Information for Authors

• Submission of manuscripts
• How to contact the Editorial Office
• Peer Review Policy
• Preparation of manuscripts
• Permission to reproduce figures and extracts
• Colour Figures
• Copyright and Licence
• Disclaimer
• Proofs
• Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy
• Advance Access
• Crossref Funding Data Registry
• Availability of Data and Materials
• Data Citation
• Preprint Policy

Submission of Manuscripts

Please read these instructions carefully and follow them strictly to ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as efficient and quick as possible. The Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not in accordance with these instructions.

All material to be considered for publication in Uniform Law Review should be submitted via the online submission system. Please prepare your manuscript according to the instructions below.

Work submitted for publication must be previously unpublished, not under consideration for publication elsewhere and, if accepted, it should not then be published elsewhere in the same form. If previously published figures, tables, or parts of text are to be included, the copyright-holder's permission must have been obtained prior to submission. Further information is provided below.

How to Contact the Editorial Office

Preliminary enquiries should be addressed to the Editorial Office ([email protected]).

Peer Review Policy

This journal operates double-anonymised peer review, meaning that the author's identity is hidden from reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities are hidden from authors. The Editors have oversight of the reviewers and the authors names. For full details about the peer review process, see Fair editing and peer review. For further  information about authoring your article, please see OUP author FAQs.​

Preparation of Manuscripts

Papers must be clearly written in English or French. Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format. Margins of at least 25 mm should be left around all sides of the text. In addition to the full title of the paper, authors should supply a short title for the header of less than 40 characters. The authors' names should appear centred under the title. An asterisked (*) footnote should give the corresponding author's position, institutional address and (if desired) brief acknowledgements (please see Title Page for more details). Papers should also be accompanied by an abstract, which summarizes the paper in less than 300 words. Any footnotes or references should appear in numerical order. The footnote number follows any closing punctuation in English, precedes it in French.

Please prepare your typescript text using a word-processing package (save in .doc, .docx or .rtf format).

Authors should send a single file containing the complete manuscript (i.e. title page, abstract, text, figures and tables), as this makes the reviewing process easier for Editors and referees. This applies to the original version of the manuscript and any revised versions. Due to figure file size constraints, you may submit separate files for figures. The location of Tables and Figures should be indicated in the text.

Please use short, simple filenames when saving all your documents, and avoid special characters, punctuation marks, symbols (such as &), and spaces. If you are a Macintosh user, you must also type the extension at the end of the file name you choose (.doc, .rtf, .jpg, .gif, .tif, .xls, .pdf, .eps, .ppt, .mov or .qt).

Other helpful hints are: (i) use the TAB key once for paragraph indents; (ii) where possible use Times New Roman for the text font and Symbol for any Greek and special characters; (iii) use the word processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Maths, Superscript and Subscript characters; (iv) please avoid using underline: for cases use italic; for emphasis use bold; (v) clearly identify unusual symbols and Greek letters; (vi) differentiate between the letter O and zero, and the letters I and l and the number 1.

Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of all references.

Title Page

The title should be short, specific and informative. The first name, initial(s), and surname of each author should appear centred below the title. It is editorial policy to list only one author for correspondence. The corresponding author should be marked by an asterisk and a footnote provided with his or her department, institution, city with postcode, and country. The fax, telephone number and Email address of the corresponding author should also be provided. Any changes of address may be given next to the Affiliations or Acknowledgements. Any deletions or additions to the author list after acceptance of the paper must be submitted in writing, signed by all authors, to the editorial office.

It is important that authors ensure the following: (i) all names have the correct spelling and are in the correct order (first name, then family name); (ii) initials are correct. Occasionally, the distinction between surnames and forenames can be ambiguous, and this is to ensure that the authors' full surnames and forenames are tagged correctly, for accurate indexing online.

Abstract

An abstract of no more than 300 words should be included with all submissions. The Abstract should be comprehensible to readers before they have read the paper, and reference citations must be avoided. It is essential that the Abstract clearly summarises the article and states the manuscript's relevance to uniform law.

References

Full references should be provided in accordance with the style of Uniform Law Review, which is based on the OSCOLA manual of style. Uniform Law Review allows for some flexibility in the format of references according to country and author preferences.

References should be formatted as footnotes in numerical order. For manuscripts submitted in English, the in-text citation to the footnote number follows any closing punctuation. For those submitted in French, the in-text citation to the footnote number should be placed before the punctuation.

These should be numbered in order of appearance in the text (using footnotes) and must be listed numerically as footnotes. Journal titles and author initials should not be abbreviated but must be spelled in full. Page numbers can be truncated, i.e. type 345–9 not 345–349. The citation of journals, books, multi-author books and articles published online should conform to the following examples:

• Roy Goode and others, Transnational Commercial Law: International Instruments and Commentary (OUP, Oxford 2004)
• MJ Bonell, An International Restatement of Contract Law: The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (3rd edn, Transnational, Ardsley/NY 2005) 133-136.
• John Felemegas (ed), An International Approach to the Interpretation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) as Uniform Sales Law (CUP, Cambridge 2007) 217.
• Luke Nottage, 'Afterthoughts: International Commercial Contracts and Arbitration' (2010) 17 Australian International Law Journal 195, 199.
• Ralf Michaels, 'Privatautonomie und Privatkodifikation: Zur Anwendbarkeit und Geltung allgemeiner Vertragsrechtsprinzipien' (1998) 62 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 580, 612-4.
• Paula Andrea Stange Kahler and Carla Alejandra Quiroga Morales, Interpretación e integración de los Principios de UNIDROIT sobre contratos comerciales internacionales , Thesis, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 2007
• Case 19/84 Pharmon BV v Hoechst AG [1985] ECR 2281
• Barrett v Enfield LBC [2001] 2 AC 550 (HL).
• The citation of case references should follow the systems used in the countries concerned.
• Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (the European Human Rights Convention) (Rome, 4 Nov. 1950; TS 71 (1953); Cmd 8969

Permission to Reproduce Figures and Extracts

Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured by the authors from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors when the manuscript is submitted to the journal. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Please note that obtaining copyright permission could take some time. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section on this page. Should you require copies of this then please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department on [email protected].

For a copyright prose work, it is recommended that permission is obtained for the use of extracts longer than 400 words; a series of extracts totalling more than 800 words, of which any one extract is more than 300 words; or an extract or series of extracts comprising one-quarter of the work or more. For poetry: an extract of more than 40 lines; series of extracts totalling more than 40 lines; an extract comprising one-quarter or more of a complete poem.

Figures

Information on figure submission.

Figure accessibility and alt text

Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.  

Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs. 

Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article. 

Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text. 

Uniform Law Review authors can publish colours in colour online and black and white in print at no charge. If colour reproduction in print is required, an additional charge of €525 per colour figure will apply. Further information will be provided by the Publisher.

Copyright and Licence

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed in the Review are solely those of their authors/ Les opinions émises dans la Revue n'engagent que leurs auteurs .

Proofs

Authors are sent page proofs by email. These should be checked immediately and corrections, as well as answers to any queries, returned to the publishers as an annotated PDF via email within 3 working days (further details are supplied with the proof). It is the author's responsibility to check proofs thoroughly.

Author Self-Archiving/Public Access Policy

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page .

Advance Access

Advance Access articles are published online soon after they have been accepted for publication, in advance of their appearance in a printed journal. Appearance in Advance Access constitutes official publication, and the Advance Access version can be cited by a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier) . When an article appears in an issue, it is removed from the Advance Access page.

Articles posted for Advance Access have been copyedited and typeset and any corrections included. This is before they are paginated for inclusion in a specific issue of the journal. Once an article is published in an issue, both the paginated issue version and the Advance Access version remain accessible and citable online.

Open Access Option for Authors

Uniform Law Review offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.

Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.

Details of the open access licences and open access charges. 

OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.

Third-Party Content in Open Access papers

If you will be publishing your paper under an Open Access licence but it contains material for which you do not have Open Access re-use permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material:

Title of content
Author, Original publication, year of original publication, by permission of [rights holder]

This image/content is not covered by the terms of the Creative Commons licence of this publication. For permission to reuse, please contact the rights holder.

Author Toll Free Link and Discounts

All corresponding authors will be provided with a free access link to their article upon publication.  The link will be sent via email to the article’s corresponding author who is free to share the link with any co-authors.  Please see OUP’s Author Self-Archiving policy for more information regarding how this link may be publicly shared depending on the type of license under which the article has published.

All authors have the option to purchase up to 10 print copies of the issue in which they publish at a 50% discount. Orders should be placed through this order form. Orders must be made within 12 months of the online publication date.

Crossref Funding Data Registry

In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources in the manuscript. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.

Availability of Data and Materials

Where ethically feasible, Uniform Law Review strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.

Data Citation

Uniform Law Review supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:

• [dataset]* Authors, Year, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier

*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.

Preprint Policy

Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.