Author Guidelines

In order to guarantee a minimum of uniformity of the articles contained in JIPITEC, manuscripts
submitted should be in conformity with the following author guidelines and should be formatted as
carefully as possible and written in a word document.

Text:
In formatting the text body of the manuscript

• After the title, the name of the author/the authors should be given; list titles, affiliation and any
other author information in a note with an “*”.
• Each article should be preceded by an abstract!
• the abstract should always be in English, irrespective of the language in which the article is written.
• For headings the format A.I.1.(a)(aa) should be used; main titles should be in bold type; headings
should not end with a period unless they end with an abbreviation.
• Words at the end of a line should not be manually divided; automatic hyphenation should be
deactivated.
• Words emphasised should be in italics (not underlined).
• As a principle, double quotation marks (“…”) should be used. If there are further quotation marks
within the quotation marks, then use simple once (‘…’).
• At the first level parentheses ( ), and at the second level square brackets [ ] should be used.

Footnotes:

• Notes should be footnotes and should always end with a period.
• Cross references, books, articles, etc. should be cited according to The Oxford University
Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA), 4th Edition 2012.
• Court decisions may be cited as they appear in the author’s home jurisdiction.
• Hyperlinks should be put in < >, e.g.:
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1783577##>.