Ympäristöhistoria Finnish Journal of Environmental History (YFJEH)

Ympäristöhistoria Finnish Journal of Environmental History (YFJEH)
ISSN-L 1799-6953
ISSN 1799-6953

Ympäristöhistoria Finnish Journal of Environmental History (YFJEH) is a new peer referee journal, published in the Internet by IEHG. YFJEH brings together scientists and practitioners from a wide scope of disciplines to examine relationships between the environment and human actions over time from the history to the future(s). Our languages are Finnish and English.

YFJEH provides a forum for peer-reviewed research in the field of environmental history. We welcome articles especially focusing to Finland but also other articles are welcomed in Finnish and in English.

Contacts:

Home page: www.uta.fi/finnishenvironmentalhistory

email: petrisjuuti@gmail.com
Editors:
Dr.Petri S. Juuti (editor-in-chief)
Dr.Tapio S. Katko
Dr.Riikka P.Rajala

Editorial Board

Members

Dr Carol Fort (Flinders University, Australia)

Professor Johannes Haarhoff (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Professor Timo Myllyntaus (University of Turku, Finland)

Dr Ezekiel Nyangeri (University of Nairobi, Kenya)

Dr. Harri Mäki (IEHG, Finland)

Professor Johann Tempelhoff (North-West University, South Africa)

Adjunct Professor Heikki Vuorinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Professor Zheng Xiao Yun (Yunnan academy of Social Sciences of
China)

Instructions for Authors

Submissions
Submission of a manuscript: only papers that have not been published before are welcomed. Please note that publication should has been approved by all co-authors. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright owner(s)  to figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere. Permissions must be included to the relevant place next to the item in question.  If there is no reference to the permissions, all materials will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Biography and photograph
Authors are required to enclose a short biography and photograph of the author with their manuscript. Do not use more than 10 lines. If there are several authors, total 15 lines are welcomed.

Submission by email
Authors should submit their manuscripts by email to address YFJEHjournal@gmail.com.

*Include all contact details to your submission.
*Include your email address also to the article.
*Manuscripts should be submitted in Word doc format (NOT docx).
*Maximum length of the paper is 25 A4s.
*Please include a short abstract, no more than 1 page. In articles written in Finnish, use English in the abstract. Include 5 keywords to the end of the abstract page.
* Use Times Roman or Times New Roman font, size 11-point for text.
*Line spacing 1,5, alignment justified, 0 points before and after
* Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
* Use italics for emphasis.
* Do not use field functions.
* Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.

Headings
Please use no more than two levels of displayed headings. Spacing: 6 points before and after.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Citation
Use footnotes.

Reference list
Line spacing 1.0. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work. Write name of the publication in italic. The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text. List also archival sources, interviews, and unpublished papers & dissertations.

Footnotes
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes. Cite references in the text by name and year.  They should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively starting from 1. List also archival sources starting with the name of the archive, and identify the collection or group of documents or papers. For example: National archives of Finland (hereafter NA), Risto Ryti archive file 32 (hereafter RR32), Risto Rytis letter to Hitler on the 26th of June 1944, copy from original. Subsequent reference to this source can be made as follows: NA RR32, Ryti to Hitler 26.6.1944.) List also interviews (last name first, include full name and date of the interview) and other relevant sources. 

Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of relevant institutes, people, grants, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. Maximum 5 lines are welcomed.

Maximum size of manuscript submission
Please include a good quality photos etc. in separate files preferably in jpg-files no more that 4 Mb per file. Maximum size of total submission is 20 Mb. Do not pack or zip files. Do not email pdf files or other formats not mentioned in these guidelines.

Legal note

The YFJEH is not responsible for statements made by contributors. Material in the YFJEH does not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors.

The YFJEH respects the intellectual property of others and holds no claim to copyrights of content that is owned by a third party or is in the public domain.  If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or you are aware of any infringing material on any of The Journal sites, please contact us immediately.This website and YFJEH is published in Finland and Finnish law will be used if any legal problems arise.

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Thank you from supporting Ympäristöhistoria Finnish Journal of Environmental History (YFJEH).

Editors