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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 submission has not been previously published nor has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal.
  • The submission file is in compatible Microsoft Word format.
  • Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text has 1.5 spacing; 12 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and biliographic requirements outlined in the Author guidelines/a, that appear in About the magazine.

Author Guidelines

Manuscript application

The works submitted for publication for the Jurídica journal should not be previously published, nor submitted for consideration by any other journal. It is original and unpublished. It is written in Spanish without spelling or grammar mistakes, respects the presentation format.

Manuscript Submission Format

  1. The text must have an interlinear space of 1.5, upper margins 3 cm, lower 2 cm, left 3 cm and right 2 cm, A4 size sheet, in compatible Microsoft Word format.
  2. The font size will be 12 points in Times New Roman format.
  3. All illustrations, graphics, figures and tables will be within the text on the corresponding site, they must be duly cited and with the corresponding captions.
  4. Citations and bibliographic references will be presented following the standards of the American Psychological Association (APA), Seventh Edition .
  5. The manuscript must be accompanied by a letter from the authors.

Structure of the manuscripts:

Title: clear and concise, no more than 12 words. Only the initial capital letter will be written, it must be in bold, and without using a final period. It should not contain footer calls or asterisks. It must accompany the English translation.

Author or authors: present the full name and surname of each of the authors, include email and the ORCID ID of each of them.

Institutional affiliation: full name of the institution to which the authors belong, the city and the country.

Corresponding author: define the corresponding author and his email.

Funding Source: In the case of a research report with funding, the data of the research project to which the article belongs must be mentioned: project number, year and source of funding.

Conflicts of interest: Indicate whether or not the authors have potential conflicts of interest to declare.

Date of submission: include the date of submission of the manuscript.

Abstract: include an informative and balanced synopsis of what has been done and what has been found with a length of 150 to 200 words, in Spanish and English.

Keywords: include 3 to 5 keywords in Spanish and English.

Article development: for original articles, research results, the structure Introduction, Methodology, Results and Conclusion should be used with a maximum length of 20 pages, diagrams, graphics or photographs (11.5 cm wide as minimum and a resolution of 300 dpi) in a widely available graphic format (jpg, tif, gif, ...).

All citations in the text must include their full references at the end of the text. The bibliographic references must be written, following the norm of the American Psychological Association (APA), Seventh Edition. Only those cited in the text should appear in the list of references.

For the other contributions (analysis articles, scientific notes and review articles), the structure of the body of the manuscript will be defined by the author, however, they must maintain the presentation of the preliminary pages such as title, authors, abstract, keywords, introduction and bibliographic references.

Manuscript evaluation:

All manuscripts received in the journal will receive a first review by the Editorial Committee to verify the thematic relevance for the journal and compliance with the publication standards. If the manuscript qualifies positively, the Editorial Committee will proceed to screen the manuscripts by the software to detect plagiarism.

Software to detect

The journal uses the Turnitin software to detect plagiarism. If the article passes this control system, the Editorial Committee will submit to the editorial process, assigning peer reviewers. Otherwise, the article will be rejected before being assigned to a reviewer.

External evaluators

The manuscript that enters the editorial process will be submitted to the evaluation of two external reviewers, specialists in the area. The review will be carried out anonymously, both for the reviewers and for the authors. Reviewers will have the option to rate the manuscript with the following classification:

1) publish

2) Publish when the author makes the adjustments made in the recommendations indicated by the evaluators,

3) Evaluate, rewrite content and submit to a next call for new evaluation,

4) Don't post.

In case of discrepancy between reviewers, the manuscript will be submitted to a third reviewer. All communications regarding the manuscript will be sent to the corresponding author.

 

The time from submission to publication of the article is approximately 25 weeks. This includes the entire editorial process (receipt, verification, peer review, up to acceptance or rejection), from manuscript submission through the OJS system to completion.

The evaluation guide used by external reviewers can be downloaded here: Evaluation guide for original articles and Guide for evaluation of review or analysis articles.

Manuscript submission:

All publication applications must be made via the system: https://www.uamericana.edu.py/revistacientifica/index.php/revistajuridicaua/about/submissions

Direction:

Centro de Investigación, Universidad Americana. Asunción, Paraguay.
Avda. Brasilia N° 1100. Asunción-Paraguay
Tel: +595 (021) 28 88 376
Correo electrónico: investigacion@ua.edu.py
www.americana.edu.py

 

 

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The authors retain their copyright and assign the right of publication to the journal. The post-print version (editorial version) can be published by the authors in institutional, thematic repositories or personal web pages.

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