SUBMISSION/PUBLICATION RULES

De Jure publishes articles (academics and essays by invited international jurists) on Law and related sciences, main focus on the study of themes in the areas of activity of the Public Prosecution Service: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Civil Law, Civil Procedural Law, Collective Law, Collective Procedural Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law.

The articles go through a preliminary verification made by the editor, in which the purely formal aspects are verified: compatibility of content with the editorial line of the journal, absense of authorship (articles cannot contain any information that allows the identification of their authorship) textual format and methodological elements.

Once the preliminary requirements are fulfilled, the article is submitted to a qualitative evaluation by the Editorial Board and/or by ad hoc reviewers. The evaluation process, adopted since 2007, operates through blind peer evaluation, whereby the articles are analyzed by at least two evaluators who are unaware of the authorship of the work. In case of divergent opinions, the article is submitted to the analysis of a third evaluator. Care is taken to ensure that the articles sent to evaluators are in line with their area of expertise as much as possible.

The evaluators will conclude by approval for publication (approved) or need for reformulation (approved with reservations) or rejection (inappropriate). If alterations are suggested, the author is informed to make them (if he wishes), or to justify their unnecessary need. The position of the author will be forwarded to Center for Functional Studies and Improvement, for further verification by the editor.

The authors are informed about the opinions, guaranteeing the secrecy and anonymity of the referees.

The results of the article verification and evaluation processes are unappealable in all cases.

The journal reserves the right not to publish the article if the author disagrees with the qualitative assessment and the editor decides to maintain the opinion of the evaluators.

Essays by invited international jurists may be written in Portuguese, English, Spanish or Italian.

  1. Articles must be sent to www.mpmg.mp.br/dejure.
  2. Articles must be unpublished: they cannot have been published in any other vehicle.
  3. The articles cannot contain any information that allows the identification of their authorship.
  4. The articles will be submitted to the analysis of at least two referees, guaranteeing the anonymity of these and of the author(s). In case of divergent opinions, the article will be submitted to the analysis of a third evaluator.
  5. Articles will be evaluated for: scientific merit; adequacy to the requirements of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards – ABNT; adequacy to other rules of De Jure and to the formatting of the articles adopted by it. Such adjustments are the responsibility of the authors of the articles.
  6. The Public Prosecution Service is not responsible for the ideas expressed in any articles submitted to De Jure, whether published or not. Such ideas are the sole responsibility of the authors of the articles.
  7. The articles must adopt the rules of the New Orthographic Agreement of the Portuguese Language.
  8. Since De Jure has gone electronic, there is no limitation on the number of pages.

Formatting of articles adopted by De Jure

I – Required: Garamond font, size 10.5; justified paragraphs with simple spacing; upper and lower margins 2 cm; right margin 1.75 cm and left margin 2.25 cm; 15 cm x 21 cm paper size.
Forbidden: displacements with ruler; <TAB> tab to determine paragraphs (<ENTER> itself already determines them automatically).

II – The article must contain title, abstract and keywords, all in Portuguese and English. It should also contain a summary, introduction, conclusion or final considerations and bibliographical references.

III – The abstract must have between 100 and 150 words and present the general idea, objectives, research methods, results and conclusions.

III – The keywords represent the content and must be a maximum of five.

IV – The summary must present the items with up to three digits, as in the example:
SUMMARY: 1. Introduction. 2. Environmental Responsibility. 2.1. Legislation. 2.2. Standardization.

V – Highlights, foreign words, neologisms and unusual meanings must be presented in italics. Bold should never be used.

VI – Units of measurement must follow the standards of the International System of Units (SI), prepared by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) [www.bipm.org]. In exceptional cases, the adopted unit must be followed by parentheses containing the unit expressed in SI.

VII – Articles containing graphs, charts, tables or any type of illustration must present descriptive that quote the complete source and their position in the text. Graphs, charts, tables or any type of illustration must be sent one by one, in files separated from each other, and separated from the text file, and, whenever possible, in the original format of the elaboration program (examples: CAD, CDR , EPS, JPG, TIF, XLS). Articles that contain images must present them in high definition (minimum of 150 dots per inch [DPIs]). Articles containing maps and micrographs must be accompanied by their scale marks.

VIII – Quotations with up to three lines can be made in two ways:

Jakobs and McArthur (1943, p. 146) argue that “[...] due to eradication of infected cattle and pasteurization of milk M. bovis (a zoonotic cause of tuberculosis) is rarely seen in the United States.”

Nevertheless, there has been criticism on that issue:

“[...] The BCG vaccine (Bacillus de Calmette et Guerin, an attenuated strain of M. bovis) has not been effective. In the US, where the incidence of tuberculosis is low, widespread vaccination is not practiced.” (McGregor; Fox; Jansen, 1999, p. 45).

Citations of texts with more than three lines must be made with a left indentation of 4 cm and font size 8, without quotation marks.

IX – Footnotes must be in Times New Roman font, size 8, and contain only notes concerning the text, but that do not fit into its logical development.

X – Bibliographical references list the works mentioned in the text and must be made in accordance with NBR 6023/2018 (Brazilian Standard of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards– ABNT) and be arranged in alphabetical order, in the following forms (with elements separated by commas and in the sequential order they should be):

  1. a) Book references: author(s), title (main title in italics), edition, place, publisher and date of publication.

O’LEARY, W. M. (org.). Practical Handbook of Microbiology. 2nd ed. New York: CRC Press, 1989.

  1. b) References to parts of the book (section, chapter etc.): author(s) of the part, title of the part, author(s) of the book, title of the book (main title in italics), edition of the book, place of edition of the book, publisher, date of publication of the book and page range of the part.

SMILBERT, R. M. The Spirochaetales. In: O’LEARY, W. M. (org.). Practical Handbook of Microbiology. 2nd ed. New York: CRC Press, 1989. p. 130-145.

  1. c) Electronic book references: the same as the book and part of the book, but with the addition of the supporting medium. If the mean of access is online, also add the electronic address and the date of access.

ASSIS, M. de. Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas. 1. ed. São Paulo: Virtual Books, 2000. E-book. Retrieved from: http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/port/download/Memorias_Postumas_de_Bras_Cubas.pdf. Acessed on: 31 Dec. 2004.

  1. d) Journal article references: author(s) of the article, title of the article, title of the journal (main title in italics), place of publication of the journal, issue of the journal (number, tome, volume etc.), page range of the article, publication date of the journal.

BIARNÈS, J. The meaning of education in the societies from the XXI Century (the example of the French School). Canadian Journal of Education, Ottawa, v. 6, n. 2, p. 107-128, Jul./Dec. 2004.

  1. e) Electronic journal references: the same as for a journal article, but with the addition of the electronic journal address and date of access to the electronic journal (if the means of accessing it is online).

BIARNÈS, J. The meaning of education in the societies from the XXI Century (the example of the French School). Canadian Journal of Education, Ottawa, v. 6, n. 2, p. 107-128, Jul./Dec. 2004. Retrieved from: http://www.cssa.ca/marketing/cope/pdfs_journals/cje_v6n2/eccosv6n2_jeanbianes_traddesire.pdf. Acessed on: 31 Dec. 2004.

  1. f) References of academic work: author(s), title (main title in italics), date of presentation, type of work (dissertation, monograph, thesis etc.), intended title, institution academic (including the word school or the word college or the word foundation or related word), place and date of publication.

HARIMA, H. A. The influence of glucan in the evolution of murine lupus. 1990. Thesis (Doctorate) – São Paulo Medical College, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1990.

  1. g) References of work presented at an event: author(s) of the work, title of the work, In:, name of the event, number of the event (if any), year of the event , place where the event was held, type of document in italics (annals, minutes etc.), location of the work, publisher of the work, date of publication of the work, range of pages of the referenced part separated by a hyphen.

DE NIL, L. F.; BOSSHARDT, H-G. Studying stuttering from a neurological and cognitive information processing perspective. In: WORLD CONGRESS ON FLUENCY DISORDERS, 3., 2001, Nyborg. Annals [...]. Nyborg: IFA, 2001. p. 53-58.