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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Editorial policy
 
• Only original and unpublished submissions will be accepted, elaborated by a maximum of 3 (three) authors, with at least one of them being a doctor.
• The authors will not be charged expenses for processing or for publication of papers submitted to FA7LR.
• The submission must comply with FA7LR's research line and have adherence to any of the following themes: General Theory of Civil Law; History of Private Law; Roman law; Legal Education and Private Law; Comparative Private Law; Private Law and Fundamental Rights; Private Law and Theory of Law; Private Law and New Rights; Civil Law and Consumer Relations; Civil Law and Commercial Law; Civil Law and Labor Relations; Institutes of Private Law in Procedural Law; Institutes of Private Law in Administrative Law; Institutes of Tax Law and Private Law; Arbitration and Private Law; Right of duties; General Theory of Contracts and Contracts in Kind; Civil responsability; Real rights; Family right; Succession Law; Company Law; Environmental Law and Private Relations; Private Law and protection of Human Rights; Private Law and Democracy Theory; Private Law and Constitutionalism, Private Law and Protection of Cities; Copyright and Industrial Property Law.
• Authors must fulfill the Authors Declaration and upload the file together with the text of the article.
 
Structure of the text
 
• Main title in English (or in the original language of the article, for texts written in a foreign language) and in another language;
• The main title should be written in bold, centralized and in lower case letters. The title in another language must be below the title in English, in italics, centralized, in lower case.
• The text must have from 15 to 30 pages, and should not indicate authorship. Authorship data, titling, institutional linking and e-mail for contact must be completed in the registration process and, in the case of co-authoring, may be added in the submission process.
• Abstract and keywords in English and in another language. Each abstract should contain from 100 to 250 words and abbreviations should be avoided and must include the elements OBJECTIVE, METHOD, RELEVANCE/ORIGINALITY, RESULTS and THEORETICAL/METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS in specific paragraphs. The abstract in a foreign language must be a faithful version of the abstract in Portuguese, as well as the foreign-language key words. At the end of each abstract there should be 3 to 5 descriptors or keywords for indexing, separated by period.
• Text, containing introduction, development strutured in numbered sections, and conclusion, even though the titles are given different designations. The structuring of the text should fit the requirements of a scientific work, containing introduction, development, conclusion and references.
• References, aligned to the left.
• Attachments (optional).
 
Formatting
 
- Spaces

• between the lines: 1,5;
• between paragraphs: 0 pts;
• between title and text: one line (one enter);
• between footnotes: 1.0;
• between the lines of the long citation: 1,0;
• between rows of the same reference: 1,0;
• between one reference and another: 6 sts;
• between the text and the long quotation 6 pts;
• Start paragraph with 1.0 cm in the ruler of Word;
• Long quotation (more than 3 lines): should be placed with 4.0 cm of indentation relative to the left margin (3.0 cm over the margin of the paragraph).
 
- Fonts

• Times New Roman;
• Summary: 10;
• Text: 12;
• Long quotation: 10
• Footnote: 10
 
- Section Titles

• Title of the article: 14 - box low - with bold;
• Titles of the parts of the article: 12 - box low - with bold;
• Subtitles: 12 - lowercase - italic;
• Subsubtitles: 12 - low case - normal.
 
- References

• Source: size 12 (highlighting titles of works in bold)
 
- Margins

• Left: 3,0 cm
• Right: 2.0 cm
• top: 3.0 cm
• lower: 2.0 cm
 
Ensuring blind evaluation

• To ensure the integrity of blind peer evaluation for submission to this publisher, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves authors, editors, and proofreaders (who upload documents as part of their review) by verifying that the following measures have been taken in relation to the text and file properties:
o The authors of the document should exclude their names from the text, with the literal "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors name, article title, etc.
o In Microsoft Office documents, the author ID must also be removed from the file properties (see File menu in Word) by clicking on the following, starting with File from the main Microsoft application menu: File> Save As> Tools (or Options on Mac)> Security> Remove personal information from file properties when saving> Save.
o With PDFs, authors' names must also be removed from Document Properties, found in the File option in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.
 
Costs for article submission
 
• The FA7 Law Review does not charge any fees for submitting articles.

Articles

Standard section policy

Copyright Notice

Authors declare that

a) the contribution is original and unpublished and that it is not in the process of being evaluated in another journal,
b) they are fully responsible for the opinions, ideas and concepts emitted in the texts;
c) authorize the editors of FA7LR to make textual adjustments and adequacy of the article to the norms of publication;
d) in case of acceptance, FA7LR holds the right of first publication, under CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 4.0 International license.

The authors remain with the reproduction, in whole or in part, with the necessary recognition of the initial publication, either for exclusive distribution or for online distribution, for non-commercial purposes, and the same license rules are guaranteed.

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