Article Publication
Thematic Area and Category
Law or Legal Area:
- Civil law
- Criminal law
- Procedural law
- Constitutional right
- Human rights
- Administrative law
- Labor Law
- Tax Law
- Commercial Law
- Philosophy of Law
- Sociology of law
- Economic Analysis of Law
Politic science:
- Political philosophy
- Political Science Methodology
- Political economy (macroeconomics and economic policy)
- Political sociology
- Political psychology
- Political anthropology
- Management and Public policies
- International relations
- Geopolitics
- Polemology
- Stasiology (political parties)
- Forms of government (political regimes)
- Revolutions and coups d'état
- Electoral systems
- History of political ideas
- Collective action and social movements
- Institutions and comparative politics
- Analysis and political strategy
- Communication and political marketing
- Crime and Anti-Corruption Policies
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Guidelines for Authors:
Manuscripts submitted to PRIUS must contain substantial new results and ideas that advance in a non-trivial way knowledge of the areas covered by the journal.
It is expected that your article summarizes in a pertinent and rigorous way the scientific results that you wish to present.
- Shipping: Articles must be submitted via the PRIUS OJS portal. PRIUS - Journal of Law and Political Science
- Presentation: Use the .doc template (word template) provided to prepare your manuscript. Any document that does not follow the rules and the attached template will be automatically rejected.
- Language: Manuscripts must be written in Spanish, English, Italian, German and French.
- Format: CHICAGO (17th Edition)
- Extension: between 10 to 25 pages.
- Title: It must be informative, brief and concise. The article must have a title in the author's language and the other in English.
- Authors: use the initials of the names in capital letters followed by periods. The last name must be written in full. If the article is co-authored, separate the names of the authors only with commas. Only a maximum of 6 co-authors will be allowed.
- Institution or affiliate: provide the institution or affiliate of each author. Use superscripts to link authors to their respective institutions.
- Email: provide the email address of each author. Use superscripts to link authors to their addresses.
- ORCID code: if possible, put the ORCID code of each author as superscript (optional).
- The article should be written in a single column as shown in the templates.
- Abstract: Aim for less than 300 words. Clearly indicate the system under consideration, the properties studied, the methods used and the main conclusions drawn in the document. It must be written in the author's language and in English.
- Key words (maximum 6) in Spanish and English (Key words).
- Text: Separate the text into sections beginning with "Introduction" and ending with "Conclusions". Each section must obey the Chicago format.
- Introduction: it must guide the reader regarding the research carried out in a maximum of 600 words, covering the analysis of the research, background or previous work with their respective citations, the objectives and what the author wishes to add.
- Body of work (Theoretical framework, Materials, Methodology - Results and Analysis of Results - Discussion).
- Conclusions: it must refer to the syntheses of the work previously carried out and respond to the objectives set out in the manuscript.
- Acknowledgments (optional)
- Contribution of the authors
- Conflict of interests
- References: Use the Chicago format.
- Regarding the figures: use the PDF or EPS format for the images. The use of color is encouraged. Enter appropriate titles for each figure.
- Regarding tables: avoid introducing large tables; these can be presented as supplementary material.
- Appendices: No appendices or annexes are allowed
Code of ethics
PRIUS requests that all participants in the publication process (authors, reviewers, and editors) adhere to ethical standards. The journal uses the single-blind peer review system and is guided by the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE. (http://publicationethics.org/ ).
Authors
- Authors must ensure that their manuscript submitted to PRIUS has not been previously published, is not under consideration in any other journal, or is being submitted to any other journal while under consideration in PRIUS.
- Any worker who has contributed significantly to the research reported in your manuscript must be included as a co-author. People who have not contributed to the reported work do not have such a possibility. The responsibility for co-authorship and possible plagiarism that the paper may contain falls directly on the author (who is the person in charge of sending the document).
- Authors must not infringe any copyright. When reproducing figures, significant portions of text, and/or outlines from previous publications, it is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the appropriate permission from the relevant publishers. If copyleft policies apply to copied material, due acknowledgment must be given by citing the earlier work (regardless of whether the work is by the same authors or not).
- The republishing of a previously published article in another language is not acceptable on PRIUS.
- Authors must include a set of references to contextualize the work, indicate the sources consulted and give credit to previous workers. This is crucial for readers to connect the work with related research.
Plagiarism Policy:
The journal penalizes plagiarism in all its forms. The detection of plagiarism implies the conclusion of any editorial process. Turnitin software is used, among others, to determine matches between submitted texts and other texts and articles already published on the Internet