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INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ARTICLES

How to cite

Tekniikan Waiheita (The Finnish Quarterly for History of Technology, hereafter “TW”) follows the Author date of Chicago citation guide (see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html).

All literature and archival citations will be in footnotes, endnotes can be used only in exceptional cases. Every article and overview should contain a reference list / bibliography.  

Here are some examples of the most common citations.

Writers / authors can ask for more information on how to cite (e.g. research material) from the editors of the issue.

Footnotes

Footnotes are marked in a clear and simple way as possible. For instance, if the literature has been published online, the URL is given in the reference list instead of the footnote. Footnote ends always with a period.

General example of a footnote (literature):

Author(s) (last name(s), year of publishing, page number or other identifier / tag.

• Example: Saarikoski 2004, 4–5.

Different citations in a same footnote are separated with a semicolon (;)

• Example: Östman 2015, 208; Suominen 2017, 15.

If there are two authors, the last names are separated with a character &. If there are more than two authors, last names are separated with a comma and the last name of the list is separated with a character &. However, if there are more than three authors, it is recommendable to use the abbreviation "et al."

• Example: Karjalainen, Luodonpää-Manni & Laippala 2017.
• Example: Allern et al. 2012.

If the same author has published more than once the same year, an alphabetic order is applied to separate the publications:

• Example: Pietilä 2008a; Pietilä 2008b.

Reference list

The archive sources, unprinted sources, interviews, magazines / journals and literature are listed in their own section in the reference list. Primary archival sources are always introduced first in the reference list before the literature. Every section should be organized in alphabetic order. It is recommendable to check the URL of the online sources before publishing to make sure that they are up to date, and note this in the beginning of the reference list. The basic structure is following: 

Reference list

1)  Research material

2)  Literature

It is important that the most important research materials are given first in the "research

When using online sources, remember to give the name of the data base and the URL. We ask that authors give the possible DOI identifier of the source as whole in the reference list https://doi.org/tunnus/tunnus.   

Authors are marked in the order given in the publication info. After the first author other authors are given in the form First name Last name. Authors are separated with a comma, and before the last author the word "and" is added.

Titles of the journals and books are italicized, and the names of the articles are given in quotation marks (”).

The citation ends always in a period.

Examples on how to cite

How to cite literature in the reference list: Author(s). Year of publication. Title. Other information (such as translation info and info of the original version). Home of the publisher: Publisher.  

1) Books

In the footnote: 

Paju & Mauranen 2007, 124.

Callardo C. & Smith 2004, 5.

In the reference list:

Paju, Petri ja Katariina Mauranen. 2018. Tekniikkaa hyvässä Seurassa. Tampereen Teknillinen Seura 125 vuotta. Tampere: Tampereen Teknillinen Seura ry.

Callardo C., Ximena and C. Jason Smith. 2004. Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley. New York & London: Continuum.

2) Research articles

The volume and issue are given right after the title of journal.

In the footnote:

Berg 2007, 124.

In the reference list:

Berg, Maxine. 2007. ”The Genesis of ‘Useful Knowledge’.” History of Science, 45 (2): 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1177/007327530704500201.

 3) Chapters and articles in collections

Editors are mentioned right after the title in the form First name Last name. After this the cited page numbers are marked.

In the footnote:

Perdue 2010, 311–312.

In the reference list:

Perdue, Peter C. 2010. ”What Price Empire? The Industrial Revolution and the Case of China. ” In Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband and Merritt Roe Smith: 309–328. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: MIT Press.

 4) Newspapers and other magazines

News papers and magazines can be cited in a long or a short form in the reference list. According to general recommendation, if they are used a lot and general discussion is cited, the short form can be applied. In the long form the author of the original news paper article (if known) is noted. If the news paper article is online, a shortened version of the URL and the time of publication are given in the reference list.

Example 1. In the footnote:

Hufvudstadsbladet 25.7.1896.

In the reference list (long form):

”Patentlagen.” Hufvudstadsbladet, 25.7.1896. The digital archive of the National Library of Finland. https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/748351?page=2.

Example 2. In the footnote:

MikroBitti 5/1989, 36.

In the reference list (short form):

MikroBitti 1984–1989.

Example 3. In the footnote:

Puikkonen, Yle.fi 15.7.2017.

Berreby, Nytimes.com 22.11.2020.

In the reference list (long form):

Puikkonen, Hannu. ”Lankaliittymien saattohoito on alkanut – operaattorit vaikeuksissa kiinteän puhelinverkon ylläpidon kanssa.” Yle Uutiset 15.7.2017. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9511295.

Berreby, David. "Can we make our robots less biased than we are?" The New York Times 22.11.2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/22/science/artificial-intelligence-robots-racism-police.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=625447637&algo=identity&imp_id=797349857&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage.

 5) Archive sources

Archive sources in the footnote (general): Document, Date, Location, Archive. Use the short citation version in the reference list.

In the footnote:

Transcript of the board meeting, 3.3.1842, Ca:1, Transcript 1842-1846, The Archive of the Factory X, National Archives of Finland (NAF).

In the reference list:

The Archive of the Factory X. National Archives of Finland (NAF).

6) Websites

Websites in the reference list (general): Writer/author, publishing date, page headline, other information (e.g. the date of last update of the page), the URL. Use a shorter version of the URL in footnotes to separate it from literature.

In the footnote:

Kauppinen 1991, www.byterapers.scene.org.

In the reference list:

Kauppinen, Jukka O. 1991. ”Finnish Scene-history, 1986 to 1991.” Last updated 1996. http://www.byterapers.scene.org/scene-sfscene86-91.htm.

If the author is unknown, the footnote should contain the headline, shortened version of the URL and the publishing date. The long version of the URL, and other important information (last update of the page) can be given in the reference list.

In the footnote:

“Argon & Organ: FinnScene Early – Synthpop”, www.phinnweb.org 11.9.2019.

In the reference list:

“Argon & Organ: FinnScene Early – Synthpop.” pHinnWeb. Last update 11.1.2019. http://www.phinnweb.org/early/synth/organ/.

 7) Interviews

In the footnote: give the entire name of the interviewee, the name of the interviewer, and the date of the interview. In the reference list: give the same information as in the footnote, and other information such as the interviewer.

In the footnote:

The interview of Lauri Kotilainen 3.6.1998.

In the reference list:

Lauri Kotilainen 3.6.1998 (author of this article as the interviewer).

How to write a book review?

Tekniikan Waiheita, The Finnish Quartely for History of Technology, publishes reviews of books and museum exhibitions that are connected to history of technology or Finnish industrial heritage in a broad sense. If you are interested in reviewing a book, contact the editorial team beforehand. We will help you to get access to a copy. Reviews of international books are particularly welcome. Book reviews can be written in Finnish, Swedish, or English.

Book reviews are not subjected to the peer review process, but the editors may ask to edit and revise the review to improve readability. The editorial team has always right to refuse to publish a review.

A book review is on average 4,000-6,000 characters long. In special occasions, like the review of multiple books or a broad historiographic review, the text can be longer. A good book review is not just an advertisement or a description, but it connects the book to its historiographic context and points out its main arguments. The text should align with good academic practices and critically, but fairly, evaluate the main advantages and weaknesses of the book.

Before submitting a book review, give it a title (both in Finnish/Swedish and English) and make sure it contains the following information about the book: The author(s), the title, editors if applicable, publisher and the location of the publisher, page number, publishing year, and ISBN number.

Enclose to the submission a high-resolution picture of the book cover. The pictures are usually available at the publishers’ home pages. Also scanned pictures and good-quality photos are acceptable.

The reviews will be published by the name of the writer, who will have the copyrights for the text. The commercial rights for the text will be owned by Tekniikan Waiheita journal and they will be licensed with the open access CC BY 4.0 license. Tekniikan Waiheita does not pay for the book reviews.