Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submissions

IDP only publishes original work. Papers may be submitted on any of the subjects covered by the journal. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process involving two experts in the relevant fields proposed by the journal’s editorial board. IDP has a network of reviewers for this purpose.

All works must include the following:

• - Title

• - Abstract (150-200 words)

• - Keywords (4 to 6)

• - Body of the article, structured in sections and sub-sections 

• - Bibliography

• - Limit of each work is 6,000 words, including all sections (footnotes, references, etc.).

• - Manuscripts must be submitted in a editable electronic file format (.doc, .rtf, .odt).

   

In separate files:

• - Any graphics and images:they should be numbered and have a caption that clearly identifies the contents and where they have to be inserted.

• - Details of the author (name and surname, professional affiliation, professional postal address, email). Institutional and professional affiliations must be indicated in accordance with the recommendations given in the document Propuesta de manual de ayuda a los investigadores españoles para la normalización del nombre de autores e instituciones en las publicaciones científicas (Proposed guidelines for Spanish researchers for the standardization of authors’ and institutions’ names in scientific publications) published by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).

• - Brief CV (100-150 words)

 

Languages

The main languages of this journal are Catalan and Spanish. Authors can send originals in these two languages.

At the discretion of the Editorial Board, other languages of publication will be accepted.

All articles published in IDP go through a process of style and format correction and linguistic revision of Catalan, Spanish or English as appropriate. At the discretion of the Editorial Board, some articles are translated into Catalan, Spanish or English. Besides, IDP systematically publishes the title, abstract and keywords of all articles and all Academic activities in Catalan, Spanish and English.

We recommend the use of an equal and non-sexist language in the article. For more information you can consult this guide: https://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/servei-linguistic/convencions/tractament-generes/index.html

If the sex or gender of the people to whom the study applies is relevant, you should give details of this in the title of the article, the abstract and the design of the research. Please, provide data disaggregated by sex or gender, when appropriate.

Manuscript submission

Formal aspects

• - Paragraphs
  Text must be structured in paragraphs (without initial indentation), justified (aligned to the right and left) and with a spacing of 1.5 lines. Only when citations take up more than five lines should they be in an separate indented paragraph with single spacing to distinguish them from the rest of the text. In both cases, a one-line blank space must always be used to separate paragraphs.

• - Font
  You should use 11-point Arial for the general text (text body) and 9 point for the rest of the text (ie, references, footnotes and captions to illustrations). In the case of especially long citations in separate paragraphs, we recommend using a 10-point font size.

 

Divisions and enumerations

The recommended format for internal text divisions, in accordance with the ISO 2145/1972 and UNE 1-002-74 standards, is as follows.

1. Text divisions

• - Main divisions
  You should use a maximum of three levels for the main divisions and subdivisions of the text (chapters, sections and sub-sections), numbered and followed by a point, with points between numbers to indicate hierarchy.
  1. Chapter title (12-point bold)
  1.1. Section title (11-point bold)
  1.1.1. Sub-section title (11 point roman)

  Enumeration must always start with the number 1; the number 0 cannot be used for the sections' introduction, preface, and prologue or similar. Instead, they should be indicated with the same type and size of font as chapter titles, but without numbering. Conclusions, appendices, bibliographical references and other final text divisions should also be indicated in the same way.
      Introduction
      1. Chapter 1
      X. Chapter X
      Conclusions
      Appendices
      Bibliographical references

• - Further divisions
  You may use only one further subdivision identified with letters, followed by a closing parenthesis, for section that contain paragraphs and which can be considered as the smallest subdivision of the text. Only the title should be written in italics (neither the letter nor the parenthesis). Use an 11-point font.
      a) Further subdivision 1
      x) Further subdivision x

 

2. Enumerations

For enumerations or lists that do not contain paragraphs you may not use numbers or letters in order to avoid confusion with previous divisions. You should indent these sections and replace any numbers or letters with graphic symbols such as hyphens, points or asterisks.

 

Bibliographical references

Bibliographic references have to be presented in line with the ISO (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ORGANIZATION) 690-2, as shown in the following examples:

 

1. For books or monographs

SURNAME(S), Initial(s). (year). Title. Edition. Place: Publisher. Length and material details. (Collection; vol.).

Example:
FERAL-SCHUHL, C. (2000). Cyber Droit. Le droit à l'épreuve de l'internet. 2nd ed. Paris: Dunot. 324 pp.

 

2. For parts of a book, contributions in miscellanea, compilations:

SURNAME(S), Initial(s). (year). Title of the part of the book. In: Bibliographic data on the complete work, location of the part of the book.

• - If the author or editor of the books is also the author of the part of the book cited:
  Example:
  STADLER, T. (2002). Sperrungsanordnung gegenüber Access- Providern. In: Haftung für Informationen im Internet. Berlin: Eeich Schmidt Verlag GmbH, pp. 119-133.

• - If the author or editor of the book is not the author of the part of the book cited:
  Example:
  LACOURSIÈRE, M. (2002). Les modalités de paiement. In: GAUTRAIS, V. (ed.). Droit du commerce électronique. Montreal: Les Éditions Thémis, pp. 57-86.

 

3. For periodical publications:

Title: subtitle. Vol. Iss. Year. Place of publication: Publisher. Frequency.

Example:

Justicia: Revista de Derecho Procesal (2000). No. 1. Barcelona: J.M. Bosch. Quarterly.

 

4. For articles from periodical publications:

SURNAME/S, Initial/s. Title of the article. Title of the journal or manual [kind of publication], month and year, Vol., issue number [cited day Month Year], page start-page end. <DOI>

Examples:
NAVA GONZÁLEZ, Wendolyne; ORTEGA ESTRADA, Gabriela. Critical analysis of the European Online Dispute Resolution Platform. IDP. Revista de Internet, Derecho y Política [on line], september 2019, no. 29. <http://doi.org/10.7238/idp.v0i29.3158>

STONE, Nan. The Globalization of Europe. Harvard Business Review [online]. May-June 1989 [cited 3 September 1990]. Available from BRS Information Technologies, McLean (Va.).

 

5. For legal texts:
Standardised title [formed by: number of law, decree, etc.; day and month; official title of law]. Title of publication (full date of publication), page start-page end.

Example:
Ley orgánica 10/1995, de 23 de noviembre, del Código penal. Boletín Oficial del Estado (November 24, 1995), pp. 33987-34058.

 

6. For electronic documents:

SURNAME(S), Initial(s). (year). Title. Journal [content type + media type]. [Accessed: dd/mm/ yy].

Example:
PRATS CATALÀ, J. (2002). Institucions i desenvolupament a l'Amèrica Llatina. Un rol per a l'ètica? [online article]. UOC. [Accessed: June 7, 2002].

 

Footnotes

Superscript footnote numbers (numbers appearing in the main text body that refer to the notes) must be situated immediately following the concept or the last word of the phrase referring to the note. If this word is followed by a punctuation mark, the superscript footnote number must be situated immediately following the punctuation mark.

 

Illustrations

Illustrations must be centred following the paragraph to which they refer, with a one-line blank space as separation from previous and subsequent paragraphs. They must follow a numbering format starting with the number 1 in each chapter, following the chapter number and a point, and each type of illustration should have its own number, with the following format:

[Type of illustration] [chapter no.].[illustration no. in chapter]

For example, Figure 2.2 corresponds to the second figure of chapter 2; Table 3.1, to the first table of chapter 3, and Chart 3.1, to the first chart of the same chapter 3.

 

1. Figures

Illustrations that contain graphs must have the enumeration and explanatory text centred at the foot of the graph with the following format:

Fig. 1.1. Brief explanation (10-point italics; with a full stop at end if the sentence has a verb.)

 

2. Charts

Illustrations that contain tables, columns or charts with text must have the enumeration and explanatory text centred as a title of the chart or table with the following format:

Chart 1.1. Text (10-point italics; with a full stop at end if the sentence has a verb.)

TABLE 1.1. [10-POINT SMALL CAPS] (Text in 10 point; with full stop at the end if the sentence has a verb.)

 

3. Source

In all cases, the source of the information for the illustrations should be shown centred underneath (immediately under the enumeration of the illustrations) with the following format:

Source: Name of source, year, if necessary (8-point font)

The name of the source should be replaced by the text "Source: Author(s)" if the illustration was created by the author of the article.