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Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad (Journal on Lawfulness) is an interdisciplinary academic publication with international outreach that is disseminated electronically. It promotes a substantive theme that embraces a variety of social science and humanity disciplines, including legal, political, sociological and philosophical fields. Its topics address the legitimacy of law and obeying it, with special attention paid to developing the rule of law and consolidating democracy.

The journal was awarded the FECYT seal of quality, in which is ranked in quartile 2 in Law, and is included in catalogues and databases such as SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences), REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico—Ibero-American Network of Innovation and Scientific Knowledge), ISOC (social sciences and humanities database produced by the CSIC—Higher Council of Scientific Research), Latindex, Dialnet, MIAR, Ulrich’s Directory and RESH (Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades—Spanish Journals on Social Sciences and Humanities). The journal’s dissemination figures in the three last years (2020, 2021 y 2022) were almost 300,000 downloads of the complete text.

Original, detailed contributions are requested on the topics the journal focuses on. Contributions will be subject to an anonymous peer-review process. Reviewers are specialists who are not part of Eunomía’s publishing organisation. The editorial board undertakes to complete this process within six months of receipt by the editorial board’s secretary’s office. If a third assessment is required, the period shall be extended to nine months. 

Eunomía does not charge fees for receiving, processing or publishing articles submitted by authors

The submission process is permanently opened. 15 December 2024 is the deadline for submitting original articles opting to be published in issue No. 28 (May 2025–October 2025)

 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITING ORIGINAL ARTICLES

1. Original articles may be submitted in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The preferred submission method is via the platform on the journal’s webpage www.uc3m.es/eunomia where you can also find the editorial guidelines. To submit article proposals, authors must first register via the “Join” tab in the horizontal navigation menu. Articles can also be sent by email to the following address: eunomia@uc3m.es.
2. The manuscript must be submitted in a format suitable for peer review, i.e. without identifying the authors’ details (names, address, email, acknowledgements, etc.). Any references to the authors or their workplaces that may enable the reviewer to identify them must also be removed from the text of the article (if accepted, they will be reinserted in the final text for publication). In in-text citations from articles by the same author as the manuscript, surnames must be replaced by the word Author. In the References, each author’s publication must be marked Author with the year of publication in brackets: Author (year). Such requirements will be mandatory both in the form of submission via the journal's website and via e-mail address. 
3. Along with the manuscript, all contributions must attach the following in a separate file: information on the authors’ academic profile, institution they belong to, email, contact phone number and a brief outline (maximum 200 words). Including the ORCID identifier is also advisable. The details of all collaborators must be included in the case of co-authors. This statement must follow the model in the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i593KU01x0XP_gCN1yoEEoXL4pUI_L10h-VERpvF-YA/edit?usp=sharing
4. A formal statement must be attached to the original text stating that its essential content has not been published and will not be published or subjected to a peer-review process for publication in any other article or journal while it is undergoing the journal’s peer-review process. This statement must follow the model in the following link:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dtw2yZbpopPyY62PU29Wm9MBhMNMfruEpPebrhHIlM4/edit?usp=sharing
5. In the case of co-authorship, the formal statement must be completed by all the authors, indicating the order of signature, the criteria chosen for this order and the specific contribution of each author. This declaration must follow the model that appears at the following electronic address: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZTJc_5LsSbWh4HqIKFsRCC38r31suqdaan-yTe0i_hA/edit?usp=sharing
6. Articles must comply with the formal and editorial criteria detailed below. Failure to comply may result in the rejection of the original articles submitted.

FORMAL AND EDITORIAL CRITERIA REQUIRED FOR RECEIVING AND SUBSEQUENTLY REVIEWING ORIGINAL ARTICLES

1. Doctrinal contributions will be divided into “Studies”, “Forum and Agora”, “Voices on Lawfulness” and “Rereading” (click here to learn more about each of them). Unless there are justified exceptions, original articles for “Studies” and “Forum and Agora” ans "Voices on Lawfulness" should not exceed 25 pages (approximately 75,000 characters, including bibliography). Summaries must be about books published during the current year or the previous year.
2. Except for the summary, contributions must include the article title, an abstract of its content (between 100 and 150 words long) and a list of key words (between five and ten) in Spanish and English. We recommend that the title does not exceed 80 characters, including spaces. A summary of the article’s main sections should then be included before the text begins.
3. Papers should be submitted in DIN A4 format. The font must be Arial, size 11 with single spacing for the main text. The top and bottom margins will be those set by default in Microsoft Office Word software. Starting with the second paragraph of each section, every paragraph should be indented.
4. Footnotes must be inserted after any punctuation marks. They must be numbered in Arabic characters in Arial font size 9 and single spaced.
5. Articles may include graphics, tables, charts and images. They must be included in the text, numbered consecutively and reference their source.
6. Divisions and subdivisions must be indicated in Arabic numerals and followed by the title in bold roman lower case. Subdivisions must include a second or third number, separated by full points.

   Example: 1. On the concept of “Lawfulness” 1.1. Main doctrinal contributions

7. The first time abbreviations or acronyms are used (which must be in capital letters without a full point) they must be written in brackets and preceded by the full version.

   Example: United Nations (UN).

8. Italics are reserved for titles of works, words in languages other than the original language of the text and expressions in Latin. In the event that textual quotations in languages other than the original language of the text are used, these must be accompanied by a translation at the foot of the page. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations will be understood to have been made by the author. 
9. Use double quotation marks for citations, phrases or words. Single quotation marks must be used when there is a citation or word highlighted within another.

   Example: “We command the Egyptians who wander our kingdoms and feudal estates ‘with their wives and children’ that on the day this law ...”.

    
10. The em dash (—) (character 150) and not the en dash (–) is used to enclose asides, frame notes or introduce comments in the discourse.
    
    
11. Long in-text citations (more than four lines) must be taken out of the paragraph and become a separate paragraph. This paragraph must be separated from both the preceding and subsequent paragraphs by one line. Several typographical changes must also be made: no quotation marks, size 10 font, single spacing and a left margin of 1.25 cm. When the author omits part of the citation, this must be indicated by an ellipsis preceded and followed by a space. Any additions the author makes to the citation must be indicated by square brackets. 
12. References mentioned in the body of the text must follow the author–year system. The brackets must include: author’s surname [comma] the year when the article was published [comma] p. and the pages cited. 

    Example: “... presented ‘a luminous truth’ that seemed to fix forever his ideas on the inalienability of the people’s sovereignty under whatever government in power” (Turgot, 1923, p. 660)

13. When referring in general terms to a particular work by an author, the year it was published must be mentioned in brackets. When several works by the same author have been published in the same year, they must be differentiated by adding a letter to the year. When a citation refers to several pages of a work, the format will be as follows: [comma] pp. and the start and end page of the citation, linked by an en dash [–]. 
14. The bibliography, to appear at the end of the text, must only include the references of the works cited in the article. The author must ensure that the citations included in the text match all the details provided in the bibliography. The article’s author or authors will be responsible for ensuring source citations and bibliographical references are correct.
15. References must be ordered alphabetically by the author’s surname and they must follow the APA model (7th ed.), as explained in detail in the following link https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/. For more reference specifications, you can refer to the APA page at the following address: https://apastyle.apa.org/[NG5] [NG6] .

    Examples: Book: Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. Publisher. Book with editor: Surname, A. A. (Ed.). (Year). Title. Publisher. Book chapter: only in cases of compilation books and anthologies in which every chapter has a different author and compiler or editor: Surname, A. A., & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of chapter or entry. In A. A. Surname. (Ed.), Book title (pp. xx–xx). Publisher. Periodical publications in printed format: Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B, & Surname, C. C. (Date). Article title. Journal name, volume (number), pp–pp. Periodical publications with DOI: Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B, & Surname, C. C. (Date). Article title. Journal name, volume (number), pp–pp. DOI: xx Printed newspaper article: Surname A. A. (Date). Article title. Newspaper name, pp–pp. Or the version without an author: Article title. (Date). Newspaper name, pp–pp. Online newspaper article: Surname, A. A. (Date). Article title. Newspaper name. http://www... The reference to the edition and/or volume of the work will be made as follows. Example: Díez-Picazo, L. (2016). Civil Law System (11th ed., Vol. II). Technos. The reference to the translator and/or to the original year of publication of classic works will be made as follows. Example: Aristotle (1931). Metaphysics (Trad. T. Pinilla). Editorial Gredos. (Original work published ca. 1311).

16. Eunomía recommends the use of inclusive language in the articles submitted for evaluation. For more information you can consult the guide: “Buenas prácticas para el tratamiento del Lenguaje en Igualdad”.

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