The Revista Jurídica Digital(The Journal) editorial team is committed to the highest ethical standards, quality editing and authorship practices through adhering to the principles of COPE: the Committee on Publication Ethics, Singapore Statement on Research Integrity and the ELSEVIER: Publishing Ethics Resource Kit, and the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT), which is expressed in the following criteria:

Authors are considered to be those who have made a significant contribution to the research process, writing, presentation and adjustment of the manuscript according to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). Authors are requested to indicate in their submission letter the contribution or role of each author in the manuscript.

Authors are presented in the order previously established by them and should include the following information:

• Pen name (as they sign all their scientific production, vg ORCID name).
• E-mail address.
• Institutional affiliation, include city and country affiliation.
• ORCID code.

It is understood that the author who sends the manuscript or uploads it to the journal platform assumes the role of correspondence author and thus has the responsibility of correspondence throughout the editorial process.

The articles submitted to Revista Jurídica Digital UANDES must be original and unpublished and must not have been submitted or be currently under review for publication in other scientific publications. They must be submitted with the consent of all the authors, and they all must commit to maintaining such conditions until a final decision is made as to whether accept or turn down its publication.

The authors must make a commitment to the journal to provide retractions or corrections of errors at any stage of the process. In the event they are detected, the requests must be made by e-mail to the editor, who shall proceed in accordance with the Publications Ethics policy.

The authors must specify the sources of financing for the research from which the submitted article is derived (research typology), to which end they must specify: the title of the project, the entity or person who financed it, and the project code or identifier (optional).

The received articles will be identified with a code and will be initially reviewed by the journal’s Editor and/or Assistant Editor to verify the relevance of the subject matter, the application of standards and scientific structure before initiating the peer review process (double blind) and its possible publication.

The reviewers’ results will be forwarded to the authors to perform the respective corrections as a condition for accepting the paper through the OJS journal management platform. Because it is a peer-reviewed journal, Revista Jurídica Digital UANDES shall take into consideration the peer reviews for the effects of the publication decision.

Prior to publishing the article, the authors’ property rights must be assigned to the journal Revista Jurídica Digital UANDES, using the form that will be provided by the Publishing Team. This form must be filled out and signed by each one of the authors.

The Editorial and Scientific Committee reserves the right to change the title and the body of the accepted articles, and to make any editing changes it considers appropriate, with the aim of improving the clarity of the article as much as possible. Consequently, authors are advised to carefully draft and spell-check their articles, to use short and homogeneous paragraphs and to make adequate use of punctuation.