Submissions

Author Guidelines

 The originals will be submit through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform. For this, the authors need to register and send their contributions accompanied by the Letter of Originality and the Authorization for public communication of literary work, signed and in pdf.

The author will undertake to sign a letter of authorization to the journal for the manuscript to be reproduced in printed or electronic format, including internet, through any means of communication and/or dissemination, known or unknown.

1. Letter of Authorship

Every author and co-author must sign it, including their details.   

https://www.anahuac.mx/mexico/files/Statement%20of%20Originality.docx

2. Authorization for the Public Disclosure of Literary Work (article)

https://www.anahuac.mx/mexico/files/Authorization%20for%20public%20communication%20of%20literary%20work_

Revistas%20Univ%20Anahuac%20Mexico.docx

Iuris Tantum does not charge authors fees for submitting, processing and / or publishing articles.

Calls to:

Send scientific articles or reviews to Iuris Tantum Journal in order to consider their publication.

Our journal will be published on a biannual basis and will have a multidisciplinary vocation. The purpose the Iuris Tantum Journal is to contribute to the publication of high-impact research in areas such as law, public administration, strategic intelligence and, in general, of all the social sciences that, to the consideration of the Editorial Council, meet the Law School´s editorial policies.

Unpublished works that are submitted will subject to a strict reviewal process performed by anonymous peers who are specialists in the aforementioned topics, in a double-blind modality. The entirety of the process is managed through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform, which ensures a transparent process and the quality of the publications.

Indications for submitting an article for an opinion:

1. Each article must contain the paper´s title, author´s name, for which a footnote with an asterisk that shows its affiliation, email address must be added and ORCID must include the full address, for example: https://orcid.org/0003-4585- 8734-5231. You can sign up using the following link: https://orcid.org/ 

2. In regards of articles that aren´t written in Spanish, the title must be translated into Spanish.

3. All articles must include a summary and an abstract written Spanish and English, with a 100-word maximum.

4. Five keywords in Spanish and English must be included.

5. The paper shall meet the following requirements: 15 pages long at the minimum and 30 pages long at the maximum, must have a 1.5 spacing, font shall be Times New Roman or Arial 12.

6. The citation will be made within the text according to the APA 7th edition system  (the following guide for legal texts can be consulted: https://archivos.juridicas.unam.mx/www/bjv/libros/15/7079/1.pdf  pp. 33-58)

7. Once the article has been submitted, it will be referred to the Editorial Committee for its reviewal and it will be determined whether the manuscript fits the editorial line, complies with the presentation guidelines, and meets the general publication criteria.

8. All articles will be subjected to plagiarism detection programs. In the event a document has been identified as a case of flagrant or partial plagiarism, the document will be immediately rejected.

Editorial guidelines for sending reviews

1. The Iuris Tantum journal will publish its reviews of recently published academic books that fit their editorial content.

2. A critical point that will determine whether the review will be included or not in the journal is that it must not be a summary of the reviewed book, but a critical opinion, which takes in consideration other papers on the same topic in order to properly place it within a specific bibliographic context. Also, the paper must have a clearly defined structure and a wording that allows a proper comprehension.

3. Reviews must have a minimum length of 1,500 words (approximately 4 pages) and a maximum of 5,000 (10 pages approximately); the full name of the author of the review along with the institution it its part of must be clearly shown at the review´s ending.

4. A bibliographic record of the reviewed book must be fully shown at the beginning of the text (name, title, place of publication, publisher, year, number of pages and ISBN). For example:

Cossío Díaz, J.R. (2025). Corrupción en México. Un acercamiento al siglo XX desde la perspectiva jurídica. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. 137 pp. ISBN: 978-607-587-229-2

5. Authors must send their collaboration in a Word format, using the following specifications: Times New Roman font, 12 points, 1.5 spacing.

6. All collaborations that do not meet these guidelines will be rejected.

7. The Editorial Board will acknowledge their receipt of the original texts within 7 business days of its receival.

Editorial guidelines for sending proposals to form a Dossier or a Monographic topic

1. Authors may submit proposals to the editor (carlos.becerrilh@anahuac.mx) to carry out a monographic section within the journal. They must present at least 6 authors, maximum 10, along with their proposed titles.

2. The monograph must be approved by the Editorial Board of the Journal.

General notes:

Both articles and reviews must contain the following characteristics:

1. They may be written, in addition to Spanish, in English, Portuguese, Italian and French.

2. They must be proposed by the authors directly to the OJS system, at the following address: https://revistas.anahuac.mx/iuristantum/about/submissions  

3. They must be accompanied by the following documents, which can be found at the same electronic address:

     - Letter of originality

     - Authorization for public communication of literary work (article or review)

Copyright

All the intellectual content found in this periodical publication is licensed to the consumer public under the figure of Creative Commons ©, unless the author of said content has agreed otherwise or limited said faculty to "Iuris Tantum©" or "Universidad Anáhuac México © ”in writing and expressly.

Iuris Tantum is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The author retains the economic rights without restrictions and guarantees the journal the right to be the first publication of the work. The author is free to deposit the published version in any other medium, such as an institutional repository or on his own website.

By being part of indexers, databases and reference systems, the articles published by "Iuris Tantum" will be visible and will be downloaded free of charge, not for profit and of a purely academic and scientific nature; in all cases, the moral rights and attribution rights of the authors will always be respected, the date of publication and the number of the journal to which they correspond. All the documents published by "Iuris Tantum" can be downloaded from the journal's website https://revistas.anahuac.mx/index.php/iuristantum  and from the databases where it is indexed.