The articles submitted for publication in Homa Publica – Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas may be sent in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. The work will be published in the submitted language and may be translated in exceptional cases.

Eligible publications include works from authors of all areas of knowledge, limited to 3 co-authors per paper. A master's degree is required for the submission of individual papers. These rules apply to all submitted papers, except invited ones. Works in co-authorship must have at least one master and/or doctor. In order to submit an article for dossier, at least one of the authors must have a PhD.

The journal publishes papers related to "Business and Human Rights". The submitted papers have the following minimum and maximum limits for their analysis by the Editorial Board and eventual publication (papers longer than the established below can be published, at the discretion of the publisher, if its size is considered justifiable):

• Scientific Paper: Each work shall contain between 35,000 and 60,000 characters – Including spaces, footnotes, and references;

The presented Paper must comply with the following guidelines:

1. SUBMISSION

Files must be sent in two formats: in .DOC or .DOCX format. (editable), containing the author's identification; and in .PDF, without the author's identification.

Subject to exceptional possibilities of publication by invitation, articles submitted for evaluation must be unpublished, both in print and digital forms and in Portuguese or other acceptable languages, under penalty of non-publication.

The assignment for publication will be free. No article processing fees (APCs) or submission fees are required.

Articles presented in any language must comply with the same guidelines required by this notice.

2. EVALUATION OF ARTICLES

All articles are submitted to a prior assessment (desk review) held by the Editor-in-chief, who verifies the attendance to the formal submission requirements, its adequacy to the journal’s editorial policy, and its potential for publication.

The selection of papers for publication is the responsibility of the Editorial Board of the journal and the referees chosen by it, in a double-blind peer review system. Suggestions of a scientific nature may be made by the reviewers, and, if accepted by the author, will lead to a new analysis.

FORMATTING RULES

3. PAPER
   Page formatting: A4 paper (21cm x 29.7cm);
   
   
4. FONT
   Arial, size 12 for text and titles;
   Arial, size 10 for citation with more than 3 lines, footnotes, pagination, illustrations, and tables captions;
   
   
5. FORMATTING
   • Paragraph formatting:
     Arial, size 12;
     Alignment: justified;
     Line spacing: 1.5 cm;
     Spacing before and after paragraph: 1.5 cm;
     Highlights should be in italics only.
     
     
   • Footnote formatting:
     Line spacing: 1 cm.
     Arial, size 10;
     Highlights should be in italics only.
     
     
   • Formatting of possible direct citation (citation with more than 3 lines):
     Spacing between lines: 1 cm, with a left spacing of 3 cm, only.
     
     
   • Formatting of the Article’s title:
     Arial, size 12, bold, centralized, and with only the first letter in capital.
     
     
   • Subtitle formatting:
     Arial, size 12, bold, left-aligned;
     Each item must be numbered (including the Introduction and Final Considerations sections) with Arabic numerals and separated by only one character space.
     Only the first letter in capital.
     
     
6. MARGINS
   Left and top margins: 3.0 cm;
   Right and lower margins: 2.0 cm.
   
   
7. PAGES
   Pages should be numbered in the header (top) right.
   
   
8. FIRST PAGE
   

   The first page of the paper should contain:

   • Title of the article in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
   • Full name of the authors aligned to the right under the title, separated by simple spacing.
   • First footnote containing: main author's qualifications; Institution of Higher Education or Research to which the author is bound; department of the respective institution; e-mail address, and link for the curriculum and ORCID.
   • Abstract between 150 and 300 words in Spanish, Portuguese and English; they should be presented in a single paragraph each, that is, without indentation. Arial font 11, and double spacing between lines.
   1. The abstract should succinctly contain: the problem to which the research aims to answer (objective), the methodology adopted, the theoretical framework used, the results and conclusions of the research.
   • Three to five keywords, in the original language, in Spanish, Portuguese and English, separated by a period and terminated by a period.
   • Information on financing or benefits received, as well as any conflicts of interest and acknowledgments.

    

9. CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE

   The text of the article should have the following structure:

   • Introduction, containing briefly: contextualization of the research, the problem that is intended to be answered, the hypothesis adopted, justification of the research and its social relevance, the theoretical framework adopted, and the methodology used.
   • Development, containing: literature review, presentation of the research data (theoretical or empirical), data analysis by the author, providing his scientific contribution/innovation of the research to the field of study.
   • Conclusion, summarizing the work in a succinct way, presenting again the research problem, the hypothesis, the justification of the research and its social relevance, the theoretical framework adopted and methodology used, the conclusions of the work and the limitations of the research.
10. FOOTNOTES
    Footnotes should be of an explanatory nature only and should not be used for citations; except for electronic citation cases, which must be indicated in the footnotes, together with the citation page (if any) and the date of access to the material.
    
    
11. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS

These citations should be made by the AUTHOR/DATE system containing, in the body of the text, the author's last name with only the initial letter capitalized/date of publication/page number (e.g. MARX, 1982, p.353);

11. JURISPRUDENTIAL CITATIONS

Must contain at least the following: court, judicial body, nature and number of the case, rapporteur, and date of judgment, in that order. E.g.: STJ, Xª T., REsp xxx.xxx, Rel. Min. Jxxxx Sxxxxx, j. in xx.xx.xxxx; TJRS, X.C., Ap. xxxxxxx.x, Rel. Cxxxx Dxxxxx, j. in xx.xx.xxxx (or, alternatively, publish to xx.xx.xxxx).

12. REFERENCES
    

    The complete references should be presented, in alphabetical order, at the end of the text and left alignment (according to ABNT NBR-6023), with the titles highlighted in bold, single spacing between lines, and separated from each other with double spacing, according to the following model:

    Books:
    a) One author
    SURNAME, Name. Title of the book. City of Publication: Publisher, year of publication.
    Ex: GOMES, L. G. F. Novela and society in Brazil. Niterói: EdUFF, 1998.

    b) Two authors:
    LAST NAME, Name; LAST NAME, Name. Title of the book. City of Publication: Publisher, year of publication.
    Ex: ARAÚJO, I. S.; CARDOSO, J. M. Comunicação e Saúde. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz, 2007.

    c) Four or more authors:
    SURNAME, Name; et al. Book title. City of Publication: Publisher, year of publication.
    Ex: DILGER, Gerhard et al. Descolonizar o imaginário: debates about post-extrativism and alternatives to development. São Paulo: Rosa Luxemburgo Foundation, 2016

    Articles from scientific journals and/or periodicals:
    LAST NAME, Name; LAST NAME, Name. Title of the article. Journal title, Place (city), volume, number, initial-final page, month and year.
    Ex.: RAMOS, André de Carvalho. The new Private International Law and the conflict of sources in international legal cooperation. Journal of the Law School of the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, v. 108, n. 1, p. 621-647, Jan/Dez. 2013.

    Dissertations and thesis:
    SURNAME, Name. Title: subtitle. Year of presentation. Number of sheets or volumes. Category (degree and area of concentration) - Institution, place.
    Ex: MATOS, Laura Germano. Human rights and business: an analysis of Brazilian parameters of liability for damages to outsourced labor in the clothing sector. 2019. 118 f. Dissertation (Master's Degree) - Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Fortaleza.

    Articles in electronic media:
    SURNAME, Name. Title of the article. Journal title, Place (city), volume, number, initial-final page (or article identification code), year. Available in: xxxxxx. Access in: dd/month/year.
    Ex: ARAGÃO, D. M. C. Controversies of world politics in Human Rights: the context in which the treaty on transnational corporations is discussed. Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas, v. 1, n. 2, e:013, 2017. Available at: https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/homa/article/view/30522. Access on: July 31st, 2017.

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