1. The E-Legis Journal aligns with open science practices in its policy, management, and editorial operation. Open science aims at the transparency of processes and content sharing in favor of better scientific communication, methodological improvement, research reproducibility, and collaboration between researchers.

2. The E-Legis Journal accepts article submissions, originals, and experience reports in the field of legislative studies. It also publishes abstracts of the Program Conclusion Papers of the Master's degree in the Legislative Branch of the PPG/CD. It opens space for the publication of the evaluation opinions of the accepted manuscripts.

Original articles are understood as unpublished manuscripts with academic research results that present an explicit theoretical, empirical, and(or) methodological contribution to the current specialized bibliography. Preliminary works published in annals of scientific events or on preprint platforms are considered unpublished by E-Legis.

Experience reports are considered unpublished manuscripts that describe a given experience that can relevantly contribute to the practical performance of professionals in the Legislative Branch.

3. E-Legis is published quarterly, with three annual issues.

4. The average processing time of manuscripts by E-Legis is from six to twelve months, following the main two-stage evaluation flow (formal and merit aspects).

5. E-Legis receives manuscripts throughout the year in a continuous flow system.

6. Manuscripts submitted in the LaTeX template made available by E-Legis for the Overleaf platform (publisher) will have priority for evaluation (on-line LaTex editor): article template for E-Legis.

7. Each author may publish articles in the journal once a year as lead author and once a year as co-author in different editions.

8. The journal values ethical conduct and good practices in research. Therefore, it adopts the "Scielo Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing".

9. The journal requests the citation and referencing of the data, program codes, and other content underlying the texts of the manuscripts. Content must be made available in open access before concurrent publication.

10. Manuscripts submitted to E-Legis that present research in which methodological procedures involve the use of data directly obtained from the participants or identifiable information or that may result in more significant risks than those existing in everyday life must prove submission and approval of the technical ethics committee and legally qualified to evaluate the research (such as committees linked to universities, research institutes, and funders). The researcher’s responsibility is indelible and indeclinable, and understands the ethical and legal aspects of the research.

11. Once the manuscripts have been approved, the authors authorize the publication in the E-Legis Journal, assigning the resulting patrimonial copyright, free of charge and definitively, including translation. The published works become the property of the E-Legis Journal, and their full or partial reprint is subject to the express authorization of the journal. The original source of publication, in this case, E-Legis, must be consigned in all subsequent citations.

12. The Journal adopts the Creative Commons CC-BY License. These licenses are used internationally by the leading open access journals and publishers, in agreement with SciELO. It is assumed that every author of an article and/or experience report published on E-Legis agrees to the use of this type of license.

13. It is assumed that every author of an article and/or experience report published in E-Legis agrees with publishing the evaluation opinion of the accepted manuscript if there is interest from the journal and the reviewer.

14. The veracity of the information contained in the manuscripts and the permission to use figures and tables are the authors' responsibility.

15. The authors undertake not to practice plagiarism in their manuscripts, whether total or partial.