Guide for authors

The journal will publish three types of articles:

Peer-reviewed scientific articles of around 50,000 characters.
Shorter scholarly articles of 5,000-20,000 characters.
Book reviews, reviews of exhibitions, films, etc. The journal also aims to publish lists of master's theses and selected books with themes within or relevant to maritime historical research published the previous year.

The journal primarily publishes articles in Scandinavian languages, but can also consider articles in English by specific agreement. It is published digitally via Open Access, but will also aim for printed editions for those who wish to order it.

The deadline for submitting articles for the 2025 issue is December 2, 2024.

Manuscripts should be sent to the editor-in-chief: [email protected]

Maritime Perspectives evaluates scholarly contributions based on requirements for academic rigor and communication.

The journal publishes empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions about maritime history. The articles must present original research of high quality and relate to the research frontier within the field to which the article belongs.

The scholarly contributions published in the journal should be written in a way that can be read by a general audience. The language is mainly Norwegian (Bokmål or Nynorsk), but the journal can also print contributions in Danish, Swedish or English.

Before submitting your manuscript to the editors, please read the author instructions carefully and check that:

The author information is complete
The number of characters including spaces does not exceed the maximum limit
Notes and references comply with the guideline standard
The manuscript otherwise meets the requirements specified below
Alternative texts for figures

Manuscript requirements:

Scientific articles must not exceed 50,000 characters including spaces, including figures, tables, footnotes and bibliography.
Abstract in Norwegian and English, both maximum 200 words
3-5 keywords, in the language the article is written and in English
Set up according to the standard below
The article should be written so that the author cannot be identified and should not be marked with the author's name, for the sake of anonymous peer review
Author information is enclosed in a separate file: the author's name, academic degree, position, institutional affiliation and email address

Editorial process:

The journal's editors first assess whether the article is of sufficient quality to be sent for peer review. If the article meets the requirements, it is sent to two peers appointed by the editors. The journal practices double blind peer review. This means that neither reviewers nor authors know each other's identities. The peers should not have ties to the authors
The author receives peer reviews by email and is then informed of whether the article is rejected, requires revision before publication, or can be published with minor changes. The author will be given a deadline for submitting a revised version of the manuscript
Together with the revised version of the manuscript, the author must submit a note explaining how the reviewers' and editors' assessments have been followed up

Book Reviews

Maritime Perspectives publishes book reviews of books that may be of interest to researchers, museum staff, students and people with a general interest in maritime history, and which have been published in the last two years. The review can be written in Norwegian, Swedish, or English.

Book reviews can be written on invitation from the journal's editors or be selected from submitted contributions.

Manuscript requirements:

Book reviews must not exceed 10,000 characters, including footnotes
The review should include an account of the book's content, a scholarly assessment of its quality, what the book provides in terms of new knowledge/perspectives, and which readers/fields the book is particularly relevant for
The manuscript must contain the title of the review, the author's name, institutional affiliation and email address
Information about the reviewed book: author(s)/editor(s), title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN number
Set up according to the standard below.
References to other works are given in footnotes
The manuscript must be proofread

Text standard

Style

Quotes of less than three lines are integrated into the running text and framed in quotation marks. Quotes of more than three lines are separated as their own paragraph with indentation.

Use subheadings to divide the article. Subheadings are inserted without indentation.

Paragraphs are marked with indentation, not line breaks. Choose indentation from the "paragraph" menu in the word processing program, do not use the tab or spacebar.

For listings, use bullet points. For numbers, time and date, follow the recommendations from the Language Council.

Images and figures

Good images, illustrations and captions create interest for the reader. Images and illustrations are considered figures and are numbered in the order they should appear in the text. All figures must have a caption below the figure. Mark in the text where the figure is desired. The actual figures themselves are sent as separate files, and are named according to which number they should have in the text; Figure 1 etc. Color illustrations should be 300 dpi. Grayscale or black/white 600 dpi.

Images and illustrations are numbered as figures. Tables, figures and illustrations are numbered consecutively in the order they should appear in the text. Tables, figures and illustrations are numbered consecutively. Mark where in the manuscript each element should be placed, like [Table 1 approximately here]. The articles should not contain more than five images/figures. It is the author's own responsibility to find images and obtain necessary permission to use the images. Tables and figures should be self-explanatory and have short headings. All tables, figures and illustrations used in the manuscript must be permitted to publish open access. If the figure was not created by the author, the name of the illustrator or photographer must be stated in the caption. The author obtains permission to use previously printed illustrations themselves.

Alternative texts for figures

If your article contains images or figures, you must write alternative texts (alt text) for them. Alt text is a descriptive text that conveys the visual information in a figure displayed digitally. Alt text is an important element for your article to be accessible.

Alternative text is provided in a separate document along with your article with the file name “alt text”.
Use the figure number to refer to the correct figure.

Example:

Figure 1: [alt-text]

Reference system

The journal uses the APA 7th reference style with footnotes, not endnotes. See APA 7th adapted to footnotes - Kildekompasset for an introduction to how references are listed. The reference list is written at the end after the main text. The reference list is alphabetical by the first author's last name. Each reference has a hanging indent on all references starting the second line.

References to unpublished source material are given in descending order. As a general example: Archive institution, archive creator, archive box, package or series, and finally the document. Archive institutions are written out the first time they are mentioned, and abbreviations are used subsequently.

Specific example:

Without abbreviation (for first note to archive):

Riksarkivet (RA). Statsministerens kontor. S-1005, M/L0032. Fra sjømannsorg. til Skipsfartsdep., 21/09-1943.

With abbreviation:

Statsministerens kontor. S-1005, M/L0032. Fra sjømannsorg. til Skipsfartsdep., 21/09- 1943.

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