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/illustrations 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.

Formatting and templates

Texts should be submitted in MS Word or OpenOffice. Many other word processing formats can be accepted.

Preparing your manuscript for 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.

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 in all titles (including title and subtitle of article, subsection headers, as well as in references and bibliography entries);
Subsection headers are unnumbered and with only the initial letter capitalised (unless there are proper names in it, etc.);
Footnotes: Ibid. and Op.cit. may be used, but these terms should be in italics. 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;
Bibliographies: Please do not use em-dashes for repeated instances of an author in the bibliography. This part of the process is undertaken by the editors only after proofing is complete.

References: Notes and bibliography

We generally follow the Chicago “notes and bibliography” stylesheet. Note, however, that we use different rules for capitalisation (see above).

Book

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.

Chapter in edited book

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.

Translated and/or edited book

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.

Journal article

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.

Journal article, multiple authors

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.

Web article (newspaper, etc.)

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/.

Video

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.