Submissions

Author Guidelines

We would like to inform you that the suitability and veracity of the content submitted by the writers are their sole responsibilities. Each author must therefore ensure that their conduct is unblemished and free from plagiarism, fraud, and any other possible ethical violations.

As part of the submission process, authors are obliged to check that the submission complies with all the items listed below. Submissions that do not comply will be returned to the authors.

1. The original and unpublished contribution is not being evaluated for publication by another journal. By submitting their article, the proposers undertake not to submit the same work concurrently to other scientific dissemination vehicles while the article is being evaluated and until it is published by the Revista Opinião Jurídica, safeguarding the originality of the work until it is published.

2. If the article is rejected, the authors are of course free to republish it in other media of their.

3. The publication deadlines for approved articles will be practiced as quickly as possible, after completion of the national and foreign language, ABNT, layout, and layout review procedures, in the continuous flow processing system (ahead of print), observing the journal's need to comply with Capes.

4. Authors duly approved undertake not to withdraw their articles before publication, provided that this interval does not exceed a maximum of six (6).

5. Any situation to the contrary must be notified and submitted to the team via the portal under "Comments to the editor".

6. Authors who violate the above duties are subject to sanctions, depending on the seriousness of the violation, such as warnings, being barred from processing and publishing articles by Revista Opinião Jurídica, as authors or co-authors, for a period of up to 4 (four) years, or even retractions, by the retraction policy (see conditions for submission).

The team must notify applicants, authors, and co-authors, if any, of the above sanctions as soon as it becomes aware of the violation. In the event of being barred from processing and publishing articles, the period of up to 4 (four) years will be counted from the date of the respective notification.

7. The submission file must be in .doc, .txt or .rtf.

8. In the case of submission to a section with peer review (e.g. articles), the specific instructions available in the editorial policies must be.

9. No submission, processing, or publication fees will be charged. However, approved authors may be asked to contract directly (and at their own expense) any proofreading services in Portuguese and/or translation from foreign languages, whenever the editorial team deems it necessary to guarantee the quality of the publications. Authors will also be responsible for covering the cost of XML markup, which will be paid directly to the outsourced professionals, and the editorial team will not receive any money in

10. All the authors of the article have been informed of the editorial policies, have read the manuscript being submitted, and agree with.

Publication standards:

1. Lines of Research

 The topics can be approached in a variety of ways, both dogmatically and theoretically. Historical, political, legal, methodological, and interdisciplinary readings are permissible. Authors may only address specific aspects within the larger context of their chosen line of research. They are:

• Constitution, State, and Society
• Law, Access to Justice and Dispute Resolution
• Law, State, and Access to Development
• Legal Epistemology, Legal Methodology, and Legal Publishing
• Political and legal theory

2.       General structure of the article (15 to 30 pages)

 Pre-textual elements:

Title and subtitle (if any), separated by a colon (Portuguese); Title, and subtitle (if any) in English;

Title, and subtitle (if any) in Spanish;

Structured abstract in the language of the text: a sequence of concise and objective sentences, 150 to 250 words long, single line spacing. This is followed by keywords, representative of the content of the work, separated by a period and ending with a period (3 to 5 words).

Follow the instructions in the article below for the structured abstract in the three languages:

http://www.spell.org.br/documentos/ver/61136/como-elaborar-um-resumo-estruturado-como- instrumento-na-disseminacao-cientifica--um-breve-roteiro/i/pt-br

Structured summary in English; Keywords in English; Structured summary in Spanish; Keywords in Spanish.

Textual elements:

Model A:

• Introduction
• Development
• Conclusion Model B:
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• Research methodology
• Analysis of the results (should contain the analysis of the data obtained)
• Conclusion

Post-textual elements:

References

Articles resulting from funded research

 Articles resulting from funded research projects must indicate in a footnote, located at the end of the title of the article in the language of the text, the information regarding the funding of the research.

Article formatting

Texts should be typed or typeset in black; other colors may only be used for illustrations.

All text should be typed in Times New Roman, size 12, using 1.5 line spacing, except quotations of more than three lines, footnotes, references, captions for illustrations and tables, which should be typed or single-spaced. The spacing of the first line of paragraphs is 1.25 cm or 1 TAB.

The paper format to be used, both in the electronic and printed versions, must be A4 (210 mm x 297 mm), with the following margins: top and left - 3.0 cm; bottom and right - 2.0 cm. The work must be scanned into WORD.

Quotes

Citations must be indicated in the text using the author-date system (NBR 10520).

In this system, the source is indicated: by the surname of each author or the name of each responsible organization up to the first punctuation mark, followed by the date of publication of the document and the page(s) of the quotation, in the case of direct quotation, separated by a comma and enclosed in brackets.

Quotations of up to three lines should be enclosed in double quotation marks; quotations of more than three lines should be highlighted with a 4cm indentation from the left margin, in Times New Roman 10, without quotation marks.

If you want to emphasize parts of the quotation, you should highlight them with the expression "emphasis added" in brackets after the quotation or "author's emphasis" if the highlight is already part of the work consulted.

References

References should consist of all the works cited in the article and should be listed by the ABNT-NBR-6023/2018 standard, according to the examples below:

Books

 ALVES, Roque de Brito. Criminal Science. Rio de Janeiro: Forense, 1995. BANDEIRA, Manuel (org). Gonçalves Dias: poetry. 11. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Agir, 1983. Articles in journals

MONTEIRO, Agostinho dos Reis. The bread of the right to education. Educação & Sociedade, Campinas, SP, v. 24, n. 84, p. 763-789, sep. 2003.

The best of both worlds. After, São Paulo, year 1, p. 24-25, Feb. 2003.

Articles in magazines, newspapers, etc.

 MONTEIRO NETO, Armando. Payroll exemption. Estado de Minas, Belo Horizonte, n. 22.368, p. 9, 26 Mar. 2003.

Sites

 CONY, Carlos Heitor. The fragile wood. Folha online, São Paulo, January 19, 2004. Available at: www.folha.uol.com.br/folha/pensata/ult505u135.shtml. Accessed on: January 19, 2004.

FREIRE, José Bessa. Indigenous cultural heritage. In: WELFORT, Francisco; SOUZA, Márcio (org.). Um olhar sobre a cultura brasileira. Brasília: Ministry of Culture, 1998. Available at: http: // www.minc.gov.br/tex-tos/olhar/patrimonioindigena. Accessed on: January 20, 2004.

Publication languages

Revista Opinião Jurídica accepts articles written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and English. Articles in German will only be accepted from previously invited authors. All articles, regardless of the language in which they are written, must include a title, abstract, and keywords in English - in compliance with the requirements of the Capes Qualis Program.

Authors' qualifications

At least one of the article's authors must have the title of Doctor (Dr.), Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D), Doctor juris (Dr. iur. or Dr. jur.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Legum Doctor (LL.D.). The requirement may be relaxed, never exceeding 30% per issue, in exceptional cases of (i) articles by authors affiliated with foreign institutions; (ii) articles written in English; approved by blind peer review by at least three evaluators.

Authors' responsibility

Authors must comply with the obligations set out in the ethical guidelines and editorial policy. Authors are responsible for the content they publish, thus committing themselves to the conduct, results, and validity of all scientific research. Authors are also solely responsible for the opinions expressed in the articles. The authors certify that all the statements contained in the manuscript are true or based on reasonably accurate research. Authors also undertake to notify the journal of any conflict of interest.

Conflict of interest

To guarantee the reliability and credibility of published articles, any conflicts of interest must be managed transparently in the writing, evaluation, and decision-making process:

• the authors of the manuscript to inform of the existence of any conflict or, even if they believe there is no conflict, to expressly declare its absence;
• the authors of the manuscript to report any financial or other conflicts that may have influenced their work;
• The referee must inform the reviewers of any conflicts of interest that may influence their assessment, declaring that they are not suitable for the review so that the manuscript can be forwarded to another reviewer. In the event of silence, it is understood that there are no conflicts;
• referees should consult the Editorial Team in case of doubt as to whether or not there is a conflict of interest;

Finally, all manuscripts submitted will follow the double-blind peer review procedure, with no special or differential treatment for editors or any other member.

Copyright Statement

COPYRIGHT TRANSFER

 The submission of an article for consideration by the Editorial Team of the Revista Opinião Jurídica implies, by this very act, the assignment, by the author(s), to the Centro Universitário Christus - UNICHRISTUS, of said WORK for reproduction, dissemination, distribution, printing, publication and availability, Publication Standards 414 R. Opin. Jur., Fortaleza, ano 12, n. 16, p.1-414, jan./dez. 2014 at the expense of UNICHRISTUS, in any form or medium that exists or will exist, under the terms of art. 49 and the following of Law 9.610/98.

Paragraph One. The assignment, which is the object of this Agreement, is made on a non-exclusive and gratuitous basis, covering the entirety of the WORK.

Paragraph Two. UNICHRISTUS may make the WORK available, for educational purposes, in whole or in part, with no changes to its textual content, except for any corrections and formatting that           may      be        necessary. Paragraph Three. The assignment is valid in any country, in Portuguese or translation, at the discretion of UNICHRISTUS.

RESPONSIBILITIES

By submitting an article of their own, the author (and co-authors, if any) hereby assume sole responsibility for the entire content of their work. As such, any judicial or extrajudicial measures concerning its content will be their sole responsibility.

Sole paragraph. In the event of multiple authors, liability shall be deemed to be joint and several, subject to evidence to the contrary.

Privacy Policy

 The names and addresses provided in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

Retraction Policy

Articles will be retracted:

• for which there is clear evidence of unreliable results, whether as a result of error, fabrication or falsification;
• contains plagiarism;
• whose findings or results were previously published without proper attribution to the previous sources or editorial authorization for republication;
• contains data or material without authorization for use;
• that violates copyright or other legal provisions, such as cases of defamation and violation of privacy;
• that result from unethical research;
• that has been published exclusively based on a committed peer review process;
• who has had a conflict of interest capable of affecting the evaluation

Fees

There are no submission, processing, or publication fees.

However, to professionalize the publication process, approved authors must be prepared to deliver a final version of their articles that meets the requirements for excellence, as described above.