Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

NORMA welcomes both national and international legal scholars and practitioners to contribute and publish their original ideas whether it is theoretical or empirical papers, as it is the aims of this journal. 

Papers published in NORMA shall be about legal issues in the field of:

  • Private law;
  • Criminal law;
  • Islamic law;
  • International law;
  • Constitutional law; and
  • Procedural law.

 

Section Policies

Articles

This section is for all general articles that will be published in NORMA

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

NORMA will publish the only paper strictly following NORMA guidelines and manuscript preparation. Those papers are read by editorial members (upon field of specialization) and will be screened by Managing Editor to meet necessary criteria of NORMA publication. NORMA has reviewing forms in order to keep the same items reviewed by two reviewers. The editorial board will make a decision upon the reviewer's recommendation. Reviewers will give their assessment on originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to the field/science, and everything related to the substance of the paper. NORMA has three kinds of decisions:

Accepted, as it is
Accepted by Revisions (let authors revised with stipulated time)
Rejected (generally, on grounds of the outside of scope and aim, major technical description problems, lack of clarity of presentation)

NORMA Editorial Board will screen plagiarism with Turnitin. If it is found plagiarism indication more than 25% (twenty five percent), the editorial board will reject the manuscript immediately.

Before publishing, it is required to obtain written confirmation from authors in order to acquire copyrights for papers published in the journal. Authors must sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement (Downloadable) as follows: The undersigned hereby transfer any and all rights in and to the paper including without limitation all copyrights to NORMA. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required. The undersigned represents that he/she has the power and authority to make and execute this assignment. This agreement is to be signed by at least one of the authors who have obtained the assent of the co-author(s) where applicable.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.