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The Revista Chilena de Derecho Privado contains three permanent sections and three occasional sections. Of the permanent sections, the first, "Doctrine" focuses on the results of unpublished research. The second permanent section is "Comparative Doctrine and Jurisprudence” and contains scientific articles and commentary on foreign rulings. The third section, “Commentary on Jurisprudence,” contains brief critical analyses of salient Private Law judgments. Commentary may be submitted in the following areas of specialization: Law of Obligations and Civil Liability, Special Contracts, Property Law, Family Law, Inheritance and Patrimonial Regimes, Consumer Law, Commercial Law, Competition and Civil Procedure. The objective is to provide the audience with a critical study of relevant jurisprudence in a summarized format.
Of the occasional sections, “Professional Opinion” contains commentary by legal scholars on a specific, case-related issue in their field of expertise. "Legislative News" comments on bills in process or recently enacted laws while “Review” seeks to provide information from authors on publications in the area of private law, both domestically and abroad.
The papers to be published in the July and December issues each year will be received throughout the year, through the OJS platform. Submissions shall be single spaced, with no space between paragraphs and shall use footnotes, not endnotes. Text shall be in Times New Roman size 12 font with footnotes in size 10 font. Manuscripts shall be submitted electronically and formatted for 8.5" x 11" letter-sized paper. Works may be up to 40 pages in length, including the bibliography.
If the same author sends two or more works to the Revista Chilena de Derecho Privado and they are accepted, only one of them will be published per year. The remaining work(s) will be published in successive editions of the Journal.
If the work is co-authored by more than two people, a justification for the format is required. In addition, the contribution of each author to the corresponding section or idea must be expressly stated when the work is submitted.
Papers submitted for the "Doctrine" section will be subject to double- blind peer review. Those submitted for "Doctrine and Comparative Jurisprudence" and "Commentary on Jurisprudence" will be sent to a reviewer. “Professional opinion”, "Legislative News" and "Reviews" will be evaluated and approved by the journal's management.
In the event that the author of the text maintains any link or affiliation with the Fundación Fernando Fueyo, the Universidad Diego Portales or is a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal, the number of reviewers will rise. The "Doctrine” articles will be submitted to a triple-blind peer review, while the works for the sections on "Doctrine and Comparative Jurisprudence" and "Commentary on Jurisprudence" will be submitted to a double-blind peer review.
The management shall undertake to ensure that no more than 20% of “Doctrine” section authors annually are affiliated with the Fernando Fueyo Foundation and/or the Universidad Diego Portales. If the submission threshold rises above that limit, the remaining papers submitted and accepted by the Journal will be published the following year.
Upon receipt, papers will be subject to a plagiarism check based on Turnitin. The report will be examined by the journal's management or the Editorial Committee, who will determine if the paper will be reviewed.
Journal management will send the work submitted for publication to the corresponding experts. Papers submitted for the permanent sections of the Journal will be forward to two experts for a refereed, double-blind peer review. Review will be based on the following: subject matter on Private Law; original and unpublished analysis; quality of argumentation; methodology, hypotheses, objectives and conclusions of the research, if it is an article. Also, language and style and bibliography and/or salient jurisprudence. Reviewers may recommend accepting the paper, accepting with corrections or rejecting the work.
In the event of a discrepancy between the two peer reviewers, the journal's management will forward the paper to a third peer for review.
Only original, unpublished works will be considered.
The journal will only receive and submit for review papers that have been completed and are the result of previous research. The Journal does not have, nor does it intend to have, a repository of preprints.
The official languages of the journal are Spanish and English. Translations of papers previously published in another language are not considered unpublished.
All papers, except those in Reviews shall be accompanied by a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words and no more than four keywords, all in both English and Spanish.
The name of the author and the university or institution of affiliation shall be presented under the title of the paper. At the bottom of the first page, the author will indicate the highest academic credential he or she holds and the granting institution. The author shall also indicate there the postal address for the University, think tank or institution of affiliation and provide a work email address and ORCID number.
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Standardization of Author Names:
Authors must use a unique signature format that distinguishes them from their peers, which must be used in all their papers.
Standardization should be applied to first and last names, as expressed below:
Guzmán-Pérez, Carlos A.
Paternal last name / Maternal last name (if applicable)/ first name / middle initial
Special cases:
7.1 Authors with identical names: the middle name should be included.
Guzmán-Pérez, Carlos Andrés
Paternal last name / Maternal last name (if applicable)/ first name / middle name
Guzmán-Pérez, Carlos Antonio
Paternal surname / Maternal surname and first name 1 / middle name
7.2 First names that function as surnames: a hyphen must be used between the two surnames.
Alonso-Rodríguez, Marcos René
Paternal last name - Maternal last name (if applicable)/ first name / middle name
7.3 Compound names (e.g., María del Pilar): the middle name should be incorporated without including the connector "del.”
González-Rivadeneira, María Pilar
Paternal last name - Maternal last name (if applicable)/ first name / middle name
Compound surnames (e.g., del Valle Ortiz, Carlos): join the connector "del" with a hyphen to avoid confusion in indexing.
del-Valle-Ortiz, Carlos A.
Paternal last name - Maternal last name (if applicable)/ first name / middle initial
Note: if hyphens are placed before the comma, the indexing rules understand that everything before the comma is part of the surname.
7.5. Abbreviations for names: not recommended. Please use, for example:
Román-Escudero, Fernando Andrés
Paternal last name - Maternal last name (if applicable)/ first name / middle name
Standardization of institutions:
Please use the following rules to ensure standard naming protocols in for institutions in Spanish:
Universidad de La Frontera
Full name of institution in Spanish.
Universidad Católica de La Santísima Concepción
Full name of institution in Spanish.
Note that the acronym of the institution should not be utilized.
Subdivisions
8.1 Subordinate units to a central institution: should begin with the most senior entity and be separated by a comma.
Universidad de La Frontera, School of Medicine, CIGES
Institution in Spanish, subordinate unit, acronym.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, CEDEUS
Institution in Spanish, acronym.
8.2 Research centers: identify the full name of the center in its original language. Please also include the acronym to ensure unequivocal identification.
Centro de Investigacio´n en Ecosistemas de La Patagonia (CIEP)
Institution name (not translated) (acronym in original language).
Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia Valparai´so – CINV
Institution name (not translated) (acronym in original language).
Standardization of acknowledgments to ANID funds:
All works published in this journal associated with projects financed by ANID must note the acknowledgement and source. Standardization protocol is:
ANID/FONDECYT/Regular 1161504
Funding agency/acronym/project code
Special cases
9.1. Document financed by more than one ANID fund:
For these cases, the above example should be replicated for each fund.
For example, if the paper was financed by FONDECYT numbers 1170893, 1171463, 1201734, 11180987 and 1160800, the following notation should be used:
ANID/FONDECYT/Regular 1170893
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ANID/FONDECYT/Regular 1160800
9.2 Acknowledgments
If funding is included in the acknowledgement, it should explicitly describe the funding agency, acronym and code, following the instructions above.
This research has been supported by the following grants:
ANID/FONDECYT/INICIACION/11180360; ANID/FONDAP/15130009; ANID/Millennium
Science Initiative/Grant NCS17_062 "Millennium Nucleus for the Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability (MLIV).
The body of the text shall be divided into sections using Roman numerals.
Each paragraph may be subsequently divided using Arabic numbers, followed by a period (1.). Should subsequent subdivisions be made of a paragraph, they will be listed with letters followed by a close parenthesis [a), b), c), etc.].
As a fundamental prerequisite, authors shall spell out all abbreviations and acronyms and provide a complete list of them with their submission.
Citations of bibliography, regulations and jurisprudence shall adhere to the following standards:
NCh1143.Of1999 Documentation - Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure. Equivalent to ISO 690.
NCh1143 / 2. Of2003 Information and documentation - Bibliographical references - Part 2: Electronic documents or parts thereof Equivalent to ISO 690-2
10. Bibliography Cited. Complete references to the bibliography cited shall be included at the end of the work, under the title "Bibliography Cited.” All references to books, book chapters, journal articles or publications in electronic format must be included and alphabetically listed according to the author's surname in small caps.
Examples of complete reference:
Book with one author: FERRANDO, María de Lourdes (1999). La información de las entidades de crédito. Estudio especial de los informes comerciales bancarios. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
Book composed of more than one volume: ALESSANDRI RODRÍGUEZ, Arturo (2011). De la compraventa y de la promesa de venta. Santiago: Editorial Jurídica de Chile, tomo I, vol. 2.
Chapter of book or compilation: GUZMÁN BRITO, Alejandro
(2008). “Las prendas ordinaria y sin desplazamiento de la ley N° 20.190, recaídas en cosa ajena,” in Fabricio MANTILLA y Carlos PIZARRO (coords.). Estudios de Derecho Privado en homenaje al profesor Christian Larroumet. Santiago: ediciones de la Fundación Fernando Fueyo Laneri.
Journal articles: REMY, Phillippe (2002). “Planiol: un civiliste à la Belle Epoque.” Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Civil, January/March.
Translations: ZIMMERMANN, Reinhard (2008). El nuevo derecho alemán de obligaciones. Un análisis desde la Historia y el Derecho comparado. (trad.) Esther ARROYO I AMAYUELAS. Barcelona: Bosch.
Electronic Documents: PIZARRO, Carlos (2007). “¿Puede el acreedor poner término unilateral al contrato?” Ius et Praxis, vol. 13, N° 1. Available at: https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-00122007000100002. [Viewed on: July 23, 2020].
Footnotes to cited bibliography shall be presented as follows: Author's last name in SMALL CAPS, year of publication (in parenthesis), page number for the reference.
Readers may obtain complete data for the reference in "Bibliography Cited" section.
Examples of abbreviated reference:
Works with one author: FERRANDO (1999), pp. 22-24.
Works with two authors: LÓPEZ and ELORRIAGA (2017), pp. 401-422.
Works with more than two authors: DÍEZ-PICAZO, Luis et al. (2002), p. 54.
Work contained in volumes: ALESSANDRI (2011), volume I, vol. 2, pp. 25-40.
Two or more works by the same author published the same year: CORRAL (2008a) and CORRAL (2008b).
11. Regulations Cited. The complete references of regulations cited shall be included at the end of the work, under the title "Regulations Cited." All legal or regulatory references must be included. In the case of legislation, the official name, number, title of the publication in which it officially appears and date of publication (day, month, year) shall be cited. This requirement does not apply to national Constitutions or Codes. It shall suffice to mention them by their official name.
Example of a complete reference: Law #19.496, Normas sobre protección de los derechos de los consumidores. Official Gazette, March 7, 1997.
Regulations shall be footnoted in abbreviated form as follows: Name or number of the law and year of publication.
Readers may obtain complete data for the reference in the "Regulations Cited" section.
Example of abbreviated reference: Law #19.496, 1997.
Jurisprudence Cited The complete case citations shall be included at the end of the work, under the title "Jurisprudence Cited." Citations will be listed chronologically and alphabetically by the name of the parties. Citations will include the parties, case number, court, date and place of publication.
Judgments shall indicate the name of the parties and the year of publication (in Roman numerals between parenthesis), followed by a colon (:) the name of the issuing court, date the ruling was issued (day, month, year), case number and where the decision was published using complete or abridged citation including volume, year, section and page or identifying number if cited from an electronic database.ear, sections and page or identifying number if it is an electronic database.
If the parties to the judgment are individuals, only their initials should be cited to protect their identity and personal information.
Examples of complete references: G.F.R.G. con Comercial Automotora del Maule S.A. (2003): Supreme Court, July 24, 2003, Rol Nº 1726-2002 in Gaceta Jurídica, 277, p. 245 and ss.
A.R.R. con Aguas del Altiplano S.A. (2008): Iquique Court of Appeals, March 10, 2008, Rol Nº 165-2007, Legal Publishing CL/JUR/5359/2008.
Supreme Court Judgment (1993): February 19, 1993, No. 130/1993, in ECLI:ES:TS:1993:19110.
Rulings shall be footnoted in abbreviated form as follows: The name of the parties shall be listed in italics, followed by the year the judgment was issued (in parenthesis, no italics).
Readers may obtain complete data for the reference in "Jurisprudence Cited" section.
Example of abbreviated reference
Example: A. R. R. with Aguas del Altiplano S.A. (2008).
Supreme Court Ruling (1993).
Other
Complete references to other documents (resolutions, official letters, reports, circulars) should be included at the end of the work, under the heading "Other.” They will be ordered chronologically and alphabetically by the name of the issuing agency, the type of document, the date, place and date of consultation.
Example of complete reference: National Consumer Service, exempt resolution 371 of April 23, 2020. Available at www.sernac.cl/portal/618/articles 58529_archivo_01.pdf [date of consultation May 24, 2021], if the source is electronic. If not, the place of publication, the number or volume if applicable, city, year and pages.
Example of an abbreviated reference: National Consumer Service (2020), p. 4 (if applicable).
