Author Guidelines

Conditions for Submission

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

• The text follows all the requirements described in Guidelines for Authors, in the "About the Journal" section.
• All authors are aware of the Peer Review Process described in the "About the Magazine" section.
• All authors agree to the Declaration of Copyright and with the Privacy Policy set out in the "About the Magazine" section.
• Articles and/or reviews must be submitted at: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/direitopensa/ (if the author is already registered with the journal, log in and click on "NEW SUBMISSION");

Guidelines for Authors

1. Only unpublished articles will be accepted, which will be submitted to the Peer Review Process described in the “Policies” Section of this platform.

2. The publication of the submitted articles will not imply remuneration for their authors.

3. The publication of articles is not linked to the payment of fees, being free and with open access.

4. The opinions expressed by the author in his/her articles are his/her sole responsibility.

5. Upon submission, authors must send a cover page, in a separate document, with the appropriate qualifications and information: Name, Qualifications, E-mail, Orcid, Linked Institution and Lattes CV Link.

6. Upon submission, the author responsible for the submission must also forward the Declaration of Authorship and Assignment of Copyright duly completed and signed by all authors involved File link.

7. Generative Artificial Intelligence should be used with caution only to improve language and readability. If the authors have used generative Artificial Intelligence or assistive technology to write the submitted work, please include the Declaration of AI Use as a supplementary document File link.

8. If the article requires prior approval by the Ethics Committee, the protocol and acceptance is needed, as a Supplementary Document, at the end of the submission.

9. If there is research funding, authors must indicate it.

10. Articles sent to the Magazine O Direito Pensa of the Department of Private and Procedural Law of the State University of Maringá must comply with the following specifications:

10.1. Prerequisites for submission:

I. The author or one of the co-authors has a minimum degree of Master or PhD;

The submission of articles signed by Masters or Doctors together with Doctoral Students, Masters, Postgraduates or Specialists (Latu Sensu), Graduates or Undergraduates is permitted.

II. The article is signed by a maximum of 03 (three) authors. If this number is exceeded, it is necessary to justify, in the “Author Comments” field, the participation of each author in the text;

III. The person responsible for submitting the article must be duly registered on the Periodicals Portal of the State University of Maringá as the author;

IV. All metadata of the authors are inserted when submitting the article (including full name, contact email, Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID), Institution/Affiliation, country and biography summary);

To insert ORCID into our platform, simply remove the letter “s” from the HTTP protocol in the link (e.g. http://orcid.org/XXXX).

V. All metadata relating to the article are inserted into the submission platform, notably: title, abstract, keywords, contributions and funding agencies (if any) and bibliographic references.

VI. In case of simultaneous submission, in addition to the immediate rejection of the article and communication to the respective journal(s), O Direito Pensa reserves the right not to receive new submissions from all authors involved for a period of 3 (three) years, counting from the date of the knowledge of the fact.

VII. To ensure greater pluralization, articles by authors who have published in the Journal O Direito Pensa in the two previous years will not be published, aiming at the profusion and dissemination of science in an equitable manner.

VIII. It is not permitted for the same author to publish more than one text in the same edition.

11.2. Manuscript formatting requirements:

I. The file must be submitted in the .doc format, from the Office package, without exceeding the maximum size of 5MB;

II. The manuscript must be 15 (fifteen) to 20 (twenty) pages long (including bibliographical references);

III. The author identification of the work must be removed from the file and from the Properties option in Word, thus guaranteeing the journal's confidentiality criteria, according to instructions available in Ensuring Blind Peer Review;

IV. The page must be A4 size, preferably using the Template of the journal available on the site;

V. The left and top margins must be 3 cm (three centimeters) and the right and bottom margins must be 2 cm (two centimeters);

VI. Text alignment must be justified (except for references, which will be aligned to the left margin);

VII. Paragraph indents must be 1.5cm (one and a half) cm;

VIII. Line spacing must be 1.5cm (one and a half) (except for direct quotations, with more than three lines, which must have single line spacing);

IX. The spacing between paragraphs must be 0 (zero) pts.

X. For the text, font Times New Roman font, size 12 (twelve), with spacing between lines of 1.5cm (one and a half) without spacing between paragraphs;

XI. For quotations with more than 3 lines, font Times New Roman, size 10 (ten), with single spacing and 4 cm (four centimeters) indentation from the left margin;

XII. Titles and subtitles must be in capital letters, font Times New Roman, size 14, aligned to the left and in bold. Furthermore, it must contain a maximum of 15 (fifteen) words, including the subtitle (if any) and reflect the content of the research;

XIII. Title and abstract in a foreign language (preferably in English);

XIV. Informative abstract, in the language of the text, containing a minimum of 100 (one hundred) and a maximum of 250 (two hundred and fifty) words, which concisely presents its problem, object of study, objectives, methodology, results and conclusions;

XV. The abstract must be written in font Times New Roman, size 10, in a single paragraph, single spaced and without spaces between paragraphs;

XVI. After the abstract, there must be a list of 3 to 6 keywords (words or expressions that express the central ideas of the text), in Portuguese (in the original language of the work, for texts written in a foreign language) and in English. Furthermore, they must be in alphabetical order, separated by semicolons and ended by a period. Keywords should preferably be distinct from words used in the title, in order to facilitate subsequent research into the work.

XVII. The introduction must present a contextualization of the topic covered, the research problem, objectives and the methodological procedures adopted.

XVIII. The development may have subdivisions, at the discretion of the author(s). Section titles must be presented as follows:

I – Primary section highlighted in bold and in capital letters.

II – Secondary section highlighted in bold and in upper and lower case.

III – Tertiary section not highlighted and in upper and lower case.

XIX.   All sections and subsections of the text must be numbered, except the introduction and final considerations;

XX. If necessary, throughout the text, highlights or italics should be placed in bold. Italics should be reserved for the spelling of foreign words or neologisms. Underlined highlighting should not be used;

XXI. Acronyms must first be presented in full, followed by the acronym itself in parentheses, e.g. “State University of Maringá (UEM)”;

XXII.  The author-date system must be adopted for citations in the text. Citations in the body of the text must be presented in parentheses, using the author's surname in upper and lower case, year of publication and page, e.g. “(Silva, 2024, p. 60)”. If the author has been mentioned in the text of the paragraph, place only the year and page in parentheses, e.g. “Silva (2024, p. 150)”. See ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard;

XXIII. Footnotes should only be used for explanatory notes. See ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard;

XXIV. Quotations with less than 3 (three) lines must be kept in the body of the text, within double quotation marks. See ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard;

XXV. Quotations with more than 3 (three) lines must be highlighted with an indent of 4 cm (four centimeters) from the left margin, single space between lines and font size 10 (ten). In this case, the quoted passage should not be enclosed in quotation marks. See ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard;

XXVI. Indirect quotations (paraphrases) must be presented without quotation marks, indicating the author and year, page number remains optional. See ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard;

XXVII. In citations of quotations, the word apud must be used and the title of the original work. See ABNT NBR 10520/2023 standard;

XXVIII. Identification of graphs, figures, charts, tables, photographs, maps, drawings, flowcharts, organizational charts etc. must be made at the bottom of the illustration, with a specific title, followed by its number (Arabic numerals) in the order of occurrence in the text. The source and/or explanatory caption must be mentioned. The illustration must be inserted as close as possible to the text to which it refers, centered on the page, and must not appear at the end of the document in the form of attachments. All graphic materials must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, with jpg extension;

XXIX. The final considerations should contain, in addition to the synthesis of what was presented in the text, the results with the possible answer to the research problem;

XXX. References must be listed at the end of the work, aligned only to the left margin of the text, in alphabetical order, and must identify each document individually, single-spaced and separated from each other by double space. Highlighting of titles must be applied in bold. When possible, all references must be accompanied by URL information. See ABNT NBR 6023/2018 standard;

XXXI. Failure to comply with any of the conditions set out above will result in rejection of the article in the desk review process.

12. The Journal O Direito Pensa reserves the right to carry out grammatical revisions and adapt articles to the standards regulated by ABNT, if necessary, at the time of publication.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

The Scientific Journal O Direito Pensa is published under an Open Access model and allows anyone to read, download and disseminate its content, without assuming any responsibility for the content expressed by the authors.

PROCESSING AND ARTICLE SUBMISSION FEES

The Scientific Journal O Direito Pensa does not charge authors any type of submission, publication and access fees.

POLICY AGAINST PLAGIARISM AND RESEARCH MISCONDUCT

Articles will be subjected to inspection by a plagiarism detector program and the ones that present more than 20% of proven character coincidence will not be accepted. Furthermore, authors must pay attention to the following issues:

1. Articles that contain data acquisition or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications, those must be explicitly referenced;

2. Critical review articles of intellectual content by other authors, these must be duly cited;

3. All authors must meet the criteria of original authorship of the article and no researcher involved in the production of the text and research may be omitted from the list of authors;

4. The final approval of the article will be made by the editors and the editorial board, taking into account the following criteria: a) relevance of the contribution to current political and theoretical debates related to the topic; b) respect for the formal standard of the Portuguese language or another language accepted in the journal; c) formal adaptation to the requirements in this notice; d) suitability for scientific writing; e) updated and/or specialized bibliography; f) demonstration, by the authors, of mastery over the topic.

Open Access Statement

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.​