Submissions

Author Guidelines

Instructions regarding manuscripts

The articles will be sent by email to the address: revista.reib@urjc.es

Contributions must be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (not characters) in length. The articles must be presented in Word format, Times New Roman font, size 13, single spaced (1.0) and with indentation in the first line of the paragraph.

The article can be presented in Spanish, Portuguese and English (the latter being an original text and not a translation).

The title of the article must be presented in both Spanish and English.

The article must be headed with the name of the author or authors and their institutional affiliation must appear in a footnote (for affiliation in a footnote, * will be used). The email address and Orcid Code of each author will also be included.

The key words (between 5 and 6) should be indicated, both in Spanish and in English.

The abstract of the work (in Spanish and English) will not exceed 200 words.

It is essential to present the summary with the order of the headings and subheadings. The introduction and conclusions should not be numbered.

The headings and subheadings will have the following scheme, with indentation of 0.5 and 1.0:

I._________ (in bold, size 13)

1.1. _______ (size 12)

1.1.1. _____ (size 12, in italics)

II._________(in bold, size 13)

2.1. ________(size 12)

2.1.1. _______(size 12, in italics)

Footnotes should be in New Times Roman 10 format, single spaced and justified.

General criteria for preparing book reviews:

Book reviews should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words in length (not including footnotes). Likewise, it will be necessary to send between five and seven lines with the author's data, stating their institutional membership and contact data. The writings must be presented in Word format, Times New Roman font, size 13, single spaced (1.0) and justified.

Bibliographic guidelines for authors follow the instructions of the Chicago 17th edition.

Books:

Last name, Author name. Title of the book in italics. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

Reference:

Diaz Barrado, Castor Miguel. The International Law of the Present Time. 1st ed. Madrid: Dykinson, 2004.

Footnote:

¹Cástor Miguel Díaz Barrado, International Law of the Present Time, 1st ed. (Madrid: Dykinson, 2004).

²Díaz Barrado, The International Law of the Present Time, …

Chapters of books:

Surname, Name author of the chapter. “Chapter title”. In Title of the book in italics, edited/coordinated by Name Surname editor/coordinator/director, pages covered by the chapter. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

Reference

Urbaneja Cillan, Jorge. “Financial companies and human rights: the application of the guiding principles on companies and human rights to banking activity”. In Business and Human Rights, directed by Carlos R. Fernández Liesa and María Eugenia López-Jacoiste Díaz, 205-236. Pamplona: Aranzadi Thomson Reuters, 2018.

Footnote:

¹Jorge Urbaneja Cillán, “Financial companies and human rights: the application of the guiding principles on companies and human rights to banking activity”, in Companies and human rights, dir. by Carlos R. Fernández Liesa and María Eugenia López-Jacoiste Díaz (Pamplona: Aranzadi Thomson Reuters, 2018), 206.

²Urbaneja Cillán, “Financial companies and human rights: the application of the guiding principles on companies and human rights to banking activity”, 207

Articles in journal:

Reference:

Last name, Author name. "Article title". Title of the journal in italics volume of the journal, number of the journal (Year of publication): pages covered by the article. DOI or URL of the resource

Reference:

Fernandez Liesa, Carlos. “Non-state actors and international human rights law”. Rights and Freedoms: Journal of Philosophy of Law and Human Rights 41 (2019): 117-147. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10.14679/1212

Footnote:

¹Carlos Fernández Liesa, “Non-state actors and international human rights law”, Rights and Freedoms: journal of philosophy of law and human rights 41 (2019): 117-147. doi: http://hdl.handle.net/10.14679/1212

²Fernández Liesa, “Non-state actors and international human rights law”, …

Article in press:

Last name, Author name. "Article title". Title of the newspaper in italics, day of month of year of publication.

Reference

Rojas, Raphael. “Questions to the new progressive cycle”. The Country, January 17, 2020.

Footnotes

¹Rafael Rojas, “Questions to the new progressive cycle”, El País, January 17, 2020.

²Rojas, “Questions to the new progressive cycle”,…

Legislation and jurisprudence:

The jurisprudential references will be indicated in the official citation mode of the body in question.

You can consult the instructions for Chicago 17th edition at the following link: https://uc3m.libguides.com/theme_guides/bibliographic_citations/chicago