Submit your Article to Media, Culture & Society
All submissions should be made online at the MCS SAGETRACK website
Please log onto the website. If you are a new user, you will first need to create an account. This is a 3-step system that takes a matter of minutes to set up. Log-in information is sent via email immediately upon completion. Full instructions for uploading the manuscript are provided on the website. If you have already created an account but have forgotten your details type your email address in the 'Password Help' to receive an emailed reminder.
Submissions should be made via the Author Center and the 'Click here to Submit a New Manuscript' option. For questions and a user guide, please use the 'Get Help Now' button at the top right of every screen. Further help is available through ScholarOne's® Manuscript CentralTM customer support at +1 434-817-2040 x 167. If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, please contact the Managing Editor, at the following email address: mcs@sagepub.co.uk
Please ensure that your Microsoft Word or RTF document does NOT include a title page, an abstract, or page numbers; the MCS SAGETRACK system will generate them for you, and then convert your manuscript to PDF for peer review. Furthermore, it is imperative that authors remove from their submissions any information that will identify them or their affiliations to reviewers. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revisions, will be by email.
Revisions
Authors submitting revised manuscripts should follow the instructions above to submit through the SAGETRACK system. However, if the first versions were submitted prior to SAGETRACK, the system will not know automatically about the previous version. In such cases, authors should check the 'Has this manuscript been submitted previously?' box and give the previous manuscript number in the space below. (If the previous version was submitted through the SAGETRACK system, following the instructions to submit a revised manuscript will automatically associate your revised version with the original submission.) Authors of all revised submissions should when prompted provide information explaining the changes in your manuscript. As this will be provided to reviewers it is important that authors do not identify themselves in these responses.
General guidelines
Articles should not exceed 8000 words, including notes and references - articles longer than this will not be refereed. End notes, if necessary, should not exceed more than 6. Acknowledgement of receipt will be given and they will then be refereed anonymously. Articles should normally be in English. Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing any previously published material. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned.
Format for Submitted Work
UK or US spelling may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize). Indicate italic type by underlining and use single quotation marks. Tables and figures should be clearly labelled and explained in the text and camera-ready artwork for all figures must be supplied. Essential footnotes should be indicated by superscript figures in the text and collected on a single page at the end of the article. References cited in the text should read thus: Brown (1992: 63-4), Brown and Smith (1987, 1980). Use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors, e.g. Brown et al. (1988). The letters a, b, c etc. should be used to distinguish different citations by the same author in the same year, e.g. Brown (1985a, 1985b). All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and in full after the notes, using the following style:
Van Zoonen, L. (1994) Feminist Media Studies. London: Sage.
Fraser, N. (1989) 'Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy', Social Text 25(6): 56-80.
Porter, V. and S. Hasselbach (1991) 'Beyond Balanced Pluralism: Broadcasting in Germany', pp. 94-115 in P. Dahlgren and C. Sparks (eds) Communication and Citizenship. London: Routledge.
Agreement to Publish
Authors submitting a typescript do so on the understanding that, if it is accepted for publication, exclusive copyright of the article shall be assigned to the Publisher and the author will be required to sign a copyright indemnity declaration. Authors whose articles are accepted may be requested to provide a copy of their work on computer disk. The Publisher will not charge authors who wish to use their articles again in publications they may subsequently write or edit. Authors must correct proofs promptly and not make revisions on them..
Electronic offprints: A restricted quantity pdf will be provided for the corresponding author of each original or review article along with a copy of the printed journal for each author.
All correspondence should be sent to Media, Culture & Society, Centre for Communication and Information Studies, University of Westminster, Block J, Northwick Park Campus, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3TP, UK.
Books for review should be sent to Raymond Boyle, Centre for Cultural Policy Research Dept of Theatre, Film & Television Studies, University of Glasgow,
Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow 12 8QQ, UK.
English Language Editing Services: Please click here for information on professional English language editing services recommended by SAGE.
