Style guide for the TalTech Journal of European Studies (TJES)
When submitting an article to TJES, please ensure that all articles are formatted to conform to the guidelines
below. Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office if you are unsure of any style points or if you have
any queries.
I Statement policy
The TalTech Journal of European Studies is a double blind peer-reviewed open access journal, specializing in
digitalization and technology implementation and its impact in social, legal, political, economic and cultural
domains in European Union and in its member states. TJES is not intended for publishing popular and non-
academic papers. Preference is given to original contributions that are of general scholarly interest.
II Submission and preparation of manuscript
* No submission fees are charged. Authors are not entitled to royalties for publication.
* Articles should be submitted in Times New Roman 12 points, and all text should be 1.5-spaced. All
manuscripts must be written in English.
* Submitted articles should not exceed 32,000 characters with spaces and footnotes (15-17 double-spaced
pages) or 4,500 words. Exception is granted only to papers commissioned by the editorial board. Contributions
to ‘Book (or Conference) reviews’ sections should not exceed 12,000 characters (6 pages).
* All documents reproduced should be given in the language of the original with translation provided, if
necessary.
* Both US and UK spellings are allowed but consistency throughout the paper is strongly encouraged.
* Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form (as a file attachment sent to the editorial board) as MS
.docx, .doc or .rtf files (submitting documents in .odt files is not encouraged). All photos and figures should be
submitted as separate .tif files or as hard copies.
* Each manuscript should be submitted with the authors’ names, institutions of origin, addresses, and e-mail
addresses.
* Authors should provide a short biographical note of approximately 50 words.
* All contributions are reviewed. Authors are notified about the acceptance or rejection of their papers within
three months since the day their paper has been received by the editorial board. The authors can familiarize
themselves with the content of reviews; however the editorial board does not comment on or discuss its
decisions.
* Accepted papers are to be signed by their authors who also sign Agreement to a temporary copyright transfer.
For a full text of the Agreement, please refer to the journal web site.
III General specifications
Parts of paper
Title
In the paper title, capitalize the first letter of the first and last word and all the nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs,
adverbs, and subordinating conjunctions. Suggesting a short title for inclusion on running heads by the author is
desirable.
All financial support for the work in the paper is listed in the first footnote, the reference to which is placed at
the end of the title.
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Abstract
Please include a brief abstract of no more than 300 words. The abstract should be one paragraph in length and
should not be divided into sections, nor should it contain abbreviations or footnotes. Abstracts are not required
for short communications articles.
Key words
Please include up to eight key words in alphabetical order, separated by commas, no capitalization of key words,
except for proper nouns or conventionally capitalized terms.
Text section headings
Section headings should be brief and self-explanatory. Enumeration of section heads is desirable, but not
required. The author’s preference may be followed. However, the choice must be consistent throughout the
paper.
Figures and tables
Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively (in arabic numerals) and uploaded as a separate file. The
approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript.
All tables must have explanatory legends. Please include original source of table/figure if not your own. All
citations of figures and tables in text must be in numerical order. Citations to figures in parentheses or in
footnotes always carry the abbreviation “Fig.” followed by the figure number, elsewhere please use the full word
followed by the figure number.
Quotations
All quotations from other sources should be given in double quotation marks with an appropriate reference. A
reference to a published source should include the page where the cited text first appears; a reference to an
archival manuscript should contain all relevant information (the archive’s name, collection, inventory, file and
the sheet number on which the original text appears). Lengthy quotes (four lines or more) should be displayed
and indented, with a line space above and below. In quotations, all omissions should be marked with points of
ellipsis in parentheses; all comments and explications should be given in square brackets.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be numbered in consecutive order throughout the text. The footnote number, in superscript,
should be placed at the end of the sentence or quotation after the punctuation. Footnotes should be placed at the
bottom of the page on which they are cited.
Acronyms, use of italics
All non-English words should be in italic script, and along with all non-English names, they should be spelled
with accents and diacritical marks included. Anglicized words (ad hoc, per cent, a priori, coup d’etat, per capita,
etc.) should be Roman with no accents. Define acronyms the first time they appear in the Abstract as well as the
first time they appear in the body of the paper, written out as part of the sentence, followed by the acronym in
parentheses.
Transliteration of Cyrillic
The journal uses the Library of Congress transliteration method, without diacritics. Exceptions may be made for
names of well-known people where a different spelling has become conventional, e.g., Yeltsin, Trotsky.
Permissions
The author is responsible for obtaining permission in writing to quote copyrighted material (including figures
and tables). Authors are personally responsible for ensuring that all information, quotations, dates and names
given in their papers are correct. All figures (illustrations) should be supplemented with references to their
provenance and copyright holder.
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IV References
Full details of references should be provided in a section under the heading References at the end of the
manuscript.
* References should use the Harvard system for published works, i.e., author’s name, date of publication, and
page numbers (if required) in parentheses in the text.
* For books, references should give author’s last name and initials, date of publication, title of book, place of
publication and publisher. If multiple places of publication are cited, use & (e.g., New York & London, Delhi:
Basic Books). If there are more than 3 authors use et al., e.g., (Kahk et al. 1998). For edited volumes, use (ed.)
for single editor; (eds.) for joint editors. Double initials should be separated by a space (e.g., J. K.)
* For book chapters, references should give author’s last name and initials, date of publication, title of book
chapter, book, editor’s last name and initials, date of publication, book title, place of publication and publisher,
chapter page numbers.
* For articles, references should give author’s last name and initials, date of publication, article title, name of
journal, volume and issue numbers, article page numbers.
* Titles of journals should be given in full.
* References to works that are themselves of historical significance should have the date of first publication in
the text and the list of references, with a supplementary note if page references are made to a later edition.
* English title translations of foreign works should be given in square brackets, in lower case, e.g., Lietuvos
savivalda [Lithuanian self-government].
Reference examples
Books, monographs
Barnard, C. (2007), The Substantive Law of the EU. The Four Freedoms, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Horvath, T. (ed.) (2000), Decentralization: Experiments and Reforms, Budapest: Local Government and Public Service Reform
Initiative, OSI Publications.
Chapters in edited volumes
Groenendijk, K. (2007), ‘The Long-Term Residents Directive, Denizenship and Integration,’ in A. Baldaccini, E. Guild & H.
Toner (eds.) Whose Freedom, Security and Justice? EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy, Portland, OR: Hart Publishing,
pp. 429–450.
Articles in journals
Brubaker, R. (1992), ‘Citizenship struggles in Soviet successor states,’ International Migration Review, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 269–
291.
Newspaper articles
Financial Times (1998), 18 August 1998.
The Times (2009), ‘Latvian fears lead to bank protection,’ 8 October 2009.
Milne, R. (2012), ‘A Leaning Tower of Perils,’ Financial Times, 28 March 2012.
Institutional authors
WHO (2006), World Health Statistics, Geneva: World Health Organisation.
Working papers
Holm, U. & Joenniemi, P. (2001), North South and the Figure of Europe: Changing Relationships, Working Paper 11,
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Peace Research Institute.
Conference proceedings
Mägi, V. (2007), ‘From the 17th century to the present-day in Estonia: evolution of exact and natural sciences,’ in The Global and
the Local: the History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of
European Society for the History of Science, Cracow: European Society for the History of Science, pp. 920–924.
Conference papers
Joenniemi, P. (2008), “The EU is Not What it Used To Be: Once a ‘Peace Project’, and Now a ‘Force for Good’,” Paper
presented at BRIT IX conference, Victoria, Canada, 12–15 January 2008.
Unpublished works
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Rudi, E.; Mägi, M.; Link, E.-G. & Maimets, A. (2000), Eesti roheliste kadumine poliitiliselt maastikult [Disappearance of
Estonian Greens from the political scene], [Unpublished manuscript] Department of Political Science, University of Tartu.
Government acts
Identity Documents Act (1999), Isikut tõendavate dokumentide seadus, Riigi Teataja, RT I 1999, 25, 365.
EU documents
The Stockholm Programme – An Open and Secure Europe Serving and Protecting the Citizens (2010), Notices from European
Union Institutions, Bodies, Offices and Agencies, Official Journal of the European Union, C 115/01, 4.05.2010.
Council Directive 2000/43/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic
origin, Official Journal of the European Union, L 180, 19.07.2000, pp. 22–26.
Dissertations
Tohvri, E. (2009), Valgustusideede mõju Tartu arhitektuurikultuurile 19. sajandi alguses. Dissertationes Historiae Universitatis
Tartuensis, [Ph.D. thesis] Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus.
Websites
European Financial Facility (2012), [Home page] Retrieved from http://www.efsf.europa.eu [accessed 20 Apr 2012].
Järlik, R. (2004), ’Balti vabaduse tee,’ Maaleht. Retrieved from
http://www.maaleht.ee/?page=Arvuti&grupp=artikkel&artikkel=1686 [accessed 21 Sep 2011].
Legal materials
María Martínez Sala v Freistaat Bayern [1998], ECR I, C-85/96, p. 02691.
