The documents proposed to be must meet the following criteria:

- Articles should be published in Spanish. The author undertakes not to submit simultaneously for consideration to other national or foreign journals.

- The bold or underlined not be used. When you want something emphasized, italics should be used and when foreign terms or expressions are used.

- The length of articles should not exceed 25,000 words.

- The text should contain a title, a summary in Spanish and, if possible, in English (abstract) of a maximum of one hundred and fifty words (150). Similarly, every article should contain keywords that describe your content as well as a summary thereof.

 - It should be noted in a footnote the author information including institutional affiliation and email address.

- It should be noted the source of the text: if it is the result of an investigation, if it is registered in a research group or project.

The footnotes should be presented according to the Chicago 17th edition style.  For clarity, next, you will find some examples:

-For books: The author's first and last name should be indicated, followed by a period to denote the title of the book in italics. Then, in parentheses, the city of publication should be mentioned. After that, using a colon, include the publisher and the year of publication, and close the parentheses. Following that, use a comma to indicate the page number(s) being cited. If the work has already been cited, only the author's last name, the title of the work, and the page number should be included. If the cited work is the immediately preceding one, use "Ibid." Here are some examples:

Alfredo Molano. Penas y cadenas. (Bogotá: Planeta, 2004), 5.

Molano. Penas y cadenas, 5.

-For journal articles: The author's first and last name should be indicated, using a comma to separate it from the article title in quotation marks. Then, using a comma, include the journal name in italics, followed by the volume, issue number, year in parentheses, and, followed by a colon, the page numbers. If the article has already been cited, only the author's last name, the title of the work, and the page number should be included. If the cited work is the immediately preceding one, use "Ibid." Here are some examples:

Joachim Vogel, “Legislación penal y ciencia del Derecho penal (reflexiones sobre una doctrina teórico-discursiva de la legislación penal)”, Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminología, 2ª época, nº 11 (2003): 249-251.

Vogel, “Legislación penal y ciencia del Derecho penal (reflexiones sobre una doctrina teórico-discursiva de la legislación penal)”, 250.

When referencing the cited works in the bibliography section at the end of the article, they should be listed in alphabetical order by the author's last name, following these rules:

-For books: The author's last name should be followed by a comma, and then the author's first name. Using a period, indicate the title of the book in italics. Then, using a period, include the city. After that, using a colon, include the publisher and the year of publication. Here's an example:

Molano, Alfredo. Penas y cadenas. Bogotá: Planeta, 2004.

-For journal articles: The author's last name should be followed by a comma, and then the author's first name. Using a period, indicate the title of the article in quotation marks. Then, using a period, include the journal name in italics, followed by the volume, issue number, year in parentheses, and, followed by a colon, the page numbers. Here's an example:

Vogel, Joachim. “Legislación penal y ciencia del Derecho penal (reflexiones sobre una doctrina teórico-discursiva de la legislación penal)”. Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminología, 2ª época, n°11, Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, (2003): 249-250.