Submissions

Author Guidelines

Works presentation formats: original and unpublished scholarly articles, essays, and book reviews, written from the perspective of a single discipline or of a transdisciplinary nature, that pertain to the institutional mission of the Brazilian Institute of Law and Religion, among which is included fostering “the Brazilian public debate involving law, politics, and religion” and exploring “the vital influence of the religious ordering, especially from a Christian theological perspective, upon the consolidation of civil and political communities, in addition to the autonomy of Religious Law” as a field of Constitutional Law.

Text submission norms: the works submitted to review by Dignitas journal may be written in Portuguese, Spanish, and English languages, except for specific cases that will be judged by the Editorial Committee, and they must be original and unpublished, not being in the process of analysis and/or review in other journals or publications.

We may accept translations of works published in other languages and that are of special interest regarding the topics covered by the journal, as long as they are unpublished in Portuguese.

Style and rules:

Titles

• Manuscripts in Spanish or Portuguese must also present their title in English.
• Manuscripts in English must also present their title in Portuguese.

Keywords

• 3 to 5 keywords separated by colons (;)
• Manuscripts in Spanish or Portuguese must have their keywords in the text's original language and English.
• Manuscripts in English must have their keywords in English and Portuguese.

Abstract

• From 150 to 300 words written in the text's original language.
• Manuscripts written in Spanish or Portuguese must also have an abstract in English.
• Manuscripts in English must also have an abstract in Portuguese.

Fonts and paragraphs

• Body Text: Times New Roman fontsize 12, single spacement between lines, double spacement between paragraphs.
• Titles and Subtitles: serially numbered at the start of each section. Font: Times New Roman fontsize12.
• Abstracts and footnotes: Font Times New Roman fontsize 10, single spacement between lines.
• Direct quotes: i) under 4 lines: must be inserted into the text body, following the text's formatting style, in quote marks; ii) over 4 lines: must be placed in a separate paragraph, font Times New Roman fontsize 10, 4cm paragraph indenting, double spacement between paragraphs, do not use quote marks.

Quoting formats

• (Book reviews) When the reviewed work is quoted in the text, the reviewer must indicate page number in brackets (ex: p. 134).
• In all situations, use the number model (arab numbers, superscript) with references in footnotes.

References

• All bibliographical and source references must be set in footnotes, according to the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note, with Ibid.). In addition to the footnotes, all mentioned references must be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order according to the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition (full note, with Ibid.).

• We strongly encourage using the Mendeley platform for organizing and using references throughout the text and in the reference list at the end of the text.

• Reference formatting examples:
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1 - Books – titles in italics:

• Single volumes:
  

        First quote: Fred Q. Jones, The Book I Wrote (Philadelphia: Popular Press, 1986), 8-13, 25-78, 101-103, 107-13, 118-57, 178-217.

         Further quotes: Jones, Book I Wrote, 12-13, 18-45, 99-107, 109-26.

• Books in more than one volume:

         First quote: Fred W. Jones, My Long Book, 3 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), 1:1-35.

         Further quotes: Fred W. Jones, Long Book, 2:28.

• Books in a multivolume series:

         First quote: Fred X. Jones, Adolescence, vol. 2 of The Life and Times of Fred X. Jones (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1936), 23-337.

• Reprinted books:

          Primeira citação: Fred Y. Jones, The Book I Wrote in 1873 (1873; reprint, Savannah, Tenn.: Old Timey Press, 1988), 237-69.

• Multiauthor books:

          First quote: Fred A. Jones and A. Fred Green, The Book We Wrote Together and Rewrote Later, rev. ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 246-89.

• Books with mentioned editors and/or translators:

           First quote: Fred B. Jones, ed. and trans. by Gloria Sforth, The Book Fred Wrote and Gloria Edited (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming), 407-13.

2 - Articles in journals - titles between quotemarks and journal name in italics:

• Journals with series and volume numbers, month and year:

           First quote: Jane A. Smith, "The Article I Wrote," The Quarterly Journal 10, 1 (April 1976): 11-13.

           Further quotes: Smith, "Article I Wrote," 12-13.

• Journals and Newspapers with publication dates:

           Primeira citação: Alfred Peterson, "The Abominable Snowman At 40," National Enquirer, 17 July 1992, 12-14.

3 - Newspaper articles, especially from older publications, may be referenced only by title and newspaper pub date, although a full reference is preferred. Also try to indicate the article's location in the publication (section or page).

              Daily Gleaner (Beltsville, Md.), 23 November 1883, 3.

              New York Times, 18 April 1932. VII, 7. [Section VII, Page 7.]

              Catherine Parr, "City Says No to New Greenways," Durham (N.C.) Sun, 18 February 1985, 1-B.

4 - Theses, Dissertations, and Academic texts:

           First quote: John L. Brown, "Hoots and Hollers: Appalachian Topography and the Development of Country Music," (Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University, 1993), ch. 3.

           First quote: John L. Brown, "Hollerin' in the Holler: The Musical Life of Fancy Gap, Virginia, 1748-1935," (paper presented at the bimonthly meeting of the American Academy for Creative Stuff, Peru, Vt., March 1996).

5 - Official documents:

Specify the governmental leval (federal, state, or local) Especifique o nível governamental (federal, estadual, municipal). Reference non-serial official documents Citar documentos governamentais as books and mention their issuing government agencies as publishers.

         US Congress, House Committee on Agriculture, Hearings on Forest Management, 88th Cong., 2d sess., 1964, House Report 28, 1-3.

6 - Archive materials:

              Frank Stanley to Alfred White, 24 August 1934, Division of Timber Management Reading File, Record Group 95, Box 1320 [hereafter, DTM Reading File], National Archives, Washington, D.C. [hereafter, NA].

               Mary Carter to Alfred White, 26 August 1934, DTM Reading File [hereafter, "Carter-White letter"], NA.

7 - Oral and Personal Sources:

                Janet P. Bushwhacker, interview with author, 14 May 1995, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (tape recording and handwritten notes in possession of the author).