Submissions

Author Guidelines

Making a submission to “Studia Scandinavica” is tantamount to granting consent to have it published on the journal’s website or in the databases in which the journal is or will be indexed.

All texts can be sent to: marta.hajdyla@ug.edu.pl.

Authors can also send their articels using ojs system. They need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

We will be happy to receive articles in English and Polish as well as in Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian). If the Author writes in a language that is not his or her mother tongue, he or she is kindly asked to have the article proofread by a native speaker before submitting it to us.

We only accept submissions in text format. Charts, tables, photos, and drawings should be included in the text and sent as separate attachements. The maximum text length is 40,000 characters (one publishing sheet).

All submissions made must meet the general criteria of:

• originality;
• appropriate research design and methods;
• relevance and timeliness;
• correct language, and
• compliance with the journal guidelines.

If your submission is deemed suitable, it will be sent to two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality in accordance with the Review process.

Editorial guidelines

In the upper left-hand corner of the first page, list your first and last name, your ORCID number, and affiliation.

Length of the texts: Between 20,000 and 40,000 characters with spaces, footnotes and bibliography. Review articles should be between 9,000 and 10,800 characters. Please do not number the pages.

Font: Times New Roman, size 12 pt.; line spacing: 1.5; margins: 2.5 cm; the text should be justified on the page.

Author and title: The Authors first name and surname, ORCID number and his or hers affiliation should stand in the upper left hand corner, above the title. The titles of the articles should we written in bold font, size 14 pt. Headings within the article should be numbered with Arabic numerals and written in bold font, size 12 pt.

Summary and key words: an English summary (approx. 500–800 characters with spaces, font size 10 pt., line spacing 1.0) should be placed below the title of the article. Please write up to five keywords underneath, in English (font size: 10 pt.), and below that, keywords in the language of the article (font size: 10 pt.)

Titles and names in the main text and in the footnotes: Titles of books, magazines, works of art etc. should be written in italics (with the Polish translation given in parentheses if necessary).

The full name of a person should be given the first time this person is mentioned in the text. Then that last name can be given without the first name or with an initial only.

Quotations: Quotations up to three lines should be marked with inverted commas, without italics, all changes within the quotations should be marked with square brackets, for example fragments that have been left out […] or the Authorʼs comments. We do not place an ellipsis before or after the quoted fragments. All quotations longer than three lines should begin from a new line, without inverted commas. They should not be indented, but instead have larger spacing between the characters and the font size should be 11 pt.

line spacing: 1.0. A quotation within a quotation: use single quotation marks: Bobbi told me, “Delia said, ‘This will never work.’ ” If the quotation is translated by the Author of the article, please state this in a parenthesis placed after the quotation by giving the Authors initials (transl. M.S.), (transl. K. M-V.).

Footnotes: Font size 10 pt., line spacing 1,0; place them automatically, with continuous numbering within the entire article. The number of the footnote should always be placed after the parenthesis before the full stop or other punctuation marks, for example: … as written in Codex Regius1; … since he “understood the language of the birds”2.

Illustrations: It is up to the Author to obtain permission to use a certain image in the publication. The files should be saved as .tiff or .jpg files. All images should be listed and attached in a separate folder. The resolution of the images should be at least 300 dpi. Our publication is going to be printed in black and white (1+1).

APA-based style guide

Please follow the style guide as closely as possible

Books: Single Author

In the text:

(Apeland 2007:31)    

Bibliography :

Apeland, N.M. (2007). Det gode selskap: omdømmebygging i praksis. Høvik: Hippocampus. 

The same author and year of publication

We sort the titles alphabetically and then add the letters a, b, c, d after the date of issue etc.:

In the text:

(Jacobsen 2006a:190)           

Bibliography :

Jacobsen, D.I. (2006a). Public Sector Growth: Comparing Politicians’ and Administrators’ Spending Preferences. Public Administration Vol. 84: 185–284.

Jacobsen, D.I. (2006b). The relationship between Politics and Administration: The Importance of Contingency Factors, Formal Structure, Demography and Time. Governance Vol. 19: 303–324.

Books: Two or three authors

In the text:

(Bjerke i Ind 2007:37)          

Bibliography :

Bjerke, R. i N. Ind. (2007). Organisasjonsdrevet merkebygging. Oslo: Cappelen akademisk. 

In this case, only the first author should be recorded in the "surname, initial" system, the subsequent ones should be entered in the "initial, surname" system. We write "and" before the last author's name (we do not use the "&" sign). If there are three authors, we put a comma between the surnames of the first and the second:

In the text:

(Brønn, Ihlen i Sjøbu 2009:15)         

Bibliography :

Brønn, P.S., Ø. Ihlen i A. Sjøbu. (2009). Åpen eller innadvendt: omdømmebygging for organisasjoner. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk. 

Books: More than three authors

In the text

(Andersen et al. 2006:15)     

Bibliography :

Andersen, J., O.P. Askheim, I. Begg i I. Guldvik. (2006). Brukerstyrt personlig assistanse: kunnskap og praksis. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk. 

If there are more than three authors, we include the information "et al." after the name of the first author. Bibliography should include the names of all authors.

Books: Edited Volumes:

In the text:

(Fermann 1997:12)   

Bibliography :

Fermann, G. (red.). (1997). International politics of climate change: key issues and critical actors. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.

Chapter in anthology:

Chapter title without italics (and without quotation marks!). Anthology title in italics.

In the text:

(Spetalen 2005:43)    

Bibliography :

Spetalen, H. (2005). Å strukturere en fagtekst. W: A. Howe, K. Høium, G. Kvernmo i I.R. Knutsen (red.). Studenten som forsker i utdanning og yrke: vitenskapelig tenkning og metodebruk. Lillestrøm: Høgskolen i Akershus, s. 269–327. 

Organizations and institutions (publications with no identified author/anonymous author)

In the text:

(Statistisk sentralbyrå 2008) 

The bibliography :

Statistisk sentralbyrå. (2008). Økonomi og levekår for ulike grupper, 2007. Rapporter 16/2008. Oslo: Statistisk sentralbyrå.

Acts:

In the text:

(NOU 2000: 14)

(St.meld. nr 17 (2006–2007))

(Varemerkeloven § 14)         

Bibliography :

NOU 2000:14. Frihet med ansvar: om høgre utdanning og forskning i Norge. Oslo: Kirke-, utdannings- og forskningsdepartementet.

St.meld. nr 17 (2006–2007). Eit informasjonssamfunn for alle. Oslo: Fornyings- og administrasjonsdepartementet.

Varemerkeloven. Lov av 3. mars 1961 nr. 4 om varemerker.

Master's, bachelor's and doctoral theses:

In the text:

(Langeid i Moen 2007:10)    

Bibliography :

Langeid, A. i I. Moen. (2007). Teamfunksjoner i ulike bedrifter og organisasjoner: en komparativ studie. Praca magisterska, Agder: Universitetet i Agder. 

Journal articles:

Article title without italics (and quotation marks), journal title in italics.

In the text

(Ladegård 2008:37)

(Smith 1998:48)        

Bibliography :

Ladegård, G. (2008). Mislykket ledelse. Magma 11 (2): 17–19.

Smith, J.M. (1998). The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639–40.

An article with more than one author

In the text:

(Aassve, Mazzuco i Mencarini 2005:90)

In the case of more than 3 authors, we write the surname of only the first one, followed by "et al."

Bibliography :

Aassve, A., S. Mazzuco i L. Mencarini. (2005). Childbearing and Well-being: A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare Regimes. Journal of European Social Policy 15 (4): 283–299. 

We list the names of all authors (no matter how many there are)

Newspaper article

Article title without italics (and quotation marks), newspaper title in italics.

In the text

(Langved 2007:5)      

Bibliography :

Langved, A. (2007). Kraftig økning i selvmordsforsøk. Dagsavisen, 5. lutego 2007, 4–5. 

Online newspaper article:

In the text:

(Haugnes 2008)         

Bibliography :

Haugnes, G.M. (2008). Døtre uten norsk etikk. Aftenposten, 22. marca 2008. http://e24.no/utenriks/article2609636.ece (accessed: 13.01.2009). 

Web sources:

In the text:

(Lenhart et al.. 2007)

(Tine 2008)

(GVU’s 8th www user survey 1997)            

Bibliography :

Lenhart, A., M. Madden, A.R. Macgill i A. Smith. (2007). Teens and Social Media. Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Social_Media_Final.pdf (accessed: 20.03.2016).

Tine. (2008). Årsrapport for TINE gruppa 2007, http://www.tine.no/binary?id=127316&download=true (accessed: 20. 04.2008).

GVU’s 8th www user survey. (1997). http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1997-10/ (accessed: 20.03.2004).