Author Guidelines
- GENERAL INFORMATION
The Anuario de Derechos Humanos ("Yearbook of Human Rights"), from now on referred to as Yearbook, consists of seven sections: Doctrine, Debate, the International Section, the National Section, Emerging Issues, Recensions, and Interview. It receives articles for four sections: Doctrine, the International Section, the National Section, and Emerging Issues.
The Doctrine section will include strictly doctrinal works that make scientific contributions to a specific area or theme of human rights, defined for each call. This section contains two articles dedicated to the background analysis of a particular problem considered of special relevance.
The International and National sections aim to provide scientific information and analysis of the most relevant legal, doctrinal and jurisprudential developments in the field of human rights that have occurred in the world and Chile during the year preceding the publication of the Yearbook. Preference will be given to articles dealing with the topics suggested in the annual call, without prejudice to the possibility that the Yearbook may publish articles on other topics and referring to developments in another time frame.
In turn, the Emerging Issues section is a space for the analysis of emerging issues or new legal perspectives in the field of human rights.
2. MANUSCRIPT SELECTION AND APPROVAL
The Yearbook team will decide on publishing the works after receiving an external report from peer reviewers.
The publication of any work may be rejected without cause. Publication may also be conditioned to the realization of specific changes of substance or form. The authors will have a deadline set by the editor to make the changes, after which, if there is no response from the author, it will be understood that the author has accepted the suggested changes to his/her work, notwithstanding which the Yearbook may decide not to publish the article in its current state.
Authors are notified of all decisions by e-mail, and communication between the editor and the authors will preferably be made by the same means.
3. ORIGINALITY
The Yearbook only accepts original and unpublished works. For this purpose, articles are considered original when (i) they have not been published previously; (ii) they have not been sent simultaneously for evaluation to another publication; (iii) have been presented in some academic event (seminar, congress, symposium, among others) and have not been published; (iv) they are part of larger works (monographs or collective works) and, even, (v) they are the first translations into Spanish of articles published in another language.
By accepting the publication of his/her work in the Anuario de Derechos Humanos ("Yearbook of Human Rights"), the author releases the editorial team from all responsibility for any legal, regulatory or contractual infraction that he/she may commit or has committed in relation to the submitted publication, and it undertakes to repair any damage caused to the editors by such infraction.
4. COPYRIGHT
The Yearbook is distributed free of charge, its issues are available in their entirety on the Internet, and it is published with some rights reserved.
By accepting the publication of an article in the Yearbook, the author authorizes the reproduction of the contents of the publication, provided that (i) the original author and publication are acknowledged and cited, (ii) no modifications are made to the article, and (iii) it is not used for commercial purposes.
5. ARTICLE SUBMISSION
The articles in the Doctrine section will have a minimum length of 7,000 words and a maximum length of 10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. For articles in the International and National sections, the minimum length is 3,500 words, and the maximum length is 5,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. The maximum length for articles in the Emerging Issues section is 15,000 words.
- Submission of the articles
Articles must be sent via the Yearbook webpage (http://www.anuariocdh.uchile.cl), the authors must create an account with a username and password.
Any consultations can be sent to: anuario-cdh@derecho.uchile.cl
Articles should be presented either in .doc, .docx., and on letter-size paper. The font should be Times New Roman font, size 12, with single line spacing, justified to the left and right, with margins of 2.5 centimeters up and down, and 3 centimeters on both sides.
On the first page, separated from the body of the article, the author should submit a brief bibliographic reference (maximum 150 words) containing: (i) the author's full name; (ii) academic degrees, indicating the institution that granted them; (iii) main professional, academic or other positions that he/she performs and the institution to which he/she belongs (university, NGO, state power, et cetera), city and country; (iv) e-mail and postal addresses and (v) if applicable, mention of the source (s) of funding or sponsorship for the completion of the article.
Articles should contain a brief abstract of between 150 and 200 words, considering that it will often be the only thing that other researchers consult in databases before considering reading the article in its entirety. It is essential that the abstract is written in clear language, that it explains the problem addressed, the research methodology, its results, and principal conclusions.
In addition, 4 to 5 keywords must be included for bibliographic classification purposes; the concepts used in this section should not repeat concepts already in the title. The title, abstract, and keywords should be in Spanish and English.
6. ORTHOTYPOGRAPHIC RECOMMENDATIONS
- We suggest that these are always put after punctuation.
- Ellipses are denoted by three periods in square brackets: […]. It is not correct to use only three periods to mark a fragment deleted from a quotation.
- Use of italics. The use of italics should be limited to foreign language expressions. Exceptionally, italics can be used to emphasize a word or phrase. It is not correct to use italics to mark literal textual quotations.
- Quotations. Short quotations should be included within the text and between «quotation marks,» indicating the source or reference in parentheses. Long quotations of four or more lines must be separated in a different paragraph and not enclosed in quotation marks.
- Quotation marks. As a general rule, Latin quotation marks («…») are preferred over English double quotation marks ("…"). In the case of a phrase in quotation marks within another phrase in quotation marks, English double quotation marks can be used for the inner phrase.
- Latin abbreviatures. As a general rule, Latin abbreviatures should be avoided, both in the body of the article and in the treatment citations and references.
- Authors may use acronyms, but they must be in parentheses and accompanied by the full name, such as Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), the first time they are cited in the text.
- 7. RULES ON BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
The citations and references used by the Yearbook consist of intertext author-year citations, where the surname and date of publication are given in parentheses. Complete bibliographic information is provided in a list of references at the end of the article.
It is recommended that reference lists do not include non-scientific resources, such as press clippings, opinion columns, laws, all types of rules, web pages, et cetera. It is recommended that the reference to such resources is made at the foot of the page.
Footnotes must be written in Times New Roman font, size 10, single-spaced, justified left to right, and not indented. The footnote reference number must be placed after the quoted text. Legal documents and jurisprudence, if they cannot be included in the manuscript's text, may exceptionally be footnoted.
Every sent article must conform to the editorial standards adopted by the Yearbook. Therefore, unsatisfactory compliance by authors constitutes grounds for rejection of publication. We suggest reviewing the standards available at: https://tipografica.cl/manual-de-estilo-tipografica-para-articulos-cientificos/
It is recommended to review any work from the last issue of the Yearbook.
Articles must contain, in the end, a section titled "References," which has to include all works (books, journal articles, chapters of collective works, electronic formats, et cetera) effectively cited, sorted alphabetically by the first last name of the author(s) (in small caps).
It is once again recommended that the References do not include non-scientific resources, such as press clippings, opinion columns, laws, all types of rules, web pages, et cetera. It is recommended that the reference to such resources is made at the foot of the page.
The entries of a reference list must be in alphabetical order. In the case of citing resources of the same author, the order is based on publication date. If the author's name and publication date coincide, the resources should be listed alphabetically, adding a lower-case letter to 2011a, 2011b, 2011c.
If the resource has a version available on the Internet -indistinctly if the researcher has consulted a printed version-, it should include the URL. It is unnecessary to indicate the date of consultation because the resources used are supposed to be current. A resource included by a researcher in his/her article and that is not available online anymore at the time of publication cannot be a reference.
The following are examples of references:
- Book
One author/editor:
The author's name has to be reversed, meaning the last name(s) goes first, followed by the first name, and separated by a comma. The parenthesis encloses the year of the publication. The title has to be in italics. The publication place and editorial have to be separated by a colon.
BROWNLIE, Ian (2003). Principles of Public International Law. New York: Oxford University Press.
(Brownlie, 2003: 23).
Two or three authors/editors:
Only the first name has to be reversed in the reference list, and the last name has to be small; the rest has to be as it appears in the source.
MEDINA, Cecilia y Claudio Nash (2011). Sistema interamericano de derechos humanos: Introducción a sus mecanismos de protección. Santiago de Chile: Centro de Derechos Humanos Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Chile.
(Medina y Nash 2011: 10).
Four or more authors/editors:
All the first and last names of the authors have to be included in the final reference list. In the body of the article, however, the quotation can only mention the last name of the first author, followed by the expression «and others. »
VAN DIJK, Teun, Fried van Hoof, Arejen van Rijin y Leo Zwaak (2006). Theory and Practice of the European Convention on Human Rights. 4th edition. Antwerpen-Oxford: Intersentia.
(Van Dijk and others, 2006: 237-271).
More than one work by the same author and year of publication:
The order is by the date of the publication. If the name of the author and the date of the publication match, the resources have to be in alphabetical order adding a lower-case letter to the year: 2011a, 2011b, 2011c, et cetera.
BAXI, Upendra (1994). Inhuman Wrongs and Human Rights: Unconventional Essays. New Delhi: Har Anand.
BAXI, Upendra (1994a). Mambrino's Helmet? Human Rights for a Changing World. New Delhi: Har Anand.
(Baxi, 1994: 34).
(Baxi, 1994a: 110).
Chapter, article, or part of a book
LAST NAME, followed by the first name of the author. The article's title has to be between «Latin quotation marks» followed by the editor's name, the title of the collective work in cursive, and the rank of pages in which the article appears in the collective work (in parenthesis). Place of publication and editorial separated by a colon.
FRANCESCHET, Susan (2008). «¿Promueven las cuotas de género los intereses de las mujeres? El impacto de las cuotas en la representación sustantiva de las mujeres» En Marcela Ríos Tobar (compiladora), Mujer y política. El impacto de las cuotas de género en América Latina (pp.61-96). Santiago: Catalonia.
(Franceschet, 2008:65).
Other editorial data: where applicable, the volume ("tomo" in Spanish) of the work (it goes after the title, ideally in Arabic numeral and without abbreviations), the number of an edition (after the title or volume), and the translators (after the title or volume) have to be mentioned in the reference list of works consulted.
MONTESQUIEU, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1984). Del espíritu de las leyes. Tomo I. Trad. Desde la edición francesa por Mercedes Blázquez y Pedro de Vega. Barcelona: Ediciones Orbis.
(Montesquieu, 1984:23).
GREEN, Leslie C. (2000). The contemporary law of armed conflict. 2a ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(Green, 2009:54).
- Articles
Article in a printed journal
In the article, place the number of the page consulted. In the reference, enter the page range in which the article appears on the journal.
ZÚÑIGA, Francisco (2001). «Apostillas: Ley y reglamento en la Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional (de la germanización al practicismo)». Ius et Praxis, 7 (2): 209-257.
(Zúñiga, 2001: 213).
Article from an online journal with an URL
Cerda, Alberto (2003). «Intimidad de los trabajadores y tratamiento de datos personales por los empleadores». Revista Chilena de Derecho Informático, 2: 35-59. Disponible en ("Available at") http://bit.ly/2sHqK.
(Cerda, 2003:50).
Article from an online journal with a DOI
It is necessary to link the DOI. To link to a DOI code, prefix the domain doi.org with the HTTPS protocol.
Bello Lagos, Nicolás (2014). «La apropiación de obras en el dominio público a través de su digitalización». Revista Chilena de Derecho y Tecnología, 3 (2): 11-65. DOI: 10.5354/0719-2584.2014.31656.
(Bello, 2014:51)
- Legal documents and jurisprudence
It is recommended that legal documents and jurisprudence are part of the manuscript's text. In the exceptional case that the content needs to be expanded, this can be done in footnotes.
