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Author Guidelines

Ethnologia Fennica publishes original scholarly articles, review articles, conference reports, and book reviews from the field of ethnology and other related fields. The text (including abstracts) should be delivered by the journal’s online submission system https://journal.fi/ethnolfenn/about/submissions.

All manuscripts are required in MS Word format. Authors need to Register and Log in prior to submission. Please read first the About the Journal page for the Journal's policies. Before submission, read these Author Guidelines carefully.

The language of the journal is English. British and American English can both be used, but consistently.  It is recommended that the author has the final manuscript version proofread by a professional if English is not their native language.

The authors should submit a separate cover letter indicating the significance of the manuscript.

The articles in Ethnologia Fennica are indexed in several databases: see ulrichsweb.com.

All manuscripts should have line spacing 1.5. Quotes over 40 words in length should be indented from the left margin. For shorter quotations, double smart quotation marks [“...”] are primarily used. Do not format the text otherwise, except for words that need to be italicized. Do not number subheadings. Place a blank line between paragraphs instead of indenting the first line of the paragraph.

References (including archival references) must be indicated within the text, for instance (Virtanen 1999, 36) and not appear as footnotes or endnotes. Notes in the form of footnotes should be used for clarification and discussion.

Do not use abbreviations in the body of the text. Abbreviations can be used in footnotes and within parentheses.

If transliteration of Cyrillic letters into Latin alphabet is needed, please follow the British Standard.

Manuscripts submitted for the article section (both research and review articles) may not exceed 10,000 words.

All research and review articles must include the following:

  • a 200-word abstract
  • a short list of keywords
  • a list of references or bibliography
  • acknowledgments in the first footnote

The full style guidelines for formating and references can be found here.

 

Reporting the use of AI

Always mention if you have used generative AI or other AI-assisted tools for research and writing process, especially for creating or generating ideas and text. Consider mentioning if you have used AI as a tool for finding references and improving your own text.

Report the tool and how you have used it for your article. Example for reporting, placed at the end of the article, before references:

The Use of AI: “For this research paper, I have used [the name of the AI tool, e.g. Microsoft Copilot / OpenAI’s ChatGPT] for finding references and improving the grammar and structure of the text. I have reviewed the content carefully and take full responsibility for the article”.

Reporting is mandatory if you have used AI for, for example, creating or generating:

  • Data collection and analysis
  • Research questions
  • Literature reviews or summaries
  • Visualizations
  • Translation for more than some words or phrases

Consider reporting if you have used AI as a tool for editing, organizing, finding references or examples for or validating your own text, checking the grammar or translating single words or phrases.

Remember that you are always responsible for your own text and the used sources and references.

Follow guidelines for ethical use of AI. E.g.

https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/responsible-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-research-process

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The submission file is in MS Word format (.docx).
  • Where available, URLs and DOI’s for the references have been provided as a full link.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions of ensuring a double blind review have been followed.
  • I have read and I accept the terms of use as expressed in our Copyright notice, especially regards to the Creative Commons License.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

The license of the published metadata is Creative Commons CC0 4.0 Universal (CC BY 4.0)

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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