Submissions

Author Guidelines

Special issues can be suggested on all historically relevant topics. A proposal including a short synopsis, the names of editors, and a tentative list of authors should be sent to the editor-in-chief by email. The journal works with special issue editors in a dialogical manner throughout the process, which ensures that each paper is reviewed, revised and published as part of the collection.

Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Ennen ja nyt accepts only online submission using the OJS. The system works best with Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome while Internet Explorer does not guarantee to process the whole steps of the manuscript submission. 

Manuscript preparation and delivery to the editors

General
Manuscripts must be word processed and sent via OJS with this template! Two levels of subheadings may be used, first in bold and second in italics. Only the first letter and proper names are capitalised in headings, and numbering is not used. 

Language

If the author is not a native speaker, the author is obligated to have the manuscript language checked. The journal will not cover any expenses related to language checks.

Peer review

Ennen ja nyt follows the peer review standards set by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) A peer review is either double blind or double open, and the decision on which to use needs to be unanimous between the author and the two reviewers. In short, the peer review standards are:

• Manuscript has been subject to a review by two persons invited to assess and write an opinion on it at the request of the editorial staff in charge of the publication criteria (except for works based on doctoral dissertations*).
• The reviewers are PhD level researchers or other expert parties external to the editing board and independent in relation to the manuscript to be reviewed. The process can be carried out either anonymously or openly.

When uploading an article manuscript to the OJS, the writer must list three suitable peer reviewers for the manuscript. This list will be uploaded to the OJS as a note, and there it will be utilised by the editors in determining the reviewers.

Pictures and graphs

The writer is responsible for acquiring pictures (two or more) for an article. It is the author's responsibility to obtain copyright permission for the reproduction of images, tables or other material and to ensure adequate acknowledgement. Pictures and graphs shall be uploaded to the OJS with the manuscript. They can be in any picture format (for example (jpg-, eps-, tif- tai pdf). The writer must clearly mark in the manuscript where the picture or graph should be placed. Captions, the source of the picture and possible copyright licenses shall also be drafted in the manuscript.

The minimum size of the picture/graph is 500 x 500 pixels.

Author Guidelines

General information for authors
Ennen ja nyt publishes papers in three categories: Research Papers, Reflections and Essays, and Reviews. The journal advocates transparency in publication processes and, as part of this agenda, encourages double-open review process. The review practice is discussed with each author and reviewer, to ensure an ethical and good quality review process.

• Research Papers are original full-length articles that make a significant contribution to historical and related research. 
• Reflections and Essays are papers introducing empirical, theoretical or methodological insights. Also literature reviews, lectures, and essays are published in the section. 
• Reviews refers to book reviews of single or multiple publications with a common theme. Reviewed book(s) must be relatively new and they must contain significant or otherwise interesting insights into the study of history or neighboring fields.

Research paper

Length: At maximum 55 000 characters including spaces and citations. 

Abstracts: All peer reviewed papers that have been accepted must have abstracts (maximum 200 words) in English. 

Reflections and essays  

Length: At maximum 20 000 characters including spaces, ingress and citations. 

Reviews

Length: At maximum 10 000 characters including spaces, ingress and citations. 

Book information: Book information must be presented at the beginning of the review (name of publication, name of author/editor, publisher, place of publication, year, page count). Book information shall be Italicized. For example: Christine Hine (2015) Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday. Bloomsbury Academic, 221 s.

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

It is the responsibility of the writer to add DOIs (where available) to the citations. This is can be done with a single click for the entire list of citations by using Simple Text Query.

References 

Ennen ja nyt follows the Chicacogo manual in referencing. The authors are asked to recheck references after each revision, to make sure that all references cited in the text are included in the list and that all references given in the list are cited in the text.

The following examples illustrate the notes system. Sample notes show full citations followed by shortened citations for the same sources. Note that Ennen ja nyt does not use a separate bibliography as full citations are used.

Book

Notes

1. Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016), 315–16.
2. Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 12.

Shortened notes

3. Smith, Swing Time, 320.
4. Grazer and Fishman, Curious Mind, 37.

Chapter or other part of an edited book

In a note, cite specific pages. 

Note

1. Henry David Thoreau, “Walking,” in The Making of the American Essay, ed. John D’Agata (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 177–78.

Shortened note

2. Thoreau, “Walking,” 182.

In some cases, you may want to cite the collection as a whole instead.

Note

1. John D’Agata, ed., The Making of the American Essay (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 177–78.

Shortened note

2. D’Agata, American Essay, 182.

Journal article

In a note, cite specific page numbers. For articles consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database. Many journal articles list a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). A DOI forms a permanent URL that begins https://doi.org/. This URL is preferable to the URL that appears in your browser’s address bar.

Notes

1. Susan Satterfield, “Livy and the Pax Deum,” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 170.
2. 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
3. Peter LaSalle, “Conundrum: A Story about Reading,” New England Review38, no. 1 (2017): 95, Project MUSE.

Shortened notes

4. Satterfield, “Livy,” 172–73.
5. Keng, Lin, and Orazem, “Expanding College Access,” 23.
6. LaSalle, “Conundrum,” 101.