Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Submission of manuscripts

• Contributions to YIS must be original, unpublished works that are not intended for publication elsewhere.

• YIS exclusively publishes short versions of academic dissertations/theses (master and doctoral levels, undergraduate theses) and project reports from certain areas of library and information science (see homepage), which should not be older than two years. In the case of project works, undergraduate and masters theses, the contributions should essentially be overall presentations of the respective dissertation/thesis, in the case of doctoral theses also a partial presentation is possible.

• Entries can only be submitted online via the electronic editorial system; submission is possible at any time. Manuscripts are accepted in MS-Word (doc, docx or rtf) or OpenOffice / LibreOffice-Writer (odt) formats. First of all, however, you have to contact the editors via michael.katzmayr@wu.ac.at in order to get registered as an author in the electronic editorial system.

• If you should be able to provide the manuscript also as a LaTeX or Markdown document, this would make it easier to later layout the text.

• In you are using a bibliographic management program, submitting the bibliography in RIS or BibTeX format would also make layout easier.

• YIS accepts manuscripts in German or English.

2. Length, formal requirements and structure of manuscripts

• Length: min. 3,000 words, max. 5,000 words (excluding abstracts, footnotes, bibliography).

• Required: Abstracts in English and German; Keywords in English and German; translation of the title into German. We can help non-German speakers with the translations.

• The abstracts (English and German) should be of the structured type, but still kept short. They should contain (at least) these four headings: Objective (Zielsetzung), Research Methods (Forschungsmethoden), Results (Ergebnisse), Conclusions (Schlussfolgerungen). These headings can also be named differently and, if necessary, supplemented by others.

• The title of the contribution should not be the same as that of the dissertation/thesis. It should not be too general or excessive, but rather express the contents of the article in a nutshell. A subtitle, which should also not be too long, may be added if necessary.

• The manuscript should be structured clearly, the headings of the main sections should be rather short and in content match the above headings; Text highlighting should be made by the use of italics only.

• Text: DIN A4 formatted, 1½ lines, 3cm margins, left justified and without hyphenation.

• Tables and figures can be inserted into the text, but should also be uploaded as separate files. They should be numbered and labeled by captions. Please limit footnotes to a minimum.

3. Citation style

• In the text, references are to be integrated according to the “Harvard system“, e.g. "Bates (2010, p. 5)".

• In the bibliography, the literature cited in the text must be listed alphabetically in a clearly comprehensible and consistent form. YIS does not prescribe a specific citation style, but recommends again the Harvard system.

• A brief guide to the Harvard system can be found here

• and a more comprehensive one here.

4. Information about the author

The following information should appear at the end of the manuscript:

• First name(s), last name, academic degree(s)

• [optional:] institutional affiliation [+ location, if the place name is not part of the intitution's name]

• If no institution is specified, at least its location or the place of the author's residence should be given

• Email address

• [optional:] personal homepage / website

• Author Identification, preferably ORCID (https://orcid.org/)

These details will be omitted for peer review purposes!

5. Details of the dissertation/thesis on which the paper is based:

The following information should also appear at the end of the manuscript:

• Name of author, title of thesis, type of academic work (plus academic degree), name of university or educational establishment, location (if not part of the name of the school), year of completion/acceptance.

• Example:

This article is based on the following dissertation/thesis:

Lamparter, Anna: Competence profile for information professionals in companies.

Master Thesis (M.A.), Hannover University of Applied Sciences, 2015.

• If the full text of the academic work is available online (university server, depository, etc.), please also list the relevant web address.

These details will also be omitted for peer review purposes!