Information for Authors
SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions submitted can be scientific articles and final reports of theoretical or field research work, related to the scientific, academic, and professional field of Law and related disciplines.
It is not necessary to be a professor or graduate of the Universidad de San Martín de Porres to submit contributions. A bachelor's degree or licentiate in Law, Philosophy, Ethics, or Social Sciences is sufficient.
Contributions can include original articles; review articles; opinion articles; case analysis articles; historical articles in Law and other scientific areas of the journal; and profiles of jurists or social scientists.
GENERAL RULES
Contributions must be original and unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals.
To be publishable, the works must adhere to the format and content standards of the American Psychological Association (APA), in its latest edition.
Contributions must be written in Spanish, in Times New Roman font, 12-point size, single-spaced, with 25 mm margins.
The journal prioritizes the publication of articles according to the topics of interest.
ARTICLE SUBMISSION
Proposed contributions for publication should be submitted through the Open Journal System (OJS), logging in and/or registering from the main menu (https://portalrevistas.aulavirtualusmp.pe/index.php/VJ/login). Once registered, you will receive an email confirming the registration and access details to the system, where you can follow the process of your contribution.
Alternatively, you can send your article with an electronic letter addressed to the President of the Editorial Board of the journal to the email address of the Instituto de Investigación Jurídica: investiga_derecho@usmp.pe, mentioning the title and author(s) of the work and the required documentation.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION
The author must attach the following documents to their contribution:
- Letter addressed to the President of the Editorial Board of Vox Juris, requesting the evaluation of their contribution.
- Sworn Declaration and authorization to publish, duly signed, recognizing that the submitted contribution is their intellectual property and has not been published or submitted for evaluation in another journal.
- Institutional affiliation.
- Authorship contributions.
- Source of funding.
- Conflict of interest statement.
- Contact information.
ARTICLE STRUCTURE
Length: Minimum 12 pages. Each page should have a minimum of 28 lines of text.
Typography: Times New Roman, 12 points.
The first page should include the title of the work in Spanish and its translation into English; full name of the author(s), institutional affiliation, ORCID number, email address, and country; summary and abstract not exceeding 250 words (should reflect the study's objective, method, and main results or conclusions); keywords, with a minimum of three and a maximum of six, alphabetically ordered and translated into English; and the summary.
Original article: Contains an unpublished research, as the final product of a field scientific investigation, that shows and discusses the results.
Review article: Synthesizes, analyzes, and updates a topic. It is an original, unpublished, and theoretical research.
Opinion article: Exposes and argues about the thoughts of an academic or social scientist on a topic. Its length should not exceed six pages.
Historical article: Narrates and exposes significant events in the scientific areas of the journal.
Profile: Biographical article of a jurist or social scientist, national or foreign, whose scientific or professional work has had a particular influence on the respective Law or social science, in its teaching and research.
FIGURE AND TABLE CONSIDERATIONS
Figures are drawings, maps, photographs, diagrams, statistical graphs, schematics, or any illustration that is not a table.
Tables contain the necessary information, in content and title, to be interpreted without referring to the text. They only have horizontal lines to separate the header from the body of the table. They should not include vertical lines.
Articles containing figures and tables should include a summary of these following the main summary.
TEXT CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
Text citations and bibliographical references adhere to the APA citation style in its latest edition.
CO-AUTHORSHIP
According to COPE standards and considering that an article is the result of a prior research or academic work, there are two dimensions to consider in the contributions to an article: Research: In this dimension, contributions can be made (1) in the research design; or (2) in the acquisition; or (3) in the analysis and interpretation of data.
The article itself: In this other dimension, contributions can be made (4) in drafting the article; or (5) in the critical review of it in intellectually significant aspects.
In both dimensions, substantial or critical contributions are necessary. Therefore, an observation, comment, or mere exchange of opinions, for example, does not qualify as a substantial contribution. Moreover, it is not enough to contribute to one of the two dimensions, even if it has been done substantially. There must be a contribution to both: research and article.
In summary, to be part of the authorship of an article, it is necessary to:
Have made significant contributions in at least one of the sections numbered 1 to 3; have contributed to at least one of the sections numbered 4 to 5; and have approved the final version of the article.
If someone has met one or two of the conditions, but not all three, then we can: a) mention that person in the acknowledgments; or b) cite some of their publications whenever directly related to the article and we have used ideas from it; but we cannot add them as co-author.
FINAL PROCESS
Contributions approved for publication will go through the final editing process. The proofs will be presented to the authors for respective control. The changes that can be made will only be in style correction, English correction, but not content. The proofs must be returned within a maximum of seven days by the authors; otherwise, the final version will be accepted.
CHECKLIST FOR PREPARATION OF SUBMISSIONS
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check their submission meets all the elements shown below. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.
- The submission has not been previously published nor submitted for consideration by any other journal
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
- Whenever possible, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places within the text, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements.
- Your manuscript will be subjected to Turnitin plagiarism software; the sources cited in your text should not exceed 10% similarity.
AUTHOR FEES
The journal does not charge any fees for the publication of contributions submitted by authors, nor fees for the receipt of articles.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSES
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right to be the first publication of the work. The journal is licensed under Creative Commons CCBY-NC-ND, which allows others to share the work with acknowledgment of the initial authorship in this journal. Authors may establish separate additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work published in Vox Juris, with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
