Submission of mss: authors should retain one copy of their manuscript and send one identical copy (fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one side only of white A4 or US standard size paper) and a disk version (IBM-compatible or Mac) or emailed attachment to:
Alexis Weedon
Convergence
School of Media, Art and Design
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU
United Kingdom
or email Convergence@beds.ac.uk
Covering letter: 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 print or electronic journal.
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 supplied on a separate sheet. Owing to the broad range of subject matter, authors are encouraged to supply the names of one or more potential referees.
(ii) abstract of 100-150 words
(iii) up to 10 key words
(iv) main text and word count -- suggested target is about 8000 words. 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
(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) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. 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 on disk 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)
Revised disk: on acceptance of your manuscript for publication, authors will be asked to supply a further disk (IBM-compatible or Mac) or attachment of the final version. PC format graphics files should be supplied as TIFF or EPS files.
Proofs and offprints: authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to return corrections within 3 weeks or as advised. They will receive a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author. and also electonic offprints of their article.
Books and other documents or media for review should be sent to:
Convergence
School of Media, Art and Design
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU
United Kingdom
Peer Review: Convergence 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 manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two referees.
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