Terms of publication of the manuscript

The journal «TSUL Legal Report» is published four times a year in the online (electronic) format in the following terms of publication of the journal's issues: (March, June, September, and December).

Articles, that have not been previously published by the author(s), which correspond to the thematic areas of the journal and are formatted strictly according to the requirements of the manuscript, are accepted for publication in the journal «TSUL Legal Report».

In scientific articles of the journal, the abstract, keywords and information about the authors must be indicated, including the following information - names, affiliations, countries, and addresses of the author(s) of the publication, indicating the main author, which is the first author in the list of authors, and the author for correspondence is indicated with the sign (*).

The manuscript of a scientific article is submitted to the editorial board by the corresponding author (determined from the number of the author's collective of the manuscript if there are 2 or more co-authors) at least a month before the next issue of the journal is published. Manuscripts of at least 20,000 to 60,000 characters or 10 to 25 pages (excluding title, information about authors, abstract, keywords, references, acknowledgment) are accepted for publication in the journal.

The manuscript must be uploaded via the electronic platform by the corresponding author, indicating all the metadata of the article and its authors. Articles by the same author (prepared individually or in co-authorship) may be published in the journal no more than twice during a calendar year.

Authors must submit to the editorial office an original work that has not been previously published in other publications (in print, electronic, and other open sources). The authors are responsible for the reliability, novelty, and evidence of the research results. At the stage of consideration of the manuscript by the editorial board and reviewers of the journal «TSUL Legal Report», as well as after its publication, the authors must not submit this manuscript for consideration for publication in another edition.

At the stages of working with a manuscript, communication between the editorial office, the corresponding author, and reviewers is carried out via e-mail.

The editorial board of the journal considers the manuscripts submitted by the author(s), organizes their peer review, and decides on publication or refusal to publish within two weeks from the date of receipt of the manuscript through the electronic platform.

The journal is funded by Tashkent State University of Law. The publication of the manuscript(s) in the journal is free of charge.

Borrowing and plagiarism

The editorial board of the journal «TSUL Legal Report», when reviewing the manuscript for compliance with the formal requirements (manuscript requirement), also checks for the presence of borrowed text in the manuscript through a plagiarism checker system (Turnitin), access to which is provided by a university subscription or based on a national subscription.

Only original manuscripts and/or those manuscripts in which, according to the results of verification by the plagiarism system, originality is more than 65% are sent for further review. If the manuscript does not meet the requirements of the journal and is not an original work based on the results of a plagiarism check, the manuscript is returned to the corresponding author for making the appropriate changes and re-submitting the manuscript for review by the editorial board through the electronic platform of the journal.

If the authors, while writing the manuscript, used works, articles, provisions, or quotes and statements of other researchers, they must necessarily refer to the works of these scientists and correctly format the quoted text. Plagiarism seems to be an unethical act that violates the principles of the Code of Ethics of the scientist of Tashkent State University of Law and is unacceptable in the journal «TSUL Legal Report».

Persons involved in the publishing process, especially members of the editorial board of the journal, to ensure the high quality of scientific publications, to avoid unfair practices in publishing activities, such as the use of false information, falsification of data, etc., to ensure recognition society of scientific achievements, undertake to comply with the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and at Tashkent State University of Law, as well as take measures to prevent such violations.

The members of the editorial board of the journal «TSUL Legal Report» obliged not to violate the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and at Tashkent State University of Law.

In case if a provable fact(s) of violation of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics was found in an article published in the journal «TSUL Legal Report», the editorial board have the rights to retract this article from the issue.

The author(s) of the article, in which a provable fact of violation of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics was discovered, are not allowed to submit articles to the journal «TSUL Legal Report» and in other scientific journals of Tashkent State University of Law, within the next two calendar years from the date of revealing the fact(s) of violation of the principles of ethics.

Peer-review process

The manuscripts received by the editorial office of the journal and meeting the formal requirements, design requirements, and the indicator of originality based on verification through the plagiarism system, are sent for further review.

If the author(s) of the manuscript has a conflict of interest with other scientists, they must indicate the existence of such a conflict of interest in the cover letter, to avoid sending this manuscript to the specified scientist (reviewer) and biased assessments of the manuscript.

The journal «TSUL Legal Report» employs “double-blind peer review” by at least two scientists with the academic degree of Candidate of Science, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), and scientific specialization on the subject of the peer-reviewed manuscript.

Reviewing is carried out confidentially: the manuscript of the article is sent to reviewers through the electronic platform of the journal without specifying information about the authors. Reviewers are required to have a clear, objective, and reasoned assessment of the compliance of the manuscript with the main scientific criteria, as well as its quality of significance.

After receiving the conclusions from the reviewers, the executive editor sends them to the corresponding author without specifying information about the reviewers, for responding to comments, making appropriate changes, and resubmitting the manuscript via the electronic platform. The author(s) may make changes to the manuscript and resubmit it to the editorial office of the journal or, without explanation, refuse to reply to comments.

After responding to all the comments, making changes to the manuscript to eliminate the comments of the reviewers, and re-submitting it to the editorial office of the journal by the author(s), the scientific editor sends all materials to the reviewer(s) for re-review.

The manuscript, on which there are positive opinions from two reviewers and the executive editor, is recommended for publication in the journal «TSUL Legal Report» according to the order of their acceptance for publication. The manuscripts approved by the editorial board are transferred to the executive secretary to form the issue of the journal.

If one of the reviewers provided a positive conclusion on the manuscript, and the second – a negative one, then the manuscript is sent by the scientific editor to the third reviewer or a member of the editorial board, who is an expert in the subject of the manuscript. If a third reviewer or a member of the editorial board provides a positive conclusion, the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of the publication of the manuscript is made by the scientific editor of the journal «TSUL Legal Report».

In the case of two negative reviews, the manuscript deviates from publication in the journal.

The materials of articles rejected by the editorial board based on the results of peer-review are not used by the editorial board for their own purposes. The editor or executive secretary notifies the corresponding author about the rejection and sends the conclusions of the reviewers.

The manuscript reviews are stored in electronic format on the journal's electronic platform.

The period for reviewing is assigned by the editor responsible for the article, and the period for reviewing the manuscript by the reviewers is no more than two weeks from the date of sending the material to the reviewers.

Free access policy and archiving

The journal «TSUL Legal Report» provides open access to its content on the official website of the journal. This provides wider informational access to the journal in the global scientific community.

“Open access” means its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." 

Besides, the website of the journal provides the necessary information for authors and readers about the activities of the journal: conditions of publication, rules for registration and submission of manuscripts to the journal, the procedure for forming the journal and reviewing manuscripts, publication ethics, information about the editorial board, contact details of the scientific editor and executive secretary.

Readers and authors can view the electronic versions of the current issue of the journal and archives for previous periods on the journal's website.

Copyright and licensing

Authors of the journal «TSUL Legal Report» transfer publishing rights to the publisher, licensing it under Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-SA). The copyright holder of the published work is the publisher - Tashkent State University of Law.

The authorship of the manuscript (the moral rights of authors) belongs to those researchers who participated directly in the creation of the manuscript, in the formation of the concept, in the writing of the article, in the interpretation of the results and made a significant contribution to obtaining scientific results.

Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, the authors retain the moral rights to their manuscripts, while allowing everyone to freely download, reuse, reprint, change, distribute or copy them, with the obligatory acknowledgment of the authorship of this work and a link to the unique publication in this journal. For all these actions, when specifying a link to the journal, permission from the authors or publisher is not required.

Terms of confidentiality

Information about the authors (their names, affiliation, contact information, information about their position and academic degree, as well as links to identifiers of authors' profiles in international databases) are placed in the article in the section "Information about the authors".

Members of the editorial board of the journal «TSUL Legal Report» do not disclose information about an accepted manuscript, before publication, to third parties other than designated reviewers. Also, the editors do not disclose information about reviewers to authors and others.

These and other rules of behavior of participants in the publication process, namely the principles, norms, and standards of conduct for authors, members of the editorial board, publisher, and reviewers, are based on the Publication Ethics for scientific journals of «TSUL Legal Report».