Submissions

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 manuscript has not been previously published and is not currently submitted to another journal. Please fill, sign and send this "Publishing agreement, statement of article’s originality, and agreement of rules". You can upload the document in PDF as "Supplementary file". Additionally, authors need to provide the authorship information document and, if applicable, other additional documents as detailed in the guidelines for authors .
File format is Microsoft Word, or equivalent format.
Whenever possible, the listed references include URL.
The text is 1.5 spaced, letter sized 12 and uses italics for emphasis. The text includes no except for URL’s addresses. Each table, graphic and picture has been located where appropriate instead of at the end of the text.
Text fulfills the bibliographic and style requirements established in the «Author's Guidelines".
The following authorship data (of all authors) have been included in an additional file: full name, institutional affiliation or professional title, country, ORCID and email.
Five to ten keywords describing the topic(s) of the manuscript are provided, and its translations to English and Spanish.
Manuscript’s title is both in the original language and its English, and Spanish translation.
Abstract (maximum 120 words) in the original language and its translation to English and Spanish are included.
A list of the bibliographical references used in the article has been included at the end of the article, according to APA 7th edition format or Vancouver if the article is in the Medical Sciences.
If applicable, the ethical approval or exemption certificate from the corresponding Institutional Review Board (IRB) , the informed consent form and the participant information sheet have been provided.
I declare to comply with the " Declaration of publishing Ethics and Best Practices for Scientific Journals published by the UB".
If this is the case, it is made explicit in the manuscript that generative AI technologies have been used in its writing.

Author Guidelines

Revista de Bioética y Derecho accepts only original manuscripts for publication. Papers must be written in Spanish, Catalan, French, English, Portuguese or Italian. This journal uses the plagiarism detection tool Ouriginal/Turnitin, so if the article has been previously published or is a translation of one already published, its revision will be rejected by the editorial committee. Also, if the article is being evaluated simultaneously in another journal, it will be rejected.

Manuscripts must be submitted through this link in Microsoft Word or equivalent format. Manuscripts sent by email or in PDF format will not be accepted.

Manuscripts must be type-setted in Times New Roman or Arial font size 12, 1.5 spaced, and must not exceed 6000 words in length (excluding abstract, keywords, footnotes, bibliography or funding). Originals exceeding this limit will not be reviewed. Exceptionally, longer manuscripts sent to sections Perspectivas Bioéticas or Bioética en los tribunales may be accepted provided they do not exceed 9000 words (excluding abstract, keywords, footnotes, bibliography or funding).

Files must include:

Title of the article in its original language and its translation to English and Spanish
Five to ten keywords that describe the content, in both the original language and its translation to English and Spanish
Abstract (up to 250 words) in both the original language and its translation to English and Spanish
A list of the used bibliographical references, at the end of the article

The following complementary files must be attached:

Statement of the article’s originality duly completed, digitally or electronically signed.
Document stating the authorship information of the article, specifying full name, position, institutional affiliation, authors' e-mail address and ORCID code. If the article is the result of or is part of a funded research project, the full name of the project, reference number and funding entity must be indicated. In this document, conflicts of interest must be declared.
If applicable, complementary materials (graphics, tables, infographics or multimedia) should be attached in high resolution and editable formats to be eventually edited according to the journal's stylistic standards.

If the manuscript derives from research where experiments/tests have been carried out on human beings (with biological samples of human origin, personal data, etc.) and/or on non-human animals, the ethical approval or exemption certificate of the corresponding Institutional Review Board (IRB) must be provided. In addition, the informed consent form used in the research must be provided, as well as the information sheet for participants.

Due to possible differences in ethical approval and informed consent requirements between different countries and institutions, the guiding principle will be to follow the requirements and legislation of the country/region in which the study was conducted.

The journal reserves the right to request further information from authors if the information provided is considered insufficient.

Manuscripts are submitted to external double-blind evaluation prior to publication. If applicable, the authors will be informed of the issue of the journal in which they are expected to be published.

Tables, graphics, and pictures should be explained with a brief caption. However, the journal reserves the right to modify either or both the size and/or location in order to comply with layout requirements.

Manuscripts should use gender-neutral wording whenever possible in order to comply with international recommendations regarding gender equality and non-discrimination. For more information, check the University of Barcelona's Style Guide for Gender. We recommend that authors of articles that have been conducted using research data including sex and gender variables, to report on whether the conclusions have taken into account possible differences between these variables.

Bibliography

Both citations and consulted bibliography should be cited at the end of the manuscript, even if also mentioned in footnotes.

We recommend adopting the APA Guidelines 7th ed.

For more information about the rules for authors, please contact obd2[@]ub.edu.

Bioethical Perspectives

Original manuscripts submitted to this section are subject to peer review and may, exceptionally, be up to 9000 words in length.

Monographic Dossier

Special Issues on different topics, which are published with the manuscripts submitted to the journal's call for papers. Original manuscripts submitted to this section are subject to peer review.

General section

Originals submitted to this section are subject to peer review and must be up to 6000 words in length.

Animal Bioethics

Originals submitted to this section are subject to peer review, and must be up to 6000 words in length.

Bioethics in the Courts

Originals submitted to this section are subject to peer review, and may, exceptionally, must be up to 9000 words in length.

Copyright Notice

The author retains the copyright of their articles and grants University of Barcelona to publish them in Revista de Bioética y Derecho, and the right of first publication of the article, and to include them in the indexing and abstracting services, academic databases and repositories in which the journal participates. Likewise, authors may deposit the final version accepted for publication in institutional or thematic open access repositories within the deadlines and under the terms established by the funding institution of the published research.

All articles published in Revista de Bioética y Derecho are under Creative Commons licensing Recognition – Non Commercial – NoDerivedArtwork (by-nc-nd 4.0), which allows sharing the content with third parties, provided that they acknowledge its authorship, initial publication in this journal and the terms of the license. No commercial use of the original work or generation of derivative works is permitted.

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