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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The text complies with the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for submission and publication in the RBDU, and also makes use of the “Author Guidelines Model”.


    Articles written using the AUTHOR–DATE citation format will not be accepted for publication; only the numerical citation system presented in footnotes is permitted.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and it is not under review for publication in any other journal.



    Attention: the RBDU does not publish articles written exclusively by undergraduate or master's students.
  • The text files for submission are in Microsoft Word format (provided they do not exceed 2 MB).
  • The article includes an abstract in Portuguese and keywords.
  • The article contains an abstract and a title in English, as well as keywords.
  • All authors must be registered with ORCID and provide their ORCID iD in the corresponding field at the time of submission. More information at: ORCID for Researchers
  • Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

    Authors must disclose the use of any Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools, such as ChatGPT or other large language model (LLM)–based systems, employed in the development of any portion of their manuscript, in the Methods section of the research. AI-generated content is discouraged unless it forms part of the research design or formal methodological procedures, and it is not permitted without a clear description of the content produced and the name of the model or tool used. Furthermore, such tools cannot function as authors nor be listed as such.
  • The article is between 15 and 25 pages long, including references and any appendices.

Author Guidelines

1. Continuous flow submission of articles

Proposals for articles submitted on a continuous flow basis for publication in the Brazilian Journal of Urban Law must be sent through the electronic submission system (free of charge), by registering in the Electronic System and accessing it via login and password on the journal’s website.

Proposals sent by e-mail will not be accepted. The journal reserves the right to accept or reject any original submission received, in accordance with the recommendations of its editorial board, including rejection due to inadequacy of the article’s subject matter in relation to the journal’s editorial profile, as well as the right to propose eventual changes.

2. Authors’ qualifications

Texts may be written by up to three authors, preferably by postgraduate (stricto sensu) students, with the participation of at least one author holding a doctoral degree, Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D. or S.J.D.), Doctor juris (Dr. iur. or Dr. jur.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), or Legum Doctor (LL.D.).

3. Originality and exclusivity

Texts submitted for publication in the Brazilian Journal of Urban Law must be original and submitted exclusively to the journal, except in the case of articles written in a foreign language that have been published outside Brazil.

Once published in this journal, articles may also be published in books and collections, provided that the original publication is duly cited. Authors are requested to commit not to publish the article in other journals or periodicals, and to ensure that the submission is not simultaneously under review by another journal or editorial body.

4. Languages

Articles may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.

5. Metadata registration in the electronic submission system

5.1. At the time of submission, metadata fields must be completed in full and in accordance with these guidelines, under penalty of immediate rejection.

5.2. Authors
5.2.1. Name/Middle Name/Surname: full name(s) of the author(s), with the initials of each name in uppercase. In co-authored articles, all authors must be entered in the system in the order in which they should appear in publication.

5.2.2. E-mail: contact e-mail of the author(s), which will be mandatorily disclosed in the published version.

5.2.3. ORCID iD: indication of the ORCID identifier, including the full URL (e.g., https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1781-1726).

5.2.4. URL: link to the author’s full curriculum vitae. Brazilian authors must provide the Lattes CV link.

5.2.5. Institution/Affiliation: indication of the main institutional affiliation, written in full and in the institution’s original language, followed by the country in parentheses.

5.2.6. Country: indication of the country of the main institutional affiliation.

5.2.7. Biography summary: brief academic biography, starting with institutional affiliation, followed by academic degrees in descending order.

5.3. Title and Abstract
5.3.1. Title: title in the language of the article, with only the first letter capitalized.
5.3.2. Abstract: abstract in the article’s language, without paragraphs, citations, or references, with a maximum of 200 words.

5.4. Indexing
5.4.1. Keywords: exactly five keywords in the article’s language, in lowercase and separated by semicolons.
5.4.2. Language: indicate the language code (Portuguese = pt; English = en; Spanish = es).

5.5. Contributors and funding agencies: funded research must indicate the source of funding.

5.6. References: complete list of references cited, with one space between each entry.

6. Text presentation and pre-textual elements

The article must contain between 15 and 25 pages (A4), follow formatting standards (Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 spacing), and comply with ABNT standards. The structure must include title, abstracts, keywords, summary, development, and references, as specified. See “Author Guidelines Model”.

7. Scientific methodology and normalization

References must appear in footnotes, following ABNT NBR 6023:2018. The AUTHOR–DATE citation system is not accepted; only numerical footnotes are permitted.

8. Writing

Texts must be revised and comply with academic editorial language. Portuguese texts must follow the Orthographic Agreement in force since 2009.

9. Funded research

Funding information must be included in a footnote attached to the article title.

10. Copyright statement

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal first publication rights under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

11. Authors’ responsibility

Authors are fully responsible for the content, results, and validity of the research.

12. Conflict of interest

Authors, reviewers, and editors must declare any conflicts of interest. All submissions are evaluated through a double-blind peer review process.

13. Other information

Articles are evaluated by the Editorial Board and peer reviewers. Authors have the right to appeal editorial decisions within five days.

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