The European Journal of Communication adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. All articles meeting the editorial requirements and standards of the EJC are submitted for external double blind refereeing
Articles submitted for publication must be double spaced throughout and should not exceed the word limit of 7000 words, including notes and references, an abstract of 100-150 words and five keywords. Please send as an email attachment to ejc@lboro.ac.uk. A separate cover sheet should be provided giving postal and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal. Titles and section headings should be clear and brief. Longer quotations (exceeding 40 words) should appear indented in the text. British spelling should be used throughout. The 'z' should be used in words where it has generally replaced the 's', e.g. organize. Indicate italic type by underlining and use single quotation marks. Dates should be in the form 9 May 2002. Take out points in USA and other such abbreviations and do not use points after Dr, Mr, Mrs. Use the smallest number of numerals possible (e.g. 10-19, 42-5, 1961-4, 1961-75); spell out numbers from one to nine; use numerals for 10 and over.
Tables and figures should have short, descriptive titles. All footnotes to tables and their source(s) should be placed under the tables. Column headings should clearly define the data presented.
Essential notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text and collected on a single page at the end of the text. References cited in the text should read thus: Brown (2001: 63-4), Brown and Smith (2000, 2003). Use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. 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, e.g. Brown (2000a, 2000b). All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full after the notes, 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.
Books: Denzin, Norman and Yvonna Lincoln (2000) Handbook in Qualitative Research. Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage.
Contributions to books: Dahlgren, Peter (1997) 'Cultural Studies and Media Research', pp. 48-64 in J. Corner, P. Schlesinger and R. Silverstone (eds) An International Handbook of Media Research. London: Routledge.
Unpublished works: Moore, W.E. (1999b) 'Modern Old Age', PhD dissertation, Berkeley, University of California.
Articles that do not conform to this style will be returned to the authors for revision. On acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to supply the final version via email. Authors will receive proofs of their articles and access to download pdfs of their article. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Books for review should be sent to Michael Pickering, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK.
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