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Author Guidelines

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Text design:

  • The text should not be longer than 40,000 characters (incl. spaces); max. 25,000 for essays and 15,000 for reviews
  • Paragraphs should be provided with headings
  • Please indent blockquotes (> 3 lines)
  • Please use Latin abbreviations (cf., etc., ...)
  • Please write out adverbs such as 'for example' or 'respectively'
  • No blocking in the text, foreign words in italics, highlighting in italics or bold
  • Titles of games and monographs in italics, other titles in double quotation marks
  • References to rulebooks should be placed in round brackets after the citation (rulebook, p. 4)

Citation style:

  • Citation in footnotes
    • Full bibliographic details for first mention (Goeffrey Engelstein/Isaac Shalev: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms. New York: Routledge 2019, quoted pages.)
    • Short title for subsequent mention (Engelstein/Shalev, Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design, quoted pages.)
  • No use of Ibid. or similiar references
  • The respective punctuation mark is placed before the footnote character
  • Please use German quotation marks („”)
  • The bibliography (please arrange alphabetically):
    • Ludography:
      • Fox, David/Welker, Michael: Thirty Years War. Europe in Agony. GMT Games 2001.
      • Riffaud, Fabien/Rodriguez, Juan: Les Poilus. Sweet November 2015.
    • Monographs and anthologies:
      • Engelstein, Goeffrey/Shalev, Issac: Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design: An Encyclopedia of Mechanisms. New York: Routledge 2019.
      • Martin Lorber/Felix Zimmermann (Ed.): History in Games. Contingencies of an Authentic Past. Bielefeld: Transcript 2020.
    • Journals and articles in anthologies:
      • Begy, Jason: „Board Games and the Construction of Cultural Memory“. In: Games and Culture 12 (2017), 718–738.
      • Elliott, Andrew B. R./Horswell, Mike: „Crusading Icons. Medievalism and Authenticity in Historical Digital Games“. In: Martin Lorber/Felix Zimmermann (Ed.): History in Games. Contingencies of an Authentic Past. Bielefeld: Transcript 2020, 137-156.
    • Internet resources:

      • Synatzschke, Christoph: „Colonial Twilight Brettspiel Fazit/GMT“. In: Victoria Parta Spiele 14.02.2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKoANcbsxY8 (29.03.21). --> Leave links set as such