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Submission Guidelines

General Information

The BRICS Law Journal is published four times a year. All submissions undergo peer-review and editorial quality control. The review and editorial process takes approximately two to three months. Please note that an expedited process is not available.

The BRICS Law Journal is an open-access journal with no publication fees for authors.

Submission Policy

Articles must be the result of original research and must not have been published elsewhere. Authors are required to inform the Editorial Board about non-exclusive manuscripts if the manuscripts have been published or are expected to be submitted elsewhere.

The BRICS Law Journal welcomes works authored by scholars, but also accepts serious works authored by PhD students and practicing lawyers. The Journal accepts articles written by undergraduate students only in exceptional cases.

Works with international co-authorship are most welcome, however please note that the Journal recommends that such articles should be written by no more than two authors from the same country or institutional affiliation.

Submission Requirements

Language

The BRICS Law Journal only accepts manuscripts written in English. The Journal does not make translations or provide language services of any kind, nor does the Journal accept translations of works originally written in languages other than English. Before submitting a manuscript, authors whose native language is not English may want to obtain relevant editing assistance (grammar, usage, and spelling) from a professional language editing service.

Please note that the Journal strongly encourages the use of gender-neutral language.

Length, Format, Headings, Lists and Quotations, Footnotes and References

Articles should not be fewer than 7,000 words and should not exceed 10,000 words (including footnotes). The BRICS Law Journal will accept articles exceeding 10,000 words only in exceptional cases. Book reviews and manuscripts of an informational nature may be about 5,000 words in length.

When writing your manuscript, please refer to the BRICS Law Journal Authors’ Guidelines (please see the hyperlink below) for the specific requirements on these and other matters of style.

BRICS Law Journal Authors’ Guidelines

BRICS Law Journal Style Template

Submission Process

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the website www.bricslawjournal.org or sent to Chief Editor Elena Gladun by e-mail at bricslaw@gmail.com.

Please do not send a hard copy of your manuscript.

Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if they comply with the BRICS Law Journal Authors’ Guidelines. Once a manuscript is accepted, the author will be asked to revise it, if necessary, in line with the requirements described above.

Proofs

Manuscripts undergo certain editorial modifications. When the proofs are ready, they will be sent (in PDF format) to the authors via e-mail for checking. Authors are asked to check the proofs carefully. To facilitate timely and efficient publication, authors are asked to check the proofs and return them within five working days. Corrections should be returned with annotated PDF via e-mail. Authors should refrain from making extensive changes to the proofs.

FAQ

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.

1. The manuscript has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. The manuscript has been prepared in Microsoft Word format.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL.

4. Hyperlinks, macros, automatic numbering, and automatic bullets are not present in the manuscript.

5. Footnotes are continuously numbered by way of Word’s Footnote and Endnote feature; footnotes are not separated by a full blank line; footnotes appear at the bottom of each page of the manuscript – they are not grouped all together at the end of the manuscript.

6. Quotations and extracts have been checked for accuracy, and citations comply with the style requirements of the BRICS Law Journal Authors’ Guidelines.

7. The text of the manuscript follows the stylistic and references requirements of the BRICS Law Journal Authors’ Guidelines.

8. The names, positions and institutional affiliations of authors have been removed from the title page and other pages of the manuscript to ensure anonymity during the peer-review process.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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