Guide for writers

Kikimora Publications

The following book production guidelines are intended as a general guide to assist authors. The author should pay careful attention to the information provided, as this will help both the author and the publisher and assure high quality.

All manuscripts should include a table of contents, footnotes referring to sources, and an index.

Author's responsibility
The author has the responsibility for the originality of the scientific content of all material to be published. The author is also expected to check the manuscript for consistency and revise the language usage and style. If the author wishes to include any material taken from another publication, permission to use the material must be obtained from the copyright owner.

The publisher carries out a process of objective peer review in order to guarantee the high quality of scientific material published. Expert referees are assigned to review the manuscript regarding its originality, methodology, ethical guidelines, and correct references to other works. In addition, they evaluate whether the manuscript has clearly presented results supporting the conclusions.

Footnotes
Kikimora Publications have a series-style to be followed in referencing. The textual documentation of sources should be given in footnotes. The reference should include the author's surname, the date of publication and the page reference. Page numbers are preceded by a colon and a space. Publications by the same author in the same year should be cited as Bruce1999a, Bruce 1999b, etc. When several citations are listed together, this should be done consistently in either chronological or alphabetical order. e.g. Ketola, 2001, 27; Kääriäinen 2003, 27

List of references
The manuscript should have an alphabetically ordered list of references, which includes all published works referred to in the text. The list of references should give name of the author(s), year of publication, title, editor(s), place of publication, publisher's name, and page numbers. If a book is part of a numbered series, the series name and number should also be stated.

e.g. Aldridge, Alan (2000), Religion in the Contemporary World: A Sociological Introduction. Cambridge , Political Press.

Journal entries should include name of the author, year of publication, title of article, name of journal (in italics), the journal volume number, and first and last page numbers.

e.g. Arola, Pauliina and Saarinen, Risto (2002), In Search of Sobornost and “New Symphony”. The Ecumenical Review , Vol. 54 Issue 1/2, p. 130-141.

Index
The manuscript should also include an index containing topics as well as names. The index should be kept simple, as the purpose is to help readers locate subject matter quickly. Therefore, only key concepts and names should be included. The main entries should generally be nouns rather than adjectives. Headings containing a considerable number of references should be subdivided and arranged alphabetically; prepositions are ignored in alphabetizing.

Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
The author is free to choose between British and American spelling and punctuation conventions, but it is essential to maintain consistency throughout the work. However, the original spelling and punctuation should be retained in quotations from other sources. If a book contains articles from several authors, they should all follow the same spelling system.

In titles, the first word and all the major words are capitalized, but prepositions, conjunctions and articles are not.

Russian transliteration
Kikimora Publications uses the Library of Congress transliteration system without diacritics.
See e.g. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf

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