Author guidelines
Submitting manuscripts
Before sending in your manuscript to the editing office, we kindly ask you to thoroughly read through the author’s guidelines and make sure that:
- The author bio is completed
- Character count, including spaces, does not exceed the maximum limit
- Notes and references correlate to the guidelines’ standards
- A short abstract and keywords are included
Manuscripts are to be sent to editing office via email for evaluation:
https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/uf-velferd.
Article requirements
Articles should address relevant issues and maintain a high academic standard. The journal only submits articles written in one of the Scandinavian languages.
- Articles, including abstracts, notes, references, and bibliography, should not exceed 46,000 characters (including spaces)
- Commentary and debate articles should not exceed 18000 characters (including spaces).
- Book reviews should be under 9000 characters (including spaces).
The editorial team may accept longer comments or book essays related to important welfare policy debates.
A scientific publication must present new insights and be in a form that makes the results verifiable or applicable in new research.
Checklist before submission:
- "Title (preferably short and concise)
- Author name, with title, institution, email address
- Abstract in the main language and English (maximum of 200 words).
- The abstracts should include the background of the study, the methods used, the empirical basis, the main findings, and the conclusion of the study.
- English title
- Manuscript with alphabetical list of references and any footnotes.
- 3-6 keywords in Norwegian and English (describing the article with words not found in the title).
- Reference list according to APA 7 style.
- Figures and tables are placed within the text. The author is responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions to use figures and tables.
- Alternative text for figures
DOI-referances
References must always include a DOI (digital object identifier) for sources which have one. The DOI must be a clickable URL in the form of “https://doi.org/…” and be placed at the end of a given reference. If you are uncertain of a reference’s DOI code, or if it has a DOI code, you can perform a quick check of the title, author, etc. at http://search.crossref.org/.
Reference style
The journal follows APA 7th reference style. Consider using the APA 7th reference generator or follow the guidelines on APA 7th.
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]
Read more about how to write alt-texts here.
Publication ethics
The editor’s office requires the published texts to be of high academic quality and to follow international ethical standards for academic publication. The journal follows the guidelines of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).
Evaluation process
All manuscripts will be examined by the editors and two external peers (referees) to ensure that the content is of adequate academic quality. The journal uses blind peer review for all articles. If your article is considered for publication, you will receive feedback, possibly including suggestions on reworking parts of the text, before publication. You will subsequently receive the text after proofreading, where you may only correct misprints or other small errors.
The journal uses double-blind peer review. Manuscripts submitted for assessment must therefore be anonymized by the author. All explicit self-references should be anonymized.
Articles should not have been previously published elsewhere. The content of the article should also not have been published in reports or other publications with an ISBN number. Even if the articles are not identical, the editorial team cannot accept an article whose content has been published elsewhere.
Submitting a manuscript to a scientific journal is an expression of intent to publish the manuscript in that journal. Processing incoming contributions requires time and attention from the editorial team and those who will evaluate the manuscript. It is important for contributors to understand that by submitting an article, they accept that other journals cannot consider the article while it is under review in Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
The journal reserves the right to reject unfinished manuscripts.