About the Journal

Topics of Interest

“Parlamento y Constitución” accepts works related tosubjects related to Constitutional Law, Constitutional History, State Theory and especially Parliamentary and Autonomous Law.

Section policies

The sections may vary depending on the works received, although there will always be a minimum of three studies.

Studies

Open submissions

 Indexed

 Peer-reviewed

Articles and notess

Open submissions

Indexed

 Peer-reviewed

Conferences

Open submission Indexed  

Reviews

Open submissions Indexed  

Chronicles

Open submissions Indexed  

Jurisprudentials comments

Open submissions Indexed  

Profiles

Open submissions Indexed

New transversal righ of people with disabilities

Open submissions Indexed

Publication Frequency

The Yearbook is published annually.

Open Access Policy

This Yearbook provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public in order to foster greater global knowledge exchange.

"Parlamento y Constitución" does not charge fees for the submission of papers, nor does it charge fees for the publication of its articles.

"Parlamento y Constitución" is free from the moment of publication of each issue and its contents are distributed under the Creative Commons license, which allows the user free and open access, criteria that comply with the definition of open access of the Budapest Declaration in favor of open access.

licencia Creatve Common

 

Preservation Policy

Digital preservation is understood as a set of processes and activities that ensure that information that now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to ensure continued long-term access.

This journal is supported by the services of the Information and Communications Technology Department of the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, which is responsible for its preservation through backups.

Aditionally,  "Parlamento y Constitución" has enabled the automatic preservation of published journal content in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP|PN).

Publications Ethics and malpractice Statement

 A: Publication and authorship

  • The submitted papers must be original and unpublished. The journal will use anti-plagiarism tools to ensure this.
  • All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least two national and international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
  • The factors that are taken into account in review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability and language.
  • The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
  • If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
  • Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
  • The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
  • No research can be included in more than one publication.

 B: Authors' responsibilities

  • Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
  • Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
  • Authors must participate in the peer review process.
  • Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  • All Authors must have significantly contributed to the research.
  • Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
  • Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
  • Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
  • Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors.

 C: Reviewers' responsibilities

  • Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
  • Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
  • Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
  • Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
  • Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  • Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 D: Editors' responsibilities

  • Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
  • Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
  • Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
  • Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
  • Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources.
  • Editors should base their decisions solely one the papers' importance, originality, clarity and relevance to publication's scope.
  • Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
  • Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
  • Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
  • Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
  • Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
  • Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions, they should have proof of misconduct.
  • Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers and board members.

 

 

ISSN 1139-0026 = Parlamento y Constitución [Versión en papel]
ISSN 2695-9909 = Parlamento y Constitución [Versión electrónica]