Author Guidelines

I. PEER-REVIEW PROCESS (DOUBLE-BLIND). SUBMISSIONS EVALUATION

All works submitted to DALPS (Derecho Animal-Animal Legal and Policy Studies) will be evaluated by peers using the double-blind method. This system of arbitration relies on a team of external evaluators. The identity of both the author and reviewer will keep hidden.

The revision aims to ensure the quality of the edited works and, occasionally, offer advice for improvement. The revision process consists of using the double-blind method of analysis to assess the validity of ideas, the originality, the clarity of reasoning, the effects and the scientific impact of the works.

In the first phase, the Editorial Team will carry out a general revision of the quality and thematic suitability of the piece, with the ability to directly reject it without prior external evaluation if it is of a low standard or does not contribute sufficiently to the themes of the journal.

The articles that get beyond this first examination will be sent to external evaluators - specialists in the subject or line of investigation of the piece. In cases of discrepancy between the distinct evaluations, or where, for any reason, it becomes necessary, the Editorial Team can send the text to a third evaluator.

The reviser submits to the editor the review report he has been sent. The outcome of the revision can include suggestions for improvement - of structure as well as substance – referrals to literature or sources, as well as recommendations on possible advantages to re-examining the piece before publication. In any case, the final decision lies with the Editorial Team, based on the evaluation received.

Depending on the reports of the evaluators, the Editorial Team can make any of the following decisions, of which the author will be informed: i) ready for publication as it is (or with slight modifications); ii) ready for publication following revision; iii) for reassessment (not ready for publication but could become so if rewritten and resubmitted); iv) Not publishable.

Correspondence will not be kept regarding materials submitted but not published.

The journal DALPS does not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their manuscripts.

 

II. SUBMISSIONS TO THE JOURNAL DALPS

1. The original submissions must not be submitted simultaneously to another journal to be published, while the evaluation is in progress by DALPS. Originality is required from authors for all submissions for publication. To facilitate the dissemination of relevant findings and/or for scientific purposes, the Editorial Team may accept the submission of works and/or translations of works previously published.

2. The authors should send an anonymous version of their manuscripts. In this regard, they will suppress names, quotes, references, acknowledgements, file properties, and other elements that may allow to identify them directly or indirectly.

3. Submissions will be accompanied by a cover page, that will be uploaded as a supplementary file, -other than submitted blinded manuscript (see above 2.)- containing the following information:

  1. 3.1. Title, in Spanish and English.
  2. 3.2. Name of author(s). The addition of authors after the initial submission will not be possible.
  3. 3.3. Institutional affiliation: university or centre, department or unit, place of work (office, organisation, etc.), city and country
  4. 3.4. Email address. All correspondence will be through this address. For works with multiple authors, the person that will communicate with the Review is to be specified.
  5. 3.5. Short biographical note in Spanish and English (maximum 100 characters) specifying the highest qualification achieved (and from which University), current position held and main areas of interest. DALPS will be able to publish this biographical note in addition to the article itself.
  6. 3.6. ORCID Identification: the authors should register at http://orcid.org/ to receive an identification number.
  7. 3.7. Abstract, in Spanish and English, with a maximum length of 1000 characters.
  8. 3.8. Keywords: specify 5-6 keywords or short phrases that illustrate the contents of the piece.

4. The journal regularly publishes works in Spanish and in English, but also accepts works in the primary scientific languages (French, German, Italian and Portuguese), as long as they include a summary of the contents of the original work in English. The summary, in these cases, will not replace the abstract in Spanish and English, in order to facilitate the dissemination of the piece.

5. Submissions will be accompanied by a table of contents (main entries). The authors will avoid including automatic contents and hypertexts in the main body of the manuscript, in footnotes, final bibliography, index of sources and annexes.

6. Times New Roman font, size 12

7. Line spacing: 1

8. Justification: the text must be justified to both right and left margins

9. Titles: the title of the publication is required in capitals and lower case, according to the spelling rules (Spanish /English), size 18; the subheadings and sections, size 14. Bold font will be used for the subheadings and sections; Arabic numerals will be used in the text.

10. Notes: Times New Roman font, size 10, line spacing 1, always in the form of footnotes, not endnotes. The text must be justified to both right and left margins.

11. Italics: to be used always for Latin words or expressions or written in a different language from the main body of the manuscript.

12. Quotes: it is possible to quote fragments from other authors; short fragments will be included within quotation marks in the body of the text.

  1. 12.1. Literal reproductions of legal or literary texts (articles of codes, laws, paragraphs, extracts of sentences etc.) are always put in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks and indented to the left. All quotes must be double spaced.

13. The authors of lengthier works (theses, degree, Master Projects) that have achieved an excellent grade and have not already published them, neither in repositories- can submit them to be published in the “Documents” section. They will be subject to editorial revision (peer review), as with any other submission.

14. Length requirements for “Articles”: between 10000 and 15000 words. The “Documents”: between 15000 and 30000 words. The “Contributions”: between 8000 and 10000 words. The “Legislative news” and “Case notes”: between 8000 and 14000 words. The “Book Reviews”, "In Memoriam" and "Various": a maximum of 4000 words.

15. It is acceptable for authors to include images, tables, or graphics for publication with the text. Images, tables, or graphics must be within the text, placed within context. The images must not feature ridicule toward animals or threaten their dignity in any way. Images, tables, or graphics attached to the publications, must be used with authorisation. They must include a brief description of the contents and the origin, if necessary.

16. The journal DALPS recommends inclusive language for any submission.

 

III. COMMUNICATION WITH THE JOURNAL

Manuscripts are to be submitted in Microsoft Word format, through the journal website (submissions). Other methods of submission will not be accepted, and no communication will take place regarding submissions through other means or in an incorrect format. Prior to making any submissions, authors must register on the journal website, so that correspondence can be made with the Editorial Team.

 

IV. CITATION STYLE

1. The journal DALPS recommends the quotation format set out below. The DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be included at the end of the citation (DOI: xxx).

Monographs:

SURNAME, FIRST NAME INITIALS point. Title (Place and date of edition) page number.

Example:

HARRISON, R. Animal Machines: The New Factory Farming Industry (London 1964) 10

DONALDSON, S., KYMLICKA, W. Zoopolis. A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford 2011) 25

Sections of monographs:

SURNAME, FIRST NAME INITIALS point. Title, Source (Place and date of edition) page number.

Example:

GIMÉNEZ-CANDELA, T. Estatuto jurídico de los animales: aspectos comparados, in BALTASAR, B. (Ed.). El Derecho de los animales (Madrid 2015) 150

Journal Articles:

SURNAME, FIRST NAME INITIALS point. Title, Name of the Review, volume (year) page number.

Example:

FAVRE, D. Living Property: A New Status for Animals within the Legal System, in Marquette Law Review 93 (2010) 1024-1025

PETERS, A., Liberté, Egalité, Animalité: Human-Animal Comparisons in Law, in Transnational Environmental Law 5/1 (2016) 25-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204710251500031X

Articles from Electronic Publications:

Example:

MANTECA, X., MAINAU, E., TEMPLE, D. ¿Qué es el bienestar animal? in: https://www.fawec.org/es/fichas-tecnicas/23-bienestar-general/21-que-es-el-bienestar-animal

MONTER, R. La responsabilidad civil del veterinario (2/12/2018), in: https://www.abogacia.es/2016/12/02/la-responsabilidad-civil-del-veterinario/

2. Bibliography: located always at the end of the article and ordered alphabetically. The only works quoted in the text should be included.

3. Source index: when necessary, due to the length of the work, always located at the end. Sources index: is an organised summary which is visually clear and concise, of the source cited in the work. It is always put at the end.

  1. 3.1. TThe sources index is divided as follows:
    3.1.1. Legal sources
     3.1.2. Other sources
  2. 3.2. The Legal sources section is divided as follows:
    3.2.1. Legislations (codes, laws, ordinances, directives, etc)
     3.2.2. Precedents (sentences from courts)
     In the legislations section, the sources should be ordered chronologically. If necessary, they may be ordered as follows: state, autonomous, local.
    With regards to international legislations, they should be ordered according to the type of sources used in the work, on: an international level, EU, by countries; in alphabetical order of the country name.
     For the precedents, the order should always be chronological, indicating precisely the issuing body of the sentence. If international precedents are included, the appropriate subdivision should be used to make it easier for the reader to locate the source.
  3. 3.3 The Other sources section should include: literary texts, documentaries, epistolaries, memorials, appeals, etc. in alphabetical order.
  4. 3.4 If the work is of a historical nature, the sources index should be chronological. The main divisions, apart from the ones already mentioned (legal sources/other sources), may include other divisions of sources that, due to their relevant in the development of the work, are worth being mentioned in a single section (epigraphs, archaeologicals, manuscripts etc.).

 

V. COPYRIGHTS AND OPEN ACCESS

The authors of submitted texts agree to assign their reproduction rights to the Journal. Therefore, the Journal will have exclusive rights to authorize the reproduction, public display and / or distribution of the work. The authors authorize the Journal to make their articles available to the public and to share their contents in scientific databases in which the Journal is indexed, in order to foster a greater citation and impact of them.

The contents of the online version of DALPS (Derecho Animal-Animal Legal and Policy Studies) journal are distributed under a use and distribution licence «Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)». More information about this licence can be found here. This statement must be included in every required situation, allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. 

DALPS strongly supports and fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access. Contents publish have no embargo period, they are full available to everyone by no requiring registration, and only are charged when requiring a printed version.

It is not allowed to deposit in any repository any other version than the one pusblished by the publishing house.