Contributions can be sent to


Luc J Wintgens
Centre of Legislation, Regulation and Legisprudence
Vrijheidslaan 17
B-1081 Brussels
Belgium
luc.wintgens@kubrussel.ac.be

or

Jaap Hage
University of Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
jaap.hage@metajur.unimaas.nl



Notes to Contributors

1. Contributions should conform to the Legisprudence style guidelines shown below. All contributions are submitted to double blind review. When writing your text, make sure that it contains no elements that make your identification possible. After the peer review, the text can be changed and completed with the references you prefer.

2. Contributions must be provided in electronic form, either by email or by post on a clean, new compact disk to the following addresses:

luc.wintgens@kubrussel.ac.be and juliane.ottmann@kubrussel.ac.be

The only exception to electronic submission is where this would be impracticable or cause undue hardship. Contributions may be provided in Word or rich text format. Please virus check your disk before submitting it.

3. One hardcopy, double-spaced and printed on A4/letter paper (using one side of the page only), may accompany the electronic version. A hardcopy should be supplied in addition to the electronic version wherever a contribution contains graphs, tables, or any other significant formatting.

4. Contributions should usually be no longer than 8-10,000 words. These figures exclude footnotes. Generally, footnotes should not cover more than one-third of the printed page.

5. Contributors' autobiographical details should appear with an * as the first footnote of each contribution, and include the name, position, and institutional affiliation of each author.

6. Legisprudence will usually not consider for publication contributions that have been submitted or accepted elsewhere for publication. The Editors and publisher do not accept any responsibility for loss or damage to the disks or hardcopies supplied. Regretfully, disks and hardcopies cannot be returned.

7. It is the contributor's responsibility to ensure that all references and citations are correct, and that the contribution does not contain any material that infringes copyright or is defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful or litigious.

8. Contributors of articles will receive a free copy of the journal issue and a pdf file of their article. All contributors may purchase additional copies of the issue directly from Hart Publishing at a 33% discount.

9. As a condition of publication, contributors grant licences to publish to Legisprudence and the publisher for the purpose of administering rights and permissions in all contributions. These licences include the licence to publish in hardcopy, as well as electronically, by Legisprudence, the publisher, or by any assignee, for non-profitable and/or profitable purposes. Copyright nevertheless remains the property of the contributor.


Style Guide

I. General Information:

1. Although Legisprudence is published in the UK, it is an inclusive journal that invites international contributions. Because some matters such as vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation vary to some extent from one English speaking country to another, no attempt will be made to force artificial standards upon the articles, as long as they are internally consistent (see Stylistic Conventions, Section II).

2. When an article is accepted for publication, authors will be expected to ensure that it complies with the guidelines in this document to the greatest extent possible. Legisprudence conventions for citations, quotations and other stylistic matters are outlined in sections II and III. The Editors strongly encourage contributors to consult the journal style guidelines when revising accepted articles so as to avoid significant changes to the article at proofs stage. Sample issues and a copy of the guidelines are available on request from the publisher.

3. The Editors reserve the right of final decision on matters of style, grammar, punctuation, citation etc that are not dealt with explicitly in this document.

4. All articles should be preceded by an abstract of approximately 150 words summarising its central theme(s). The abstract should be followed by a maximum of ten keywords to assist indexers in cross-referencing the article. The abstract and the keywords will appear on Hart Publishing’s website if the article is published.

5. All articles published in Legisprudence are copyrighted by the journal and the author. A fuller statement of the copyright agreement to which authors must agree, is available on request from the publisher. Papers should be accompanied by a statement that they have not already been published and are not being considered for publication elsewhere and that, if accepted for publication in the Legisprudence, they will not be submitted for publication elsewhere without the agreement of Hart Publishing. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce in their articles any material enjoying copyright protection. The letter granting such permission should be attached to the manuscript.


II. Stylistic Conventions:

The house style follows OSCOLA (Oxford Standard Citation for Legal Authorities), which can be downloaded at: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/style.html#oscola

Headings of an article should be of the following form:

A. LEVEL ONE

1. Level two

(a) Level three

Please note the following general guidelines:

1. New paragraphs following headings should be ranged full left. New paragraphs not following a heading should be indented one tab.

2. Quotations take double quotation marks. Quotes of less than twenty words should be run on as part of the text, whereas quotes of more than twenty words in length should appear as indented paragraphs. Legislative extracts should appear in the format of a long quotation.

3. Full stops are not required for abbreviations, either in text or in footnotes (including the "v" for versus in case names).

4. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and should end with a full point. Additional text and quotations should be kept to a minimum, such that the footnotes are not generally the vehicle for the conduct of interesting counter-arguments. Only footnotes are used, and no in-text references like (Herder : 1986, 125-486).

5. Citations

(a) Book titles should be cited as follows:

A von Hirsch and A Ashworth, Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2nd edn, 1998), 23-30.

Where the publisher is either the Oxford or Cambridge University Press, reference to place of publication may be omitted.

Translated books are quoted as:

H Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, R M Wallace (tr), (Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1983).

(b) Chapters in edited volumes should be cited as follows:

K E Himma, “Inclusive Legal Positivism”, in J Coleman and S Shapiro (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2002), 125-165.

(c) Journal articles should be cited as follows:

H L A Hart, “Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals” (1957-1958) 71 Harvard Law Review, 593-629.

(d) Official reports should be cited as follows:

Commission of the European Communities, European Governance: A White Paper, COM (2001) 428 final, 25 July 2001.

(e) Cases should be cited as follows:

Case names should be in italics (Hart v Hart), including ‘v’ (no full point). Cases should be cited, whenever possible, using the accepted neutral form of citation.

For example:

Home Office v Dorset Yacht Co Ltd [1970] AC 1004 (HL)

References to European Cases should include case number and European Court Reports (ECR) citation (if available). For example:

Case T–65/33 Christy v Mulliner [1994] ECR II–323

Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights should always be cited using the relevant reference in the official reports (Series A) and, if possible, also the European Human Rights Reports. For example:

Young, James and Webster v UK Series A no 44 (1982) 4 EHRR 38

(f) Book titles, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, official reports, and case names may be abbreviated after the first full citation has been given. For example:

Himma, “Inclusive Legal Positivism”, supra, n 1, 125.

(g) Cross-references to the text should if possible identify the place not by page number (which may alter more than once during printing) but by the relevant section of the article or nearest footnote number, eg: "See infra, section D", "See supra n 9 and accompanying text" and "See supra, text to n 3-5." When referring to your article use 'article' instead of 'paper' and 'Section A' instead of 'Part 1'.

The use of 'ante', 'post', 'op cir', 'loc cit', should all be avoided. ‘Id’ and 'Ibid' is permitted where the reference refers to the preceding note.

(h) Websites are quoted with the the URL for electronic references is followed by "accessed on [date]":

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk, last accessed on 12 May 2007.

Because website are usually unstable as sources of information, their citation should be kept to a minimum.

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