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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.
  • I confirm that the manuscript submitted here has not been published elsewhere in any other language and is not (nor will be) under simultaneous consideration by another journal. If the submitted work originates from a monographic text (e.g., thesis or dissertation), this origin must be explicitly disclosed upon submission. I am aware that submissions containing identical portions (“copied” and “pasted”) from the original monographic text will not be accepted. Furthermore, I confirm that I am fully aware of the Journal's policies, particularly those related to the Ethics and Malpractice Statement and the Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Submitted Papers.
  • I confirm that this submission is in accordance, in relation to authors, to the condition of single article in editorial process, as well as to the interval of three issues between the publication of two articles by the same author.
  • I confirm that the manuscript herein submitted fully meets the criteria outlined in the Author Guidelines, among them ABNT standards (including applicable to the abstract) and third-person writing. ALL citations used in the manuscript (including laws and jurisprudence), and ONLY them, are properly listed in the reference list at the end of the paper. Self-citations (if any) in the manuscript are in accordance with the guidelines of the Journal. I am aware that failure to fully comply with the guidelines shall imply summary rejection of the manuscript.
  • I am aware that the thematic availability of reviewers, thematic distribution throughout editions, specific contextual circumstances and quantitative aspects of articles submitted and not yet edited, are factors that can lead to the rejection and consequent archiving of the article, at the sole discretion of the editorial team.
  • I expressly authorize the RFDUFPR staff to freely revise and edit the entire manuscript (including the title, abstract, and keywords) to adapt it to the Journal's standards, at the discretion of the editor. The authorization for revision does not include conceptual changes, which, if necessary, will be discussed with the author prior to publication.

  • I am aware that I must inform, in the submission (and not in the text of the article, which should not contain any information related to authorship, in order to allow the application of the aformentioned double-blind peer review method) and in relation to each of the authors (if there is more than one), the main institution of affiliation, as well as a valid personal email address and a short biographical statement, including the highest academic degree achieved and a link to the currículo Lattes (Lattes iD) (for foreign authors with no Lattes iD, provide an alternative academic curriculum link). I am also aware that I will have to inform, in the proper fields, the ORCID iD and the complete ORCID URL regarding each author.

  • I acknowledge that the use of generative artificial intelligence tools must strictly comply with the Journal’s editorial rules, guidelines, and policies, and that any use of such tools in violation of these standards – including, but not limited to, the generation, fabrication, or incorrect attribution of bibliographic references, data, citations, or factual content that is nonexistent or not verifiable – will result in the immediate rejection of the submission, without prejudice to the adoption of additional editorial measures, including the banning of the author(s) from the Journal’s submission process.

Author Guidelines

Periodicity and objectives

The Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (RFDUFPR, UFPR Law School Journal or Journal) is published quarterly and welcomes original articles from both national and international contributors, focusing on legal dogmatics and criticism, as well as human rights. The journal covers all legal fields and aims to deepen Brazilian legal culture by fostering the intersection of law with other areas of knowledge, while maintaining a commitment to building a democratic, just, and inclusive society.

Desk rejection of submissions: criteria adopted by the Journal

With the aim of ensuring scientific quality, editorial rigor, and thematic coherence, the Journal conducts a preliminary technical evaluation of all submissions (desk review), carried out by the editorial team prior to forwarding manuscripts for external peer review.

This initial step seeks to identify manuscripts that, at first glance, do not meet the minimum standards set forth in the Journal’s editorial guidelines. The procedure also aims to value the time and effort of external reviewers, prevent undue expectations from authors, and contribute to the continuous improvement of submitted manuscripts.

Below are situations that may lead to the desk rejection of a manuscript:

1. The submission includes authorship information that does not comply with the Journal’s formal requirements regarding minimum academic qualifications.

2. The manuscript addresses a topic that has already been extensively covered in the scholarly literature, without offering originality, innovation, or a relevant contribution that would justify a new publication on the subject.

3. The manuscript contains frequent spelling, typing, or structural errors that compromise clarity, cohesion, and readability.

4. The manuscript provides a superficial treatment of the research question, lacking appropriate theoretical depth, critical analysis, or consideration of alternative perspectives and counterarguments.

5. The manuscript presents serious internal inconsistencies, such as logical contradictions, repeated arguments, or a mismatch between objectives, development, and conclusions.

6. The manuscript does not comply with the Journal’s editorial norms, particularly regarding formatting, style, citation systems, academic structure, and other author guidelines.

7. The manuscript does not demonstrate a sufficient literature review and lacks engagement with relevant and up-to-date scholarly sources, including well-established works on the topic.

8. The manuscript addresses a topic outside the Journal’s thematic scope or editorial focus, either by lacking connection with the relevant scientific field or by focusing on episodic, overly specific, or context-bound matters without theoretical or methodological relevance for the Journal’s readership.

9. The manuscript includes plagiarized content or passages that closely resemble other texts, without proper citation.

10. The manuscript relies excessively on lengthy direct quotations and shows a low level of original elaboration, failing to demonstrate critical engagement with cited content or to develop the author’s own reasoning based on the literature used.

11. The manuscript employs language that is inappropriate for academic-scientific discourse, whether due to an excessively colloquial tone or repeated use of value judgments or unsubstantiated claims.

Electronic submission

Authors must submit their manuscripts through our electronic submission system, in Microsoft® Word® format only (manuscripts submitted in .pdf format or through email will be rejected).

The following information must be provided at the time of submission for each author (if there is more than one): 

(1) primary institution of affiliation (field: “Affiliation”); 

(2) valid individual personal email address; 

(3) brief biographical summary, including highest academic degree and Lattes CV link (Lattes iD). For foreign authors without a Lattes iD, provide a link to an equivalent academic CV (field: “Bio Statement”); and 

(4) ORCiD iD and complete ORCiD URL.

Submission and verification declaration

The authors assume joint and full responsibility for the content submitted and published, including the concepts and ideas contained therein. Submission of an article implies that the work has not been published, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere (irrespective of the language), and that its publication is approved by all authors. If the manuscript has its origins in a monographic text (for example, thesis or dissertation), that origin must be expressly informed in the submission process. Manuscripts composed of parts copied and pasted from monographic texts are not accepted.

Conflict of interest declaration (competing interest) and use of patient images, data or case details

The Journal requires authors, when applicable, to declare any competing interests in relation to the work described. The corresponding author is responsible for submitting a competing interests statement on behalf of all authors of the paper. If the work involves studies on patients or volunteers, the required ethics committee approval and individual informed consent must be included as part of the paper.

Copyright statement

Authors declare that any work submitted, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere, in English or in any other language, including electronically, unless expressly mentioned that the work was first published at the Journal.

Number of authors, submissions, and minimum academic degree

Each article may have a maximum of three authors, and at least one of them must hold a doctoral degree. Each author may have only one submission in the editorial process at a time, and the journal generally observes a three-issue interval between the publication of two works by the same author. To meet the requirements of exogeneity and affiliation with foreign institutions, as outlined in the Qualis Periódicos reports by Capes, the journal gives priority to articles by authors affiliated with institutions outside Paraná and Brazil, respectively.

Form, size, languages and general guidelines

The Journal accepts third-person written, unpublished articles between 7,000 and 12,000 words in length (roughly 17 to 30 pages in A4 format, 12-point Times New Roman®), including title, abstract (150 to 250 words), keywords (3 to 5), section titles, main text, footnotes, references and any appendixes. Authors are invited to submit articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, French, and German. All articles will be published in their original language and must present (also included in the word limit above) the title, abstract and keywords in their original language. Attention! Submissions made from January 2024 should not contain titles, abstracts, and keywords in English, except for articles written entirely in this language, nor in Portuguese for articles written entirely in any language other than Portuguese. The Journal will provide these elements for effectively published articles. The abstract must be prepared in accordance with ABNT NBR 6028©, containing the objective, method, results, and conclusions of the article. Sections can be primary, secondary and tertiary, and, according to ABNT NBR 6024©, all sections must contain a text related to them (there cannot be two or more section titles in sequence, without a text between them). Tables of contents and epigraphs should not be used; the introduction and reference sections should not be numbered. At the discretion of the editors, shorter or longer articles may be considered, after reasoned deliberation.

Illustrations

Pictures, flowcharts, photographs, graphs, maps, organization charts, frames, tables, etc. are individually limited to 17 centimeters in width by 11 centimeters in height and must have a title and source in accordance with ABNT NBR 14724© and ABNT NBR 10520© standards. Illustrations containing text and/or numbers (for example, graphs, frames and tables) must be fully editable, and images (for example, pictures and photographs) must be in high resolution (minimum of 600 dots per inch). Failure to comply with these guidelines will result in the removal of illustrations and, if they are essential to understanding the text, rejection of the corresponding article.

Citations and references

As for citations, the author-date system should be used (see ABNT NBR 10520© for texts in Brazilian Portuguese; please note that this standard was updated in July 2023). As for references, for articles in Brazilian Portuguese do use the ABNT NBR 6023© norm, and for articles originally in English or any other language but Brazilian Portuguese the Chicago Manual of Style© can be used, optionally to the ABNT NBR 6023©. For explanatory notes, please use only footnotes, rather than endnotes. Overlong notes should be avoided: five lines of 10-point Times New Roman®is the maximum length for notes. The editorial staff reserves the right to excise material from overlong notes. Only works effectively cited in the paper should appear in the references.

Self-citations

The Journal accepts a maximum of three self-citations (considering the total number of authors), which must indeed be fundamental to the objectives, methodology and results of the article.

Anonymous review

The Journal uses double-blind peer review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. So, the author’s name, affiliation, biographical information, e-mail, and acknowledgments should be added only to the metadata section, through the electronic submission system. Before you submit, please review the Microsoft® Word® document for hidden data or personal information that might be stored in the document itself or in the document properties. Use the tool Document Inspector to find and remove hidden data and personal information in Microsoft® Word® documents.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in the Journal agree to the following terms:
– Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal the right of first publication, with the work licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence, allowing the work to be shared as long as proper credit is given to the authors and the initial publication in the Journal is acknowledged;
– Reusers must provide appropriate credit, include a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the reuser or their use;
– Reusers may not apply additional restrictions, legal terms, or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits;
– Reusers must attribute credit to the creator and allow others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, exclusively for noncommercial purposes and under the same terms, in compliance with Brazilian Law No. 9,610 of February 19, 1998, and other applicable regulations.

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