Style Sheet

for authors preparing texts for the

Review of Comparative Law

(text not fulfilling those rules will not be accepted)

 

I.                  Prepared text should be send by email to the address: review@kul.pl. Attached it should be a short summary of a text (about half of page).

 

Style:  (Times New Roman 12, interlinear spacing: 1,5)

II.               Headings. We would ask authors to use only capitals in title and headings. The subheadings should not be in capitals. After the title of an article, the author name should be given, and affiliation in first footnote (footnote with: * ).

 

NECESSITY AND DURESS – VALID DEFENCES FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES?

Sabina Zgaga * (affiliation in footnote)

1.      HEADING

A.     Subheading

 

III.               Footnotes:  Footnote numbers should be placed after the punctuation mark.

                          Footnotes should have the same paragraph (indention) as the main text

 

Monographs:

J. Giebułtowicz, Odpowiedzialność przestępców wojennych w świetle prawa narodów, Warszawa 1945, p. 34.  

(Name, Title, place of publication, year and pages should be added).

     

 

Books:

           M. Bohlander (ed.), International Criminal Justice: A Critical Analysis of Institutions and Procedure, London 2007, p. 32.  

 

 

     Articles:

 

        Included in books:

D. F. Orentlicher, Striking balance: Mixed Law Tribunals and Conflicts of Juridiction, [in:] M. Lattimer, P. Sands (ed.), Justice for Crimes Against Humanity, Portland 2007.

 

         Included in journals:

B. Thompson, Child Abuse in Sierra Leone: Normative Disparities,   „International Journal of Law and Family” 1991, vol. 5, p…

(name, title of article in italics, journal title in quotation marks (no italics), year, volume and pages should be added).

 

First time we use footnote, above rules are required. 

                 ‘Ibid.’ is used where there are two or more consecutive references to the same work.

                       ‘op.cit. ’ – if we use the same work  later in text

   If we have two or more works of one author we use abbreviated title (understood for a reader) ended with dots…

 

           

 

JUDGMENTS:

               GENERAL RULES: – The case name (no italics), the name of organ, date of publishing,  references of publishing (abbreviated), paragraphs (para.). 

               ex.   Prosecutor v. Tadić, Case No. IT-94-I-T, Judgment, 7 May 1997, para. 37 .

               Ireland v. United Kingdom, ECHR (1978) Series A, No. 25, para. 90.  

 

 

 DOCUMENTS:

 

               All treaties, regulations, directives and decisions should be cited with their whole title, date of adoption, number and paragraphs (para.) or articles (art.) Author should use the proper citation rules for the legal acts under his/her particular national system.:

 

             ex. General Assembly Resolution 47/121, The Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted at the 91st plenary meeting, 18 December 1992, para. 2.

 

               An abbreviated version can be used for the second time. 

 

            Ex. GA Res. 47/121, para. 4. 

  

          

 

Use of capital letters: names of organs, title of treaties: first letter should be capital: International Criminal Court, The Rome Statute.