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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript have not been previously published nor is under consideration for publication in another peer-reviewed journal.
  • All the authors should be added on the list of contributors with their full names and e-mail addresses.
  • The text follows the format requirements for style and bibliographic formatting as specified in the author guidelines which you can find under the "About" menu tab.
  • The main text should be annonymized and the authors should upload a separate title page with the autors' names and affiliations.

Author Guidelines

There are no charges for publishing or submitting manuscripts to this journal.

Language: Manuscripts in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English are accepted. A manuscript in a Scandinavian language requires an additional abstract in English.

Key-words: A minimum of four keywords, one of which describes the research method used. The editors will also suggest keywords.

Manuscript with abstract: The length of the abstract and the manuscript is free, however, the abstract most be concise. The manuscript must follow the IMRaD structure (Introduction, (Material and) Methods, Results, Discussions) and Conclusions unless methodological considerations makes an alternative structure more appropriate.

Figures: Must be in jpeg format, numbered (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.), and submitted as separate files. All Tables are to be submitted in a separate word document, with the tables numbered (Table 1, Table 2, etc.). Figure texts and Table texts must be written to explain the content of the table or figure as accurately as possible. The numbered Figure texts and Table texts should be submitted in a separate word document.
It is possible to use figures (illustrations or pictures) available under the Creative Commons license. The right to publish images are requested to be clarified by the author. The journal encouraged authors to mainly use figures (illustrations or pictures) owned and produced by themselves.
Writers may also include film clips, uploaded in Vimeo. Advice concerning footage are given by the editors.
In the manuscript, the author is requested to indicate where figures and tables preferably are to be inserted. Unless this is in conflict with other layout demands, the requests will be followed.
Color and lines in graphs are requested to be selected so that it is clearly visible also in monochrome print (such as light gray and black, or "line of stars", versus solid line).

References: The number of sources is up to the author. The editors will check that the sources are correctly referenced, and will add a Digital Object identificator (DOI) and PMid via CrossRef.

In order to make blind review possible, the main text should be annonymized and the authors should uppload a separate title page with the autors' names and affiliations. 

Technical Developments

Technical developments provide a brief description and results of new imaging techniques, procedures, or equipment. 

Tutorials

The main criteria for acceptance are accessibility and potential benefit to the field. Even though some tutorials may be invited, all tutorials will undergo a thorough review process.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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