Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are required to check the submission's compliance with all items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the rules will be returned to the authors.

General Information

PGE-RJ's Electronic Journal is published four times per year. The journal is exercised by peer-review and editorial quality control. The review process takes approximately 8–16 weeks. Please be informed that expedited review is not available.

Submission Policy

Except in case of publication by invitation, articles submitted for evaluation must be unpublished, both in printed and digital format, as well as in Portuguese or in other languages. They should also not be in any evaluation process for publication in another journal. Failure to comply with these rules prevents the continuity of the editorial process.

PGE-RJ's Electronic Journal publishes only articles by up to 3 (three) authors, always observing the minimum degree of master, and preferably linked to a Postgraduate Program in Law (or similar areas). Master's works will only be published if they reach a level of excellence attested by the Journal's Editorial Board, respecting the other elective criteria. Articles whose authors are undergraduate students will not be accepted.

Submission Requirements

Language

PGE-RJ's Electronic Journal accepts submissions written in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. The Journal does not do translations or provide language services of any kind. Articles written in a foreign language must obey the same formatting rules used for Portuguese-language works. Before submitting a manuscript, authors whose native language is not Portuguese may want to get relevant editing assistance (grammar, spelling, and usage of language) from special language editing companies. 

Length

Doctrine articles should preferably have 6,000 to 9,000 words, while those in the Atualidades section should have 2,000 to 6,000 words. Contributions to the journal must comply with all the formatting rules listed below, otherwise they will not be evaluated for publication. 

Format

Authors should submit their manuscript in a Microsoft Word file (PDF files will not be accepted), considering the following format rules:

• Page: A4 paper; left and top margins: 3,0 cm; right and bottom margins: 2.0 cm;
• Paragraph: 2 cm indentation; justified alignment; 1,5 cm line spacing; 0,0 cm spacing before and after the paragraph;
• Quotation in the body of the text: font: size 10; line spacing: simple, 4 cm to the left;
• Article title: Times New Roman, size 14, bold, centered;
• Body text: Times New Roman, size 12, justified;
• References: Times New Roman, size 12, justified, line spacing: simple;
• Footnotes: Times New Roman, size 10. The highlights should be made in italics only;
• Subtitles: Times New Roman, size 12, bold, aligned to the left; each item must be numbered with Arabic numerals.

Articles must be preceded by a cover page containing:

• The full name; main titles of the author; Higher Education Institution to which the author is linked; unit of the respective institution; department;
• The title of the article in the original language and in English;
• An abstract of at least three and at most eight lines, in the original language of the article and in English;
• 3 (three) to 5 (five) keywords, in the original language of the article and in English;
• A table of contents with all titles of all items in the article, in the original language.

Pages should not be numbered. Papers will not be accepted without the proper indication of title, abstract and keywords in two languages.

References must be made by a footnote, numbered throughout the text. In each one, the following order will be observed: Surname - Comma - Author's first name (s) - Period - Book title in italics, only the first letter in capital letters - Period - City - Colon - Publisher - Comma - Year - Comma - Page - Period.

From the second reference to the same book, should be mentioned only the author's name, period, title reduced in italics, comma, cit., comma, and page can be spelled.

At the end of the article, an alphabetical list of all references cited in the paper must be reproduced, with space for one line between each entry.

For electronic sources, papers must follow the following guidelines:

• In case of an electronic document, indicate the page of the quotation, if there is any;
• You must provide the full URL;
• You must inform the date of access of the material.

Jurisprudential quotations must, at least, contain: the court, the judging body, nature and number of the case, the rapporteur and date of the trial, according to this order.

Article Format Template download.

Submission Process

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the website http://revistaeletronica.pge.rj.gov.br, upon registration in the database of the journal and access through user login and password.

The authorship identification of the work must be removed from the file and from the properties option in Word, thus guaranteeing the journal's confidentiality criterion, if submitted for peer review.

All bibliographic references must comply with the updated standards of ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards).