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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 submitted to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format
  • When available, the DOI references in the reference list are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The DOI must be in a hyperlink.
  • The text is 1,5 -spaced; Times New Roman str. 12 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 -> Submissions.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Journal of Research in Disease and Society primarily publishes articles that are part of theme issues. However, we also include articles 'outside the theme issue' if they deal with relevant issues (according to the journal's purpose).

We publish the following types of contributions:

  • Original research
  • Review articles
  • Essays
  • Book reviews

Original research

We publish original research which systematically and exploratively presents own empirical research through a presentation of background, method, theoretical approach, analysis, discussion and conclusion. These elements are a guide to the content and should not necessarily be reflected in sections or headings in a paper. However, the following is of importance for original research articles:

  • Originality and significance of the contribution
  • Involvement of anthropology/medicine, humanities/health sciences
  • Involvement of relevant literature
  • Consistency between method, analysis and interpretation, including convincing argumentation/discussion of the choices and conclusions made by the author

Size: Max 9000 words incl. Danish and English abstract (max 250 words each), notes, reference list

Review article

We publish review artivles which conveys a comprehensive overview of a precisely defined topic, based on a critical review of existing knowledge of the topic and points to the needs for new research. The following is of importance for review articles:

  • A properly delimited focus and significance of the contribution
  • Involvement of anthropology/medicine, humanities/health sciences
  • A systematic and critical involvement of existing knowledge
  • A clear professional positioning of the author
  • A justification of the review approach (e.g. historical, method, clarification of concepts, theoretical)

Size: Max 12000 words incl. Danish and English abstract (max 250 words each), notes, reference list

Essays

We publish essays which conveys a topic, where the author’s professional knowledge has provided opportunity to express a specific argumentation and/or attitude to the topic. The following is of importance for an essay text:

  • That the text is rounded off and relevant
  • The significance for new thoughts and ideas is shown
  • That the text fascinates and challenges the reader with surprising phrases and viewpoints

Size: 3000 words incl. notes and references. Abstract is not necessary for essays.

Book reviews

Apart from this we happily receive relevant book reviews. These should not be more than 1500 words.

Designing a manuscript

Language

Manuscripts should be written according to correct spelling in one of the Scandinavian languages or in English (if in English, editing and professional language proof reading is the author’s responsibility). Also, the editorial board does not have the capacity to proofread Norwegian or Swedish manuscripts and it is the author’s responsibility to secure proof reading on such submissions. Clear, precise language without jargon or clichés is required.

Setup

Manuscripts must be submitted as Word files and set up with the font Times New Roman size 12 and a half line spacing. Shorter quotations (under 3 lines) are placed in the text in "quotation marks". If they are longer (more than 3 lines), they are placed as independent sections indented from both the left and right margins.

Content of Submissions

The manuscript is submitted electronically via the journal's website. On the website you create yourself as 'author' and then follow the instructions for submission.
The articles must be designed according to this standard and submitted in the following documents:
1. Document: front page with author(s), title (both in original language and in English) and corresponding author
2. Document: article text with Danish and English abstract, main text with intermediate headings, quotations, literature references, reference list incl. doi numbers as well as any notes (endnotes) and any illustrations, tables and figures with explanatory text and source indication.
3. Document: Brief author description, indicating education, employment and research area (max 50 words)
In addition, the following information is entered under the item 'metadata':
1. Title
2. Authors
3. Abstract
4. Reference list incl. doi numbers

Reference list

References should follow the output style of APA. It is the author’s responsibility that the reference list is correct according to the required output style.

På alle referencer som har et DOI skal DOI-nummer anføres og referencelisten/litteraturlisten skal både sættes ind i 'metadata' ved indsendelse af manus samt i dokumentet med artikelteksten.

See examples here:

Book: Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. (R. Nice, Trans.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Book chapter: Macintyre, S. & Ellaway, A. (2000). Ecological approaches: Rediscovering the role of the physical and social environment. In L. F. Berkman, & I. Kawachi (Eds.), Social epidemiology (pp. 332-348). New York: Oxford University Press.

Article: Cheek, J. (2004). At the Margins? Discourse analysis and qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research, 14, 1140–1150.

Web references are given with at least full URL and information on when the website was visited. Web-references should if possible be placed in the text in the same way as other references.

Notes are put after the text and the note number is placed in the text with raised brevier. Write the notes manually, that is, avoid using foot- and endnote functions. 

Quotations are placed, if short, in the text with double “inverted commas”. If they are longer they are placed as a paragraph with indention both left and right. Concepts and similar may be put in single ‘inverted commas’.

Proces

The journal undertakes the final editing and proofreading. Commas will be corrected according to the language board's recommendations.

The journal makes no commitment in advance to print articles, either invited or unsolicited. Suitable manuscripts are sent for peer review. After peer review and revision of the manuscript, the editors can assess 1) that the manuscript is ready for proofreading and printing, or 2) that the manuscript goes to a further revision round based on the editors' comments.

Copyright Notice

From 1 January 2024, this applies: Author has copyright to the articles and reviews published in the journal. The journal’s content can be distributed under a Creative Commons license called CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The license requires that re-users give credit/reference to the creator/author. It allows reusers to cite, distribute, remix, adapt and build on the material in any medium or format, but only for non-commercial purposes.

For content published before 1 January 2024, the following applies: The author(s) and the Journal for Research in Sickness and Society have copyright to the articles and reviews published in the journal. Articles published in Journal for Research in Sickness and Society may be cited, downloaded and forwarded for non-commercial use, subject to normal academic reference to author(s) as well as journal, year, number and pages. The articles may only be republished with explicit permission from the author(s) and the journal.

 

Repository policy

Authors are free to deposit any version of their articles – that is both the submitted manuscript, the accepted manuscript and the published article – in an institutional or other repository.

Privacy Statement

Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund (TFSS) processes the following general personal data about you:

First name, Middle name, Surname,
Affiliation
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E-mail address
Username
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We do not share your general personal data with anyone. We store the general personal data as long as the journal TFSS is active on the internet. Information may be used internally in the editorial office of TFSS for statistical analyzes for internal use only.

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Information about a user will be saved as long as the user is active. If the user has been inactive for a year, the user will be contacted by e-mail. If the user does not respond to this e-mail, the user account and information about the user will be deleted after 1 month. If the user has participated in editorial work (e.g. as an editor, guest editor, or reveiwer), or has submitted an article to a journal, the user account and information will be saved for 3 years after the last editorial job or submission.