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Articles must be sent by e-mail to the Institute of European Studies: estudios.europeos@deusto.es

Author Guidelines

1. Content. The Deusto Journal of European Studies (DJES) journal deals with legal, economic, political, sociological and historical dimensions of the European integration process. It publishes two issues per year (April and October).

2. Submission of originals. Submissions must be original, not previously published elsewhere, and written in Spanish or in any other official language of the European Union. They may also be written in Basque. Articles must be submitted in Microsoft Word or a compatible format.

3. Format. The first page should include the title of the article, both in Spanish and in English; author’s name; academic affiliation and electronic address. The second page should provide a table of contents, two abstracts, one in Spanish and the other one in English, of around 200 words each, as well as key words (from three to five) in both Spanish and English.

4. Editing standards.

   - Length: up to 25 pages.

   - Font and size: Times New Roman 12

   - Footnotes: Times New Roman 10

   - Title of the article: Times New Roman 14, capital letters and bold type.

        • Example: ELECTRICAL ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

   - First level heading: Times New Roman 12, lower case and bold type.

        • Example: Energy policy in the EU

   - Second level heading: Times New Roman 12, lower case and italics.

        • Example: The EU position in international negotiations.

   - Contents

        • Example: Contents: I. Introduction.—II. Legal and institutional framework of environmental policies in the EU. 1. Institutional framework. 2. Legal framework—III. EU’s role in the international negotiations about the climate change. 1. EU’s position in the negotiations. 2. EC’s policies to face climate change. 2.1. Before the Maastricht reform. 2.2 After the Maastricht reform.—IV. Conclusions.

   - Paragraphs: single-spaced, justified, and indented.

        • Example:

        Sin embargo, este artículo hace comprender la ZEE no sólo la columna de agua suprayacente sino el lecho y el subsuelo de la marino, coincidiendo, en parte, con la plataforma continental, como luego veremos.
        ¿Estarían entre estas actividades económicas el almacenamiento de dióxido de carbono? En principio no parece que haya nada que lo impida…

   - Citations and references. Authors are required to format their citations and references using the ‘Notes and Bibliography’ system of the CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style), Spanish edition (Manual de estilo Chicago-Deusto).

5. Review and publication process. Information is provided under the section on the Journal’s peer review policy and process.

6. Fees: no charges for manuscript submission, processing, and publication are applicable.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor-in Chief).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word or a compatible format, and has been sent by email to estudios.europeos@deusto.es.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
Paragraphs are in Times New Roman single-spaced, justified, and indented.
All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

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The author grants to the Publisher the distribution, public communication, and reproduction rights of her/his work subject of publication in Deusto Journal of European Studies (DJES), whichever the media may be, including the permission to include it in the databases where this Journal is indexed and in the institutional repository of the Universidad de Deusto.

Upon its publication, the content of any Issue of Deusto Journal of European Studies (DJES) can be accessed, read, downloaded, copies, and distributed freely for non-commercial purposes and in accordance with any applicable copyright legislation.

The content of Deusto Journal of European Studies (DJES) can be subsequently published in other media or journals, as long as the author clearly indicates in the first footnote that the work was published in Deusto Journal of European Studies (DJES) for the first time, indicating the Issue number, year, pages, and DOI (if applicable). Any other use of its content in any medium or format, now known or developed in the future, requires prior written permission of the copyright holder.

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The content of the work published in Deusto Journal of European Studies (DJES) is each author's sole responsibility. The authors assume the responsibility of obtaining all the necessary licenses for the reproduction in their manuscripts of any text, material or illustration coming from another author, institution or publication. The liabilities that may arise from complaints for publishing plagiarised articles are the sole responsibility of the author.