Author Guidelines

Publication fee and copyright:

The journal does not charge a publication fee. Authors of content published in Puls retain copyright to their works.

Language:

Texts are accepted in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and English. Non-native English speakers writing in English are requested to have their texts proofread prior to submission.

Biography:

Authors should submit a short biography (about 100 words). This could include your full name, your current institutional affiliation, research interests, and main publications, and where applicable ORCiD.

Scholarly articles:

Puls publishes scholarly articles which contain a clear research question and a presentation of theoretical and methodological perspectives. After a text is submitted, the Editorial Board decides whether it will forward the text to undergo a double-blind peer review process. Reviewers will recommend that the text in question is accepted with minor or major changes, or alternatively is refused. Proposed changes are made in dialogue with the author.

In addition to the text, authors provide:

  • abstract of about 250 words, in English, to be placed in the beginning of the article
  • 3–10 keywords in English

For the structure of an article, please see earlier issues of Puls. The Editorial Board encourages authors to make use of the online format of the journal and supplement their texts with illustrations (photos, sheet music, graphs, etc.), along with sound and video files. The author makes sure that internet links are active and give direct access to the source.   

When revising the text after peer review, please use the file including comments from reviewer/editors if you have received such a file. For more efficient communication with the editors, please comment changes you have done in relation to received comments from reviewers/editors in the text, or in a separate document.

Articles should be 10–20 pages (maximum 8,000 words or 50,000 characters including spaces and footnotes). The text should be submitted electronically as an attached Word file (.doc, .docx or .rtf).

Please indicate levels of headings (maximum two levels of subheadings). Mark preferred placing of figures and illustrations in the text. See further instructions on formatting below.  

Reviews:

The suitable format for reviews is 1,000–2,000 words, including spaces.

Do not use footnotes or subheadings.

Provide the following information on the book:

  • Full title
  • Author/editor
  • Year of publication
  • Publishing house
  • Place of publication
  • URL link (for online publications)

Book in a series: full title of series + number in series (if applicable)

Reports:

The suitable format for reports is 500–1,000 words, including spaces.

Do not use footnotes or subheadings.

Provide the following information on the event:

  • Title of conference, seminar, symposium or similar
  • Date, including year
  • Organizer
  • Place and country – if applicable, also university or institution
  • For reference to abstract books or similar, provide URL. Avoid a URL that is likely to disappear soon.

Send suggestions for reviews or reports to the Review Editor, alf.arvidsson@umu.se.

Formatting:

Avoid any other formatting than italics and bold.

New paragraph is marked by one extra line break.

New section is marked by double line break.

Please write numbers from one (1) to twelve (12) in letters and higher numbers in numerals. 

Avoid abbreviations in the text (“for example”, not “e.g.”).

Quotes: Shorter quotations are marked by double quotation marks in the text. Longer quotations (more than 3 lines) are marked by a line break before and after the quote, and indented, no quotation marks. Indicate author, date and page in round brackets: (Eriksson 2004:54).

Illustrations: Please submit illustrations in 300 dpi, saved in JPEG or TIFF format. Mark preferred placing of figures and illustrations in the text including numbers and captions, for example:

[Fig. 1. Frode Fjellheim in his studio, April 2015. Photo: Tina K. Ramnarine.].

Please number the attached files for illustrations, musical examples, diagrams etc. and provide a separate numbered list of illustrations. Note that it is the responsibility of the author to clear the copyrights of used illustrations and musical examples.

Footnotes and references: Please use footnotes for comments and extensive source information. The author-date system is used for in-text references. Example: (Strand 2019:255–257).

Reference list

"References" is the term used for all material which is used in an article. Please list and specify the types of of sources in the following order: 

Non-printed sources: archive material, interviews, sound recordings, videos, radio programmes, etc.

Internet resources: Internet material other than e-publications (i.e. books or articles published on the internet). Include web address and specify date of access (“last accessed 6 May 2022”). An analogue or digital print must also be kept by the author.

Printed sources and literature: articles, books, e-publications etc.

Examples

Non-printed sources

Archival material

The author’s private archives

Heino (pseudon.) 2014. 59-year-old Skolt man from Sevettijärvi, Inari. Interview by author, Inari, Finland. Digital recording. 17 August 2014.

Svenskt visarkiv, Stockholm

The archives of Folkmusikkommissionen:

M 115. (Notbok för flöjt, Carl G. Thomason, Malmö, 1840). Published online: http://fmk.musikverket.se/browsevol.php?lang=sw&by=katalogid&katalogid=M+115&­bildnr=00001  (last accessed 25 January 2016).

Archival recordings:

SVA BA 0136, 1581–1584. (Tyra Karlsson, song 1968 and 1972). Digitalised tape recordings.

Phonograms

Andreas Ralsgård & Markus Tullberg 2010. Traditional Flute Music from Sweden (Kap Syd KAPCD001).

Transjoik 2001. Meavraa. (Warner Music Sweden CD-8573-85273-2).

Internet sources

Fjellheim, Frode 2014. “Composer Frode Fjellheim on Frozen’s native spirit”. An interview with Frode Fjellheim by Jérémie Noyer for Animated Views, 18 March 2014.

http://animatedviews.com/2014/composer-frode-fjell­heim-on-frozens-native-spirit/ (last accessed 4 October 2015).

Printed sources and literature

Article in a printed journal:

Ronström, Owe 2010. “Revival reconsidered”. The world of music, vol. 52, no. 1–3: 314–329.

Article in an online journal:

Åkesson Ingrid 2012. “Oral/Aural Culture in Late Modern Society? Traditional Singing as Professionalized Genre and Oral-derived Expression”. Oral Tradition vol 27. 1, March 2012: 67–84. http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/27i/akesson (last accessed 12 September 2016).

Monography with two or more authors:

Beck, Ulrich, Anthony Giddens & Scott Lash 1994. Reflexive Modernization. Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Chapter in anthology:

Eriksson, Karin & Dan Lundberg 2023. “´Thanks for Lending Us the Music.´ On Folk Music, Archives and Loops”. In: Creative Shifts. Musical Flows in 1960s and 1970s Sweden. Ed. Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius. Gidlunds förlag/Svenskt visarkiv: Möklinta/Stockholm, pp 25–66.

Checklist

Manuscripts are submitted electronically via the journal's manuscript submission system. The following should be submitted:

  1. The article as attached Word file (.doc, .docx or .rtf), including footnotes, references, abstract and key words.
  2. Illustrations in digital form. All illustrations must be numbered and provided with caption and description. Also provide a list of illustrations. For the transfer of big files please use free internet resources, such as Sprend or WeTransfer.
  3. Short biography – see instructions above.
  4. Contact details: e-mail, postal address and phone number.