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Author Guidelines
Format of mss: Each manuscript should contain:
(i) title page with 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 in the "Comments to the editor" section, and not included in the manuscript itself. Manuscripts that do not follow this guideline may be summarily declined for consideration. Please include a statement confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other print or electronic journal. Owing to the broad range of subject matter, authors are also encouraged to separately supply the names of one or more potential referees. Please include those in the "Comments to the editor" section, and if possible please include potential referees' email addresses.
(ii) abstract of 100-150 words
(iii) up to 10 key words
(iv) text and word count -- the target is about 8000 words (inclusive of all text, including notes, references, tables, charts, etc.). Submissions of more than a few hundred words beyond the target will not be considered. Text to be clearly organized, with a logical hierarchy of headings and subheadings, and quotations exceeding 40 words to be displayed and indented, in the text (include word count on title page, and be certain to take into consideration any duplication of tables, charts, etc., that might cause an inflated word count)
(v) end notes, if necessary, should be signalled by superscript numbers in the main text and listed at the end of the text before the references
(vi) references should follow Harvard style whereby they are cited in the text by author and date with a full alphabetical listing (examples below) at the end of the article:
Books and articles in books
Livingstone, S. and P. Lunt (1994) Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate. London: Routledge.
Murdock, G. (1998) 'Thin Descriptions: Questions of Method in Cultural Analysis', in J. McGuigan (ed.) Cultural Methodologies, pp. 178-92. London: Sage.
Journals
Calabrese, A. and M. Brochert (1996) 'The New Canals of Amsterdam: An Exercise in Local Electronic Democracy', Media, Culture & Society 18(2): 249-68.
Papers
Frissen, V. and P. Yves (1997) 'Never Mind the Gap: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in ICT-User-Research. The Case of Busy Households', paper presented at 6th EMTEL Conference, Barcelona, 7-9 November.
Website
Garton, L., C. Haythornthwaite and B. Wellman (1997) 'Studying Online Social Networks', Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3(1), URL (consulted Feb. 1998): http:/jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue1/
Tables: tables should be typed (double line-spaced) within the text at the appropriate points and on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be numbered consecutively and given short descriptive captions. Line diagrams should be presented as camera-ready copy or electronically as EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files (with LZW compression) for scanning. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast or on disk as TIFF files (with LZW compression, resolution x 2 line screen, e.g. 266 dpi for 133 line screen output).
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Style: use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
Spelling: UK or US spelling may be used.
Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Present dates in the form 1 May 1998. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD)
Timeline: authors should hear about their submissions between 8 - 12 weeks after submission. Reviewers are assigned within one week of submission. Reviewers are directed to complete reviews within six weeks of agreeing to review a mansucript. Editorial review occurs one to two weeks after receipt of reviews. These are typical time frames, however, and may vary. Publication times are approximately one year from receipt of final draft and copyright agreement (as of April, 2006).
Revised manuscript: on acceptance of your manuscript for publication, authors will be asked to supply a further electronic copy of the final version. PC format graphics files should be supplied as TIFF or EPS files.
Copyright: before publication authors will be requested to assign copyright to Sage Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
Submission Preparation Checklist
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, PDF or HTML document file format.
- All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca) are activated and ready to click.
- The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, and on separate sheets at the end of the manuscript.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- The text has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu. Manuscripts that do not follow this guideline may be summarily declined for consideration.
- All authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to New Media & Society
- Suggestions of potential reviewers have been sent to the editors. These may be added in the box titled "Comments to the Editor."
Copyright Notice
Before publication authors will be requested to assign copyright to Sage Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
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