This repository hosts a template for law review submissions (i.e., submitting an Article, Essay, or Note to a law review for potential publication), which may be somewhat foreign if this is your first legal publication, and especially if you're coming from a non-legal background. Surprisingly, not many templates exist for this type of submission—so here's a starter! And since you might be asking: yes, the law review more than likely wants the submission as a Word file. Feel free to download and modify; comments and pull requests are always welcome!
Notable points include:
- naming convention: Part → Section → Subsection → Subsubsection
- single spaced lines
- 0 inch left and right indentation (found in paragraph settings in Microsoft Word)
- justify text
- author names excluded for anonymity
- font as Times new Roman in 12-point above the line and 10-point below the line
- small caps used in Introduction, Part headings, and Conclusion
- full caps and bold used on title
- example cross-reference footnotes (makes later adjustments easier)
- document is named with simple versioning (title__versionNumber__authorInitials)
- cross referenced footnotes (infra and supra) in below-the-line text