Submission Guide for Authors:
Crime, Media, Culture aims to be innovative in style and approach as well as in subject matter. In addition to articles incorporating substantive findings and promoting critical scholarship - that is, articles of the sort conventionally found in leading academic journals - the editors welcome other types of contributions, including:
(1) Photographic essays addressing issues of crime, media, and culture, with such essays to be accompanied in some cases by commentary or exposition;
(2) Short theoretical essays or polemical pieces in the range of 1,500-3,000 words, addressing current issues, topics and debates;
(3) 'Research Notes' in the range of 1,500-3,000 words, designed to report on ongoing study or initial research findings, or to alert other scholars to emerging research findings or orientations;
(4) Single photographs or short 'photographic essays', with or without accompanying commentary or exposition;
(5) Critical responses to articles published in Crime, Media, Culture ;
(6) Poetry, artwork, or other cultural productions, in some cases to be accompanied by additional commentary or exposition;
(7) Reports on major conferences and research seminars relevant to crime, media, and culture; and
(8) Articles that encourage or incorporate new ways of thinking about the interrelationships between theory, research, policy and practice in the areas of crime, media, and culture. Suggestions in this regard are welcome.
While Crime, Media, Culture embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, it encourages especially work that develops cultural, critical, and qualitative understandings of the crime, media, culture nexus. On this basis, while Crime, Media, Culture does not reject quantitative studies out of hand, it does require that statistical analysis be substantiated by, and situated within, theoretically informed and qualitatively nuanced engagement with the subject matter. Research predicated largely or entirely on quantitative analysis will perhaps be better submitted elsewhere.
All submissions should follow the usual guidelines concerning formatting, and should be emailed to the editors at:
cmceditors@sagepub.co.uk
Scholars interested in authoring book reviews (of approximately 1,500 words) or review essays (of 1,500-2,500 words and reviewing contemporary works or revisiting 'classic' texts) should contact the following Review Editors:
Alex Campbell (for North America)
ACampbell@une.edu
Majid Yar (Rest of World)
m.yar@crim.keele.ac.uk
Any visual material (such as single photographs or photographic essays) should be sent to the Visual Arts Editor, with a copy to the Editors (as above):
Craig Ritchie
cmcvisual@sagepub.co.uk
The journal will also publish occasional special issues devoted to a particular theme or topic.
Papers should be written in English and should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. All papers are refereed.
Each paper should come with the following information on a separate sheet:
(a) title of paper, date and word count;
(b) author's full name, affiliation, institutional and email address, telephone and fax numbers;
(c) an abstract of 150 to 200 words;
(d) up to 5 key words;
(e) a biographical note of 25 to 50 words.
Articles must be typed in double spacing throughout on one side of A4 or American Quarto paper with generous margins on all sides. All pages should be numbered. Titles and section headings should be clear with a maximum of three orders of heading. Articles should be between 8,000 and 9,500 words in length, including notes and references.
The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, for supplying complete and correct references, and for obtaining permission where needed to cite another author's material.
Quotations: Lengthy quotations (of more than 40 words) should be displayed, indented; shorter quotes should be retained within the body of the text, within single quotation marks.
Tables: These should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position within the text clearly indicated. 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 referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet and in b/w only. Please provide a disk version as EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files, 800 dpi. Photographs should preferably be submitted as TIFF files, 300 dpi. For scanning they should be clear, glossy, unmounted b/w prints with a good range of contrast. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Notes: These should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text, and presented at the end of the text before the references. Notes and references should be in double-spacing. Any acknowledgements and disclaimers should be listed under an unumbered note at the end of the article.
References: Authors are strongly encouraged to cite references in the least intrusive manner possible by, for example, gathering citations at the ends of sentences or paragraphs, where appropriate. They should be cited in the text (author, year: page) with an alphabetical reference section following the text. Please use the following style:
Book
Surname, X. and Surname, Y. (year) Title with Initial Caps: Subtitle with Initial Caps. Place: Publisher.
Article in book
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Chapter', in X. Surname and Y. Surname (eds) Title of Book, pp. xxx-xxx. Place: Publisher.
Journal article
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Article', Name of Journal vol.no.(issue no.): xx-xxx [page range].
Paper
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Paper', paper presented at Name of Conference, City, Month of presentation.
Website
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Article', Name of Journal vol.no.(issue no.), URL (consulted Month, Year): http:/xxxx.xxxx.xx.xx/xxxx/xxxx
When citing a new edition of a previously published work, include both dates, e.g. Durkheim (1912/1976), in text and references.
Spelling:UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize). We also endorse the guidelines provided by the American Psychological Association and the British Sociological Association for non-sexist and non-racist language.
Other style points: Italics should be indicated by underlining; single quotation marks should be used, with double inside single, where necesssary; dates should be in the form 24 November 1997; delete points from abbreviations, hence UK, USA etc.; when referring to pagination and dates use the smallest number of numerals possible (e.g. 10-19, 42-5, 116-35, 1961-4).
Offprints: Authors are sent proofs for checking and correction, and will receive a complimentary copy of the journal and controlled access to a pdf of their article after publication.
Supplemental material: Crime, Media, Culture is able to host approved supplemental materials online, alongside the full-text of articles. Supplemental materials must be directly related to the article that they are connected with. Please refer to the following document for general guidance:
Supplemental data on SJO - Guidelines for Authors
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