Author Guidelines
How to submit your manuscript?
All manuscripts should be submitted to the journal via the online submission system. Submissions can be made by single or multiple authors. Once submitted, the author can track the submission and communicate with the editors via the online journal management system.
Articles can be submitted at any time throughout the year. Most Call for Papers are for a General Issue accepting articles on any topic. Occasionally, the Journal publishes a Call for Papers for a thematic Issue. If a submission does not fit within the theme of that issue, the Board of Editors will keep your article on file to consider it at a later stage and inform you accordingly.
The Utrecht Journal of International and European Law encourages authors to contact the editorial board with ideas for articles or case notes they are planning to write. The editorial board is more than happy to discuss these ideas and how well they fit within the journal with the authors.
Please note that all submissions automatically pass through an anti-plagiarism check. To avoid relays/rejections, please ensure that all content that has been sourced from elsewhere clearly includes citation details and quotation marks, where appropriate.
Artificial Intelligence
Authors should refer to the COPE guidelines on Authorship and AI use. All submissions must comply with these guidelines.
Structure
To ensure blind peer review, please only list the title and abstract on the submitted manuscript file.
The names of all authors, affiliations, contact details, biography (optional), and the corresponding author details must be completed online as part of the submission process.
Author names should include a forename and a surname. Forenames cannot include only initials.
- J. Bloggs is not preferred. The full name, Joe Bloggs is required (this will enhance the 'findability' of your publication).
The affiliation should ideally include ‘Department, Institution, City, Country’. However only the Institution and Country are mandatory.
Author information (optional)
A short biographical statement from the author(s) may be placed after the title page information. This must be no longer than 200 words and include only information relevant to the subject matter. This will be moved to before the reference list in the final publication.
Abstract
Research articles must have the main text prefaced by an abstract of no more than 200 words summarising the main arguments and conclusions of the article. This must have the heading ‘Abstract’ and be easily identified from the start of the main text.
A list of up to eight Keywords may be placed below the abstract (optional).
The Abstract and Keywords should also be added to the metadata when making the initial online submission.
Main text
The body of the submission should be structured in a logical and easy to follow manner. A clear introduction section should be given that allows non-specialists in the subject an understanding of the publication and a background of the issue(s) involved. Methods, results, discussion and conclusion sections may then follow to clearly detail the information and research being presented.
Acknowledgements (optional)
Any acknowledgements must be headed and in a separate paragraph, placed after the main text but before the reference list.
Funding Information (if applicable)
Should the research have received a funding grant then the grant provider and grant number should be detailed.
Competing interests
If any of the authors have any competing interests then these must be declared. A short paragraph should be placed before the references.
References
All published journal articles and books cited within the submission must be listed at the end of the main text file.
The author is responsible for obtaining all permissions required prior to submission of the manuscript. Permission and owner details should be mentioned for all third-party content included in the submission or used in the research.
