Guide for Authors
Terms and Conditions
First
Authors guidelines(Regular Articles):
ARLJ receives submissions with the understanding that the content is original, unpublished material and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere, whether in print or in electronic form. Authors intending to republish articles, or to use previously published material as part of an article, must indicate this intention at the time they accept the invitation to publish or, in the case of unsolicited articles, at the time of submission.
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript to ARLJ implies that:
- The work described has not been published before.
- It is not under consideration for publication anywhere else.
- The publication of the work has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any compensation claims.
Online Submission
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit a manuscript” in Word format at: https://ojs.uomosul.edu.iq/index.php/alaw/index
and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Authors submitting to the platform for the first time will be required to create an account to submit their work.
Length Limitations
ARLJ strongly prefers articles under 8,000 words in length, including text, footnotes, and appendices. Length over 10,000 words will weigh significantly against selection, and only in rare cases will we unconditionally accept articles over this word limit.
Statements and Declarations
The following statements should be included under the heading "Statements and Declarations". Please note that submissions that do not include relevant declarations will be returned as incomplete.
Authors must state any direct funding that contributed to the research and this statement will be part of the published article if the manuscript is accepted. Also, the Authors must declare and acknowledge any conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any people, organizations, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript.
- The researcher should be committed to the objectivity and scientific approach in research, analysis, and attribution. The research should be linguistically sound, and the references should be written according to the sequence of the research. The list of references should be in Arabic and English. When writing the references for the first time, the first and second names of the author, the title of the research or the book must be underlined, then open parentheses (city ie, place of publication, publisher, press, year), page number. If the book or article is written in the list of references, it is in the same order except the page.
When writing the reference for the second time the author must write the second name, family name, title of the source briefly, and then the page number.
Second
Ethics in Publishing
The ethical policy of ARLJ is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with ARLJ Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with ARLJ. The ethical policy of ARLJ is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published. The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members. The ethical policy insisted the Editor-in-Chief, may confer with other editors or reviewers in making the decision. The reviewers are necessary to evaluate the research papers based on the submitted content in a confidential manner. The reviewers also suggest the authors improve the quality of the research paper by their reviewing comments. Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors. Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. For more details Visit the journal link:
https://ojs.uomosul.edu.iq/index.php/alaw/index
THIRD:
Sustainable Development Goals
Al-rafidain of Law Journal is keen to encourage researchers to address topics within the Sustainable Development Goals through a legal approach to the seventeen goals adopted by the United Nations (SDGs). This is achieved by presenting research on topics that seek to enhance and protect natural resources and establish a legal, protective, and transparent framework for them.
Through in-depth legal research, this represents an effective contribution to transforming the Sustainable Development Goals from mere principles and ideas with a highly significant ethical dimension into a legal framework and a real possibility for implementation on the ground.
FOURTH, Peer-Review Process
To sustain the peer review system, authors must participate in the peer review process to evaluate manuscripts from others. When appropriate, authors are obliged to provide retractions and/or corrections of errors to the editors and the Publisher. All papers submitted to ARLJ journal will be peer-reviewed for at least one round. The peer review process is conducted in the online manuscript submission and peer-review system, concerning the following:
- The research is subject to peer review by two reviewers with specialization and scientific titles.
- 2. If both reviewers accept the research scientifically, the research is granted for publication.
- If the opinion of both reviewers disagrees, the research is referred to a third or arbitrator, whose opinion is decisive in accepting or rejecting the research.
- The research will be rejected if the decision of all reviewers is not to be accepted for publication in the journal for scientific reasons.
- ARLJ adopts a double-blinded review policy: authors are blind to reviewers, and reviewers are also blind to authors.
- It is determined that the research is subject to publication based on the opinions of scientific reviewers as well as the opinions of the editorial board.
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5.5.Headings
Please note that a maximum of four levels of heading can be used, one for the title and three within the article.
5.6.Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
5.7.Footnotes
The footnotes are used to provide a reference to the main sources relied on to support the research argument. Footnotes are also used to give additional information, but significant points should not be included in the footnotes. The Journal prefers that footnotes do not exceed 20% of the length of the text of the article as a whole. It is important to note that footnotes are used to provide reference to the main sources, and they do not function as a comprehensive list of what the author has read or the materials that the reader could use to follow up the argument.
Biabliograghy+footnotes
The ARLJ uses the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA)(https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012quickreferenceguide.pdf). OSCOLA uses footnotes in the text, rather than in-text citation. OSCOLA referencing has 3 elements:
- Citation: Insert a footnote marker in the text 1 to indicate when you are using one of your sources, or when you are citing a legal authority (case, statute, etc).
- Footnote: Located at the bottom of the page, this is the reference. The footnote identifies the source.
- Citation :APA:
- Bibliography
- A list of all the sources you have cited in your work. This is located at the end of your work.
Books
Give the author’s name in the same form as in the publication. Give relevant information about editions, translators and so forth before the publisher, and give page numbers at the end of the citation, after the brackets.
Author, Title (edition, Publisher | year) page number.
Anthea Roberts, Is international law international(Oxford Press, 2017) 99.
Hobbes, Leviathan (first published 1651, Penguin 1985) 268.
Thomas Gareth Jones, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009).
K Zweigert and H Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (Tony Weir tr, 3rd edn, OUP 1998).
Contributions to edited books
Francis Rose, ‘The Evolution of the Species’ in Andrew Burrows and Alan Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)ز
Journal and newspaper articles
If an article is available in print format cite it as a printed article even if you have read it online.
If the article is only available online, include the web address and the date you accessed the article.
To cite a print journal, use the following format:
Format:
Author, │’title’ │(year) │volume │journal name or abbreviation │first page of article
Example:
Paul Craig, ‘Theory, “Pure Theory” and Values in Public Law’ [2005] PL 440
Alison L Young, 'In Defense of Due Deference' (2009) 72 MLR 554.
Online journals
Format:
author, | ‘title’ | year | volume| journal name or abbreviation | | date accessed 7H Power and B Dowrick, ‘Issues in Corporate Crime: An Introduction’ [1998] 2 Web J Current Legal Issues accessed 6 January 2012.
Example:
Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to Legal Information’ (2010) 1(1) EJLT < http://ejlt.org//article/view/17 > accessed 27 July 2010
Newspaper Articles
To cite a newspaper article, use the following format:
Format:
Author, │’title’ │name of the newspaper │(city of publication, │date of publication) │page on which the article has been published (if known).
Example:
Jane Croft, ‘Supreme Court Warns on Quality’ Financial Times (London, 1 July 2010) 3
Websites and blogs
Websites
To reference information from a website, use the following format:
Format:
Author |‘Web Page Title’(Website, publication date) accessed date
Liberty and the Civil Liberties Trust, (A Year in Review, 2011) accessed 10 August 2012.
Blogs
To reference information from a blog, use the following format:
Format:
Author, 'Entry Title' (Blog Name, publication date) accessed date.
Example:
Sarah Cole, ‘Virtual Friend Fires Employee’ (Naked Law, 1 May 2009) accessed 19 November 2009
R Moorhead, 'Solicitors First' (Lawyer Watch, 25 March 2011) <http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/solictiors-first/> accessed 13 April 2011.
Author, 'Entry Title' (Blog Name, publication date) accessed date.
If no author is named, use the name of the organization producing the blog. If no person or organization can be identified as being responsible for the blog, begin your footnote with the title of the blog. Always give the access date
5.8.Bibliography
Unlike in footnotes, the author's surname should be listed first, followed by the author's initials. Unlike in the footnotes, you do not list the author's first name, just initials. The secondary material should also be listed alphabetically. If citing more than one work by the same author, list the author’s works in chronological order (oldest first), and in alphabetical order of the first major word of the title within a single year.
Format:
Author surname, first name., Title (edition, Publisher | year)
Example:
Herring J, Criminal Law (7th edn, Macmillan 2011)
Jones G, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009)
5-9.: Introduction
Describes briefly the background of the investigation with updated information and states the aim of the study, the Methodology of the study, the hypothesis of the study, Study plan.
5-10: Conclusions
The conclusion should contain the results of the study and recommendations or proposals referred to in the body of the article or study.
5-11.: Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full. Financial support affiliation of the study, if exists, must be mentioned in this section. Therefore, the Grant number of financial support must be included.
5-12.: Conflict of Interest
A conflict of interest statement must be placed in the manuscript as below: "The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this manuscript".
