Historical Journal

Instructions to contributors 2006

Contributions to the Historical Journal should be sent in electronic form either on a diskette or by e-mail.

Type face

Italics and bold face should be avoided. The names of people should not be italicized or written in bold face.

The names of books, newspapers and magazines should be in italics every time they are mentioned. However, names like the Bible or the Kalevala should not be italicized. If an article deals with a single title or just a few books or other publications in such a way that the name is mentioned repeatedly throughout the article, the italics may be omitted.

Contributors can also make suggestions on suitable illustrations, which will be taken into account as far as costs allow.

Footnotes

References to monographs

1st reference: author's forename, surname, no comma, year of publication in brackets, no comma, name of work in italics (publication series [if any] after a comma, also in italics, no comma, series number without italics), comma, place of publication, colon, publisher, comma, pages referred to.
e.g. Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen (2000) Hopeamarkkojen evankeliumi. Kirjoituksia sydänkeskiajan kulttuurihistoriasta, Helsinki: WSOY, 81-101.
Juha Sihvola (1989) Decay, Progress, the Good Life? Hesiod and Protagoras on the Development of Culture, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 89, Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica.

If there is more than one author, the names should be separated with the symbol &, with editors of both Finnish and foreign works expressed thus (Eds.) before the year of publication with a space in between.
e.g. Juha Sihvola & Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Eds.) (1998) The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer.

If a work is in several volumes, the volume number should be expressed in Roman numerals immediately after the name without a comma, no italics.
e.g. A.A. Long & D.N. Sedley (1987) The Hellenistic Philosophers I-II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2nd and subsequent references: the author's (authors') surname(s), no separate mention of editorship, no comma, year in brackets, no comma, page number(s). Ibid., op. cit. and similar references should not be used.
e.g. Sihvola & Engberg-Pedersen (1998) 99-101.

If reference is made to two or more works published in the same year by the same author, these should be distinguished from each other by lower case letters placed inside the brackets immediately after the year of publication without any intervening space, e.g. (1998a)(1998b).

The use of upper and lower case letters in titles should follow the conventions natural to the language concerned: in Finnish, Swedish and French titles, for example, no upper case letters other than the first letter and the initial letters of proper nouns, in English-language titles the initial letters of nouns, adjectives and verbs, and in German titles the initial letters of all nouns.

References to articles in scientific publications

1st reference: author's forename, surname, no comma, year of publication in brackets, no comma, name of article in single quotes, comma after the closing quote, name of publication in italics, volume serial number, comma, page numbers. The names of periodicals should not be abbreviated.
e.g. Juha Sihvola (2000) 'Globalisaatio, eurooppalaiset arvot ja suomalainen identiteetti', Historiallinen Aikakauskirja 98, 291-304.

Subsequent references as above: e.g. Sihvola (2000) 291-292.

References to articles in compilation works

1st reference: author's forename, surname, no comma, year of publication in brackets, no comma, name of article in single quotes, comma after the closing quote, in, editor's (editors') forename(s), surname(s), (Ed./Eds.), no comma, name of work in italics (publication series [if any] after a comma, also in italics, no comma, series number without italics), comma, place of printing, colon, publisher, comma, pages referred to.
e.g. Richard Bett (2000) 'What Does Pyrrhonism Have to Do with Pyrrho?', in Juha Sihvola (Ed.) Ancient Scepticism and the Sceptical Tradition, Acta Philosophica Fennica 66, Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica, 11-34.

Subsequent references as above: e.g. Bett (2000). If the reference is to an entire article, the page numbers need not be repeated.

References to other material

References to archive sources should be clear, precise, consistent and sufficiently detailed to enable the reader to identify the individual document referred to.

References to classic works such as Classical literature may be made according to generally observed conventions, although the names of authors and works should be given in full.
e.g. Aristoteles, Ethica Nicomachea I 7, 1097a15-1098a20.

References to newspaper articles should be in accord with the applicable parts of the instructions presented above.