SPLITLAW publishes papers on legal aspects of economic and social development and the challenges of the modern world from doctoral students (PhD students) and post-doctoral (PostDoc) researchers from the field of social sciences – law and other related fields of social sciences or interdisciplinary fields related to law.
The Editorial board accepts for publication only unpublished papers or papers which have not been already sent for publishing in another Journal/ Conference Book of Proceedings. For publishing in SPLITLAW papers should be written in English language, accepted for presentation in the International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law Related Fields – SPLITLAW, presented in the International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law Related Fields – SPLITLAW and and two positive reviews were received in relation to it.
Before the paper is submitted for publication, the author is responsible for ensuring that the English language is thoroughly revised.
All submitted papers will be double-blind reviewed and checked for text similarity (plagiarism).
The papers should be return to the authors if they do not fulfil all substantive and technical standards.
One author can publish a maximum of one (1) paper. It is not possible to publish an paper in co-authorship.
Papers should be sent in electronic form – in Word (.doc or .docx format) to the e-mail address splitlaw@pravst.hr
The paper need to have no more than 10,000 words in length (including tables and references).
Papers main text and the footnotes should be written in the same font (Times New Roman). The font size for the main text is 12 with a spacing of 1,5 and for footnotes 10 with a spacing of 1.
The title of the paper must be both concise and informative. The tables must be clearly and correctly arranged and properly described (number, title, legend).
Unnecessary emphasis (italics, bold, underlined, capital letters) should be avoided, especially in combination with quotation marks (i.e. no “quotation marks”).
Latin expressions and abbreviations are always written in italics (sui generis, infra, op. cit., ibid.).
In addition to the extensive references in footnotes, a bibliography is published at the end of the paper.
The information on literature is given in the FOOTNOTES according to the following rules.
For the first citation, a detailed description of the bibliographic unit is given, usually including the name(s) of the author, the title of the paper, the publisher, the place and year of publication and the page number given. For all types of publications, the surname and then the initial letter of the author’s name are given (different authors are separated by a semicolon), the title of the paper is written in italics (titles of books, articles), and different data are separated exclusively by commas and are always listed in the same order.
- Books
First entry:
Bačić, A.; Bačić, P., Legislatures and parliamentarism (constitutional chrestomathy), Faculty of Law in Split, Split 2007, p. 310.
Further citations:
When notes referring to the same source are cited consecutively, the mark ibidem, abbreviated ibid, is used. (“in the same place”, “the same”). Together with the abbreviation Ibid. the number of the cited page is also indicated.
1 Bačić, A.; Bačić, P., Legislatures and parliamentarism (constitutional chrestomathy), Pravni fakultet u Splitu, Split 2007, p. 310.
2 Ibid., p. 320.
When the same work is immediately continued with the same pages, the Latin term loc. cit. (loco citato, in the quoted place) is used.
1 Hrabar, D.; Hlača, N.; Jakovac-Lozić, D.; Korać Graovac, A.; Majstorović, I.; Čulo Margaletić, A.; Šimović, I., Family Law, Official Gazette, Zagreb 2021, p. 120.
2 Loc. cit.
If it is not possible to use ibid. with page number or loc. cit., it is obligatory to refer to the note in which the first reference is made. Only the author’s surname is given, and if there are more than three authors, only the surname of the first author and the abbreviation et al.
Hrabar, D. et al., op. cit. note 180, p. 125.
- Articles in journals
First entry:
Bilić, A., The impact of COVID-certificates on the right to work and the labor law status of workers in the Republic of Croatia, Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law in Split, year 59, 3/2022, p. 539.
Further citations (according to the rules indicated):
Bilić, op. cit. note 15, p. 541.
When several different works by the same author are mentioned for the first time in the same note, it is cited as follows:
Bilić, The impact…, op. cit. note 15, p. 538.
- Legal acts
The names of legal acts are not written in italics. When the act is first mentioned in the text, the full name of the act and the official gazette in which it was published should be given. Later, the usual abbreviations may be used, with a reference to the abbreviation in the first note mentioning the regulation (further in the text).
Criminal Procedure Act, Official Gazette, No. 152/2008, 76/2009, 80/2011, 121/2011, 91/2012, 143/2012, 56/2013, 145/2013, 152/2014, 70/2017, 126/2019, 126/2019, 80/ 2022 (hereinafter: CPA)
Art. 6. of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Official Gazette – International Conventions, No. 18/1997, 6/1999, 14/2002, 13/2003, 9/2005, 1/2006, 2/2010, 13 /2017 (hereinafter: ECHR)
The same rules apply to European regulations:
Council Directive (EU) 2016/1164 of 12 July 2016 laying down rules against tax avoidance practices directly affecting the functioning of the internal market, OJ L 193 of 19/07/2016 (hereinafter: Council Directive (EU) 2016/1164)
- Network resources
The name of the author and the title of the article or the name of the website, the link to the website and the date the source was accessed are given. The link to the website is not highlighted in any way.
Annual Migration and Asylum Report 2020 for Croatia, National Report (Part II), June 2021, p. 33, https://emn.gov.hr/emn-publikacije/ emn-izvjesca/godisnje-izvjesce-o-migracijama-i-azilu-za-2020-za-hrvatsku/637, 5 June, 2022.
On the other hand, if the main text states what it is about, the note can only contain:
See https://www.pledgesports.org/2020/01/most-followed-football-clubs-on-socialmedia/, 26 February, 2022.
REFERENCES (BIBLIOGRAPHY):
All sources used in the paper should be listed in the bibliography at the end of the paper and arranged and numbered alphabetically by the author’s (or first author’s) surname. The sources should be divided according to the following categories: Books and Articles, Legal Rules, Court Practice, Online Sources. For journal articles, the first and last pages of the article must be listed in the bibliography.
For writing a PAPER, please follow the paper template!
PAPER TEMPLATE
Your full Name and Surname:
Institution/Affiliation of Your work, State:
Name of the doctoral study:
The institution holding the doctoral study, State:
E-mail address:
THE TITLE OF THE PAPER (font size 14)
ABSTRACT (font size 12)
The abstract (up to 250 words) should contain a short and clear presentation of the topic analysed in the paper, a description of the objective and methods as well as an explanation of the scientific/professional contribution of the written paper. – Font size 10, italic, with a spacing of 1.
Keywords (up to five keywords): Keyword 1, Keyword 2, Keyword 3, Keyword 4, Keyword 5 – font size 10, italic
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FIRST-LEVEL HEADING OF THE MAIN TEXT
2.1. The sub-heading
- ANOTHER FIRST-LEVEL HEADING
3.1. Another sub-heading
….
- CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
LEGAL ACTS
NETWORK RESOURCES