Title

Author

This will be the abstract for your report – the same abstract that you entered in the metadata for your submission in the series publication platform. As you can see, the style of the abstract is “Long citation”. After the abstract, insert 2–5 keywords separated with a comma.

Keywords: keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword

About this document

This document is a template. You can start writing directly in this document (just substitute the text), or save this document as a template on your computer and apply it to your manuscript.

Styles in Word

This template makes use of styles in Word. There are styles for all the different types of text you will need for this manuscript, and all text should be formatted using these. For example, this paragraph’s style is Normal, which is the style that should be used for the majority of your text.

Note that there is no indent in the first line of a paragraph. However, there is extra distance between paragraphs, so you do not need to add extra line breaks. If you need to use italics or bold, use the respective styles. You can also use the styles superscript and subscript.

Do you need to add a list? Use the style “List paragraph”:

List item 1

List item 2

List item 3

Heading levels

The template allows three levels for headings. Of course, you do not need to use all three levels. In order to open for sublevels, you have to have at least two sections on the same level.

More about heading levels

As you see illustrated in section 1.1, not all sublevels must be represented: section 1.1 does not have subsections.

Need more section sublevels?

The series discourages use of more sublevels for sections.

Unnumbered headings

If you wish, you can also choose to use unnumbered headings for the three heading levels (‘Heading 1–3’). However, please do not use both numbered and unnumbered headings in your document.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures must be set in the manuscript at the appropriate places. In addition, you are free to send in tables and figures (figures in higher resolution, if you wish) as supplementary files when submitting your manuscript.

Captions (titles) for tables and figures should be formatted by using Word’s “Insert caption” function to add numbered captions (titles) to tables and figures. Note that if you are using a table caption (placed above the table), you need to manually change the style to “Table caption”.

If you have an extensive dataset, you may consider using an external data archive. The editorial team can advise you on what archive to use.

About references

This section describes the referencing rules for the series.

Reference style

This series recommends using the APA reference style. For an overview of APA rules, see this resource in Norwegian and this in English.

Here we can mention that quotations up to 40 words are marked with quotation marks; for quotations longer than 40 words omit the quotation marks and use the style “Long citation” in this template. Example:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede.

DOIs in the reference list

The reference list must contain DOIs for those references that have them. If you are not sure whether your sources have DOIs, we recommend using the Simple Text Query tool from Crossref.

Summary

These are just the basic formatting guidelines. If you have other formatting questions, consult Author Guidelines on the website of this series, or contact the editorial team.

Reference list

Chapter-Author, N. (Year). Chapter title. In Y. Editor, X. Editor (Eds.) Book title (2nd ed., pp. 49-108). Location: Publisher (book chapter)

Editor, K. (Ed.). (Year). Book title (3rd ed.). Place: Publisher (edited book)

Surname, I. & Name, N.N. (2019). Article title. Journal Title, 60(2), 63-89. https://doi.org/10.7557/X.XXXX (journal article)