Formatting guidelines

• The journal's formatting guidelines are mandatory for all articles. Only submissions matching these guidelines can be considered for potential review.

• Please do not include pictures, graphics, etc. in the text, but send them in separate files. Please mark in the text where the pictures should be placed. This information serves as a guide for the layout. The exact placement of the illustrations depends on the layout so that it often results in smaller shifts.

• Illustrations and captions should be clearly assigned, preferably by a label or number which corresponds to the placement in the text.

• Please ensure that the photos are of sufficient quality. These may be submitted in the following formats: e.g.*.jpg, *.tif, *.png. The resolution of the photos should be between at least 150 dpi (ppi) and about 300 dpi (ppi).

• The text should preferably be submitted in Word or in OpenOffice.

• Please use as little formatting as possible. Intermediate titles, quotes, etc. should be marked by paragraphs, blank lines or similarly. Please do not use uppercase letters for headings.

• If possible, please use the style sheet to format your article.

• Font: Please use either “Georgia” (this font is used by Ethnoscripts) or one of the usual fonts, preferably “Times New Roman”.

• Please do not use more than one level of subtitles (intermediate headings).

• Please use accentuation sparingly and marked by italics, please do not use bold print, underlining, etc.

• Please avoid abbreviations and use the full phrase/word instead, such as “for example” (instead of e.g.), “that is” (instead of i.e.), etc.

• Please do not use syllable division (hyphenation), neither manually nor automatically.

• Please put foreign-language expressions in italics.

• Please use footnotes (and no endnotes) for explanations if necessary.

Style Guide

  • Format:
    • A4, normal margins
    • Font: Georgia 12, double spaced, justified
    • Footnotes: Georgia 12, 1.5 spaced, left aligned – before: no spacing
    • Page numbers bottom middle
    • Sparing use of italics, no bold, no underlining, no other formatting
  • Contributions for Special Issue articles
    • Abstract: below title and author name, 300 words max.
    • Keywords: 3-5, separated by commas, in order of relevance, after abstract, ahead of text, first keyword capitalised, others lower case, no final punctuation, ordered as provided by author (no alphabetical order), separated by commas, no final punctuation
    • Acknowledgements: below text and before references, not in footnote, remind authors to mention funders
    • References
    • Author biography after references – 100 max.
  • Images/tables:
    • submit as separate files
    • mark place of insertion in text
    • caption should include permissions
  • Article title: headline style
  • Headings:
    • sentence style
    • lower case after colon
    • only one level
  • Block quotes:
    • mark by paragraphs, blank lines or similarly
    • reference after final full stop of quote; no punctuation after reference
    • from 41 words onwards
  • footnotes for explanations; no endnotes
  • Language
    • OED dictionary
    • UK English with -ise
  • Punctuation
    • Single inverted commas
    • Square brackets with ellipsis to indicate omission in quotes
    • Hyphen:
      • between page numbers in reference list
    • En dash (–) with spaces (NOT em dash —):
      • For pronounced break in sentence
    • En dash (–) without spaces:
      • between numbers in text, including between page numbers (i.e.: no “ff.” for page number range)
    • Italics for foreign-language terms/phrases
    • no automatic hyphenation
    • lower case after colon; but caps when the colon introduces a series of questions
  • abbreviations/symbols
    • no abbreviations (e.g., i.e.)
    • No use of ibid.
    • can be used, ensure author uses it correctly for a comparison
    • No ampersands
  • Currency: £212,000
  • Dates
    • 1915/1916 (not elided)
    • 6 February 2020
    • twenty-first century (in words)
  • Numbers:
    • Exact numbers in digits from 100 upwards
    • Numbers below 100 in words
    • Approximate numbers always in words
    • With measurements, write in numerals (50%)
  • In-text referencing:
    • Author-date parenthesis reference system
    • No comma after author, colon and space after date, hyphen between page numbers (Pels et al. 2018: 392)
    • Non-elided page numbers
    • 3 or more authors et al.
    • Blog page in italics and caps (in text)
    • Title of blog entry roman, in quotation marks, sentence style (in text)
    • Multiple references in one parenthesis arranged as each author chooses (not by date or alphabetically)
  • Reference list:
    • (ed.) / (eds.) and pp. for English titles
    • Full-stop between title and subtitle in books, colon in journal articles and book chapters
    • to introduce all page numbers
    • Hyphens for page numbers in reference list
    • Non-elided page numbers
    • Cambridge, MA – states indicated only where place can be unclear
    • Add DOI addresses if possible
  • Titles of books used in text are italicised and capitalised headline style, with colon between title and subtitle; titles of articles headline style, with colon between title and subtitle, in single quotation marks.

Information on the submission process

• Ethnoscripts is an open-access online medium. In order to publish your contribution, we need your written consent, for this you will receive an e-mail about a “contractual agreement”, which you will please have to return to the specified e-mail address according to the instructions.

• Submissions must be previously unpublished and must not be in review by any other journal (otherwise, a statement is included in "Comments to Editors").

• Manuscripts can only be submitted via upload on the journal platform.

• Special Issue guest-editors and authors must register an individual journal account.

• Authors (including co-authors) of articles accepted for publication can register with ORCID and authenticate their iD on the journal's platform. Detailed information about ORCID and the display of ORCID iDs in the journal can be found here. ORCID authentication is done via a direct link sent to all authors by journal.

• Articles must fit into one of the journal sections (see journal sections under Submit article).

• The maximum length of articles depends on the sections and can be found in the respective description under Submit article. The maximum length of abstracts is limited to 300 words.

• Articles submitted as part of a Special Issue must be identified as such in the “Comments to the Editor” during the submission process.

• All article and author metadata must be entered during the submission process. See mandatory metadata below.

• The language of articles can be English or German. Attention must be paid to correct spelling and grammar.

• A statement of individual author contributions must be included in the submitted manuscript. This follows the ethical guidelines of the journal with respect to author transparency.

• A statement of the availability of research data must be included in the submitted manuscript. Ideally, this data should be stored in a publicly accessible repository, citable by its own digital object identifier (DOI). See ethical guidelines of the journal.

• Funding of the research and/or publication and possible conflicts of interest must be disclosed in a statement in the submitted manuscript. This follows the ethical guidelines of the journal.

• The Special Issue guest-editors and authors are committed to good scientific practice and the ethical guidelines of the journal.

• It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third party materials in their publications.

• Image rights must be obtained for all illustrations within submitted articles. The author(s) assume sole responsibility in the event of any violation of image rights. For article production, all illustrations must be submitted separately.

• All published articles in this journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 International The authors accept a potential publication under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license when submitting their article.

Metadata query

The following metadata must be provided during the article submission process.

Article metadata

mandatory

  • Title
    Titles cannot contain italicized, superscript or subscript components.
  • Subtitles
    Subtitles cannot contain italicized, superscript or subscript components.
  • Keywords (3-5)
    Careful selection significantly increases the findability of articles.
  • Abstract
    Abstracts must be concise and not exceed a maximum length of 300 words.
  • References
    References must be entered without any line breaks within a reference, but with a blank line between two references.

voluntary

  • Type
    Type of the submission. The type is usually "text", but may be "record", "image", or any of the Dublin Core types.
  • Rights
    All rights to this submission, including intellectual property rights, copyrights, and proprietary rights, must be indicated.
  • Source
    The source can be an ID such as the DOI of another work that was the basis of this submission.
  • Discipline
    Disciplines are types of studies or areas of expertise as described by university departments or professional societies.
  • Support
    Supporting institutions may indicate here the source of research funding or other types of support for research.

Author metadata

mandatory

  • Full name
    The name will be displayed on the journal's website as well as in the article PDF and HTML file. Please do not enter an academic degree here.
  • Affiliation
    The affiliation is displayed on the journal's website as well as in the article PDFs and HTMLs.
  • Country
    The country is not displayed for readers of the journal.
  • E-mail address
    The email address will be used for all correspondence during the review process. Only the email address of the corresponding author is visible to readers of the journal.
  • Main contact
    Indication of corresponding author.
  • ORCID
    ORCID authentication is done via a direct link sent via email to the author(s).

Links

➟ Author guidelines
➟ Ethical guidelines
➟ Data privacy statement
➟ Review process
➟ ORCID