Policy, Law, Notary and Regulatory Issues considers the following types of scholarly manuscripts in the fields of policy, law, notary affairs, and regulatory issues, provided that they establish a clear and substantive connection with the journal’s focus and scope:

1. Original Research Articles
Empirical and legal studies reporting original findings based on doctrinal (normative), empirical, socio-legal, comparative, quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research. Manuscripts should present a clear research problem, explain the methods used, and discuss the findings and their contribution to legal knowledge, policy, or practice. Data and analysis must be verifiable (see the Data Availability policy).

2. Review Articles
Systematic literature reviews, meta-analyses, and other structured reviews, including bibliometric studies. Manuscripts should explain how sources were identified, selected, and analyzed so that the review can be replicated. A review must go beyond summarizing by synthesizing findings, identifying gaps, and proposing directions for future research.

3. Conceptual and Theoretical Papers
Articles that develop, extend, integrate, or critically examine a legal theory, doctrine, framework, model, or proposition. Manuscripts must provide a coherent scholarly argument grounded in current literature, legislation, and legal authorities, state a distinct theoretical contribution, and, where possible, explain implications for research, policy, or legal practice.

4. Case Studies and Case Commentaries
Research-based analyses of court decisions, regulations, institutions, notarial practices, policies, or regulatory implementation. Manuscripts should explain the basis for case selection, data or source collection, and analysis, and demonstrate implications beyond a purely descriptive account of the case.

5. Methodological Studies
Articles that develop, adapt, compare, or evaluate research methods, legal analysis techniques, policy evaluation approaches, measurement instruments, or decision-support approaches relevant to law, policy, and regulation. Manuscripts should provide appropriate validation or evaluation and explain the value of the methodological contribution.

Submission requirements

Authors should identify the manuscript type when submitting. Each submission must demonstrate originality, adequate scholarly grounding, a clear contribution, and methods or an analytical approach appropriate to its manuscript type. In addition, all manuscripts must meet the following:

• The manuscript must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration by another journal or publisher.
• Length: no more than 8,000 words or 20 pages, and no fewer than 5 pages, including references, tables, and figures (appendices excluded).
• The Abstract (150 to 250 words) and Keywords must be written in English.
• At least 20 references are required, in line with the Reference rules in the Author Guidelines.
• All declarations (Funding, Conflict of Interest, Author Contributions, Ethical Approval, Informed Consent, Data Availability, and Generative AI) are required (starting from volume 6).

Manuscript preparation

Authors must follow the structure of manuscripts (Title, Authors, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Literature Review, Method, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Declarations and Supplementary Sections, References) and use the latest official Manuscript Template. For review articles, conceptual papers, case studies, and methodological studies, the organization may be adapted to the nature of the work. The Method section should describe the review protocol, conceptual approach, case design, legal research method, or validation procedure used, and any necessary departures from the standard research structure should be explained to the editor.