and publish an article, the journal does not require any fee payment.

 

EDITING RULES

1. Presentation of the manuscripts

The manuscripts should include:

  1. The author’s full name, academic affiliation, and contact e-mail address.
  2. The article’s title. If it contains a subtitle, it should appear on a separate line (following the title).
  3. The article’s title and subtitle in English.
  4. An abstract of no more than 150 words in the article’s original language.
  5. An abstract in English, if this was not the article’s original language.
  6. Five keywords in the article’s original language.
  7. Five keywords in English, if this was not the article’s original language.
  8. Blind-review version of the manuscripts: All manuscripts should include an additional version that will be subject to blind peer review. Any information that might identify the author must be removed from this version, including the metadata of the submitted document.

2. Presentation of the content

2.1. Font and size

All manuscripts should be written using 12-point Times New Roman font, applying a 1.5 spacing.

Each paragraph should begin with an indentation.

2.2. Notes

All notes should be typed single-spaced using 10-point Times New Roman font, without any indentation. Notes should be numbered consecutively starting with the number 1.

2.3. Titles and Subtitles

Titles and subtitles should be structured in the following order: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 2, and so on.

2.4. References

The bibliographical references should follow the APA (7th edition) style.

    • Short citations (with an extension of 39 words or less) in the main text or in the notes must be flanked by «guillemets» and not be written in italics.
    • Long citations (40 words or more in length) should not have quotation marks, and it should appear separate from the text, using 10-point centered font.
    • The citations should include the following reference data: the author's last name, year and pagination. For example: (Ramírez, 2009, p. 56)

2.5. Bibliography

It should be ordered alphabetically by the first author's last name and be located at the end of the manuscript according to the APA (7th edition) format.

  • Books: Last name, first name initial. (year). Title of the book in italics: subtitle in italics (edition, if included). Publisher.
  • Journal article: Last name, first name initial. (year). Title of the journal article: subtitle. The journal's title in italics, volume in italics(journal number in parentheses), page range.
  • Book chapter: Last name, first name initial. (year). Title of the chapter: subtitle. In Initial of author's name and last name (ed.), The book's title in italics (edition, if included, page range). Publisher.
  • Legislation and law cases: consult here Quaestio facti's criteria regarding the citation of legislation and law cases

If an author has various publications in the same year, a letter should be put next to the date, beginning with a, b, c... and order the references by year of publication, oldest to newest.

The legislation and law cases references must be included in the bibliography on a separate list.

2.6. Other criteria

  • Quotation marks inside quotation marks will be substituted by “guillemets”
  • In lower case: the law; legal system; judge; court; prosecutor;  chapter
  • In upper case: Supreme Court (and other institutions); State
  • Use the symbol § for "paragraph"

Essays

Original research papers

Conjectures and Refutations

A section that promotes debate among scholars that consists of a statement article and 3 to 4 brief reactions to it, followed by the author's reply to critics.

Science for Legal Proceedings

A section that will introduce the latest scientific developments relevant to legal fact-finding

Iuris Prudentia

A section that will discuss relevant judicial cases concerning legal evidential reasoning

Copyright Notice

The submission of articles for publication in Quaestio facti: International Journal on Evidential Reasoning implies acceptance of the following terms:

(a) The author agrees to respect the ethical guidelines of the journal.

(b) Quaestio facti is granted the right of first publication and the license to publish the submitted text in all and printed and electronic formats of the journal.

(c) The author retains copyright and assigns Marcial Pons exclusive publishing rights and non-exclusive exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication, and transformation) to exploit and commercialize the work, in full or in part, in all present or future formats and modes of exploitation, in all languages, for the entire lifetime of the work and throughout the world.

(d) Content published in Quaestio facti is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY), the full text of which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Therefore, copying, distribution, public communication, commercial use and derivative works of the contents of the journal are permitted provided that the source of the publication (Quaestio facti), the author of the article, the publisher (Marcial Pons) and the institution that publishes it (Chair of Legal Culture, University of Girona) is cited. It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the necessary permissions for the images that may be subject to Copyright. 

(e) For the purposes of any reprint, abbreviation or translation of an article from any of its sections, Quaestio facti undertakes to request authorization without delay from each author of the work in question, so that he or she may decide whether to authorize such publication.

(f) The authors who decide to republish their work in another journal or book must use the preprint version of the article, maintaining the rights of Marcial Pons referred to in section c), and should mention the previous appearance of the contribution in Quaestio facti.

(g) In accordance with section e), authors are allowed to deposit their work in general and/or thematic repositories, web pages, etc., for the preprint version (version sent for review), postprint version (once reviewed and accepted for publication) and the final published article. This self-archiving policy contributes to the dissemination and visibility of articles published in the journal and of Quaestio facti.

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