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Template for FORMakademisk

An overview

Abstract

Insert your abstract in this section. For the abstract, use Times New Roman 12pt Italic. Left and right indent 25 mm. Do not include any line spaces before or after subsequent paragraphs. These guidelines provide instructions to help you to format your article for FORMakademisk. Please avoid citing references in your abstract. This abstract includes 61 words. An abstract in this journal should be between 100 and 130 words.

Keywords: research, template, research method, references

Introduction

We recommend that authors look at articles previously published in FORMakademisk to see examples of how an article should be formatted.

Author Guidelines

Clean files

An important aspect of a scientific journal is to publish good-quality technical manuscripts. Therefore, authors are encouraged to follow these guidelines conscientiously; in particular, unnecessary formatting of the manuscript or the files containing the articles should be avoided. We remind authors that an ideal style exists for scientific texts. As such, the emphasis should be placed on the content; its packaging should not be distracting. Consequently, the best layout is nearly invisible because no formal formatting is used that would disrupt the reader’s ability to concentrate on the content presented in the text.

Complete files

The manuscript file should be as complete as possible. This means that the images, figures, tables, endnotes and bibliography will preferably be placed within the script file as the author wishes them to appear in the final published article.

If the author is using additional tools (such as EndNote or Excel) to create references or tables and figures, the mounted elements should be as simple and as stable as possible. This is accomplished in slightly different ways for different programs, and for this reason, the journal requests that the author secure local help with these elements before the files are submitted. If this is not possible, the author should alert the editor about this matter prior to submitting the manuscript.

Well-formed files

The journal uses standard manuscript page layout specifications, as follows:

• Page size: A4

• Margins: 2.5 cm

• Spacing: single

• Font size: 12 point

• Font type: Times New Roman

This journal requires the use of APA 6th Edition style formatting guidelines for literature citations and bibliographies. Click on this link to access the American Psychological Association Publication Manual.

Literature references should be placed in parentheses (Author, 2000) within the main text, adhering to the same format specifications as found in the rest of the text. Endnotes should be avoided and never used for pure literature references. Footnotes are not allowed.

Short quotations within the text should be marked with quotation marks. A quotation that requires two line breaks should be marked as a block quote, that is, with extra line breaks before and after the quote, and should be placed within the document as an indented paragraph without quotation marks.

Normally, no more than five heading levels are used. Headings should adhere to the following guidelines:

• Headlines: 18-point, 14-point (+ italics)

• Subtitles in the text: 12-point (+ bold italics).

Use italics to highlight information within the text, with the following two exceptions:

• Clickable URLs will automatically be underlined;

• Boldface type is used for 12-point subtitles.

For the texts for tables, figures, photos and notes, the author should use Arial 10-point font. This font size is also preferred in tables and figures. For larger bibliographies/reading lists, 10-point Times New Roman is preferred.

When submitting a manuscript, authors must confirm the items listed in the following checklist.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with each of the following items. Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.

3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end of the document.

5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Template.

6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

1. The author(s) must manage their economic reproduction rights to any third party.

2. The journal makes no financial or other compensation for submissions, unless a separate agreement regarding this matter has been made with the author(s).

3. The journal is obliged to archive the manuscript (including metadata) in its originally published digital form for at least a suitable amount of time in which the manuscript can be accessed via a long-term archive for digital material, such as in the Norwegian universities’ institutional archives within the framework of the NORA partnership.

4. Readers of the journal can print out the published manuscripts under the same conditions as apply to the reproduction of physical copies. This implies that the mass production of physical copies, or the production of copies for commercial purposes, is prohibited without the permission of the author(s).

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Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered into this journal’s Web site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal, and this information will not be made available to any other party or used for any other purposes.

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Professional Position, Academic Title

Name of Institution, Name of Faculty

Email address: name.author@hia.no

References

Desmet, P. M. A. & Hekkert, P. (2007). Framework of product experience. International Journal of Design, 1(1), 57-66. (Journal article)

Bergen, D. (2002, Spring). The role of pretend play in children’s cognitive development. Early Childhood Research & Practice, 4(1). Retrieved February 1, 2004, from . (Journal article: Internet-only journal)

Wundt, W. (1905). Fundamentals of psychology (7th ed.). Liepzig: Engelman. (Book)

Baudrillard, J. (2006). The system of objects (J. Benedict, Trans.). New York: Verso. (Original work published 1968) (English translation of a book)

Schifferstein, H. N. J., Mugge, R. & Hekkert, P. (2004). Designing consumer-product attachment. In D. McDonagh, P. Hekkert, J. Van Erp, & D. Gyi (Eds.), Design and emotion: The experience of everyday things (pp. 327-331). London: Taylor & Francis. (Article or chapter in an edited book)

Khalid, H. M. (2001). Can customer needs express affective design? In M. G. Helander, H. M. Khalid & T. M. Po (Eds.), Proceedings of Affective Human Factors Design (pp. 190-198). London: ASEAN Academic Press. (Article in a published proceeding)

Chen, C.-W., You, M., Liu, H. & Lin, H. (2006). A usability evaluation of web map interface. In E. Koningsveld (Ed.), Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association [CD ROM]. New York: Elsevier Science. (Article in an electronic proceeding)

Wallis, C. (2005, January 09). The new science of happiness. Time Magazine. Retrieved July 15, 2006, from . (Article from an online magazine or news)

McNeil, P. (1993). Designing women: Gender, modernism and interior decoration in Sydney, c. 1920–1940. Unpublished master’s thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. (Unpublished master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation)

Wu, J. T. & Liu, I. M. (1987). Exploring the phonetic and semantic features of Chinese words (Tech. Rep. No. NSC75 0310 H002-024). Taiwan National Science Council. (Report)

Degelman, D. & Harris, M. L. (2000). APA style essentials. Retrieved May 18, 2000, from Vanguard University, Department of Psychology Web site: . (Web document from a university program or department Web site)

Nielsen, M. E. (n.d.). Notable people in psychology of religion. Retrieved August 3, 2001, from . (Stand-alone Web document [no date])

Gender and society. (n.d.). Retrieved December 3, 2001, from . (Stand-alone Web document [no author, no date])

Hien, D. & Honeyman, T. (2000). A closer look at the drug abuse-maternal aggression link. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(5), 503-522. Retrieved May 20, 2000, from ProQuest database. (Journal article from database)

Garrity, K. & Degelman, D. (1990). Effect of server introduction on restaurant tipping. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20(1), 168-172. Abstract retrieved July 23, 2001, from PsycINFO database. (Abstract from a secondary database)

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