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Author Guidelines

HOW TO SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS

All manuscripts should be submitted via this platform, 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Content and format: It is only accepted original and unpublished articles, in both Word and PDF format.

Along with the manuscript, supplementary files may be submitted. Due to the nature of the journal, the most common types include, but are not limited to, research-related datasets (accepted in .doc, .pdf, .xlsx, .csv) and images (accepted in .png format). The size of the supplementary files must be supported by the journal's management platform. These files will be shared upon publication of the article.

Extension: It is suggested that the manuscripts do 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.

Quaestio facti is an open access journal that follows the diamond route, which is why no article processing fee (APC) is required, neither to submit nor to publish an article. In the same way, readers can access and consult the full text of articles free of charge.

 

EDITING RULES

1. Presentation of the manuscripts

The manuscripts should include:

  1. The author’s full name, academic affiliation, and contact e-mail address. It is recommended to include the personal identificator ORCID.
  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. In the final version, where applicable, a footnote should be included detailing the sources of financial support and funding. Acknowledgements should also be added for all persons who have contributed to the article but cannot be considered co-authors.

A blind review version of the manuscript must be submitted, without any author details, with acknowledgements and any other references that may indicate the author's identity removed, 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

All original ideas and data taken from other sources and individuals must be properly cited, following the APA (7th edition) style.

    • Summaries or paraphrases of ideas are preferable. The citations should include the following reference data: the author's last name, year and pagination. For example: (Ramírez, 2009, p. 56)
    • Short direct quotations (no more than 39 words) should be in regular font and enclosed in «angular» quotations marks. 
    • Long direct quotations (40 words or more) should not be enclosed in quotation marks and must appear separate from the main text, in size 10 font, and centered. 

2.5. Bibliographic References

The reference list must include all sources cited in the main text. It should be arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, according to the APA (7th edition) format, at the end.

  • 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”
  • It should be written in lower case: the law; legal system; judge; court; prosecutor;  chapter
  • It should be written in uppercase: Supreme Court (and other institutions); State
  • Use the symbol § for "paragraph"
  • Abbreviations must be defined the first time they appear in the text. The abbreviation of terms that are rarely used throughout the article is not recommended.

Essays

This section publishes unpublished and original research papers. All of them are reviewed by two experts in the field selected by the Editorial Team.

Conjectures and Refutations

This section promotes debate among scholars that consists of a statement article and three or four brief reactions to it, followed by the author's reply to critics.

The Conjecture is a contribution by invitation from the editorial team, while the authorship of the Refutations is proposed by the author of the main article.

The conjecture is published in January's issue and the refutations in the June's one.

The contributions to this section are reviewed by one expert.

Science for Legal Proceedings

This section introduces the latest scientific developments and analyses relevant to legal fact-finding. 

The contributions to this section are reviewed by one expert.

Iuris Prudentia

This section contains comments on case law with relevance to the law and/or evidential legal reasoning.

The contributions to this section are reviewed by one expert.

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 both the 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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