Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Submission is mandatory via the journal's online system - Submission Link - so that only queries will be answered via e-mail.

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 Only unpublished and original articles will be accepted, which will be submitted to the Peer Review Process described in the “Policies” Section of this platform.

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

4. The publication of articles is not linked to the payment of fees and is free of charge and open access.

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

6. At the time of submission, authors must send a cover sheet with the metadata, in a separate document, with the appropriate qualifications and information, following this template. Submitting the cover sheet does not exempt you from filling in the metadata in our system.

7.Submissions to REVISTA DIREITO PÚBLICO will be made using this TEMPLATE, following the formatting rules, according to ABNT guidelines.

8. Articles submitted to RDP must comply with the following specifications:

8.1 Preconditions for submission

a) The author or one of the co-authors has a minimum degree of Doctor;

It is permissible to submit articles signed by Doctors together with Doctoral Students, Master's Students or Undergraduates.

This information must be included in the author's bibliography.

b) The article is signed by a maximum of 03 (three) authors. If this number is exceeded, the participation of each author in the text must be justified in the “Author's comments” field;

The Revista Direito Público adopts the CReditCasrai and CReditNiso taxonomy, and it is necessary to indicate the specific contribution of each author, specifying it, so that at the end of each article there will be information about the contribution of each author to the construction of the scientific article.

We recommend reading the document and the 14 taxonomies:

b.1) CReditCasrai

b.2) CReditNISO

b.3) Allen, L.; O'Connell, A.; Kiermer, V. Como podemos garantir a visibilidade e a diversidade nas contribuições de pesquisa? Como a Taxonomia da função do colaborador (CRediT) está ajudando na mudança da autoria para a contribuição. Learn. Publ. 2019, 32, 71-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1210

c) The person responsible for submitting the article is duly registered on the IDP Journals Portal as an author;

d) All the authors' metadata must be entered when submitting the article: a) Full name (as quoted in the Lattes); b) E-mail; c) Country; d) Higher Education Institution, together with an indication of the Program/Faculty and department to which they are affiliated; e) Orcid - MANDATORY -; f) Lattes - MANDATORY, unless the researcher is a foreigner -; g) Summary of the Bibliography containing a maximum of 5 lines).

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

e) All the metadata relating to the article has been entered into the submission platform, notably: title, abstract, keywords, contributions and funding agencies (if any) and bibliographical references.

f) In the event of simultaneous submission, in addition to the immediate rejection of the article and communication to the respective journal(s), Revista Direito Público reserves the right not to receive new submissions from all the authors involved for a period of 2 (two) years, counted from the date of knowledge of the fact.

g) In order to ensure greater pluralization of articles, we will not publish articles by authors who have published in the Revista Direito Público in the last two years, so as to ensure the equal dissemination of science.

h) The same author is not allowed to publish more than one text in the journal in an issue. At the time of submission, the author must consider the choice of submitting only one text to the section, which is subject to immediate rejection for breaching ethical guidelines.

8.2. Manuscript formatting requirements

a) File in .doc format, from the Office package, without exceeding the maximum size of 2MB;

b) The manuscript contains between 15 (fifteen) and 30 (thirty) pages (including the references), using the RDP template;

c) The identification of the author of the work has been removed from the file and from the Properties option in Word, thus ensuring the journal's confidentiality criteria, according to the instructions available in Ensuring Blind Peer Review.

d) For the text: Aptos font, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing for continuous text and no spacing between paragraphs;

e) Aptos font, size 10, with single spacing and 4.0cm indentation from the left margin for direct quotations with more than 3 lines;

f) Titles and subtitles in upper case, Congenial font 16, aligned to the left and in bold. The maximum number of words is 20 words. The title must be clear and objective, and may be completed by a subtitle – if any – separated by a colon.

f.1) The language used in the first title and subtitle must correspond to the order of the abstract and keywords.

g) The author must translate the text in the following languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.

g.1) The first language must be the language in which the text is written;

g.2) Portuguese must come second if the text is not written in Portuguese.

h) Title, abstract and keywords in Portuguese, English and Spanish;

i) Informative abstract, in the language of the text, of up to 250 words, which concisely presents the problem, object of study, objectives, methodology, results and conclusions;

j) Abstract in Aptos 10 font, in a single paragraph, single-spaced and with no spaces between paragraphs;

k) After the abstract, there should be a list of 3 to 6 keywords (words or expressions that express the central ideas of the text), which can facilitate subsequent research into the work. The keywords are separated from each other by semicolons;

l) In-text citations must be transcribed between double quotation marks, in the case of direct citations, of up to three lines, and incorporated into the paragraph. In the case of direct citations, with more than three lines, they must follow the formatting indicated in letter “e” of this item. All references throughout the text must be made in the author-date format, according to NBR10520 (ABNT, 2002), using footnotes only for explanatory purposes.

m) Bibliographic references must be presented at the end of the text, organized in alphabetical order and aligned to the left, Aptos font size 11.

• Example of a reference to an article in a journal:

GARCIA, L.S.; NAGASAKI, J.Y. A Produção Acadêmica em Periódicos de Alto Impacto de Direito no Brasil: Um Reflexo da Desigualdade de Gênero?. Direito Público, [S. l.], v. 19, n. 104, 2023. DOI: 10.11117/rdp.v19i104.6968. Disponível em: https://www.portaldeperiodicos.idp.edu.br/direitopublico/article/view/6968. Acesso em: 2 dez. 2024.

• Example of a book and/or pamphlet reference (manual, guide, catalog, encyclopedia, dictionary, among others):

 ADORNO,  S.    (2019). Os aprendizes  do  poder:  o  Bacharelismo  Liberal  na  Política Brasileira.São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo.

MÜLLER, F. Direito, linguagem, violência: elementos de uma teoria  constitucional I. Porto Alegre: Sergio Antonio Fabris Editor, 1995.

• Example of academic work reference (thesis, dissertation, course completion work, among others):

SILVA, Fernanda Lima da. O estranho e o ordinário: um contra arquivo da cidadania e o constitucionalismo brasileiro (Pernambuco, 1870-1920). 2024. Tese (Doutorado em Direito) — Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2024. Disponível em: http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/51572. Acesso em: 02 dez. 2025.

GARCIA, Luciana Silva. “Eles estão surdos”: relações entre o Poder Executivo e o sistema de justiça sobre graves violações de Direitos Humanos. 2017. 449 f., il. Tese (Doutorado em Direito) —Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, 2017. Disponível em: http://repositorio2.unb.br/jspui/handle/10482/23927. Acesso em: 02 dez. 2024.

• Example of citing a book chapter (includes section, chapter, volume, fragment and other parts of a work, with its own author and/or title):

 NEGRI, Fernanda  de.  Women in  Science:  Still  Invisible?In: A  Snapshot  of  the  Status  of Women.Wilson    Center    Brazil    Institute    (Org.)    Brazil:    2019.    Disponível    em:    <https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/snapshot-the-status-women-brazil-2019>. Acesso em: 05 dez. 2022.

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

9. RDP reserves the right to carry out grammatical revisions and to adapt articles to the standards set out by ABNT, if necessary, at the time of publication. This does not exempt the authors from the responsibility of carrying out grammatical, formal and content revisions.

10.Funding of Manuscripts by Authors

Manuscripts resulting from externally funded research projects must include a footnote at the end of the title, in the original language of the text, indicating the funding agency or institution, in accordance with standards of transparency and academic best practices.

11.RDP accepts articles in two formats, as described below:

1. “Original Articles” section

Aimed at publishing original and unpublished articles that present innovative theoretical, methodological or empirical contributions in the field of Public Law. Interdisciplinary approaches that are in line with the journal's editorial line are particularly valued.

The following types of manuscripts are not accepted in this section: free essays, technical notes, analyses of the situation, reviews, interviews, bibliographical balances, case reports or translations.

All articles submitted go through a preliminary desk review stage, and those that are approved are sent for evaluation in a double blind peer review system, conducted by reviewers who are members of the editorial board or by ad hoc specialists.

Manuscripts must contain between 15 and 25 pages, including bibliographical references, tables and footnotes. It is essential that the texts have not been submitted or published in other scientific journals, books or collections. Papers previously available on preprint servers or presented in the proceedings of scientific events are accepted, as long as they are unpublished for the purposes of formal academic publication.

Articles whose topic has been covered in a specific thematic section within the past year will be rejected at the desk review stage.

2. “Thematic” section

This section includes original, unpublished articles that are aligned with a specific thematic agenda, proposed by the RDP Editorial Board in partnership with academic institutions or research centers. Articles are selected through periodic calls for proposals, which must be aligned with the journal's focus and mission, along with a detailed justification for the theme.

As with the original articles section, manuscripts in the form of free essays, technical notes, economic analyses, reviews, interviews, bibliographical balances, case reports or translations are not accepted.

The editorial process follows the same criteria as the previous session: desk review followed by blind peer review. The length of the articles must also be between 15 (fifteen) and 25 (twenty-five) pages, with the same conditions of originality and novelty.

12.Conflicts of Interest

Confidence in the peer review process and the scientific credibility of published articles are directly related to the proper management of potential conflicts of interest throughout the submission, review and editorial decision stages.

It is mandatory for the author(s) to declare the existence or non-existence of conflicts of interest. Even in the absence of such conflicts, the information must be explicitly recorded at the time of submission, by filling in the specific field on the editorial platform.

Conflicts of interest can arise when authors, referees or editors have links - real or potential - that may compromise, or appear to compromise, impartiality in the preparation, evaluation or editorial decision of a manuscript. Such conflicts can be of a personal, academic, commercial, political or financial nature.

By submitting a manuscript, authors assume responsibility for identifying and declaring any conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, which may have influenced the conception, execution or writing of the work in any way.

Authors must indicate in the body of the manuscript all sources of institutional funding or support of any kind that have contributed to the research. Likewise, the contributions of third parties who, although not listed as co-authors, have provided relevant assistance - technical, intellectual or material - to the research must be mentioned, with formal consent for inclusion in the acknowledgements.

The existence of conflicts of interest does not in itself imply rejection of the manuscript. However, it is essential that its existence or non-existence is formally declared, in the name of transparency and academic integrity, as it compromises the editorial process.

Reviewers must inform the editors of any potential conflicts of interest that could affect their ability to carry out an objective assessment of the manuscript. If they feel they do not have the necessary conditions to guarantee impartiality, they must declare themselves unfit to carry out the analysis. Silence on the part of the referees will be interpreted as the absence of a conflict.

In the event of a conflict of interest on the part of reviewers, it will be up to the Editorial Board to appoint another ad hoc reviewer to conduct the analysis of the manuscript.

If there is any doubt as to whether a particular relationship constitutes a potential conflict of interest, authors should first consult the Editorial Board of the Revista Direito Público by emailing direitopublico@idp.edu.br

The submission of manuscripts by editors or members of the Revista's editorial team does not imply any differential treatment. All submitted works, regardless of authorship, will be rigorously evaluated according to the double blind peer review process, guaranteeing impartiality and observance of the ethical principles that govern scientific publication.

13. Open Data and Research Transparency Policy – Revista Direito Público

In alignment with its commitment to accessibility, scientific transparency, and the reproducibility of legal research, Revista Direito Público establishes specific guidelines for the sharing of data used in approved articles. These guidelines are consistent with the Guidelines for Promoting Openness, Transparency, and Reproducibility of Scientific Research, published by SciELO, and follow internationally recognized open science principles.

Manuscripts that include, beyond literature review, empirical analyses based on data directly collected by the author(s) — such as judicial databases, interviews, questionnaires, case studies, or field research — are required to provide for the deposit of research data in reliable and publicly accessible open repositories, with appropriate licensing. The preferred repository is Zenodo (https://zenodo.org), which is widely recognized for its transparency, automatic DOI issuance, and compliance with FAIR Data principles. Alternatively, Figshare may also be used.

If the research involves human participants (e.g., interviews, surveys, or observations), authors must provide proof of prior approval from the Ethics Committee of their home institution, in accordance with national legislation and scientific integrity standards. Authors are solely responsible for ensuring the anonymization of sensitive data, in compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD), ensuring that no identifiable personal information is improperly disclosed.

Practical Guidelines for Data Submission

To facilitate adherence to editorial best practices, Revista Direito Público recommends that authors:

• Preferred file formats: .csv, .xlsx, .txt, .json, .rds, preferably in open and machine-readable formats;
  
  
• Mandatory metadata: dataset title, description of the data collection methodology, period and location of data collection, language, keywords, subject area, and reference to the submitted article;
  
  
• Complementary documentation: include a variable dictionary, interview protocols, applied questionnaires, or any instruments used during empirical data collection, when applicable;
  
  
• Recommended repositories:
  
  
• Zenodo
  
  
• Figshare
  
  
• Suggested licenses: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), or other open licenses compatible with open science standards.
  
  

The repository link where the dataset is deposited must be submitted together with the manuscript and included in the final version of the article if accepted for publication.

Note: Non-compliance with this policy may result in rejection of the manuscript during the editorial process. Technical questions regarding data deposit, licensing, or formatting may be directed to the journal's editorial board.

14.Policy on Preprint and Postprint Deposit – Revista Direito Público

As part of its commitment to scientific transparency, open knowledge dissemination, and the advancement of legal research, Revista Direito Público permits and encourages authors to voluntarily deposit manuscripts in certified preprint and postprint repositories.

14. 1. Operational Definitions

• Preprint: an early version of the manuscript that has not yet undergone peer review. This version may be publicly shared to increase the visibility of the research and foster preliminary academic discussion.
  
  
• Postprint: the version of the article that has been peer-reviewed and revised accordingly, but is still pending formal publication in the journal.
  
  

14. 2. Editorial Process Implications

Public disclosure of manuscripts via open repositories alters aspects of the traditional editorial process. While the article must still undergo peer evaluation and meet the journal’s standards, prior exposure may compromise the anonymity of authors during peer review. In such cases, Revista Direito Público may apply a single-blind review model, as the identity of the author may be discoverable through public searches.

Despite this change, the journal considers that the benefits of such practices prevail: faster dissemination of findings, enhanced academic engagement, and opportunities for improving the manuscript through early feedback.

14. 3. Recommended Repositories

Authors are encouraged to use reliable, certified platforms for depositing preprints or postprints, such as:

• Zenodo
  
  
• SocArXiv (OSF)
  
  
• SSRN – Social Science Research Network
  
  

14. 4. Terms and Recommendations

• Depositing preprints or postprints does not imply acceptance of the manuscript by the journal;
  
  
• This practice is optional but must be clearly indicated at the time of submission, including the relevant link in the “Comments to the Editor” field or by email;
  
  
• Authors are fully responsible for reviewing the terms of use, licensing, and copyright policies of the selected repository;
  
  
• Revista Direito Público is not liable for any conflicts or issues arising from the public disclosure of the manuscript in external platforms.
  
  

14. 5. Editorial Transparency

When a manuscript has been previously deposited, this information will be disclosed in the footnote of the published article, as part of the journal’s commitment to transparency, traceability, and open scientific communication.