Submissions

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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  • The contribution is original and unpublished and is not under evaluation for publication by any other magazine. In such cases where it is under evaluation elsewhere, this must be notated under "Comments to the editor".
  • The submission file is formatted for Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF (provided they do not exceed 2MB).
  • All of the websites (URLs) included in the text (Ex.: http://www.ibict.br) are active and when clicking on them you will be linked to them online.
  • The text is in accordance with the norms and guidelines which are outlined in the announcement such as spacing, font, and other requirements.

  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements which are described in the Author Guidelines section which can be found in the About the Magazine section.

  • The identification of the author was removed from this summary using the properties option in Word. This guarantees the confidentiality criteria of the magazine if subjected to peer review (eg articles). This confidentiality is in accordance with the instructions on Ensuring Double-Blind Peer Reviews.
  • The author is aware that the data and information provided at registration is their responsibility
  • The author is aware that the articles sent, in the event of approval, may be published in the next issues of RDFD
  • The author should remove of information related to identity in the text of the article and in their CV (resumé) and indication on the Lattes Platform., including the e-mail. This information should appear in their registration.
  • Insert title in Portuguese and English by filling in the metadata field, as well as abstract and keywords in Portuguese and English. The articles must follow the instructions ABNT 6023.
  • The abstract should be in accordance with standard NBR 6028:2003 and should contain a summary presentation of the relevant points of the article as well as provide sufficient information to enable the reader to decide on the viability of the text. The structure of the abstract should contain the following tiems: a) objective, b) method, c) results, d) research findings. The abstract must not be more than 250 words.

  • Registry of title, summary of key words in Portuguese and English.

    Please observe that the inclusion of data in English should go shortly after the data in Portuguese in the same metadata field.
  • To observe the Editorial recommendation, in the sense of before submitting the article for evaluation, to check in detail the Editorial policy of the journal, as well as the published articles, referring to the subject of the article and, as far as possible, to use RDFD articles in the manuscript to be subject.
  • Fill in all metadata fields, such as: curriculum link lattes, degree, home institution, institutional affiliation and other items.
  • Fill in the required field of ORCID registration at the 'view profile', in 'public', by association of your account to RDFD. The ORCID system does not acept the indicativo of another url. The autentication may be realise at the propor link.
    When indicating and registering the co-author, authorization by e-mail must be requested when selecting the proper field.
  • The simultaneous submission, by author or co-author, of two or more articles is prohibited. All articles posted after the one that is in the editorial process will be rejected without merit analysis. An article that has not yet been rejected or that has been approved, but has not yet been published, is considered to be in the editorial process.

Author Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

The Journal of Fundamental Rights & Democracy – RDFD is an online, open-access journal, with articles published under the Creative Commons BY, NC, SA license. It is indexed in national and international databases and accepts articles, under a continuous-flow system, from authors holding a doctoral degree, as well as from doctoral degree holders co-authoring with doctoral or master's candidates.

With a biannual periodicity, the RDFD aims to foster academic debate on the theme of Fundamental Rights and Democracy. In pursuit of this objective, the RDFD publishes articles addressing matters related to: (i) civil, social, economic, political, and cultural fundamental rights; (ii) fundamental guarantees; (iii) human dignity; (iv) constitutional, supranational, and international jurisdictions; (v) legal hermeneutics; (vi) the political, administrative, and judicial organization of the State; (vii) forms of substantive and procedural cooperation between the State and local, regional, supranational, and international organizations; (viii) new forms of legal-normative self-regulation; (ix) themes of pluralism, diversity, and identities; (x) transitional justice; (xi) debates on the challenges of democracy concerning the relationships between democracy and popular sovereignty, democracy and populism, democracy and authoritarianism, democracy and colonialism, democracy and new technologies, democracy and nationalism, democracy and globalization, democracy and electoral systems, democracy and freedom, democracy and equality, democracy and affirmative action, democracy and liberalism, democracy and republicanism, democracy and Marxian thought, democracy and conservative thought, democracy, State and development, democracy and social movements, democracy and inclusion, democracy and trust, and democracy and social reality.

Articles are submitted exclusively in electronic form, in the designated field on the RDFD website.

The content of signed articles is the sole responsibility of their authors.

Submitted articles must meet the criteria of being unpublished, original, and significant, and are subject to the double-blind review procedure. Articles are accepted in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, or French.

Authors are required to submit original articles. One of the requirements for submission is that the article contain no plagiarism of other previously published studies. In cases of self-plagiarism or improper copying of other authors' text, the RDFD Editors reserve the right to reject or even to retract an already published article. The RDFD uses Copy Spyder software for potential plagiarism detection.

Authors must not submit articles that have already been sent for review to another journal.

The same research may not be the subject of multiple or redundant publication in various journals without the Editors' consent.

The RDFD does not accept preprints.

The indication of authorship of the article must accurately reflect the contribution made to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study conducted.

Submitting an article to the RDFD presupposes a dialogue that the author also engages in with previously published texts on the same subject in the RDFD. Accordingly, when choosing the RDFD as the publication vehicle for their work, authors must verify whether the topic of their article has already been addressed in other issues of the RDFD. If so, the author must cite the corresponding articles, either to corroborate or to counter the position being advanced.

Articles must be written in technical language, with a minimum length of 10 pages and a maximum of 30 pages.

Book Reviews may not exceed 5 pages.

Articles will be examined by two Reviewers, who will take the following criteria into account:

a) scientific relevance; b) originality of the work within Brazilian and international doctrine; c) theoretical and practical grounding; d) emphasis on the work's critical character and its correlation with the Master's Program's area of concentration; e) technical-scientific accuracy of the content presented.

Each text will receive a review containing one of the following recommendations:

a) recommend for publication; b) recommend for publication, provided the revisions indicated by the Reviewer are made; c) deny publication.

CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION

Authors must verify that their submission complies with the items listed below. Submissions that fail to observe them will be summarily rejected.

The author declares that the article has not been published, bound, or submitted, in whole or in part, to another publication (print or electronic) of a scientific or non-scientific nature. Likewise, it does not constitute an abridged version of an undergraduate or graduate monograph, a final course paper, a master's dissertation, a doctoral thesis, or similar work. The author warrants that the work is original and contains no form of plagiarism, and expressly assumes responsibility for the use of third-party texts and images where such use requires authorization.

Simultaneous submission, by an author or co-author, of two or more articles is prohibited. Any article submitted subsequent to one already in the editorial pipeline will be rejected without merit review. An article is considered to be in the editorial pipeline if it has not yet been rejected, or has been approved but not yet published.

Articles written by three authors will only be accepted if two of them hold a doctoral degree. Articles written by four or more authors are not accepted.

Files must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format and must not exceed 2MB.

All internet page addresses (URLs) included in the text (e.g., http://www.ibict.br) are active and clickable.

The text complies with the standards and guidelines of the mandatory template, including spacing, font, and other requirements.

The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors and in the mandatory template, in the About the Journal section.

Any and all form of author identification has been removed from the article, including the "Properties" field in Word.

The author acknowledges that the data and information provided in the registration are their own responsibility.

The author acknowledges that, if approved, the submitted article will be published according to criteria of institutional diversity (exogeneity) and order of submission.

When completing the metadata field, enter the article title in Portuguese and English, as well as the abstract and keywords in Portuguese and English. The English-language data must be entered immediately after the Portuguese-language data, within the same metadata field. With regard to bibliographic references, authors must follow ABNT standard 6023.

The abstract must comply with ABNT standard 6028, highlighting the article's objective, method, results, and conclusions, and must consist of a sequence of concise, affirmative sentences rather than a list of topics. The abstract must not exceed 250 words.

All metadata fields must be completed, including the Lattes curriculum link, academic title, home institution, institutional affiliation, and other items.

The mandatory ORCID registration field (https://orcid.org/) has been completed.

Below are (i) the article submission template; (ii) the statement of originality template.

ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS MUST FOLLOW THE TEMPLATE AVAILABLE BELOW:

ARTICLE SUBMISSION TEMPLATE

 

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY TEMPLATE FOR SUBMISSION BY EMAIL AFTER ARTICLE APPROVAL

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY TEMPLATE

 

STATISTICS ON EVALUATION AND PUBLICATION TIMEFRAMES

Based on data from the past two years, we report an average period of 300 days for the final editorial decision and a further 300 days for publication.

Please note that, while publication generally follows the chronological order of approval, it is also guided by the technical criteria required by CAPES.

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Copyright Notice

Copyrights for any articles published in the journal are given to the author and RDFD with first publication rights granted to the Journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use, with proper attribution, for educational and other non-commercial purposes in accordance with the creative commons.

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