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If a manuscript is meant to contain a lot of illustrations, it should be submitted on a diskette or on a CD-rom the address shown below. Otherwise it can be sent as an email attachment without any prints. The preferred file format for the manuscripts is RTF. The article manuscripts should always contain a short summary (circa 100 - 200 words) in English. If necessary, MIRATOR can have the summary translated into English, or, in case English is not the author's native language, have it proofread by a language consultant. However, MIRATOR has no possibilities to offer this kind of a proofreading for the essay itself. Manuscripts can contain graphics and pictures on the condition that the author has the right to publish the pictures or the photos. MIRATOR follows the Finnish legislation and the EU-norms. The pictures and photos sent to MIRATOR can be already scanned (in gif-, jpeg- or tiff-format), but that task can also be done by the editorial staff. Book reviews: A good book review is more than simply a summary of the contents of a book. A review should at least contain a judgement on the contribution of the reviewed book to research, or its suitability to a certain audience. Reviews may have reason to be polemical. Note that we encourage reviewers to bring other literature into discussion with the reviewed publication through the use of footnotes. As to form, the review should begin with the full bibliographical details of the reviewed book, including the amount of pages. Articles: A good article is based on the author's own research, and offers something new on the topic it discusses. As a multilingual journal Mirator recognises several valid structural solutions to article writing, but strongly encourages the following: the article should begin by stating the topic under discussion, explain the structure of the article (ie. how the author will go about arguing her or his case) and provide a statement of the thesis, argument, of the article. The introduction should also situate the question and chosen argument to other literature dealing with the same topic. As the discussion progresses in the article, the author should remind the reader of the relevance of the treatment to the argument of the article, and of how the discussion will proceed. Suggested further reading on article writing includes: Writing for Scholarly Journals. Publishing in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Daniel P.J. Soule, Lucy Whiteley, Shona McIntosh (eds), eSharp. Electronic Social Science, Humanities and Arts Review for Postgraduates: Glasgow 2007. All ontributors are kindly asked to observe the following instructions concerning how the text should appear technically: While writing an article or a review for MIRATOR, the contributors are asked to use footnotes (our system changed in 2005). When a text is referred to for the first time, the reference should contain the complete bibliographical data according to the following instructions: Monograph/Book: Forename(s) Last Name, Title (Series title, number in series), Publisher: Place of Publication Year of Impression, page(s) referred to.Examples: Marko Lamberg, Dannemännen i stadens råd. Rådmanskretsen i nordiska köpstäder under senmedeltiden (Monografier utgivna av Stockholm stad, 155), Stockholmia förlag: Stockholm 2001, 200. Tuomas Heikkilä, Vita S. Symeonis Treverensis. Ein hochmittelalterlicher Heiligenkult im Kontext (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Humaniora 326), Academia Scientiarum Fennica: Helsinki 2002, 142. Article in an anthology: Forename(s) Last Name, 'Title of the Article', in Editor(s) ed., Title of the Anthology (Series title, number in series), Publisher: Place of Publication Year, number of first page–number of last page, at page(s) referred to. Example: Sini Kangas, 'Deus vult – Violence and Suffering as a Means of Salvation during the First Crusade', in Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen & Kurt Villads Jensen eds., Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology (Studia Fennica Historica 9), Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura: Helsinki 2005, 163–74, at 171. Article in a journal/magazine: Forename(s) Last Name, 'Title of the Article', Name of the Journal/Magazine Volume (Year), number of first page–number of last page, at page(s) referred to. Example: Alaric Hall, 'Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English and Elvish', Anglia 124 (2006), 225–43, at 240. Further references to works cited earlier are to be written according to the following pattern: Last Name Year of Impression, page(s). For example: Kangas 2005, 174. Monographical printed sources are cited as follows: Author, Title, Editor ed. (Series, number in series), Publisher: Place of Publication Year, Book.chapter, page(s) Example:: Gregorius Magnus, Moralia in Iob, M. Adriaen ed. (Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 143), Brepols: Turnhout 1985, 30.10.43, 1521. or (when the title is one of many in a source publication): Gregorius Turonensis, 'Liber in Gloria Confessorum', B. Krusch ed. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 1), Hahn: Hannover 1885, c. 18, 757–8. Further references with appropriately shortened titles: Gregorius Magnus, Moralia, 30.10.43, 1521. Gregorius Turonensis, 'Liber in Gloria Confessorum', c. 18, 757–8. References to printed documents: Document publication, Editor ed., Publisher: Place of Publication Year, Number of Document. Example: Finlands Medeltidsurkunder, R. Hausen ed., Finlands Statsarkiv: Helsingfors 1910–1935, no. 6533. Further references are made by a suitable abbreviation, a commonly used one, if possible. For example: FMU 6533. If the abbreviation is not a common one, or if its connection to the full title is at all unclear, the first citation must contain an indication that further references are to be made using a certain abbreviation. A manuscript: City (in the local language), Archive/Library, MS Signature, f. Nr/v. Example: Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, MS tomus XXI, ff. 50bisr–51r. If an electronic publication
is referred to, its URL and the date of consultation should also be mentioned. (13.10.2007)
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