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Author Guidelines

The editors welcome proposals for articles from scholars and postgraduates working in the areas covered by the journal. The journal publishes articles that have not previously been published, book reviews, and responses to previous articles. 

Proposals should be sent to the editors (tifo.redaktion@gmail.com) in the form of a short abstract (10-15 lines) with details of the author’s name, title, and institutional affiliation.

The editors accept proposals in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English. The editors reserve the right to reject proposals. If proposals are accepted, authors should follow the style guide given below. In the event of significant deviations, the editors will return the article for corrections. A referee will be assigned to assess the article’s scholarly content. Contact between the journal and authors passes through the editors.

1. Format and length

Articles may be submitted in two formats: main articles of 15-20 pages and smaller articles of 5-8 pages. A page consists of 2,400 characters. Articles should be sent by email to the editors in Open Office or Microsoft Word format. 

2. Form

Articles must include a short descriptive title, possibly with an explanatory subtitle, and start with an abstract of no more than 600 characters. Articles should be divided into sections, with subheadings in bold. Sections should not be numbered. Notes should be limited and placed as endnotes. There should be a list of references and a brief author description, prepared by the author. All articles should also include a short abstract in English of 10-15 lines, if written in a language other than English.

In addition, articles must be submitted in the following format:

  • Times New Roman, 12-point
  • 1½ line spacing
  • Words in languages other than English in italics
  • Footnotes numbered with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3 ...)
  • Neither bold nor underlining to be used in the body of the text
  • Italics to be kept to a minimum
  • Main subheadings: bold
  • Secondary subheadings: italic
  • Always use double quotation marks, save for a quotation within a quotation, when single quotation marks are used
  • Longer quotations (more than 3 lines) should be indented without quotation marks
  • Quotations in languages other than English should always be translated
  • Spelling, including abbreviations, should follow a standard dictionary, either for British English or American English, but consistently
  • Formatting of punctuation should follow either British or American norms, consistently. 

3. References

References and bibliography must follow Chicago Author-Date (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html).

In-text references are placed in parentheses and contain the author’s surname, year of publication and page number, for example (Anderson 1991, 53). The bibliography at the end of the article is ordered alphabetically according to the following pattern:

Asad, Talal. 2003. Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

An-Na'im, Abdullahi. 1999. “Political Islam in National Politics and International Relations.” In Peter L. Berger (ed.): The Desecularization of the World. Michigan: W.B.E Publishing Company.

Safi, Omid. 2003. "What is progressive Islam?" In ISIM Newsletter 13: 48-50.

Galal, Lise Paulsen. 2015. "Dialogue event: When Muslims and Christians meet." The Journal of Islam Research 9 (2): 48-67. 

On several books by the same author started with the latest release:

Esposito, John L. 2002. Unholy War. Terror in the Name of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

- 1992. The Islamic Threat. Myth or Reality? New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Several publications from the same year by the same author are marked 2004a, 2004b, etc.

4. Transliteration

For articles in English, follows IJMES, save that:

  • long vowels are marked ā, ū, ī
  • the letter ‘ayn is marked with ‘
  • the letter alif is marked with the ’ 

Otherwise, diacritical marks are omitted.

Names of places, persons and organizations that have an accepted form in English are not transliterated, e.g. “President Nasser arrived in Cairo” not “President Nāsir arrived in al-Qāhira.”

Sun letters are not assimilated (al-tafsir, not at-tafsir).

5. Illustrations

Use only illustrations where explicit permission has been obtained for publication in the journal. Submit copies of this permission.  Illustrations should be submitted with short, informative captions, separately, in electronic form. Remember credits.

6. Reviews

Reviews should consist of a maximum of 2 pages and follow the guidelines above. Reviews should be submitted to the review editor.