Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Originality
The Revista Aragonesa de Administración Pública (RArAP) only accepts original and unpublished works for publication.

By submitting a work, its author declares that the text has not been published or is under evaluation in any other scientific journal or media outlet, and agrees not to withdraw it if RArAP decides to publish it after peer review.

2. Objective, Theme, and Audience.
RArAP aims to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of Administrative Law, promoting reflection and debate on current legal issues.

RArAP is aimed at an audience of academics, researchers, experts, and professionals interested in administrative law. Although primarily legal in nature, it is multidisciplinary, especially in those social sciences that contribute to understanding the journal's subject matter: administrative science, political science, sociology, and economics.

3. Submissions
Original works will be submitted through the electronic platform available at https://revistaaragonesa.aragon.es/index.php/raap

Original manuscripts must be submitted as Word documents following the established procedure. Submissions will be anonymized and must adhere to RArAP's formal and stylistic guidelines.
Once a manuscript that meets all formal requirements is pre-accepted, its admission and review process will begin.

4. Formal rules

Heading. In addition to the title, a table of contents will be included, encompassing subdivisions up to the third level. Following the table of contents, an abstract (maximum 200 words) and keywords will be provided, both in Spanish and English.
Cited bibliography : Papers will include a final references section, arranged alphabetically according to the following models:

• Book: GARCÍA DE ENTERRÍA, EDUARDO (2006): La Constitución como norma y el Tribunal Constitucional, 4ª ed., Madrid, Thomson-Civitas, 325 pages.
  
  
• Journal article: FERNÁNDEZ-GARCÍA, JOSÉ FRANCISCO (2024): "La problemática de los parques eólicos y su solución a través del urbanismo", Revista de Estudios de la Administración Local y Autonómica, 22, pages. 53–75. https://doi.org/10.24965/reala.11371
  
  
• Book Chapter: PRIEUR, MICHEL (2001): “La tutela comunitaria degli habitat naturali”, en D. Amirante (ed.), La conservazione della natura in Europa, Milano, Franco Angelli, pages. 13-29.
  
  
• References. In-text and footnote citations should include the first initial, last name, and, in parentheses, the year, a colon, and the page number, following this model: E. GARCÍA DE ENTERRÍA (2006: 25). If several works by the same author published in the same year are cited, they should be distinguished by adding a letter after the year: 2006a, 2006b.

The DOI identifier must be included for references that have one. A search tool can be found at this address: https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery

5. External review. Submitted manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process by expert reviewers in the relevant field or research area, who are independent of the Editorial Board and the RArAP publishing entity.

The peer review will assess the originality, timeliness, and novelty of the studies, their relevance and significance for the advancement of scientific knowledge, as well as aspects related to reliability and scientific validity: proven methodological quality, presentation, writing style, and systematic approach.

Based on the reviewers' reports, the Editors may make one of the following decisions, which will be communicated to the author: publishable with or without modifications, publishable subject to a revised version, or unpublishable.

Published works will expressly indicate the dates of receipt and acceptance by RArAP.

RArAP will maintain the anonymity of the evaluators throughout the review process.

6. Publishing License and Copyright
Accepted articles will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en.

Authors are responsible for respecting intellectual property rights when reproducing materials for their work. RArAP is not responsible for the opinions expressed by the authors of the published works.