Formal Aspects of Contributions Submitted to Chornancap Legal Journal

The language of publication is Spanish, but texts in other languages such as English or French can be included.

The manuscripts that can be submitted are research articles, review articles, bibliographic reviews, jurisprudential comments, editor's letters, and conference papers.

The document should be in MS Word format (.doc or .docx), written in A4 size (21 cm x 29.7 cm), in Times New Roman font size 12, single-spaced (1.0) with all margins of 2.54 cm. All pages should be consecutively numbered in the lower right corner. Titles should be written in lowercase and bold (abstract, Introduction, etc.) and aligned to the left side.

It is suggested that the length of the works not exceed 25 pages for articles; 15 pages for jurisprudential and legislative comments, and 10 pages for bibliographic reviews.

Each work must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words, in Spanish and English. They should preferably contain the following elements: 1. Title-Authors (including affiliation and postal address). 2. Abstract. 3. Keywords (3 to 5 keywords in Spanish and English). 4. Introduction. 5. Materials and Methods. 6. Results. 7. Discussion. 8. Conclusions. 9. Acknowledgments (optional). 10. Bibliographic references. Every author(s) will provide, as a footnote, their academic degree, institutional affiliation (academic and/or professional), country, contact email, and ORCID or any other researcher identifier.

The citation style will be the American Psychological Association (APA 7th edition). It is recommended to use a reference manager, such as Mendeley (APA 7th edition, no ampersand), EndNote, Zotero, or a similar tool. In the bibliographic references, only the authors cited in the text will be included. The DOI should be included for all bibliographic references that have one.

All proposals received, after analysis by the Editorial Team, will undergo a peer review process. This evaluation will be done through a "double-blind" system to ensure anonymity, with a minimum of two reviewers per work. Reviewers will have a period of 15 days to provide their opinion, which can be: (1) publishable without modifications, (2) publishable if suggested changes in form and/or content are made, and (3) not publishable.

For case (2), the originals will be returned to the author for necessary revisions, and the revised manuscript should be returned within 10 days for final evaluation.

For each volume and issue of the Chornancap Legal Journal of the Illustrious Bar Association of Lambayeque, a specific thematic dossier will be established, and submitted manuscripts should be related to this theme. However, the editorial board reserves the right to reject a work outright.

All received articles will be analyzed using the plagiarism prevention software Turnitin. This evaluation will be done before the peer review process. If a work shows signs of plagiarism, it will be returned to the authors and will not proceed to peer review. The maximum similarity percentage allowed is 20%.

The presentation and publication of articles in the journal do not incur any costs for the authors.

The publication of articles in the Chornancap Legal Journal of the Illustrious Bar Association of Lambayeque does not entitle authors to any remuneration.

The Editorial Team of the Chornancap Legal Journal of the Illustrious Bar Association of Lambayeque is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed in the articles by their authors.