Inscriptions is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. We accept academic articles and creative criticism, commentaries, and book reviews. Please see the journal’s Mandate and Scope for information about our focus.
This journal only publishes manuscripts in English, and we only accept manuscripts that have not been submitted elsewhere. For more information about our policies, including submission types, review, publication ethics, indexing and archiving, please see our policies page at https://www.tankebanen.no/inscriptions/index.php/inscriptions/about.
Your submission should be compiled in the following order: title (and subtitle); abstract (up to 150 words); up to five keywords/phrases; main text; references. Figures/illustrations and captions should be embedded in the submission document, indicating where they should be placed in the text.
Generally Inscriptions publishes academic articles and creative criticism of up to 4,500 words. Commentaries and book reviews have a length of up to 1,500 words.
Texts should be submitted in MS Word or OpenOffice. Many other word processing formats can be accepted.
Please ensure that author(s) cannot be identified in the submitted manuscript, i.e., that their names are removed from the document and from the document properties.
Please refer to these style guidelines when preparing your submission, rather than any published articles or a sample copy. It is advisable to use 12pt Times New Roman with 2,5 cm/1 inch margins.
We generally follow the Chicago “notes and bibliography” stylesheet. Note, however, that we use different rules for capitalisation (see above).
In a footnote: Kierkegaard, Works of Love, 209.
Bibliographical entry: Kierkegaard, Søren. Works of Love. Trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.
In a footnote: Heidegger, “The question concerning technology,” 315.
Bibliographical entry: Heidegger, Martin. “The question concerning technology.” In Basic Writings, edited by David Farrell Krell, 311-341. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
In a footnote: Gadamer, Truth and method, trans. J. Weinsheimer and D.G. Marshall, 184.
Bibliographical entry: Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and method. Translated by J. Weinsheimer and D.G. Marshall. New York: Continuum, 2004.
In a footnote: Antonio Fava, Judith Chaffee, and Oliver Crick, eds, The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte (New York: Routledge, 2014).
Bibliographical entry: Fava, Antonio, Judith Chaffee, and Oliver Crick, eds. The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte. New York: Routledge, 2014.
In a footnote: Susan Satterfield, “Livy and the Pax Deum,” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 170.
Bibliographical entry: Satterfield, Susan. “Livy and the Pax Deum.” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 165–76.
In a footnote: Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem, “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality,” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 9–10, https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
Bibliographical entry: Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
In a footnote: Louise Matsakis, “Google gives Wikipedia millions–plus machine learning tools,” Wired, 22 January, 2019, https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/.
Bibliographical entry: Matsakis, Louise. “Google gives Wikipedia millions–plus machine learning tools.” Wired. 22 January, 2019. Accessed 1 October, 2022. https://www.wired.com/story/google-wikipedia-machine-learning-glow-languages/.
Bibliographical entry: Glück, Louise, and Colm Tóibín. “Live from the NYPL: Colm Tóibín in conversation with Louise Glück.” New York Public Library. 9 October, 2020. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQGM_KhHQ.
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For technical reasons we ask that all author names are spelled out in full at each line of the References section.
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