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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Scope and policy

  • lus et Praxis Magazine is a publication of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Universidad de Talca.

  • The opinion stated by the authors in their articles does not necessarily reflect the view of the institution which edits this review.

  • The publication is financed by the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Universidad de Talca.

Form and preparation of manuscripts

Exigencies to the presentation of draft copies

General Rules

  • Draft copies can be submitted in any time of the year.
  • All contributions must be written in Spanish, in letter size papers, simple spaced and Times New Roman 12 letter.
  • All contributions could be submitted in one of the two following ways: in one hard copy addressed to Revista Ius et Praxis, Universidad de Talca, 2 Norte 685, Talca, with an electronic copy on a Compact disc (Word); or attaching the draft copy to the electronic mail of Ius et Praxis: revista-praxis@utalca.cl
  • All contributions will be first revised on the fulfillment of the Editorial rules set by the Journal Direction. No objections existing on this regard, these will proceed to be submitted to the revision process.
  • After revising the received works and the author has corrected the objections made in the revision process, it will proceed to its publication in the shortest possible term, deciding the Journal Direction the definitive contents of the respective volumes. Originals received will not be returned.
  • Authors will have the right to a number of Journal issues and separate copies of their articles determined by the Editorial Committee.

Rules about Doctrine Articles

  • Articles must be original copies, referred to a study or research of interest to the legal world, which is already finished or whose advance allows the communication of its results. Although Ius et Praxis considers articles of different length, concise works are preferred.
  • To facilitate the process of anonymous revision by academic pairs, we request to submit a first page detachable from the original text with the name of the author, academic degree, P.O. box, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, bibliographic information, gratitude and all other information that may reveal the author’s identity.
  • Each article presented to Ius et Praxis, will have to be headed by an abstract of no more than 300 words in Spanish and English. Also the title of the article must be written in both languages.
  • Each article must also contained, in both English and Spanish, three key words or general descriptors of the subject, in order to facilitate its search and recovery on electronic bibliographic basis.
  • The notes and bibliographical quotes will have to be located at the foot of each page, using Times New Roman 10 letter. The notes and quotes will be constructed in the following way: surnames in lowercase letters, except for the first letters of the names and surnames or the initial letters, publication year, title of the book in italics letters, printing place (in Spanish), publishing house, and number of page(s), quoted in the same order. When referring to a periodical publication or the part of a book, the name of the article or part of the book must be between quotation marks, and the name of the periodical publication or the book in italics letters. The quotation of a book will be completed according to what appointed above and the one of a journal with the indication of the volume, issue number and page (s) number when it corresponds. When referring to an electronic publication, at the end of the quote will be added In: Internet location (visited dd/mm/yy).


    Examples:

• To quote a book:
• Llanos Mansilla, Hugo, Teoría y práctica del Derecho Internacional Público. Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Santiago, 1977, p. 134.

Next Quote:

Llanos, Teoría, cit. Nota n. 1, p. 134.

• To quote the chapter of a book:
Cançado Trindade, Antonio, “La interacción entre el derecho internacional y el derecho interno en la protección de los derechos humanos”, in El juez y la defensa de la democracia. Un enfoque a partir de los derechos humanos, Ed. IIDH, San José, Costa Rica, 1993, p. 240.

Next quote:
Cançado, “La interacción”, cit. Nota n. 2, p. 240.

• To quote an article of a periodical publication:
Bidart Campos, Germán. 1999. “El valor de las recomendaciones de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos”, Jurisprudencia Argentina 6148, p. 20.
Next Quote:
Bidart, “El valor”, cit. Nota n.3, p. 20.

To quote an article of an electronic publication:

Carnevali, Raúl. 2006. “Criterios para la punición de la tentativa en el delito de hurto a establecimientos de autoservicio. Consideraciones político criminales relativas a la pequeña delincuencia patrimonial”, Política Criminal N° 1, Año 2. pp. 1-17, p. 12. In: http:/www.politicacriminal.cl/n_01/pdf_01/a_2pdf(visited 28.02.2008).

Next quote:

Carnevali, “Criterios”, cit. nota n. 3, p. 1.

Sending of manuscripts

  • Director de la Revista
    Sr. Diego Palomo Vélez
    Profesor Derecho Procesal
    Facultad de Cs. Jurídicas y Sociales
    Universidad de Talca
    Av. Lircay s/n, Casilla 747
    Talca - Chile
    dpalomo@utalca.cl
    revista-praxis@utalca.cl
    Fono: (56-71) 201544
    Fax: (56-71) 200410

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