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.
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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).
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The submission file is in Microsoft Word (docx) file format.
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Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
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The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, examples, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
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The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
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For peer-reviewed articles: The author’s name (or authors’ names) should not appear in the file names uploaded for submission. Additionally, in order to maintain anonymity, authors should cite their own works in the third person and should not include acknowledgments or personal notes in the text (this will be changed later, after the review process in preparation for publication). For non-peer reviewed articles, anonymous submission is not required.
Author Guidelines
Danish Journal of Musicology welcomes submissions on any topic of music scholarship. Submissions are not limited to any disciplinary, theoretical, or methodological approach. The journal does not impose a historical or geographic scope, though the journal as a long history of featuring strong scholarship on Danish, Nordic, and Northern European music. The journal is also particularly interested in serving as a publication venue for early-career scholars from Denmark and the Nordic region.
Manuscripts for articles should be submitted via the submission portal via this website. All authors will need to create an online account in order to submit.
Submissions are accepted continuously and published on a rolling basis. I.e. your article will be published as soon as it has been accepted and gone through proof reading and typesetting.
Research article: Peer-reviewed articles that present original research. The journal does not impose any strict length requirements, but authors should contact editors in advance if they wish to submit a manuscript that significantly exceeds 10,000 words (incl. notes).
Special issues/sections: Issues/sections of peer-reviewed articles. Contact the editors if you have a proposal for a special issue for which you wish to serve as a guest editor.
Colloquy: Issues/sections of shorter non-peer reviewed articles, featuring debate, inquiry, and critique pertaining to a particular music or musicological topic. Contact the editors if you have a proposal for a colloquy for which you wish to serve as a guest editor.
Reviews: Reviews of books and other relevant material. The journal does not accept unsolicited reviews. Publishers may send material for review to the journal’s mailing address at the University of Copenhagen.
Reports: Reports on e.g. conferences, research projects, and other relevant events. The journal does not accept unsolicited reports, but please contact the editors if there is a report you wish to propose.
Sources: Danish Journal of Musicology welcomes editions or annotated translations of archival source material that is in public domain (i.e., free of copyright) but which may be difficult to obtain. The journal is also interested in submissions of field reports, interviews, and presentations of other empirical data. Sources pertaining to Danish, Nordic, and Northern European music are of special interest.
All submitted manuscripts undergo editorial screening. Research articles are selected for publication through a double-anonymous peer review process.
Non-peer reviewed articles (such as book reviews) are subject to editorial review and editing.
Special issues
Suggestions for special issues are welcome and may be directed to the journal editors. Suggestions should include a short description of the contents of the special issue vis-a-vis its scholarly scope, the team of guest editors, and an overview of potential or confirmed submissions to the issue.
The guest editors are responsible for reviewing submissions, organizing peer reviews, and editing the special issue. However, the journal's regular editors must accept a list of peer reviewers for the special issue's submissions, and publication of the special issue is contingent on a final approval by the regular editors.
The main language for publication is English, but articles in German and in the Scandinavian languages are also accepted.
Notes and references follow British practice as indicated in the Oxford Style Manual, with use of the author–title system for repeated citations. Please consult the latest issue of the journal for style, citation practice, and general approach.
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