Manuscript template for open access books

Abstract and keywords

All articles/chapters in Norwegian should feature abstracts in Norwegian and in English (not the same as a striking introduction). Each abstract should be a maximum of 500 characters including spaces. For articles/chapters in English, provide the abstract in English only.

In books written by a single author, the author decides whether it is appropriate to provide an abstract for each chapter, or a single, collective abstract for the entire book.

For all articles written in Norwegian, four to five keywords (terms) in Norwegian should be selected from the text, with the corresponding four to five keywords provided in English. The Norwegian keywords are to be provided under ‘Sammendrag’, while English keywords should come under ‘Abstract’. If the article/chapter is written in Norwegian, keywords should be provided both in English and in Norwegian. If the article/chapter is written in English, keywords should be provided in English only. The choice of keywords should be strategic. They should be central to the theme/school of theory/academic terminology in order to generate hits in the search engines.

Formatting – layout of the text

By ‘formatting’ we mean the appearance of headings, body text (main text), references (bibliography), quotations, footnotes and more.

Heading levels

Use Word’s default heading styles to a maximum of four levels.

Paragraphs

Ordinary paragraphs are marked with an indentation, not with a blank line.

Quotations

Quotations of more than three lines are marked with an indentation and with a blank line before and after.

Example:

Your own body text.

It is not sufficient to state your sources in a consolidated summary at the back of the report. They should also be provided in the running text (body text), otherwise the reader cannot know what you are basing that precise section or the chapter on. You cannot expect your readers to have to conduct detective work.

Your own body text continues.

Footnotes

• Agree with the editor on the use of notes.

• Footnotes should follow numerical order.

References

Reference style is to be chosen by author. The most common reference styles are described here: https://www.sokogskriv.no/en/sources-and-referencing/reference-styles.html

Bibliographies for anthologies

• Bibliographies should be in alphabetical order and placed at the end of each chapter of the manuscript you submit to the publisher.

• Agree with the editor if the chapter bibliographies should be consolidated, or whether each chapter should feature its own bibliography online too.

Bibliographies for books with one author

• The consolidated bibliography should be placed at the end of the manuscript.

• The layout of the bibliography should comply with the chosen reference style.

Author profiles

• Author profiles should be placed at the back of the book. Each individual contributor provides their own author profile.

• Author profiles should consist of three lines about each contributor with name (year of birth), position, institutional affiliation, and mentions of one or two of their most important publications.

• Each profile should be a maximum of 250 characters including spaces.

Indexes

Since the text is searchable, indexes are not necessary for Open Access books.

Illustrations

• Illustrations that are essential to display important points made in the text may be included.

• The publisher and editor retain final decision-making authority in terms of the number of illustrations per chapter.

• It is important that all illustrations are cleared for copyright purposes by the author.

• Illustrations should be submitted separately alongside the manuscript, not placed within the text.

• Illustrations must be of good enough quality to be suitable for printing (minimum 300 DPI).

• The placing of the illustrations should be indicated in the manuscript, with chapter number + numeration according to chapter, thus: Figure 2.1 is the first figure in chapter 2.

• Brief illustration texts should be provided so that illustrations can be understood independently of the body text.

Alternative texts

If your your book or book chapter 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.

The alt texts should be provided in a separate document with the filename "alt-text." Use figure numbers to refer to the correct figure.

Here you can read more about how to write alt-texts.