1. The publication of papers in the Revista de Direito Civil (RDC) is subject to the prior favourable opinion of the Revision Commission for verification of compliance with the corresponding Publishing Criteria.

2. The Revision Commision is assisted by scientific referees who assess, under conditions of anonymity, the papers sent to them for that purpose (peer review). This process will not be applied to short texts on new laws and legal literature - with a maximum extension of 2,000 words - to annotations to case law and recensions.

3. Papers to be published in the RDC must:

(i) Meet the criteria of high scientific quality, including rigour, clarity and scientific grounds, set out in the Editorial Rules;

(ii) Be unpublished;

(iii) Comply with the limit of 90,000 characters (about 30 pages), including spaces and footnotes;

(iv) Include the names of the authors in the body of the text in normal characters and those mentioned in footnotes in small caps;

(v) Include the titles of monographs, collective works and journals in italic and those included in journals and collective works in inverted commas, in normal characters.

(vi) Include abstracts in Portuguese and English, with 500 characters each.

4. The texts to be included in the "Brief Comments" section, including brief notes on jurisprudence and recensions should meet the criteria defined for articles, except for the character limit, which is 25,000 characters, and the length of the abstracts, of 150 characters each.

5. Texts must be submitted in final version. There are only a few proofs before publication, in which typos can be corrected, but not the introduction of new text.

6. Authors, scientific referees and members of the Revision Commission of the Revista de Direito Civil are subject to the corresponding Code of Ethics.