Information For Authors

Publication rules for authors

It should be noted that the Journal of Environmental Law does not charge for the processing, editing and delivery of articles.

1. Formal aspects of the presentations
   The texts must be sent in compliance with the following requirements: font Times New Roman, size 12, single line spacing, leaving a space between paragraphs and titles, in Spanish or English. The page should be letter size (21.59 cm by 27.94 cm), in justified alignment, respecting an upper, lower, right and left margin of 2 centimeters, having an extension between 6,000 and 15,000 words, including bibliography and footnotes.

The texts must be presented in format: .doc, .docx, .pdf, or another common compatibility.
In a separate file, drafted under the same characteristics already described, the following data should be mentioned:

1. Title of the article.
2. Complete name of the author.
3. Most recent academic degree, mentioning the university in which it was obtained. If it doesn´t have an academic degree, it should be indicate the career that is taking, and the name of the educational institution in which is doing it.
4. Institutional affiliation
5. Contact information: telephone, email and address
6. Acknowledgments, in case the author wishes to make them.

 These information should be sent in a different file to the article proposal in order to protect the anonymity in the review by peer reviewers. It is recommended to review the edition of the section 'properties' of the document, in order not to include any traces of its authorship. The use of quotation marks is intended for literal quotes or colloquial expressions, for its part, italics sources are reserved for words in a foreign language. Titles and subtitles should be made only in Indo-Arabic numerals, suggesting not to exceed the two levels (1.1, 2.1, 2.1). From this numbering, the Introduction and the Conclusions will be excluded. 

The text of each article must feature at the end, under the rubric "bibliography", an alphabetical list of books, monographs, articles, edited collections of sources, etc. used in its composition, totally coincident with the elements mentioned in the notes at the bottom of the page. Each record will be prepared according to the same criteria as the citations in the notes, without indicating, of course, the cited pages.

2. Bibliographic References

 Bibliographic references will be presented in Chicago-Deusto style.  The Editorial Team reserves the right to return the text to the author for corrections.

The citations and references to other texts shall be made using the author-date system, i.e., they shall be included immediately after the citated material in the body of the article.  Citations and references will be complemented at the end of the article, with bibliographical entries that will be organized in alphabetical order.

In the cases in which the author-date system is additionally complemented with footnotes or notes at the end of each chapter, the mention of the source in such notes shall be made in the same way as when done in the body of the text.

Examples

Legal norms

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Style recommendations for publications: https://goo.gl/k015RR

3. Types of works that can be published

The Journal of Environmental Law publishes the following types of works: Articles, Documents, Case Comments and Rescenations.

With regard to Articles dealing with scientific research in progress or completed, original and relative to matters of Environmental Law, the author will title his work in the shortest possible way, in spanish and english. A brief summary or abstract of no more than 200 words and 4 keywords or descriptors, both in English and Spanish, should be included at the beginning of the text. By articles "product of some research" are understood those who develop the arguments of the author more or less complete, with an intelligible wording and using current and relevant literature. When the articles are the result of Research Projects funded by public or private funds, or correspond totally or partially to a Master's or Doctorate's work, it is recommended to make the respective indication in the first footnote.

 Will also undergo to publication those original works consisting of general exhibitions or conferences, speeches or reports of authorities, comments on jurisprudence of Supreme Courts, documents regarding draft legislation that have ended with the second constitutional process, documents debating on texts already published, and, in general, original texts that are considered of relevance or importance for the study of Environmental Law or judicial practice, but which can not properly be considered as "original articles resulting from an investigation".

The reviews submitted to the Director must be original and can only refer to texts whose publication date does not exceed five years of that of their sending.

The Editor responsible shall ensure that the texts published in the Journal of Environmental Law conform to these norms and will make in them the necessary formal alterations, for which it is expressly authorized by the authors, by the single fact of sending their texts to the Journal.

4. Review process by evaluators

The text evaluation process is administered and supervised by the Director of the Journal of Environmental Law and assisted by the Editorial Committee. The evaluation of each article will be done by two Peer Evaluators, these are experts outside the publishing entity, in an anonymous process, the evaluator can not know the identity of the person who has written the text. Each Evaluation Partner shall express an opinion on the revised articles, indicating their acceptance to be published, their acceptance conditioned to the adequacy of certain aspects; or rejection.

The arbitration guideline will consider the following aspects:

• Originality of the paper
• Relevance and topicality of the subject in Envirolmental Law
• Qualiti in the use of legal languege, as well as the presentation of ideas and the construction of arguments
• Orderly and coherent approach to a legal problem
• Development of the legal arguments
• Relevant conclusions
• Relevant bibliography

In the case that the two opinions are equal, the editor will ratify the decision of the Peer Reviewers. In case of differences, the Director of the Journal will have to decide, in the sense of one of the opinions of the peer evaluators, justifying its decision properly. To ensure the impartiality of the Review, the Director of the Journal will not be aware of the authorship of the article or document, until the publication of the text is approved.

 In the case of acceptance of the article with conditions, the author may adapt it according to the opinion and observations of the Peer Reviewers.

Once the text has been published, will be duly recorded, the date of receipt and the date on which it was accepted for publication.

Regarding the evaluation of the Documents, Case Comments and Rescenations, these will be evaluated by a reviewer and their acceptance or rejection will be communicated via e-mail to the interested party by the Editor.

 All the works submitted to the editorial cycle's Journal of Environmental Law, will put into a detection system of plagiarism.

5. Commitment of the Author

Originality requirement: The article must not have been previously published or be currently submitted to another arbitration process in another Magazine, otherwise the article will be rejected

The author agrees to allow this Magazine to publish its selected work under the terms of the Creative Commons license: attribution - share equal international 4.0.

6. Corrections and withdrawals

Authors may make retractions and corrections of articles when necessary. The foregoing will be done by sending an email to revistada@derecho.uchile.cl. Modifications or additions that vary substantially the content of the article or make a new review of peer evaluators will not be accepted. In the same way the editors will be able to make corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.