Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors wishing to submit their manuscripts to the Journal of Legal and Political Sciences are required to log in or register through the journal’s online submission system and follow the approved submission steps. Submissions are officially considered only when they are submitted through the journal’s electronic system, in order to ensure proper documentation of all stages of submission, initial screening, peer review, and editorial correspondence.

Author Guidelines

The Journal of Legal and Political Sciences welcomes original scholarly manuscripts in the fields of law, political science, and related disciplines. All submitted manuscripts are subject to an initial editorial screening to determine their relevance to the journal’s aims and scope, compliance with the author guidelines, adherence to publication ethics, originality, linguistic quality, and methodological soundness.

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are sent for specialized peer review in accordance with the journal’s approved peer-review policy. The editorial decision to accept, request revision, or reject a manuscript is made on the basis of reviewers’ reports and the evaluation of the editorial board.

Authors are fully responsible for the originality of their manuscript, the accuracy of the information and data presented, the correctness of citation and referencing, and obtaining the necessary permissions for any included or reproduced materials, such as images, tables, documents, datasets, or any materials for which the authors do not hold copyright. All listed authors must approve the order of authorship, their contribution to the manuscript, and share responsibility for its scholarly content.

If the manuscript includes field data, interviews, questionnaires, or information related to individuals or institutions, authors must obtain the necessary ethical or official approvals in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations in the country where the study was conducted.

The editorial board reserves the right to reject any submission that does not meet the minimum scientific, methodological, ethical, or linguistic standards. Before submission, authors should ensure that the manuscript title is concise and accurate, the abstract is informative and self-contained, the research problem, objectives, methodology, and findings are clearly presented, and the reference list is complete and accurate.

Submission Preparation Requirements

Each submission must meet the following requirements:

1. The manuscript must fall within the scope of the Journal of Legal and Political Sciences.
2. The manuscript must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal or publisher.
3. The manuscript must comply with the journal’s author guidelines and approved template.
4. The information of all authors must be accurate and complete, including institutional affiliation and email address.
5. All references must be accurate, complete, and formatted according to the journal’s approved referencing style.
6. All tables and figures must be numbered and cited within the manuscript text.
7. Authors must obtain the necessary permissions for the use of images, tables, documents, datasets, or any other materials for which they do not hold copyright.
8. Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest.
9. Authors must acknowledge any funding or support received for the research, if applicable.

• The use of generative artificial intelligence tools, if any, must be disclosed when used for linguistic or technical assistance, while full scientific responsibility remains with the authors.
• The manuscript must comply with the journal’s plagiarism and similarity policy.
• Any required ethical or official approvals must be attached if the research includes field data, interviews, questionnaires, or information related to individuals or institutions.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Original research articles are published in this section only after passing the initial editorial screening, undergoing specialized peer review, and receiving an editorial decision of acceptance. Book reviews, thesis and dissertation reviews, conference reports, and seminar reports are not classified as original research articles unless clearly stated by the journal and subjected to peer review according to the journal’s policy.