Submissions

Author Guidelines

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided below. Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.

Articles, containing only original work, are accepted in .doc or .rft formats.

Work submitted should adopt the journal’s specific article template, which can be downloaded here: Mediascapes Template

All articles must be formatted carefully in adherence with the journal’s editorial guidelines, which can be downloaded as a pdf from this link: Mediascapes Formatting Guidelines

Each manuscript should contain:

(i). Full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be entered separately on the site and not included in the manuscript itself. Manuscripts that do not follow this guideline may be summarily declined for consideration.

(ii). Abstract of 400/500 words.

(iii). Up to 5 key words.

(iv). The target word count is between 6000 and 8000 words, including notes and references.

General Document Guidelines

(i).  Font Size and Type: 14-pt. Arial font for paper title, headings, subheadings, author’s name; 12-pt. Arial font for institutional affiliation, body of the test, references. 10-pt. Arial font for abstract, key words, quotations, footnotes.

(ii). Line Spacing: 1.15 multiple space throughout the paper, including the title page, body of the document, references, appendixes, footnotes, tables, and figures. Single space for the abstract

(iii). Two space after the end of a section and the title of the next one; one space between the title of a new section and the text

(iv). Indent the first line of a paragraph, except at the beginning of a new section and after a quotation.

(v). Text citations: Source material must be documented in the body of the paper by citing the author(s) and date(s) of the sources. A. A quotation of fewer than 40 words should be enclosed in double quotation marks and should be incorporated into the formal structure of the sentence. Example: “Communication, and especially the mass communication of stereotypes, depends on the symbolic power of words and images” (Cohen, 1972, p. 36). B. A lengthier quotation of 40 or more words should appear (without quotation marks) apart from the surrounding text, in block format, 10-pt. Arial font, with each line indented five spaces from the left margin.

(vi) Footnotes: Content footnotes are occasionally used to support substantive information in the text. A content footnote may be placed at the end of the paper following the References, 10-pt. Arial font.

(vii). Biographical statement should include the author(s) full name. In addition, it is also appropriate to discuss his personal history, academic program and/or field placement. The biographical statement may not exceed 150 words.

References

Alphabetical letter by letter, by surname of first author followed by initials. References by the same single author are ordered by date, from oldest to most recent. References by more than one author with the same first author are ordered after all references by the first author alone, by surname of second author, or if they are the same, the third author, and so on. References by the same author with the same date are arranged alphabetically by title excluding 'A' or 'The', unless they are parts of a series, in which case order them by part number.

Put a lower-case letter after the year:

Jenkins, H. (2012a).

Jenkins, H. (2012b).

Books:

Author, A. A. (2012). This is a book title: And subtitle. Abingdon: Routledge.

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (2012). This is a book title: And subtitle. Abingdon: Routledge.

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (2012). This is a book title: And subtitle. Abingdon: Routledge.

Chapters in books:

Author, A. A. (2012). This is a chapter. In J. J. Editor (Ed.), Book title: And subtitle (pp. 300−316). Abingdon: Routledge.

Author, A. A. (2012). This is a chapter. In J. J. Editor & B. B. Editor (Eds.), Book title: And subtitle (pp. 300−316). Abingdon: Routledge.

Edited:

Editor, J. J. (Ed.). (2012). Book title: And subtitle. Abingdon: Routledge.

Journal articles:

Author, A. A. (2011). Title of article. Title of Journal, 22, 123–231. doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx

Not in English

If the original version is used as the source, cite the original version. If the English translation is used as the source, cite both the original version and the English translation.

Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press; trad. it trad. it. (2008) Cultura convergente. Milano: Apogeo.