Submissions

Author Guidelines

a) The articles should preferably have between 15 and 25 pages. Paragraphs must be justified. Spacing must not be used before or after paragraphs. Only unpublished and original articles (exclusively submitted to RBDPP) are accepted, except for invited authors and deposits of preprint versions on certified servers.

b) As font, use Times New Roman, size 12. Paragraphs must have 1.5 line spacing; top and bottom margins 2.0 cm and sides 3.0 cm. The paper size formatting must be A4.

c) Manuscripts can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English or Italian. In any case, the title of the article, the abstract (up to 200 words) and three to five keywords must be indicated in the language of the article and in English.

d) Articles must contain specific items for introduction, final considerations (conclusions) and references(listing the references that have been cited in the article).

e) The title of the article must not be excessively long, but it must clearly present the theme and the delimitation of its object.

f) The author is requested to inform in the submission system and in a footnote any funding or benefits received (eg if the article is the result of a contracted opinion), and to declare that there is no conflict of interest that compromises the scientific nature of the manuscript. If the article is the result of research subsidized by funding agencies, such information must be provided in a footnote and in the acknowledgments, specifying the public call from which the funding results. The RBDPP does not charge Article Processing Charges fees (APC).

• When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing conflicts of interest that may have influenced their research. Authors must acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the paper and other financial or personal connections related to the research. For example, if the author acts as a legal referee (consultant), s/he must insert a footnote stating that the article was based on the position adopted in the opinion given in a specific case due to financial payment. The conflict of interest can be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may occur between authors, reviewers or editors.

g) The abstract must have up to 200 words, presenting the article’s objectives, problem(s), justification, methodology, results and conclusions.

h) Bibliographic references must be made in accordance with the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards – ABNT. There is a preference for texts that use references in full format in footnotes at the end of each page. However, references in author-date format are also accepted.

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i) The bibliography must be listed at the end of the article and must contain only the texts cited in the manuscript. The bibliography should be comprehensive, citing up-to-date references (preferably published less than five years ago) and from national and foreign authors representing the subject addressed.

• when the reference has a DOI or is available in an online journal, please add it to the end of the reference, with an active hyperlink (to facilitate access for readers); the existence of DOI should be researched in: http://search.crossref.org/

j) The use of bold and underlining is not allowed. Direct quotations from other authors should be made “in quotation marks”, without the use of italics. Use italics to highlight any relevant idea in the text.

k) We suggest that schemes and charts be inserted in the text through images, in order to avoid distortions in the subsequent layout. Tables must be inserted in the text itself, not as images.

l) The articles may have a maximum of three authors. In cases of empirical research and/or of unique complexity, which require more collaborators, motivation must be sent to the editors, explaining such situation and concretely indicating the contribution of each author.

• according to the standards of ethical integrity to authors, it is necessary to ensure the direct and effective intellectual contribution and the consent of all coauthors. For example, the mere assignment of financial and infrastructure resources is not an indication of co-authorship. For more information click here.
• in cases of co-authored articles, RBDPP requests the inclusion of a declaration of co-authorship at the end of the paper for publication, where the contributions of each author will be specified (in accordance with the Casrai CRediT Contributor Roles Taxonomy). About it: VASCONCELLOS, V. G. de. Editorial – Autoria e coautoria de trabalhos científicos: discussões sobre critérios para legitimação de coautoria e parâmetros de integridade científica. https://doi.org/10.22197/rbdpp.v6i1.313
• all authors are fully responsible for the article and for the integrity of the research developed.
• all authors must have Orcid registration and add it to the metadata of the submission.
• 1. Artificial intelligence mechanisms (such as ChatGPT) do not satisfy the requirements for co-authorship; 2. Authors must declare (in the methodology or in the acknowledgments) the use of artificial intelligence mechanisms in the writing of the article and/or in the other stages of the scientific research; 3. Authors are responsible for errors, plagiarism and other misconducts that eventually occur in their research due to the use of artificial intelligence mechanisms.

m) Proofreading the paper is responsibility of its authors, since there is no step of spelling and grammar review by a professional after submission of the article. In cases of major and frequent errors, there may be preliminary rejection of the submission.

n) Articles by the same author (even co-authored) will not be published in subsequent issues of the journal, except in the case of subsequent submission to a thematic dossier. When submitting more than one article, the author is aware that, if approved, there will be a queue for publication.

o) The paper must address issues related to criminal sciences and criminal procedure and be compatible with the editorial line of the RBDPP and with the section or dossier to which it was submitted.

p) All data, codes and materials underlying the article and used in designing and carrying out the research must be properly cited in the text and included in the reference list with a persistent identifier such as DOI.

• Articles that use underlying data (such as empirical research) should provide their tables and files (eg excel tables, sources, etc.) for peer review and deposit in open data repositories. We suggest depositing at: https://figshare.com/ and https://data.scielo.org. In terms of the Scielo Policies, "the objective is to facilitate the evaluation of the manuscript and, if approved, to contribute to the preservation and reuse of the contents and the reproducibility of the research". There may be exceptions for legal and ethical reasons.

Our editorial policy follows the research communication in the Open Science modus operandi.