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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.
  • This manuscript has not been published or submitted to another journal before (or the situation has been described in the section "Comments to the editor").
  • The manuscript document is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF format.
  • The URL addresses related to the literature sources have been mentioned, if available.
  • The line spacing of the text is 1; the font size is 12; cursive can be used, but not underlining of text.
  • All images and tables have mentions in suitable places in the text. The actual images and tables must be uploaded as separate files (in jpg, gif, png, pdf formats).
  • The text and list of references follow the stylistic and bibliographic requirements determined in the journal's guidelines for the writers.
  • The references used in the manuscript contain Futures Studies literature.

Author Guidelines

Futura seeks to be a discussion channel for academics, so personal views are welcome. We prefer a
articulate, clear, and personal style. All articles are expected to refer to relevant articles in the field of
futures research, e.g., in international futures related journals.

Please follow these instructions:
- Add author Information, that is, your name, organisation, title, and / or your degree, your e-mail
address at the top of your manuscript
- Attach a passport-type of picture of yourself, formal or informal as you wish, black and white, or
coloured (both are ok). Remember to mention the name of the photographer
- If you use images / charts / tables, etc., make sure that they are clearly named, and mark their location
inside the text with the caption / table headset. (Note that the images will be printed in black and
white.) Using a screenshot of the image to show its ́ place in the manuscript is appreciated. NB! Send
the actual images or tables as separate image files
- Use only two heading levels, and make sure the headings are clearly labelled
- Do not use uppercase letters, unless the grammar requires it
- Headlines are written in lowercase letters
- Bolded text is not used, cursive if necessary
- Please try to avoid footnotes for technical reasons (endnotes are not used at all)
- Please send us raw text, no text formatting


To be applied to articles only:
- Provide us with an abstract max 200 words (in English)
- Article structure: Author, title, (abstract,) Ingress, raw text

List of references:

In the manuscript, references are placed in parentheses, e.g., (Madan 1999, 32-34) and (Heinonen & Kuusi 2020), or if more than two authors: (Mannermaa et al. 2006, 1-2).
Each reference should indicate the author's last name, first name, publishing year, name, publisher,
location, page numbers, and / or publishing series.

Internet sources are listed in the same way as printed
sources: main / author name, year, year, document name, publisher / page maintenance organization,
and access date (date, in which the information presented in the reference was accessed).

Some examples:
Sluga, Hans (1995): Heidegger's Crisis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Continental, Mika, Jim Dator & Paula Tiihonen (ed.) (2006): Democracy and Futures. Committee for
the Future / Future Committee. Parliment of Finland / Parliament.
Hietanen, Olli (2000): Future research on science philosophy, Futura 4/2000, pp. 44-56.
Söderlund, Sari & Osmo Kuusi (2002): 4. History of Future Research, Current Mode and Future. In the
art, Kamppinen, Matti, Osmo Kuusi & Sari Söderlund (ed.): Future research. Basics and applications,
251-347. Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki.
Malaska, Pentti (2000): [title and organization here if an expert interview.] Oral communication on
10 August 2000.

Copyright Notice

By submitting their manuscript, the writers are aware that the publishing rights (in regard to both the printed and the electronic Futura journal) will be held by the Finnish Society for Futures Studies (Tulevaisuuden tutkimuksen seura), but the copyright (moral rights) is held by the writers.
The writers are responsible for making sure that they have the rights to all text, image etc. materials that are used in the manuscript.
If the manuscript is accepted (and completes the peer review process, when applicable), the article will be published both in the printed and the electronic version of Futura (at this time, electronically on the Lehtiluukku platform, later possibly as Open Access). The writers cannot publish the article elsewhere in the same format (i.e., if one wants to share an article, a link to the existing online journal should be used, and the article should not be published e.g. on one's own website.) However, the manuscript version of a text can be published in one's own organisation's (mostly universities) article database.

The writers will not receive a honorarum, but if they so wish, they can obtain printed authors' copies of the journal. More information about this will be sent after the confirmation of the article being accepted.

If the article is ever republished later on, the Finnish Society for Futures Studies will contact the writer(s) and can consider any suggestions for technical changes/updates from them. 

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