Submissions

Author Guidelines

The submission must not have been previously published, or submitted simultaneously to another journal for consideration. Articles should range between 5,000-8,000 words (including abstract, notes and references).

Authors must submit their manuscripts within the platform, using the 5 step submission process. The manuscript file must contain the main text, without the author’s name appearing under the title, in notes and references (it should be substituted with ***). Also the document’s properties must not contain the author’s name or other personal details, using the anonymizing functions provided by the different softwares (see also Ensuring a Blind Review).

The anonymous manuscript will be uploaded at step 2 of the submission process. The manuscript must comply with the guidelines in “Formatting.”

Submission metadata will be provided at step 3 of the submission process, and must include the following:

1. For each author of the manuscript: first name and last name, email, ORCiD (if available), institutional affiliation, country, and a brief biographical note (50-100 words);

2. Title;

3. An abstract (150-200 words);

4. Five keywords, separated by semicolons;

If submitting an article in Italian, title and abstract must be provided both in English and Italian language, using the “Form language” tool to switch between languages.

Formatting

Submission files should be in Microsoft Word file format, or equivalent formats.

The text should be double-spaced and use a 12-point font (Times New Roman).

Paragraph titles should be numbered using the Arabic numeral system. Numbering must have a maximum of two levels.

Notes should be limited and collected at the end of the text. Short quotations (<40 words) should be enclosed in double quotation marks (“ ”) and run on with the main text. For a quotation within a quotation, single quotation marks should be used (‘ ’). Longer quotations (>40 words) should be separated by a single line break before and a single line break after the quoted text, and should not be enclosed within quotation marks.

All the links and URL addresses in the text have to be activated and ready to click. They must be exclusively included in the notes or in the references section.

Articles can be written either in American English or British English, provided that the choice is consistently employed throughout the text. Articles should be formatted according to these norms. Where not otherwise specified (spelling, abbreviations, punctuations, etc.) please follow the MHRA style guide
http://www.mhra.org.uk/pdf/MHRA-Style-Guide-3rd-Edn.pdf.

References

The author-date system has to be used.

References in the text should read as follows: Brown (2001: 63–4), (Brown 2001: 63–4), Brown and Smith (2000, 2003), (Brown and Smith 2000, 2003), (Smith 2000, Brown 2003). Use “et al.” when citing a work by more than two authors: (Brown et al. 2004). The letters, a, b, c, etc. should be used to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year: (Brown 2000a, 2000b).

Film titles in the text must be cited as follows: International Title (Original Title, year). If there is no international title: Original title (l.t.: Literal Translation, year).

All references must be listed alphabetically at the end of the document, using the following style.

Articles in journals

Murdock, Graham (2004). “Past the Posts: Rethinking Change, Retrieving Critique.” European Journal of Communication 19(1): 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323104040692. [All references with a Digital Object Identifier must include the DOI link.]

Barra, Luca and Massimo Scaglioni (2015). “Saints, Cops and Camorristi. Editorial Policies and Production Models of Italian TV Fiction.” SERIES – International Journal of TV Serial Narratives 1(1): 65–75. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2421-454X/5115.

Books

Castells, Manuel (2009). Communication Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Contributions to books

Dahlgren, Peter (1997). “Cultural Studies and Media Research.” In An International Handbook of Media Research, edited by John Corner, Philip Schlesinger, and Roger Silverstone, 48–64. London: Routledge.

Online resources

Herrera, Susana (2005). “Situación del ombudsman en el mundo.” Revista de Comunicación 4:17–37. http://www.saladeprensa.org/art586.htm (last accessed 28-05-17).

Unpublished works

Morgan, Allan (1998b). Retrieving Formal Values. PhD dissertation. London: University of London.

Films, TV series and other media cited

TV series, shows, films, games and other media have to be included in the text as follows: The Sopranos (1999–2007); Tony Soprano’s (James Gandolfini) first dream appears in “Meadowlands” (1.04); Blue Velvet (1986).

Romanisation of scripts other than Latin

Please use only the recognized standards. In particular:

Russian

Standard ISO 9:1995

Chinese

Pinyin (ISO 7098:2015)

Japanese

Hepburn

Images

All illustrations, figures, and tables must be embedded in the manuscript file at the appropriate reference points, rather than at the end of the article.

Each image must have a caption with essential information and must be inserted in order of appearance, numbered in Arabic numerals.

In addition, authors are require to upload their images as supplementary files (step 4 of the submission process), stored in a specific archive (.rar, .zip…) and named with two-digit numbers following the order of their appearance in the text (01.jpg, 02.png, 03.jpg, 04.tiff…).

Illustrations, preferably in .TIFF or .JPEG format, must have a resolution of 300dpi or more, and a minimum width of 1750 pixels.

Diagrams must be in PNG format.

All the images must be accompanied by captions containing basic information. Moreover, they must be inserted according to the order in which they are cited, and numbered in Arabic numerals corresponding to the names of the associated files.

N.B.:

Two or more images cannot be placed side by side (unless they are submitted after having been previously merged into one single image: in these cases it will be possible to insert only one caption).

The position of each image in the final PDF version of the article may vary depending on the space available for every element on each page; in articles containing many images it is therefore likely that some of them could be inserted in a different position from what initially suggested by the author.