Author Guidelines

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author Guidelines

TITAH: Journal of Law

These guidelines provide the essential requirements for preparing and submitting manuscripts to TITAH: Journal of Law. Authors are expected to follow the journal template, scholarly publishing standards, publication ethics, and the requirements described below before submitting their manuscript.

Important Before Submission

Authors must prepare their manuscript using the official TITAH: Journal of Law manuscript template. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's focus and scope, manuscript structure, formatting, academic standards, or publication ethics may be returned for correction or declined during the preliminary editorial screening.

Language

Manuscripts should be prepared consistently in the language adopted by the journal and written in clear academic language.

Main Font

Garamond, 12 pt for the abstract and main manuscript body.

Citation Style

APA 7th Edition, with accurate citation of legal authorities.

Review Process

Submitted manuscripts undergo editorial screening and scholarly peer review.

Official Manuscript Template

Authors should prepare the manuscript using the official TITAH template before submission.

Download Manuscript Template

Types of Manuscript

TITAH: Journal of Law accepts scholarly manuscripts within its stated aims and scope. Authors should identify the appropriate manuscript category in the template.

Research Article Doctrinal Article Review Article Case Note Comparative Legal Study

Originality and Scholarly Quality

The manuscript must constitute an original scholarly contribution and should not have been published previously or be simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

Authors must clearly identify the legal problem, research gap, novelty, research objective, research question or legal proposition, and explain the manuscript's contribution to legal scholarship, law reform, judicial or professional practice, regulatory development, or public policy.

The manuscript should demonstrate critical legal analysis rather than merely describe legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, or other legal materials.

General Manuscript Formatting

Element	Requirement
Paper Size	A4
Margins	2.5 cm on the left, right, top, and bottom
Main Text	Garamond, 12 pt
Manuscript Title	16 pt, bold, centred
Author Names	12 pt, centred
Affiliation	11 pt, centred; Department, Faculty, University, City, Country
Main Headings	14 pt, bold
Subheadings	12 pt, bold

Avoid hard tabs, unnecessary paragraph breaks, manually created page numbers, endnotes, headers, or footers. Tables and figures must be positioned near their first citation in the text.

Title, Authors, and Affiliations

The title should be concise, informative, specific, and accurately represent the legal issue examined. Avoid excessively broad or generic titles.

Author names must be written consistently. Each author's institutional affiliation should follow:

Department, Faculty, University, City, Country

The corresponding author must provide a valid email address. Email addresses for other authors should also be provided as required in the journal template.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract must be 150–250 words, contain no citations, and be presented as a structured abstract using the following five components:

Purpose

Methodology

Findings

Implications

Originality

Provide a maximum of five keywords, separated by commas. Keywords should accurately represent the manuscript's principal legal concepts, doctrines, institutions, or research themes.

Manuscript Structure

6.1 Introduction

Establish the legal problem and its doctrinal, constitutional, regulatory, institutional, socio-legal, and, where appropriate, comparative context. Identify relevant legal norms and contemporary legal or policy developments. The introduction must clearly state the research gap, novelty, objective, research question or legal proposition, and the contribution of the study.

6.2 Literature Review

Critically synthesize relevant legal scholarship, legislation, regulations, judicial decisions, treaties, official reports, books, and other authoritative materials. The review should be organized around legal doctrines, concepts, jurisprudential developments, competing interpretations, regulatory approaches, and unresolved legal problems rather than merely listing previous authors.

6.3 Legal and Conceptual Framework

Develop the framework from relevant legal doctrines, theories, constitutional principles, statutory concepts, jurisprudence, regulatory theory, comparative law, or socio-legal theory. Define the principal concepts and explain how the framework guides the analysis.

6.4 Research Methods

Authors must identify and justify the research design. Appropriate approaches may include doctrinal/normative legal research, statutory analysis, case-law analysis, conceptual analysis, comparative law, historical legal research, socio-legal or empirical legal research, or mixed-method research.

For doctrinal or normative research, distinguish primary and secondary legal materials and explain their authority, hierarchy, relevance, and temporal scope. Describe the legal approaches and techniques of interpretation used.

For empirical or socio-legal studies, explain participants or units of analysis, sampling, instruments, research ethics, data collection, validity or trustworthiness, and analytical procedures sufficiently to support methodological transparency.

6.5 Results and Discussion

Present the findings in a logical sequence and explain their doctrinal, jurisprudential, regulatory, institutional, comparative, and, where relevant, socio-legal significance. The discussion should answer the research question, engage critically with prior legal scholarship and jurisprudence, identify agreements and conflicts, and explain the implications for legal certainty, rights and obligations, governance, adjudication, regulatory practice, business, or public policy.

6.6 Conclusion

Synthesize the principal answer to the research objective or legal question and state the study's contribution and main legal, regulatory, judicial, institutional, or policy implications. Do not introduce new evidence, legal authorities, citations, or arguments in the conclusion.

Legal Research Analytical Process

1	Define the Legal Issue and Scope Formulate the precise legal question, jurisdiction, field of law, institutional setting, period of analysis, and principal legal concepts.
2	Identify and Evaluate Legal Authorities Identify constitutions, statutes, regulations, judicial decisions, treaties, administrative instruments, and authoritative secondary materials.
3	Interpret and Compare Apply appropriate textual, systematic, purposive, historical, constitutional, comparative, case-law, or other recognized interpretive techniques.
4	Synthesize Conflicts, Gaps, and Implications Evaluate inconsistencies among legal norms, conflicts among authorities, regulatory gaps, implementation problems, and their legal consequences.
5	Develop the Legal Argument Present a reasoned synthesis answering the research question and explain the doctrinal, comparative, institutional, regulatory, or socio-legal implications.

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals and must be cited in the text before they appear.

TABLES	FIGURES
Table titles appear above the table. Avoid vertical rules, decorative colours, and screenshots of tables. Include a source or note where necessary.	Figure captions appear below the figure. Figures must be clear, readable, properly numbered, and accompanied by a source when adapted.

Each table or figure should fit on one portrait page and should be positioned near its first reference in the manuscript rather than collected at the end.

Citations and References

APA 7th Edition

In-text citations and the reference list must follow the American Psychological Association (APA), Seventh Edition. Every scholarly source cited in the manuscript must appear in the reference list, and every reference-list entry must be cited in the text.

Authors should prioritize relevant, current, peer-reviewed scholarship and authoritative primary legal sources. All bibliographic metadata and DOI information must be verified before submission.

Legal Authorities
Constitutions, statutes, regulations, judicial decisions, treaties, administrative decisions, and other official legal instruments must be identified accurately using their official title, number or citation, issuing authority or court, date or year, and a stable official URL where available.

DOI Requirement
Include an active DOI URL in the format https://doi.org/... whenever a valid DOI exists. Authors must never invent or guess a DOI.

Publication Ethics and Research Integrity

Authors must comply with recognized principles of publication ethics and scholarly integrity. Submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, duplicate publication, and other forms of research or publication misconduct.

All listed authors must have made a genuine contribution to the work and approved the submitted version. The addition of authors after acceptance without a legitimate and documented reason is not permitted.

Editorial Screening and Peer Review

Every manuscript is subject to preliminary editorial screening before proceeding to peer review. The Editorial Team may return or decline a manuscript before external review when it:

is outside the journal's focus and scope;	is incomplete or does not follow the template;
does not demonstrate sufficient novelty or scholarly contribution;	contains serious language or presentation problems;
uses inadequate or outdated legal and scholarly sources;	raises concerns regarding research or publication integrity.

Manuscripts that pass editorial screening will be processed according to the journal's peer-review policy.

Acknowledgements and Author Contributions

Acknowledgements may recognize individuals, courts, government agencies, professional associations, research institutions, archives, libraries, data providers, or other contributors who supported the research but do not qualify for authorship.

Author Contributions should identify relevant contributions, including where applicable:

Conceptualization Data curation Formal analysis Investigation Methodology Project administration Supervision Validation Visualization Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing

Funding Statement

Authors must disclose all financial support, including the funder's name and grant number where applicable, as well as any role of the funder in the study or publication process.

“This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”

Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships that could reasonably influence the research or manuscript.

“The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest related to this manuscript.”

Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

AI Transparency Requirement

Authors must disclose the use of generative artificial intelligence or AI-assisted technologies in preparing the manuscript. The disclosure must identify the tool or service, its purpose, and the tasks for which it was used.

AI tools must not be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, legal reasoning, accuracy, citation verification, confidentiality, research ethics, and final content of the manuscript.

If AI was used:
“The authors used [tool/service] for [purpose]. All AI-assisted output was reviewed and verified by the authors, who take full responsibility for the final manuscript.”

If AI was not used:
“The authors declare that no generative AI or AI-assisted technologies were used in the preparation of this manuscript.”

Generative AI must not replace scholarly judgment, independent legal reasoning, verification of authorities, authorship responsibility, or editorial decision-making.

Submission Preparation

Before clicking “Submit”, authors should ensure that:

✓ The manuscript is within the aims and scope of TITAH: Journal of Law.

✓ The official TITAH manuscript template has been used.

✓ Author names, affiliations, and email addresses are accurate.

✓ The abstract contains 150–250 words and follows the required structured format.

✓ A maximum of five keywords has been provided.

✓ The manuscript demonstrates a clear research gap, novelty, and contribution.

✓ Tables and figures are numbered, cited, captioned, and sourced correctly.

✓ Citations and references comply with APA 7th Edition.

✓ DOI links and bibliographic metadata have been verified.

✓ Funding and conflict-of-interest statements have been completed.

✓ The required AI-use statement has been included.

Final Editorial Note

Compliance with these guidelines does not guarantee acceptance. Editorial decisions are based on the manuscript's relevance to the journal, originality, methodological rigor, quality of legal analysis, ethical compliance, peer-review results, and overall contribution to legal scholarship and practice.

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