Submissions

Author Guidelines

General principles

• Prologi publishes various types of texts: peer-reviewed scholarly articles, scholarly speeches and presentations, lectio praecursoria lectures, book reviews, and writings by the recipients of recognitions awarded by Prologos ry. 
• Texts submitted to Prologi must be previously unpublished and may not be under review in any other publication at the same time.
• If the findings of the scholarly article or scholarly presentation have been partly reported in another publication, the prior publication or scholarly presentation must be indicated at the end of the text. 
• If the article is based on or belongs to a doctoral dissertation, the supervisor should be indicated at the end of the text: “This article is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation which was supervised by N.N. from the University of X”. (This note must not, however, be visible in the anonymised version.)
• Articles published in Prologi may be included in a compilation doctoral dissertation if this is in line with the university’s policies and guidelines. The dissertation must state the complete publication information of the article, including the DOI. 
• At the end of the article, the author may thank funders or other people or organisations that had an important role in the development of the article. 
• Manuscripts that will be subjected to a peer review will be completely anonymised. All references to the authors’ identity that could help the reader identify the author will be deleted (passages such as “In our previous study... (xxxx)” or “A more detailed description of the study is available in… (xxxx)”). Neutral references to the author’s own publications are left in the text. They do not need to be deleted. Any references to funders, supervisors, or projects will be anonymised or, if necessary, deleted for the duration of the peer review. These citations will be restored in the text and references once the peer reviewers have given their statements.
• Both the authors and Prologos ry own the copyrights of the texts published in Prologi. This means that both the authors and Prologos ry can secure their freedom to operate with regard to the texts published in Prologi. Writings published in the journal are licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. The author retains the copyright of the work, while the journal holds the right of first publication, in both the digital and printed journal. The author may include the article in a compilation thesis. Any other type of further use must be discussed with the publisher. 
• The publisher, Prologos ry, can choose the publication format of the text and freely decide to re-publish the article when the purpose is to specifically transmit scientific information. The author and readers may freely use the text for educational and other non-commercial purposes, provided that the source is cited appropriately.
• Once the issue has been published, the publisher’s PDF version of the text may be stored in the author’s organisation’s repository or other similar service, as long as the original DOI is cited. 
• The author is responsible for ensuring that the article is proofread and grammatically correct.
• Authors are not paid for their contributions.
• Texts published in the journal do not reflect the opinions of Prologos ry or the editorial board of Prologi. The author is responsible for the content of the text and the ethical choices made in the research process. The editorial board reserves the right to decide on the publication of a text at any stage of the editorial process.

Writing and submitting texts

• The maximum length of scholarly articles submitted for peer review is 50,000 characters (approximately 25 pages), including spaces, abstract, and keywords. Texts that are too long will not be sent for peer review.
• The character limit does not include tables, figures, references, or abstracts written in another language. 
• The maximum length is 10,000 characters for book reviews, 18,000 for lectio praecursoria lectures, and 30,000 for scholarly presentations and keynote speeches. For texts written by the recipients of the Communication Initiative of the Year award (Vuoden vuorovaikutusteko), the limit is 10,000 characters. The character limit includes spaces and keywords. 
• Use 1.5 line spacing and normal side margins. Use the Times New Roman font, size 12.
• Separate chapters and paragraphs with a single line break (do not use indentations).
• Do not hyphenate. Do not justify paragraphs.  
• If your article is written in Finnish or Swedish, include an English-language title and keywords after the references at the end of the article. Scholarly articles should include an abstract in English to make the article easier to discover. Translations are not included in the character limit.
• Your scholarly article should include an abstract of 150–200 words and 5–6 keywords right after the title. The abstract should present the background, objective, and main content of the article. Abstracts should not contain paragraph breaks. The keywords should be related to communication and/or social interaction. Choose at least some of your keywords from YSA, the General Finnish Thesaurus (https://finto.fi/ysa/fi/). State the keywords in alphabetical order.  
• Add page numbers to the top right corner of the page. Pagination should start from the first page, with the text starting from the same page.
• Write “References” as the title of your list of references.
• Add literature citations in the text. Avoid footnotes, endnotes, and notes in parentheses. 
• Upload your anonymised text either in docx or rtf format to the electronic submission system of Prologi at journal.fi/prologi. Check that your personal information is not saved in the file’s properties.

Detailed writing instructions 

• Prologi’s citation style follows the 7^th edition of the manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). You can also take a look at these useful links:
  https://www.apastyle.org/
  https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html
  https://apastyle.apa.org/blog
• Texts written in Swedish should follow the rules of the Swedish language.
• Headings and subheadings are not numbered. Use headings to structure your text. We recommend that you use only two levels of subheadings. Use headings that describe the content of the section. Headings may not contain more than six words. 
• Foreign-language terms should be translated, with the original term in italics in parentheses.
• Tables and figures are numbered and given titles. Their placement should be indicated in the text (e.g., “Figure 1 here”). Tables and figures should be in black and white and ready for printing, and they should be placed on their own separate pages at the end of the text.
• The references should list all sources used and cited in the text. Sources that are not cited in the text should not appear in the references. 
• The references and in-text citations should follow the APA style. Texts written in Swedish should, however, follow the rules of the Swedish language. Abbreviations used in the references should be translated into Swedish. If a publication has a DOI, it should be listed in the references. 
• Please note: Do not forget to state the publication’s DOI (Digital Object Identifier) in the references if it is available. DOIs should be given as URLs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.12.009. (Not just as a DOI number: 1016/j.tate.2017.12.009). If you do not know the DOI of a source, you can look it up at https://www.crossref.org/.