Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies

Author's Checklist when proofing articles to NJWLS

The following checklist is provided as guidance for authors in checking first proofs of their paper for correctness and consistency throughout. (Please note that the layout and the corrections is being done in India and your comments and proofing should therefore be in English. If you do not have a pdf-application for proofing you can print the pages of the article and make your comments and corrections in hand and then scan the pages and send them to the Journal. Or you can list your comments in an e-mail or a Word-document):

• Author names, affiliation addresses present and correct
• The presentation of the author(s) should have this format:
  • Max 1 title/position
  • Max 1 unit (in the institution)
  • Max 1 institution
  • The country of the institution
• As a footnote on the first page of the article the contact-information (by mail and e-mail) of 1 corresponding author should be given
• Keywords are provided beneath the abstract
• Check the level/format of headlines and subheads
• Biographical notes and addresses included where relevant
• Acknowledgements: If absolutely necessary (see “Preparing your article”) information of funding/contract grant sponsor can be included
• Check text references against reference list, noting any inconsistency in spelling, date etc., and that all references in the list are cited in the text
• Check format of reference list – compare with guidelines in “Author’s guide”
• Ensure the usage of US style English is consistent throughout
• Check superscripts and endnotes match up
• Tables and figures:
  • Placed in correct position in the text
  • Table/figure legends are correct
  • Any features or statistics cited in the text regarding the table/figure are correct
  • All figures/tables are cited in text

• Check consistency in usage of mathematical symbols (see examples below):
• Italic/roman of superscripts/subscripts
• Italic/roman for variables and Greek symbols
• Hyphenation, e.g. side [-] effect, or prefixes such as post-, pre-, sub-, non, mid-
• % instead of text (per cent)

The publisher will accept style conventions preferred by the author provided that these are consistent within the same article