Author Guidelines

Language, size and submission of manuscripts

The Journal for German and Scandinavian Studies accepts for publication manuscripts in Bulgarian, German, English, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

The length of the manuscript must be up to 25 standard pages (1800 characters per page, i.e. 45 000 characters in total), including the bibliography, the tables, the figures, the footnotes and the appendices.

Submitting Materials

Materials should be submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts platform at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/jgermscand (you’ll need to create an author profile for this purpose). Submissions must be in Microsoft Word format (.doc/.docx) and provided in two versions:

1. The first version of the file should be named in Latin script following this model: “Last Name, First Name. JournalGermScand. Month (in English), Year” — for example: Petrov, Ivan. JournalGermScand. May, 2023.

2. The second version of the file must be anonymised. This means all information that could reveal the author’s identity should be removed, both from the text itself and from the file’s metadata. Metadata can be removed using Word’s Inspect Document function (File → Info → Check for Issues → Inspect Document → Inspect). The anonymised file should be named following this model: “Title of the Material. anonymised” — for example: Romantizmut v Skandinavskia sever. anonymised.

After the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors must complete and send a declaration for publication, authorship, and copyright to the Editorial Board at JournalGermScand@fcml.uni-sofia.bg.

Requirements for manuscript formatting

We recommend using the Bulgarian, English or German-language templates that have been prepared in advance.

Page size: the margins (left, right, top and bottom) are 2,5 cm. The text is typed without breaking words between lines or pages. Paragraph spacing in the entire text is 0 points before and after the paragraph.

Title in the language of the submission: Times New Roman font, size 14, Bold, centred, capitalised (All caps)

Name of the author in the language of the submission: font Times New Roman, size 13, centred, Italic

Affiliation (name of the academic institution and the country): font Times New Roman, size 13, centred, Regular

Title in English*: Times New Roman font, size 14, centred, Bold, capitalised (All caps)

Name of the author in Latin script: Times New Roman font, size 13, centred, Italic

Affiliation (name of the academic institution and the country) in English: font Times New Roman, size 13, centred, Regular

Abstract of the article in the language of the submission: up to 10 lines, font Times New Roman, size 12, Justified, Regular, first line indentation 0,5″ (1,27 cm), line spacing Single

Keywords in the language of the submission: up to 5 words, font Times New Roman, size 12, Justified, Regular, first line indentation 0,5″ (1,27 cm)

Abstract of the article in English: up to 10 lines, font Times New Roman, size 12, Justified, Regular, first line indentation 0,5″ (1,27 cm), line spacing Single

Keywords in English: up to 5 words, font Times New Roman, size 12, Justified, Regular, first line indentaion 0,5″ (1,27 cm)

Article text: font Times New Roman, size 12, Justified, Normal, first line indentation 0,5″ (1,27 cm), line spacing 1,5

Footnotes: short and continuously numbered within the entire text, font Times New Roman, size 10, Justified, Normal, line spacing 1,15

Figures and tables: numbered or entitled

Quotations longer than three lines: they are formatted as a block quote, font Times New Roman, size 11, Normal, Justified, first line indentaion 0,5″ (1,27 cm), line spacing Single

* If the principal language of the submission is English, the title, the name of the author, the affiliation, the abstract and the keywords in Bulgarian are placed second (after the ones in English).

Citations within the text and bibliographical description of the sources used

The citations within the text and the bibliographical description of the sources used follow the Chicago style (author – date), with which you may familiarise yourself here.

We recommend using the automatic bibliography formatting function in Microsoft Word.

If the cited source has a DOI number, it should be included at the end of the bibliographic description of the source.

When citing German-language publications, “edited by” and “ed. by” are replaced by “hrsg. von”, and “ed.” is replaced by “Hrsg.”. When several authors and editors are listed, “and” is replaced by a slash (“/”) surrounded by spaces and by “und”, respectively.

NOTE: titles in the Cyrillic script must be transcribed into the Latin script. The title in the Cyrillic scipt is given in square brackets after its Latin transcription according to the BDS ISO 9:2001 standard, for example:

Galabov, Konstantin.1955. Istoricheska gramatika na nemski ezik. Sofia: Nauka i izkustvo. [Гълъбов, Константин. 1955. Историческа граматика на немски език. София: Наука и изкуство.]

We recommend using online transliteration tools such as https://www.ushuaia.pl/transliterate/ (select English transcription BGN/PCGN).

Formatting of the bibliography

Subheading “Bibliography/References”: Font Times New Roman, size 12, centred, Bold.

Text of the bibliography: Font Times New Roman, size 12, Justified, Normal, first line indentation 0,5″ (1,27 cm), line spacing 1.5.

Sources of the examples

The sources that the examples are excerpted from are indicated separately from the list of cited works, in a list entitled “Sources of the examples”. The bibliographic entries presenting the sources are structured in the same way as the cited works.

Subheading “Sources of the examples”: Font Times New Roman, size 12, centred, Bold, All caps. Two empty lines are left between the reference list and the subheading.

Contact card of the author

At the end of the submission, a contact card of the author in English is placed. The contact card contains the name, the academic position, the affiliation (research institution), country, ORCID iD and other IDs for personal registration in scientific databases (e.g. Researcher ID (Web of Science)), institutional postal and email addresses. The ORCID iD is mandatory for all contributors to the Journal.

Font Times New Roman, size 13, Normal, Right.