Please submit contributions of around 8,000 words to:
Dr Ingeborg Birnie
Email [email protected]
Please note that we do not consider contributions that have been published or submitted elsewhere. Queries about submissions should be directed to both:
Dr Karen Lowing
Email [email protected]
and Paolo Manunza
Email [email protected]
Reviews
Please send books for review to:
Dr Linda Ross
76 Netherlee Road
Glasgow
G44 3YX
Email: [email protected]
Style Guidelines
Please click here to view the journal style guidelines.
Authorship
In order to be considered an author or co-author of an article in Northern Scotland, a person must:
1) have made substantial contributions to the work
2) be willing to accept accountability for the work that was done and its presentation in a publication.
The contributions to the manuscript of anyone who does not meet this criteria should be listed in the acknowledgements section. For example, things like general mentoring, collecting data, acting as study coordinator or providing comments on early versions of the manuscript do not constitute authorship, but should be noted in the acknowledgements for an article.
For any other questions on authorship (or other aspects of publication ethics) please click here.
Peer Review Process
All articles accepted to be considered for possible publication are peer-reviewed through an anonymised reviewing process. All identifying marks should be removed from your submission. Do not include your name anywhere in your article (in running headers and footers, for example), and try as far as possible to remove it from your file Properties.
The review process normally takes approximately three months. Please note, manuscripts are reviewed on the understanding that they are not under submission elsewhere.
E-prints
Authors will receive a pdf copy of their article and a 30-day access token to the journal online.
Open Access and Self-Archiving
All EUP journals are published on a Green Open Access basis, whereby authors are allowed to deposit a pre-publication version of their contribution on their personal or departmental web page and in their institutional repository. Authors are also permitted to deposit a pre-publication version of their contribution in a non-commercial subject repository one year following publication in print. The Version of Record of the article, as it appears in the journal following layout and proof correction, may not be deposited by authors in institutional repositories. Please visit our Copyright and Open Access Licenses page for full details of our self-archiving policy for all EUP journals.
Authors can also choose to pay a fee to make their article freely available online immediately via the EUP journals website through the Edinburgh Open scheme which provides an optional Gold Open Access route to publication in all Edinburgh University Press journals. Please visit our Open Access page for full information on the scheme.
Journal Statistics
In accordance with the requirements of Plan S, the journal publishes annual statistics on submissions and the review process. The journal statistics for 2021 are as follows:
| Number of submissions received1 |
1 |
| Number of reviews requested2 |
7 |
| Number of reviews received3 |
2 |
| Total rejections4 |
0 |
| Number of desk rejects5 |
0 |
| Total acceptances6 |
1 |
| Acceptance rate7 |
100% |
| Time from submission to publication8 |
14 months |
Definitions
- Number of new articles received by the journal
- Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out
- Number of completed peer review reports received
- Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects)
- Number of articles rejected prior to peer review
- Number of articles that received an 'Accept for publication' decision
- Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions
- 'Mean' average from submission to publication for all publications in the volume
*Due to editorial staff changes, no final decisions were made on manuscripts in 2020. New Editors are now in place and decisions have been made throughout 2021.
Author Copyright Form
Prospective authors, please click here to download the author copyright form for submission with your article.
English Language Editing Service
Edinburgh University Press collaborates with Enago to provide Academic English editing and translation services to help authors get their manuscript submission-ready. A special 20% discount is available for all EUP Authors. For more information, please visit www.enago.com/eup.
Discounts for Authors
Journal Authors are entitled to a 40% discount on the journal issue containing their paper, all EUP books and any journal subscription. Please contact [email protected] to order books at discount and [email protected] for discounted journal subscriptions.
