Guide for Authors

Terms and condition

First

Authors guidelines(Regular Articles):

ARLJ receives submissions with the understanding that the content is original, unpublished material and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere, whether in print or in electronic form. Authors intending to republish articles, or to use previously published material as part of an article, must indicate this intention at the time they accept the invitation to publish or, in the case of unsolicited articles, at the time of submission.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript to ARLJ implies that:

The work described has not been published before;
It is not under consideration for publication anywhere else;
The publication of the work has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Online Submission

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit a manuscript” in Word format at: https://ARLJ.mosuljournals.com/

and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.

Authors submitting to the platform for the first time will be required to create an account to submit their work.

Length Limitations

ARLJ strongly prefers articles under 8,000 words in length including text, footnotes, and appendices. Length over 10,000 words will weigh significantly against selection, and only in rare cases will we unconditionally accept articles over this word limit.

Statements and Declarations

The following statements should be included under the heading "Statements and Declarations". Please note that submissions that do not include relevant declarations will be returned as incomplete.

Authors must state any direct funding that contributed to the research and this statement will be part of the published article if the manuscript is accepted. Also, the Authors must declare and acknowledge any conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any people, organizations, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript.

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The researcher should be committed to the objectivity and scientific approach in research, analysis, and attribution, the research should be linguistically sound, and the references should be written according to the sequence of the research. The list of references should be in Arabic and English. When writing the references for the first time, the first and second names of the author, the title of the research or the book must be underlined, then open parentheses (city ie place of publication, publisher, press, year), page number. If the book or article is written in the list of references, it is in the same order except the page.

When writing the reference for the second time the author must write the second name, family name, title of the source briefly, and then the page number.

Second

Ethics in Publishing

The ethical policy of ARLJ is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with ARLJ Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers, and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with ARLJ. The ethical policy of ARLJ is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published. The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members. The ethical policy insisted the Editor-in-Chief, may confer with other editors or reviewers in making the decision. The reviewers are necessary to evaluate the research papers based on the submitted content in a confidential manner. The reviewers also suggest the authors improve the quality of the research paper by their reviewing comments. Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors. Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. For more details Visit the journal link:

https://ARLJ.mosuljournals.com/journal/process?ethics

Third, Peer-Review Process

To sustain the peer review system, authors must participate in the peer review process to evaluate manuscripts from others. When appropriate, authors are obliged to provide retractions and/or corrections of errors to the editors and the Publisher. All papers submitted to ARLJ journal will be peer-reviewed for at least one round The peer review process is conducted in the online manuscript submission and peer-review system, with respect to the following:

1. The research is subject to peer review by two reviewers with specialization and scientific titles.

2. If both reviewers accept the research scientifically, the research is granted for publication.

3. If the opinion of both reviewers disagrees, the research is referred to a third or arbitrator, whose opinion is decisive in accepting or rejecting the research.

4. The research will be rejected if the decision of all reviewers is not to be accepted for publication in the journal for scientific reasons.

5. ARLJ adopts a double-blinded review policy: authors are blind to reviewers, and reviewers are also blind to authors.

6. It is determined that the research is subject to publication based on the opinions of scientific reviewers as well as the opinions of the editorial board.

Fourth,

1. Title Page

Please make sure your title page contains the following information:

Title

The title should be concise and informative.

Author information
The name(s) of the author(s);
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, country
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author.

4.2.Keywords

Please provide 4 to 8 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

4.3.Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 100 to 150 words. The Journal assumes that the Abstract identifies the subject matter of the article so the journal readers will be able to identify articles that are of interest to them. The abstract should also summarise the distinctive contribution to the literature which the article makes. It should contain most of the keywords associated with the article.

4.4.Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 14 times new roman) for text.

• Use italics for emphasis.

• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.

• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.

• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

4.5.Headings

Please note that a maximum of four levels of heading can be used, one for the title and three within the article.

4.6.Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

4.7.Footnotes

The footnotes are used to provide reference to the main sources relied on to support the research argument. Footnotes are also used to give additional information, but significant points should not be included in the footnotes. The Journal prefers that footnotes do not exceed 20% of the length of the text of the article as a whole. It is important to note that footnotes are used to provide reference to the main sources, and they do not function as a comprehensive list of what the author has read or the materials that the reader could use to follow up the argument.

The ARLJ uses the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA)(https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012quickreferenceguide.pdf). OSCOLA uses footnotes in the text, rather than in-text citation. OSCOLA referencing has 3 elements:

- Citation: Insert a footnote marker in the text 1 to indicate when you are using one of your sources, or when you are citing a legal authority (case, statute, etc).

- Footnote: Located at the bottom of the page, this is the reference. The footnote identifies the source.

- Citation :APA:

- Bibliography

- A list of all the sources you have cited in your work. This is located at the end of your work.

Books

Give the author’s name in the same form as in the publication. Give relevant information about editions, translators and so forth before the publisher, and give page numbers at the end of the citation, after the brackets.

Author, Title (edition, Publisher | year) page number.

Anthea Roberts, Is international law international(Oxford Press, 2017) 99.

Hobbes, Leviathan (first published 1651, Penguin 1985) 268.

Thomas Gareth Jones, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009).

K Zweigert and H Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (Tony Weir tr, 3rd edn, OUP 1998).

Contributions to edited books

Francis Rose, ‘The Evolution of the Species’ in Andrew Burrows and Alan Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)ز

Journal and newspaper articles

If an article is available in print format cite it as a printed article even if you have read it online.

If the article is only available online, include the web address and the date you accessed the article.

To cite a print journal, use the following format:

Format:

Author, │’title’ │(year) │volume │journal name or abbreviation │first page of article

Example:

Paul Craig, ‘Theory, “Pure Theory” and Values in Public Law’ [2005] PL 440

Alison L Young, 'In Defense of Due Deference' (2009) 72 MLR 554.

Online journals

Format:

Example:

Graham Greenleaf, ‘The Global Development of Free Access to Legal Information’ (2010) 1(1) EJLT < http://ejlt.org//article/view/17 > accessed 27 July 2010

Newspaper Articles

To cite a newspaper article, use the following format:

Format:

Author, │’title’ │name of the newspaper │(city of publication, │date of publication) │page on which the article has been published (if known).

Example:

Jane Croft, ‘Supreme Court Warns on Quality’ Financial Times (London, 1 July 2010) 3

Websites and blogs

Websites

To reference information from a website, use the following format:

Format:

Author |‘Web Page Title’(Website, publication date) accessed date

Liberty and the Civil Liberties Trust, (A Year in Review, 2011) accessed 10 August 2012.

Blogs

To reference information from a blog, use the following format:

Format:

Author, 'Entry Title' (Blog Name, publication date) accessed date.

Example:

Sarah Cole, ‘Virtual Friend Fires Employee’ (Naked Law, 1 May 2009) accessed 19 November 2009

R Moorhead, 'Solicitors First' (Lawyer Watch, 25 March 2011) <http://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/solictiors-first/> accessed 13 April 2011.

Author, 'Entry Title' (Blog Name, publication date) accessed date.

If no author is named, use the name of the organization producing the blog. If no person or organization can be identified as being responsible for the blog, begin your footnote with the title of the blog. Always give the access date

4.8.Bibliography

Unlike in footnotes, the author's surname should be listed first, followed by the author's initials. Unlike in the footnotes, you do not list the author's first name, just initials. The secondary material should also be listed alphabetically. If citing more than one work by the same author, list the author’s works in chronological order (oldest first), and in alphabetical order of the first major word of the title within a single year.

Format:

Author surname, first name., Title (edition, Publisher | year)

Example:

Herring J, Criminal Law (7th edn, Macmillian 2011)

Jones G, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009)

4-9.:Introduction

Describes briefly the background of the investigation with updated information and states the aim of the study, Methodology of the study, The hypothesis of the study, Study plan.

4-10: Conclusions

The conclusion should contain the results of the study and recommendations or proposals referred to in the body of the article or study.

4-11.: Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full. Financial support affiliation of the study, if exists, must be mentioned in this section. Therefore, the Grant number of financial support must be included.

4-12.: Conflict of Interest

A conflict of interest statement must be placed in the manuscript as below: "The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this manuscript".

Fifth

AUTHORSHIP CRITERIA

All contributing authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Sufficient participation in the work is of utmost importance. To download the Authorship Form: click here

Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or analysis and interpretation of data. All authors should be involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, must have read and approved the final version of the manuscript, and approve of its submission to this journal.

SIXTH

Al-rafidain of Law explains the type of copyright under which authors' works will be published ... As follows: When submitting a manuscript, authors must attach the full publication agreement to the journal. To download a copy of the agreement with the author (s), please: click here

6-1: Permission required

Permission should be sought from the publisher(Al-rafidain of Law) to reproduce any substantial part of a copyrighted work that depends on both the significance of the material and the quantity of material used. This includes any text, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, or other material from previously published sources used. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners (publisher) and credit the source(s) in the manuscript.

6-2: Permission not required

Copyright protects only original (i.e. creative) material. As such it protects only the particular form of expression of a work and not the ideas or facts contained in it. Public domain works are not protected by copyright and may be reproduced without permission. Permission would however be required to re-use the final formatted, edited, published version of the work in certain cases, as it is owned by the publisher.

SEVENTH

OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION

ARLJ published research work, covering a wide range of legal Sciences. All papers published in ARLJ are open-access and distributed under the open-access license agreement. Under this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content but allow anyone to download, re-use, re-print, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.

EIGHTH

AUTHOR AGREEMENT

To disseminate the authors’ research work, the publishers need publishing rights. For open-access articles, the publisher uses an exclusive licensing agreement in which authors retain copyright in their manuscript.

8-1: User License Agreement

ARLJ provides access to archived material through ARLJ archives. Manuscripts are the parts of an open archive that are made freely available from the ARLJ website after a certain period, which begins from the final publication date of the manuscript. Users or readers of authors’ manuscripts also need to be clear on how they can use the manuscript. All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Permitted reuse is defined by a Creative Commons user license called "Creative Common Attribution". In addition, Al-rafidain of Law retains the copyright of published articles, which is released under a “Creative Commons Attribution License for CC-BY-4.0” enabling the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of an article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

NINTH

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Authors are requested to evident whether impending conflicts do or do not exist. If an organization encompasses any financial interest in the outcome of the study, the authors are appealed to provide a declaration that have full access to all the data in the study and take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. All studies (if necessary, based on the type and subject), must be approved by the relevant Ethics Committee/ Institution review board of the respective institutions. Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to be originated by the authors. A copyright transfer agreement is signed by the corresponding author, upon the acceptance of the manuscript, on behalf of all authors, for publication to be legally responsible towards the Journal's ethics and privacy policy. Authors will be notified as soon as possible of decisions concerning the suitability of their manuscripts for publication in the journal. Once the article has been accepted for publication, it will be copy-edited and typeset, after which the corresponding author will be sent information on accessing page proofs to correct. Other than the correction of typographical errors, alterations cannot be made at this stage. Please note that there are no page charges to publish in ARLJ. The submitted materials may be considered for inclusion but cannot be returned and Editors of the Journal reserve the right to accept or reject any article at any stage, if necessary. to download the conflict of interests form: click here

TENTH

ROLE OF FUNDING SOURCE

Authors are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of research and/or preparation of the article and briefly describe the role of the funder/sponsor in any part of the work including design and conduct of the study, data collection, data management, data analysis and interpretation, preparation, review and approval of the manuscript. The following rules should be followed:

1. The sentence should begin with: ‘This work was supported by …’.

2. The full official funding agency name should be given in an expandable form, not in an abbreviated form.

3. Grant numbers should be complete and accurate and provided in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number ABX CDXXXXXX]’

4. Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers ABX CDXXXXXX, EFX GHXXXXXX]’

5. Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)

ELEVENTH

ERRORS IN PUBLISHED PAPERS

When an author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, the author must promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript. Finally, the corresponding author should be ensured that all appropriate co-authors included in the paper have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

TWELFTH

PLAGIARISM PREVENTION AND VIOLATION OF PUBLICATION ETHICS

All manuscripts under review or published with ARLJ are subject to screening using Plagiarism plagiarism-prevention software called ithenticate. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. Other violations include duplicate publication, data fabrication and falsification, and improper credit of author contribution. Thus, Plagiarism or Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable, and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. It is necessary to mention that ARLJ Journal may ignore a duplicated manuscript up to 20%.

The development of CrossCheck is a service that helps editors to verify the originality of papers. CrossCheck is powered by the Ithenticate software from iParadigms, known in the academic community as a provider of Turnitin. For a searchable list of all journals in the CrossCheck database, please visit: www.ithenticate.com/search

All new submissions to the ARLJ journal are automatically screened using CrossCheck within the editorial system. Editorial Board Member may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript that overlaps with one or more published articles. Note that a high similarity score does not necessarily indicate plagiarized text. A similarity score of 30% could mean 30% text in common with one source but could equally mean 1% text in common with 30 different sources. Re-used text that has been legitimately cited in the Bibliography may all contribute to the similarity score. The subject knowledge of an editorial expert is vital to interpret the CrossCheck report and determining whether there are any grounds for concern..

THIRTEENTH

SUBMISSION FINAL CHECKLIST.

1. Read the Journal’s Guide for Authors and make sure that the manuscript (text, tables, and figures) meets Journal requirements.

2. The manuscript contains the main sections outlined in the Journal’s Guide for Authors.

3. Spell-check the manuscript.

4. All authors must read the Ethics in publishing, Plagiarism prevention, Violation of publication ethics, and Handling cases of misconduct before being submitted to the ARLJ

5. The Manuscript has been read and approved by all listed authors.

6. Not only the Corresponding Author but also the contributors of the manuscript are advised to be registered at the journal website to keep their names in the manuscript bio-sketches.

7. A conflict of interest disclosure form must be signed by the corresponding author in case of multiple authorship, by all authors, for publication to be legally responsible

8. towards the Journal ethics and privacy policy. to download the checklist form: click here

FOURTEENTH

USE OF THE DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes, i.e., When the authors use a DOI to create links to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.

FIFTEENTH: CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION

Permit others to distribute and copy the manuscript, to create extracts, abstracts, and other revised versions, adaptations or derivative works of or from manuscript (such as a translation), to include in a collective work, to text or data mine the article, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the author(s), do not represent the author as endorsing their adaptation of the article, and do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honor or reputation. Further details are found at: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) In addition, ARLJ retains the copyright of published articles, which is released under a “Creative Commons Attribution License for CC-BY-4.0” enabling the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction of an article in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

SIXTEENTH: ARTICLE PUBLICATION FEES

Open-access publishing proposes a relatively new model for scholarly journal publishing that provides worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles. Open access allows all interested readers to view, download, print, and redistribute any article without a subscription, enabling far greater distribution of an author's work than the traditional subscription-based publishing model.

In an open-access model, the publication costs of an article are paid from an author's research budget, or by their supporting institution. Al-rafidain of Law is an Open Access journal; therefore, publishing an article in this journal requires a payment of 100 US$ /130000 ID paid

for publishing fees.

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