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About the Journal

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.

Preparing Your Paper

Structure

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 and captions should be embedded in the submission document, indicating where they should be placed in the text.

Word count

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.

File format

Texts should be submitted in MS Word or OpenOffice. Many other word processing formats may be acceptable.

Blind review

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, prior to submission.

Style guidelines

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.

• Inscriptions generally prefer British spelling, but accepts American or other international standards, as long as it is consistent within the manuscript;
• Use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Note that long quotations (more than three lines) should be indented without quotation marks;
• Submissions for Inscriptions refer to themselves as “articles” or “essays”, not “papers”;
• Use only initial capital letter (sentence case) in titles, including titles and subtitles of articles, section headers, as well as in notes and in the reference list. When referring to a books write only its main title in title case;
• Section headers are unnumbered and written in sentence case;
• Footnotes: Ibid. and Op.cit. may be used. It is also allowed to shorten a reference in repeated use, e.g., by only using last name, shortened title and page number. Make sure you use these Latin terms correctly: ibidem (use the abbreviated form ibid., in italics) means “in the same place” and is used in footnotes to refer to the immediately preceeding citation. Op.cit. (use in roman/upright form) means (anywhere) in the work cited and refers to the prior reference by the same author;
• References: Please do not use em-dashes for repeated instances of an author in the reference list. This part of the process is undertaken by the editors only after proofing is complete.

References: Notes and reference list

We generally follow the Chicago “notes and bibliography” stylesheet. Note, however, that we use different rules for capitalisation (see above). Make sure to include DOI links for references (when available).

Other content

Please see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html for more examples.

Do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions or comments to inscriptions@tankebanen.no. Good luck on your submission!

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