NORA 2007-2009

Dear author,
We are pleased to welcome your contribution to NORA. Please read the following document carefully, as it contains important information about the presentation of your manuscript. If the manuscript does not follow these instructions, it might be returned to you for revision.

Original research articles
NORA welcomes submissions that partake in or reflect Nordic discussions and research interests within the interdisciplinary field of feminist and gender research. Submitted manuscripts must be written in English. Although the editors will make the necessary final amendments and corrections required for reasons of consistency etc., the author is responsible for a thorough linguistic revision (by a native English speaker). Authors submitting a paper do so with the understanding that the work has not been published before, is not being considered for publication elsewhere, and has been read and approved by all authors. The work should not be published elsewhere in any language without the written consent of the publisher. The articles published in this journal are protected by copyright, which covers translation rights and the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute all articles printed in the journal. Proofs and a copyright form will be sent to the corresponding author only. We ask authors to download the proofs from our website and make any necessary amendments within 3 working days. Full instructions will be given at this time.
Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com). Reprints of articles published in NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received or alternatively on our journals website. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk.

Manuscript address

Manuscripts conforming to the instructions above should be submitted at the NORA ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “Full version of paper with author details”.

Questions regarding these instructions can be sent to the e-mail address above (nora@tandf.no). This address reaches both of the editors Cecilia Åsberg and Malin Ronnblom as well as the editorial secretary Redi Koobak.

Please present your manuscript in the following manner:

Title page

• The title of the article
• Full name of the authors and their institutional affiliations
• Complete mailing address, e-mail and telephone numbers of the author responsible for correspondence
• A short biography, including name, academic title, institutional affiliations, field of research and preferably a couple of references to publications. These pages are removed before the article is sent to referees.
• Abstract of article (no more than 300 words)

Length of paper

• Maximum 20 pages, double spaced (ca 8000 words) including abstract, notes and references

Form

• The complete manuscript must be typed double-spaced.
• Please use font 12 of Times New Roman at all times, except for notes and references, which should be typed in font 10.
• Accentuations in the text should be marked in italic, including all titles of books, films etc. Do not use bold or different fonts in the text.
• As a general rule; use as few word processing codes as possible.
• Words should not be divided.
• New paragraphs should be marked by a line break and tabulator indentation.

Headings

• All headings should be typed in bold, and placed on the left side of the page without punctuation.
• Use only 1 line break when shifting from section headings to text.
• Do not number sections.

Quotes

• All quotes should be written in ordinary type.
• Short quotes should be written in the text itself with "double quotation marks".
• Quotes longer than approximately two lines should be written as a new paragraph, like this:

  One line down, with indentation. Use ordinary type, without quotation marks. At the end of the quote, write the reference. (Larsen 1996: 46)

• Use 'single quotation marks' only for quotes within quotes (i.e. not for concepts etc.).

Notes

• Notes should be kept to a minimum.
• Must be written as end notes with numbers (1, 2, 3 …) instead of letters (i, ii, iii …). Please ask the editors if you are uncertain how to access end notes with numbers. Within the text the note counter (the number of the note) is to be placed after period.
• The list is to be placed at the end of the manuscript, after the text and before references.

References

All works cited in the text must be listed, and there must be no references to works not cited in the article. References within the text should be reasonable.
References in the text should be typed according to the following examples:

• The author's last name and year of publication in parentheses without comma (Moi 1985).
• Specific page or section references are to be placed after the year of publication and without p. for page (Moi 1985: 47; Järvikoski et al. 1999: 118). If you wish to indicate original year of publication, use (de Beauvoir 2002/1949).
• Use the year of publication, without the author's last name, for consecutive repeated references to the same work. Use ibid. for identical consecutive references (i.e. to the very same page or pages).
• Reference is placed at the end of the sentence.
• References should not be given as notes.

The list of references should be typed according to the following examples:

• Include full publication details.
• Titles in Nordic languages must be translated into English and put in square brackets.
• All references must include a place of publication.
• If possible, the authors' first names should be mentioned in the reference list. In case of a very long list of authors (or editors), mention the first six names before replacing the rest with et al.
• Please use the following examples as instructions:
  Book:
  Ehn, Billy; Frykman, Jonas & Löfgren, Orvar (1993) Försvenskningen av Sverige [Enhancing Sweden's Swedishness] (Stockholm: Natur och Kultur).
  Foucault, Michel (1986/1984) The Care of the Self (New York: Vintage).
  Moi, Toril (1998) Hva er en kvinne? [What is a woman?] (Trondheim: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag).
  Article in anthology:
  Gordon, Tuula (2002) Kansallisuuden sukupuolittuneet tilat [The gendered spaces of nationhood], in: Tuula Gordon, Katri Komulainen & Kirsti Lempiäinen (Eds) Suomineitonen hei! Kansallisuuden sukupuoli [Hi maiden Finland! Gendered nationality], pp. 37-53 (Tampere: Vastapaino).
• The translated title, should not be in italic and written in small letters.
  Article in journal:
  Westerlund-Shands, Karin (1993) Transcending gynocentric space: Spatial metaphorics in feminist theory and criticism, NORA-Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, 1(1), pp. 35-48.
• Indicate both volume and issue number, with the number placed in parentheses.
  Publication with series title:
  Nousiainen, Kevät (1998) Kielletty uhri [The denied victim], in: Pirkko Kiviaho (Ed.) Puheenvuoroja naisiin kohdistuvasta väkivallasta [Approaches to violence against women] Tasa-arvojulkaisuja 3, pp. 45-48 (Helsinki: Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö).
  Article in newspaper:
  Kulås, Guri (2006) Den vesle skilnaden [The little difference], Klassekampen, 8 March 2006.
  Webpage: Available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals (accessed 24 April 2005).
• Please note that the first capital letter rule of the book titles does not apply for journal article titles.

Illustrations and tables

• Put each table and figure on a separate sheet.
• The captions for tables and figures should be self-explanatory.
• All illustrations other than tables should be considered as figures.
• Tables and figures should be numbered.
• Give due attention to the proportions of the printed page.
• Indicate the approximate location desired in the text.
• Illustrations and tables must be distinctive enough to allow for substantial reduction in size without loss of clarity, the lettering being reducible to 1.5-2 mm in height.

Electronic copy

• NORA prefers illustrations to be supplied as separate digital files; if there are many illustrations, please send them in separate e-mail messages or mail them on a CD-ROM.
• NORA prefers authors to use a recent version of Microsoft Word.
• Graphic elements should be kept as separate files in EPS-, PDF or TIFF-format.
• Photo illustrations should have at least 300 DPI.

Book Reviews
The editors welcome reviews of books with a significance for Nordic feminist and gender research. NORA also welcomes review essays. These are thematic overviews of major perspectives or approaches and of newer emerging trends in interdisciplinary feminist studies. Authors who wish to gain review copies should contact the book review editor Kattis Honkanen at: khonkane@abo.fi Reviews should not exceed two and a half pages or 2000 words. Review essays should not exceed 3000 words. Authors should submit the manuscript in electronic form by e-mail to: khonkane@abo.fi