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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.
  • The pictures, photos, and tables are in separate files, their location marked in the manuscript. All pictures and photos require permission to be printed from the copyright owner.
  • The manuscript has not been published before and it has not been sent to another publication.
  • The URL-addresses are checked and working.
  • The manuscript follows the journal-specific instructions about footnotes and style.
  • The manuscript is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF format.

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ARTICLES

An article is a scientific text that contains new and well-founded research information. The article must adhere to the theoretical, methodological, and topical practices of historical research.

Text Length: The target length for an article is 40,000 - 50,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes.

Additionally, a short abstract (max. 200 words), a title, and 3-5 keywords must be provided for the published article.

Illustrations: Images attached to the manuscript should be sent as separate files either through the OJS platform when submitting the manuscript or to the editor-in-chief. Images can be submitted either as originals or scanned and saved as separate files (in jpg, eps, tif, or pdf format). The placement of the figure or image in the text should be indicated, for example, in brackets ["image1.jpg here"]. Captions can be sent as a separate text file. At the same time, the source of the images and any copyright license should be indicated. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that the image owner or copyright license allows digital publication.

Images must be at least 500 x 500 pixels in size.

Originality: To ensure the originality of the publication's content, Tekniikan Waiheita uses the Ouriginal service for plagiarism detection.

Fees: Tekniikan Waiheita does not charge any fees for publishing an article. There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors.

How to Cite

Tekniikan Waiheita (The Finnish Quarterly for History of Technology, hereafter “TW”) follows the Author-Date system of the Chicago citation guide (see Chicago Manual of Style).

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

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

Footnotes

Footnotes should be marked as clearly and simply as possible. For instance, if the literature has been published online, the URL is given in the reference list instead of the footnote. Footnotes always end 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 the 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 an ampersand (&). If there are more than two authors, last names are separated with a comma, and the last name in the list is separated with an ampersand (&). However, if there are more than three authors, it is recommended 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 in 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 sections in the reference list. Primary archival sources are always introduced first in the reference list before the literature. Every section should be organized in alphabetical order. It is recommended to check the URL of the online sources before publishing to ensure they are up to date, and note this at the beginning of the reference list. The basic structure is as follows:

  1. Research Material
  2. Literature

It is important that the most important research materials are listed first in the "Research Material" section.

When using online sources, remember to give the name of the database and the URL. Authors should provide the possible DOI identifier of the source in the reference list (e.g., https://doi.org/identifier).

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

The citation always ends with 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). Place of the publisher: Publisher.

1. Books

In the footnote:

Paju & Mauranen 2007, 124. Callardo C. & Smith 2004, 5.

In the reference list:

Paju, Petri and 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 the 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

Newspapers and magazines can be cited in a long or short form in the reference list. According to general recommendations, if they are used frequently and general discussion is cited, the short form can be applied. In the long form, the author of the original newspaper article (if known) is noted. If the newspaper 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

5. 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).

INSTRUCTIONS FOR BOOK REVIEWS

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-NC-ND 4.0 license. Tekniikan Waiheita does not pay for the book reviews.

Copyright Notice

As of issue 4/2018, Tekniikan Waiheita follows the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Therefore, you are free to share, i.e. copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format under the following conditions: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether any modifications have been made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a manner that suggests that the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the Material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform or build upon the Material, you may not distribute the modified Material. You may not apply legal conditions or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing what the license permits.

Until issue 3/2018, Tekniikan Waiheita followed the guidelines of the Federation of Finnish Scientific Publishers for copying parts of this publication. Articles may be printed and stored for private use in accordance with the Finnish Copyright Act. Articles may be printed, copied, stored and used for educational and research purposes in accordance with the provisions of the Kopiosto regulations. Any other use must be negotiated separately with the copyright holders.

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