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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 Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references have been provided.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Length of manuscripts: A maximum of 55.000 units including blanks, footnotes, reference list, headings, and abstract.

Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, and English will always be accepted. Other European languages will be accepted if the choice of language is relevant and if it is possible to find suitable reviewers fluent in those languages.

Abstract: 150-200 words. If the article is not written in English two abstracts must be provided: One in English and one in the article language.

Keywords: 4-5 relevant keywords. Examples: Visual Culture, Autobiographies, Blogging, Democracy. If the article is not written in English, two sets of keywords must be provided: One set in English and one set in the article language.

Font: The main text should be 12 points and typed in a standard font (Times, Garamond, Calibri etc.).

Headings: Headings should be kept brief and clear. The text may contain up to two levels (e.g. chapters and sub-chapters). The levels should be clearly indicated by typography.

Footnotes: Footnotes should be avoided. If it is necessary to include a note, authors should use the footnote function in Microsoft Word or a similar word processor. Endnotes will not be accepted.

Reference style: The journal uses APA citation style.

Examples:

In-text citations must reference the author, year of publication and page number. This can be done in several ways.

  • According to Smith, "blogging has become a ubiquitous method of presenting news online" (2014, p. 304).
  • Smith (2014) claims that "blogging has become a ubiquitous method of presenting news online" (p. 304).
  • Another important point is that "blogging has become a ubiquitous method of presenting news online" (Smith, 2014, p. 304).

Long quotations of 40 words, or longer, must be placed in a free-standing block of typewritten lines, without quotation marks.

Paraphrases must reference the author and year of publication in the in-text reference, but APA guidelines encourage you to also provide the page number (although it is not required.)

Examples:

  • According to Smith (2014), online news is frequently presented in a blog format.
  • Throughout the world blogging is a very common way to present news online (Smith, 2014, p. 304).

The reference list should be formatted according to the latest APA guidelines. Where available, DOIs or URLs for the references must be provided.

Examples:

  • Hansen, P., & Jensen, O. V. (1998). Typography on mobile websites. International Journal of Internet Studies, 4(2), 512-535.
  • Johnson, M. C. (2001). History of the British crime novel. Journal of English Literature, 9, 61-74.
  • Smith, J. (2014). Blogging and Democracy: New Practices. JR Publications.

Please refer to the official APA guidelines for information on how to reference a website, a film, a television show etcetera.

Book/media reviews: Reviews follow the same overall guidelines as articles with the following exceptions:

  • Reviews are not peer reviewed. They are reviewed, accepted, and supervised by the editors only.
  • Reviews must have a length of up to 15.000 units including blanks.
  • The title of the review must correspond with the title of the work reviewed according to this formula: Review: Author(s): Publication title. Publisher, Date of publication (for example: Review: John Smith: Blogging and Democracy: New Practices. JR Publications, 2014)

Please do a thorough proofreading before submitting the article or review.

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Articles and reviews can be uploaded in PURE, or other institutional repositoria, in the accepted, peer reviewed version when uploaded at tidsskrift.dk, and preferably with reference to the publisher, or you can link to tidsskrift.dk.

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