Author Guidelines

Manuscript Types

Rechtsidee exclusively accepts Original Research Articles that present original, significant, and methodologically rigorous contributions to legal scholarship, particularly in the fields of Legal Studies and Human Rights.

Submitted manuscripts may employ normative or doctrinal, empirical, socio-legal, comparative, or interdisciplinary legal research approaches. All research approaches must demonstrate methodological rigor, analytical depth, and a clear contribution to the advancement of legal knowledge.

Each manuscript must clearly identify the research problem, establish its scholarly contribution, explain the research methodology, and present findings supported by critical legal analysis, relevant evidence, and well-founded arguments.

Rechtsidee does not accept review articles, book reviews, opinion papers, or manuscripts that merely describe legal provisions without substantial original analysis or meaningful scholarly contributions.

All submissions must comply with the journal's Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics, and Peer Review Policies to ensure academic integrity, research originality, and publication quality.

1. Create your ORCID ID in http://orcid.org/ , download ORCID tutorial in here (ORCID Tutorial in Indonesia), (ORCID Tutorial in English)      
2. Insert your ORCID ID to the registration form. 
3. Authors should submit only papers that have been carefully proofread and polished in English or Indonesian Languange
4. The work should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, or extended version of previously published papers in conferences and/or journals.

We provide our authors flexibility in formatting their manuscripts. Therefore, we do not use any specific template. However, author require to obey this following rules:

1. Title in English and Indonesia, within 8-12 Words. The manuscript title is short and informative.
2. The abstract is in English and can be read as stand-alone text and does not exceed 300 words.
3. We accept article in any length. we do not impose any limit on article length or the number of tables and figures.
4. For citation and references, please use Vancouver system (author-number system). See this (wikipedia) for example. However, please use square bracket for citation rather than superscript. Use of reference manager is preferable.
5. Your references is within 15-30 references (more than 30 is allowed for review article type). Website reference allowed only if the URL is permanent, and not more than 10% of the references. You can use perma.cc, archive.today, or archive.org to permanent your URL.
6. Please insert the fund name and contract number, if available.
7. Languange of the article is English or Indonesia. The article sections in sequence are introduction, literature review (if any), methods (if any), results and discussion (if any), conclusions, acknowledgment (if any), funders (if any), conflict of interest statements, and references.

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