About the journal
Nordic Journal of Literacy Research contributes to the creation of a critical and dynamic picture of literacy in a Nordic context. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles in English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Manuscripts submitted to Nordic Journal of Literacy Research should strictly follow the specifications below.
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Preparing for submission of peer-reviewed article
Nordic Journal of Literacy Research considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that:
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Please note that the submitting author will be the principal contact for editorial correspondence, throughout the peer-review and proofreading processes, if applicable.
Nordic Journal of Literacy Research recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chairperson who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.
Manuscripts generated through the use of ChatGPT or other large language models (LLMs), generative AI, or chatbots do not satisfy the journal's criteria for authorship, and AI tools cannot be listed as an author. Manuscripts must be written by persons who can account for and claim responsibility for the originality and integrity of the content. Furthermore, authors must disclose the extent to which any AI tools may have been used in preparation of written, visual or graphic elements of their manuscripts. The publisher ascribes to COPE's position statement regarding authorship and AI tools; see more information here.
NOASP – Cappelen Damm Akademisk uses iThenticate to screen all submissions for plagiarism before publication. iThenticate is a plagiarism screening service that verifies the originality of content submitted before publication. iThenticate checks submissions against millions of published research papers, and billions of web content. The reports generated from iThenticate are evaluated by the editor-in-chief or a qualified subject editor.
Editors and staff are required to report any case of suspected plagiarism to NOASP. The publisher and editor-in-chief determine the steps to be taken vis-a-vis a case of suspected plagiarism.
If submitting to a peer reviewed section of the journal, the identity of the authors must not be revealed, as this journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process. In order to ensure anonymization, you must upload the title page separately and remove the author’s names from the manuscript text and the properties of the manuscript file, as explained in Ensuring a Blind Review.
All articles should be written in one of the Scandinavian languages or in English – British or American as long as consistency is observed. Please subject the manuscript to professional language editing before submitting the final version.
Articles must include an abstract of 150–200 words. After the abstract, please give 3-5 key words; avoid using the same words as in the title. An identical abstract and keywords should also be entered as metadata during the submission process. Articles in the Scandinavian languages should have a supplementary abstract, title and key words in English, and the English versions should also be entered as metadata during the submission process.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the title page revealing the identity of the authors must be uploaded separately as an additional file during the submission process.
Organize the title page in the following way:
Please follow a traditional layout and insert running page numbers, footnotes, etc. To facilitate the review process, please provide a complete manuscript, preferably a Word document including all figures/tables/graphics/images and legends placed in their correct places within the text.
Please do not number section headings. Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, i.e. capitals, bold etc.
Use Times New Roman, point 12 and double spacing throughout your manuscript, including indented quotations. Do not use any unnecessary formatting features (justification, hyphenation). Use one space between words. Use one tab stop in the beginning of a paragraph, except after headings and indented quotations. Do not use a blank line between paragraphs. Use a blank line before and after headings and indented quotations. Do not use quotation marks for indented quotations.
Use double quotation marks; if there is a quotation within quotation, use single quotes. When quoting from existing texts in languages that are widely understood use the original text, and provide, if necessary, an existing translation into your own language in the endnote. If the work is not translated, provide your own translation, making a note of this (e.g. Gramsci, 1947, p. 13; my translation).
Use italics for whole works (books, journals, newspapers). Use double quotes for parts of a work (articles, fairy tales, verses).
Please place suggested figures/tables/graphics/images in their correct places within the text. They should be referred to in the manuscript text, and abbreviations should be explained in the legends.
Upon acceptance, please supply figures/tables/graphics/images in at least 300 dpi.
If the figures/tables/graphics/images have been taken from sources not copyrighted by the author, it is the author's sole responsibility to secure the rights from the copyright holder to reproduce those figures/tables/ graphics/images for both worldwide print and web publication. All reproduction costs charged by the copyright holder must be borne by the author.
When figures/tables/graphics/images are reproduced, a parenthesis should be added to the legend thus: (Reproduced with permission from xxx.)
For all citations, please follow the APA 7 standard:
Please insert footnotes or endnotes using the automatic function in Word (or other text-editing program). Please also avoid an excessive use of notes.
Note that all material considered part of the article, such as figures, tables, graphics or images – and their legends – must be included in the manuscript.
Authors can upload supplementary material, such as data sets, protocols, videos, interactive files, etc. Supplementary material is not considered part of the article’s content. If accepted for publication, files for such material will be published unchanged and in their original format, separate from the article.
Nordic Journal of Literacy Research contributes to the creation of a critical and dynamic picture of literacy in a Nordic context. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles in English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish.
Nordic Journal of Literacy Research. eISSN: 2464-1596. Responsible editors: Marte Blikstad-Balas, Gustaf Bernhard Uno Skar, Michael Tengberg and Arild Bakken. This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Published by Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing (NOASP), a division of Cappelen Damm Akademisk, Postboks 1900, 0055 Oslo, Norway. © Cappelen Damm AS.