Normally articles for the Journal Section should not exceed 8000 words, although in exceptional circumstances longer articles may be considered.
Submissions for consideration should be sent as an email attachment to eitn@abdn.ac.uk for the attention of the Editors Dr. Helen Martin or Claire Molloy.
Manuscripts submitted should be original, not under review by any other publication and not published elsewhere.* Please use minimal formatting and provide materials as Word files using Arial point size 11.
*Working papers and other pre-prints not under consideration by other publications may be submitted.
To allow peer review of journal articles, all submissions must be properly formatted for anonymous reviewing:
- A separate 'title' page with title, authors' names, including corresponding author institutions/affiliation, ORCHID ID (where available) and email addresses.
- Each anonymised article should include an abstract of up to 200 words, and five keywords which describe the content, methodological approaches and distinctive findings of the research. These keywords will be used to support online searches so it is important that they represent your article as comprehensively as possible. All tables and figures should also be included within the article.
All pages should be numbered top right.
Footnotes to the text should be avoided.
Sponsorship of research reported (e.g. by research councils, government departments and agencies, etc.) should be declared.
The use of abbreviations or using initials for the names of organisations (unless the full name and abbreviation is given on first appearance in the text) should be avoided. Jargon or unnecessary technical language should be avoided.
Do not use '&' as the word 'and' should be used at all times.
Images, tables and figures
Images, tables and figures should be presented within the article itself, clearly labelled with a short descriptive title.
Video and other types of file can also be accepted and this should be discussed with the Editors prior to submission.
References
References in the text should follow the Harvard British system (author'sname and year of publication, or year of publication only if the author's name is part of the text).
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper in the following style:
For journal papers:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, INITIALS. and further authors if appropriate, (Year of publication). Title of article. Name of Journal (in italics), volume number (in bold)(part or issue number), page numbers preceded with pp.
For books:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, INITIAL., (year of publication). Title of book (in italics). Edition, if not the first. Place of publication: Publisher.
For multi-authored papers or books, names of all authors must apear in the list of References/Bibliography. In the text, however, for three to five authors, cite all authors at first citation and for subsequent citations the first author + et al. (in italics). For more than five authors use the first author + et al. throughout. Do not use &, as and should be used at all times.
Edited book chapters should include the relevant page numbers:
AUTHOR'S SURNAME, INITIALS., (Year of publication). Title of Chapter. In: INITIALS, AUTHOR'S SURNAME and INITIALS, AUTHOR'S SURNAME, ed. or eds. if an editor or editors, Title of book (in italics). Edition, if not the first. Place of publication: Publisher. Page numbers preceded by pp.
Please check carefully that all references in the text are included in the list of References at the end.
