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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

hort version of guidelines:

  • Article length should be 4000-7000 words, including endnotes, headings and a 150 word abstract.
  • Language: English and Nordic
  • The article should be submitted as a PDF file, font size 12. Do not perform any formatting other than italics (rather than underlining) and bullet style lists; only section headings, no subsection headings.
  • Notes should be indicated by superscript numbers and presented as endnotes.
  • Please make sure you have the right to publish illustrations, if any.
  • Please use APA style (6th edition) for references.

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