Submissions

Author Guidelines

Peer-reviewed articles

Musiikki mainly publishes articles in Finnish and Swedish. Articles in English may be published for a justified reason. The maximum length of manuscripts is 60,000 characters including spaces, bibliography and references.

The manuscript intended for publication is sent via the Journal.fi service. Before submitting the manuscript, the author must anonymize the article, i.e. remove information referring to the author from the text and reference list. For example, the abbreviation "N.N." (nomen nescio) can be used for anonymization or a text in square brackets, for example "[Here, the information referring to the author(s) has been removed for peer review.]" When submitting a manuscript to Musiikki, the author undertakes that the manuscript has not been submitted or won’t be submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere, as such or as a translation.

The editors first evaluate the manuscript's suitability for the journal. If the manuscript is suitable for publication in Musiikki, it is sent without the author's name to a peer review round, after which the author receives written feedback on it with possible suggestions for improvement. After this, the author finalizes the manuscript based on the evaluations and editorial comments. In a separate document, the author lists how they have answered the points raised by the peer reviewers and the editors in the corrected version.

The manuscript accepted for publication is also accompanied by:

• A brief author introduction with email address in the language of the article. It is good to add the author's ORCID identifier to the introduction, if one is in use.
• An introductory text about the article in the language of the article (a few sentences).
• A two-paragraph summary (abstract) of the article's content in English. If the article is in English, the abstract is written in Finnish or Swedish.

Other text types

Musiikki also publishes shorter texts, such as book reviews, essays, columns and conference reports. Author introduction, e-mail address and introductory text are also attached to shorter texts. These texts are not subject to the requirements for anonymization, and as a rule, there is no need to attach a summary to them. The exception is longer essay texts that follow the scientific citation practice, for which an English summary is also written.

Terms of publication

The author is responsible for having the right to publish the images or figures accompanying the work. The author gives the publisher the right to publish and distribute the work to the public on a server chosen by the publisher or in another electronic format chosen by the publisher. All other rights to the work remain with the author. The magazine does not charge an author fee.

Text formatting and file format

The author must ensure that the language of the article is impeccable. It is recommended to have the English manuscript checked before the peer review round. A language check before the actual publication is necessary.

The formatting of the text should be as simple as possible. For example, tab characters, extra spaces (indents), extra empty lines, hyphenation or a separate automatic reference program should not be used.

The file format must be used by a general word processing program (for example Word or OpenOffice).

The hyphen is written in the text as a semi-long line “–” (not “-” nor “—”) with a space on both sides. Quotation marks are used in articles in Finnish and Swedish using ordinary quotation marks, i.e. "quotation" (not "quotation" and "quotation"). In articles in English, the form "citation" is used. The names of publications (e.g. magazines, books and recordings) and the names of works that are proper names (e.g. Pastoral symphony, compare the 6th symphony, however) are marked in italics. Likewise, terms not in the manuscripts main language should be marked in italics. The names of parts of works are not italicized. Other accents and word abbreviations should be used in moderation. Headings are bold but not numbered.

Citations and references

Quotations in languages other than the manuscripts main language ​​are translated. The translated quote is placed in the text (and the original as a possibly numbered footnote). Quotations of four lines and longer are separated into their own paragraphs, which are indented. Such block quotes do not use quotation marks.

Literature references are placed in the text in the form (Author year, page). Consecutive references are separated by semicolons. The reference can be placed at the end of the sentence, for example in the form (Aldwell and Schachter 2009, 15–17; Huron 2006, 3) or inside the sentence, for example in the form "According to Kurkela (2013, 154)...". An in-text reference is marked (Sloboda et al. 1996) when there are four or more authors. If the same source is referred to two or more times in a row within the same paragraph, the form (ibid.) is used as an internal reference in the text.

Numbered references are placed in the text as footnotes. They should be used sparingly. The footnote number is written at the end of the sentence after the period.

Bibliography and source

Each source is written as a plain text paragraph. The names of the works are italicized. If an article has been published in a journal or something similar (for example, in a periodical, a research report or an anthology), quotation marks are added around the name of the article. The name of the publication is italicized, the year is indicated with an Arabic numeral, and the publication number is placed in brackets. After the colon, the pages are marked with a hyphen separating them and a period.   The publisher's domicile is indicated, followed by a colon and the name of the publisher (not the printing house) and a period at the end.

Authors must indicate the DOI identifier (https://doi.org/...) whenever referring to an electronic source belonging to the DOI system.

The names of sources in foreign languages ​​are written as is customary in each language. For example, in English names, uppercase and lowercase initial letters are used in a way established in the language. Names or titles of sources in foreign languages ​​are not translated. More detailed instructions can be found, for example, in A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Turabian, Kate L. 2018, 9th edition, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press)

If there are many manuscript sources as material, they are sorted by archive (for example the National Library, Åbo Akademi library or Jyväskylä county archive). In this case, the identification number (signum) of the material, collection or folder is also added in the reference list. Sheet music publications, recordings and manuscripts are also separated into their own entities in the reference list, if there are a significant number of them. An individual, for example, sheet music publication or out-of-print source can be entered in an unspecified list of sources, alphabetically by author's last name

The source list should follow the following format:

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998 [1994]. Järjen käytännöllisyys. Finnish transl. Mika Siimes. Tampere: Vastapaino.

Coltrane, John. 1965. A Love Supreme. Impulse! 0602517649033, 2008. CD.

Huron, David. 2006. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ichiyanagi, Toshi. 2018. Interview, Tokyo 12 Sept 2018, interviewer Lasse Lehtonen. Material in possession of researcher.

Jukka Tolonen Quartet. ”Mountains” (video). From the program Tolonen: Jukka Tolonen, Pori Jazz 72, ed. Jarmo Porola, published 16 Nov 1972. Accessed 10 Oct 2017. https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2008/06/13/auvoinen-aurinko-paistoi-tolosen-bandille-porissa-1972.

Krohn, Helmi. Letters to Jörgen Bendix. Kansalliskirjasto, manuscript collections, Coll.530.25.

Kurkela, Vesa. 2013. ”Musiikinhistorian tutkimus etnomusikologiassa”. In Musiikki kulttuurina, eds Pirkko Moisala and Elina Seye, 153–72. Helsinki: Suomen Etnomusikologinen Seura.

Nallinmaa, Eero. 1964. ”Musiikillisen hahmotuksen ongelmia”. Unpublished MA thesis. University of Helsinki.

Ojanen, Mikko. 2018. ”Avoin tiede on huono otsikko”. Musiikin suunta 40 (1). Accessed 3 Feb 2021. http://musiikinsuunta.fi/2018/01/avoin-tiede-on-huono-otsikko/

Quiñones, Marta García, Anahid Kassabian ja Elena Boschi, eds. 2013. Ubiquitous Musics: The Everyday Sounds that We Don’t Always Notice. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

Richardson, John. 2017. ”Musiikin ekologinen lähiluku digitaalisessa kulttuurissa: Pohdintoja musiikin kokemuspohjaisen kulttuurianalyysin lähtökohdista”. Etnomusikologian vuosikirja 29: 1–33. https://doi.org/10.23985/evk.60949

Sloboda, John, Jane Davidson, Michael Howe and Derek Moore. 1996. ”The Role of Practice in the Development of Performing Musicians”. British Journal of Psychology 87 (2): 287–309.

Wahlfors, Laura. 2012. ”Couranten hidastettu juoksu: Roland Barthes ja musiikki kirjoittajan inspiraationa”. Musiikki 42 (3–4): 8–27.

Images and figures

Figures, sheet music examples, images and other visualizing material are saved as pdf, eps, bmp, tiff, jpeg or gif format. It is recommended to submit sheet music examples as scans, screenshots or prepared with a sheet music writing program. When saving visual material in pdf or eps format, the fonts must be embedded in the image file.

The maximum possible size of a figure, sheet music example, picture or other similar visual material is 176 × 250 mm. The material can be embedded in the article document during the peer review phase, as long as the file size does not become unreasonably large (around 5 MB). For consistency, all visual materials are numbered and referred to in the text as "figures", "examples" or "tables" depending on the type of material. An explanatory text is added to the visualizing material. The explanatory text is not included in the image or example file, but is written in the article document as its own line, for example in the form "Image 1. Olfine Moe in the role of Carmen in 1878. Photo by Augusta Zetterling, Stockholm Music and Theater Library." If the material is not embedded in the document, the wishes regarding its placement are marked on its own line, for example "<Figure 1>".

The author is always responsible for all permissions and copyright issues related to the images. These should be taken into account well in advance. Neither the magazine nor the magazine's editors are involved in, for example, licensing arrangements, negotiations or costs for image material.

Following the instructions presented here facilitates and speeds up the publication of articles and guarantees the most error-free end result. If any of the instructions cause questions, please contact the journal editors.