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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is 1.5 line spacing; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • References adhere to the APA referencing style (7th gen.).
  • The article is accompanied by an abstract of a maximum of 100 words.

Author Guidelines

Instructions for authors

Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae is a multidisciplinary publication that appears twice a year. AASF offers a forum for articles where scientists present current questions and challenges in their fields to people interested in science and its advancement. The publication series is ideal for reviews and anticipatory articles, multidisciplinary summaries and comments on science policy, for example.

Submissions are accepted throughout the year. Articles are accepted in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Submitted manuscripts are processed in meetings of the editorial team that take place twice a year. Furthermore, all articles go through a double-blind peer review process.

Technical instructions

Manuscripts are submitted using the journal.fi platform.

The recommended maximum length of an article, complete with images and references, is 10 A4-sized pages (excluding the bibliography). The article should be accompanied by an English abstract of a maximum of 100 words.

Possible image files must be sent in conjunction with the manuscript as separate files of the highest possible quality (e.g., as JPG or PDF files). Mathematical formulas should be submitted to the publication primarily as image files: the range of special characters is limited in layout designing software, and it is not possible to reproduce all formulas. A maximum of two heading levels is recommended: main headline and subheadings.

All articles undergo a double-blind peer review process. Ensure that the manuscript and its sections are anonymised prior to submission. Also remember to remove the author’s name from the headline and possible footers.

The comments received in peer review must be taken into account when finishing the article.

 

References

References adhere to the APA referencing style (7th gen.).

When marking references, use the language the article is written in. References are placed in the text in parenthesis, and they must include the author’s name and year of publication. Page numbers are only mentioned when the reference is a direct quote. More detailed information is included in the bibliography at the end of the article.

In English for example:

  • Example, E. (2022). Book title. Publisher.
  • Example, E. (2022). Article title. In W. Writer & R. Researcher (Eds.), Book title (pp. xx–xx). Publisher.
  • Writer A. & Writer, B. (2022). Article title. Journal name, 12(1), 11–33 (Volume, isuue or number, page numbers). doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx

If there is a DOI identifier, it is included at the end of the reference.

More detailed information: https://apastyle.apa.org/

 

The License

All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. See the terms of the licence here. Copyright remains with the author.

 

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