Stylesheet

We provide style templates in Microsoft Word format (.docx) for the submission of research articles/”Forum” contributions and reviews. The templates are available in both German and English and contain all necessary paragraph styles.

Please format your contribution according to these templates before submission.

➟ Research article/"Forum" (ger)/Research article/"Forum" (eng) 

➟ Book review (ger)/Book review (eng.)

If you have any questions and/or problems, please contact info@opengenderjournal.de.

Formatting guidelines

All paragraph styles in our template are described below. They are included in the MS Word documents linked above.

General

  • File format: Microsoft Word (*.docx)
  • Font color: Black/Pink (#FC547A)
  • Underlined: Text should generally not be underlined, with the exception of URL addresses
  • Sentence: Block text
  • ORCID: The ORCID IDs of all authors can be provided.

Title page

Authors

  • Names: The full names of all authors must be provided.
  • Institutional affiliation: The institutional affiliation of all authors must be provided.
  • Short biography: Please provide a maximum of 700 characters, in complete sentences and without references to publications. The use of pronouns is optional, but helps us, for example, when communicating about the article.
  • ORCID: The ORCID IDs of all authors can be provided.

Article information

  • Title (Noto Sans Display – Bold, spacing: 14, font size: 16)
  • Author (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 10.7, font size: 11)
  • For reviews: Review information (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 7, font size: 11)
  • Abstract (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 10.7, font size: 11)
  • Article data (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 7, font size: 11)
    For keywords, submission dates, etc., it is important that the first word and colon are marked in bold.
  • Citation suggestion (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 7, font size: 11) according to the OGJ style guide
  • DOI (Noto Sans Regular, #FC547A, spacing: 7, font size: 11)
  • Editors (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 7, font size: 11)

Artikel

Header

  • Author (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • Title (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • Page number (right-aligned, Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • First page has no header (page number starts on p. 2)

Title

  • Header (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • As heading in text body (Source Sans Serif Pro – Semibold, spacing: 22, font size: 18)

Headings

  • Heading 1 (Source Sans Serif Pro – Semibold, spacing: 16, font size: 14)
  • Heading 2 (Source Sans Serif Pro – Semibold, spacing: 14, font size: 14)
  • Heading 3 (Source Sans Serif Pro – Semibold, spacing: 0, font size: 14)

Body

  • Font: Noto Sans Regular
  • Spacing: 1.5
  • Font size: 11
  • First paragraph under a heading without indentation, indentation (1 cm) from the second paragraph onwards
  • See style guide for abbreviations, etc. (Styleguide | Open Gender Journal)

Foot notes

  • Font: (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • Position: At the bottom of the respective page. Footnotes are not references.

Figures and tables

  • Position: At a suitable place in the body text, not at the end of the text
  • Source and rights: The source must be indicated, including image rights.
  • Label position: Title above the figure/table, source below the figure/table (Noto Sans Display Condensed Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • Reference in the body text: “Table X” (All tables and figures must be referenced in the body text.)
  • Numbering: Consecutive in the article: 1, 2, 3, ...

References

Footer

  • Journal information including issue (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • DOI (Noto Sans Regular, spacing: 9, font size: 11)
  • The first page has no footer (journal information and DOIs start on page 2)