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Author Guidelines

The accepted articles are published once or twice a year.

There is open call for articles, while accepted articles will be published upon the acceptance eider in the summer or in the winter volume of the Journal, considering the time of submission.

Accepted articles submitted until 1-st of May from the current year will generelly be published within the summer volume of the current year; while accepted articles until 1-st of November will be published within the winter volume of the current year.

Only selected articles that were presented at the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Law "Iustinianus Primus" will be published within the Special Issue of the IPLR - Conference proceedings. Timeframe of the submitance of the articles for the Special issue is published on a separete page specifically designed for the Annual Conference at the web cite of the Faculty of law: www.pf.ukim.edu.mk. The selection and publication of these articles is regulated under the same publishing procedure as the paublication procedure of the regular issues of the IPLR. Publication of the articles from the Annual Conference is free of processing or publication fees. 

Iustinianus Primus Law Journal does not charge any processing or publication fees and only selected articles will be published, free of charge. 

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The entire manuscript should begin with a cover page, giving the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s) and correspondence address(es), e-mail address(es), a suggested shorter title for running heads, and three to five keywords. On the next page, put the article title and the abstract then continue with the body of the article. All pages must be numbered. If tables are included, they must be created in Word, not Excel.
  • All manuscripts must be spell-checked and proofread prior to submission. All submissions must follow The Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012quickreferenceguide.pdf style for format and references (footnotes and endnotes are not permitted). Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words, including the abstract (which should be 200 to 300 words), references, and other elements.

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