Author Guidelines
AM Journal of Art and Media Studies uses an open-source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals, the Open Journal System, created by the Public Knowledge Project, released under the GNU General Public License. Instructions for the submission using OJS are available here: https://pkp.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=OJS_Documentation
Manuscripts and accompanying material must be submitted through the online manuscript submission system or sent by e-mail to: amjournal@outlook.com.
By submitting a manuscript authors warrant that their contribution to the Journal is their original work, that it has not been published before, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work was carried out.
Authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions, and must make sure that they have permission from all involved parties to make the data public.
Authors wishing to include figures that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Authors must make sure that only contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors and, conversely, that all contributors who have significantly contributed to the submission are listed as authors. Fore more author's responsibilities please see Editorial Policy: Author's Responsibilities.
Manuscripts are pre-evaluated at the Editorial in order to check whether they meet the basic publishing requirements and quality standards. Only those contributions which conform to the following instructions can be accepted for peer-review. Otherwise, the manuscripts shall be returned to the authors with observations, comments and annotations. Please see Peer Review Process.
Manuscript preparation
Original scholarly papers (sections Main Topic and Beyond the Main Topic) should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words (including footnotes and list of references). Book review articles should be about 1,000 words. Artist Portfolio should contain 4 pages with illustrations and 1,500 words of text.
Authors must follow the instructions for authors strictly, failing which the manuscripts would be rejected without review.
The manuscript should be written in MS Word in .doc or .doc.x format, in Times New Roman font, font size 12 with 1.5 line-spaced text.
The manuscript (sections Main Topic and Beyond the Main Topic) should contain the title, keywords (5 to 8 words or phrases) and abstract (between 100 and 250 words) and list of references. Do not include citations in the Abstract. Keywords should be relevant to the topic and content of the paper. An accurate list of keywords will ensure correct indexing of the paper in referential periodicals and databases.
All manuscripts should be also provided with: authors’ names, affiliations (city and state of workplace) and e-mail addresses of the corresponding author.
The authors should send their short biography (up to 150 words per author) with information about profession, carrier, workplace and year of birth.
Photos, drawings and other illustrations should be of good quality. Please, do not include photos, tables and other illustrations in the manuscript. They should be submitted as separate files. All visual examples must have permission from author, photographer or owner of the rights. Namely, each of the visual examples needs to have an appropriate caption and copyright issues marked. Please, contact the journal editor at amjournal@outlook.com to get the copyright issue form.
Visual examples must be technically prepared so as not to require additional interventions: format .jpg or .tiff; resolution higher than 300 dpi. Visual examples are additions to the main text and need to be clearly marked: example 1, etc. Please do not supply files that are too low in resolution as well files that are optimized for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG), these typically have a low number of pixels and limited set of colors.
Footnotes and References
Use The Chicago Manual of Style, notes and bibliography documentation systems. Footnotes should be marked in the text at a point of punctuation, and listed at the bottom of each relevant page. References should be cited in the language in which they were published. The list of references (bibliography) shall only include works that are cited in the text. The references should be listed at the end of the article, in alphabetic order by the authors’ surnames.
In footnotes:
Book:
Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 10–11.
Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia, 23.
Book – two or more authors (for four or more authors, list only the first author, followed by et al.):
Max Horkheimer and Teodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 15.
Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 18.
Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author:
Philip Alperson, ed., What is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), 110–11.
Alperson, What is Music?, 83.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author:
Martin Heidegger, Being and Truth, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), 18.
Heidegger, Being and Truth, 25.
Chapter or other part of a book:
Richard Leppert, “Seeing Music,” in The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, ed. Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard (New York, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014), 5–12.
Leppert, “Seeing Music,” 9.
Article in a print journal (after page numbers, include a DOI if the article lists one):
Pauline Maclaran and Stephen Brown, “The Center Cannot Hold: Consuming the Utopian Marketplace,” Journal of Consumer Research 32, 2 (September 2005): 320.
Maclaran and Brown, “The Center Cannot Hold,” 322.
Article in an online journal (after page numbers, include a DOI if the article lists one):
Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 411, accessed February 28, 2010, doi:10.1086/599247
Kossinets and Watts, “Origins of Homophily,” 439.
Thesis and dissertation:
Mihwa Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008).
Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires.”
In References
Book:
Bloch, Ernst. The Spirit of Utopia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Book – two or more authors (for four or more authors, list all of the author):
Horkheimer, Max, and Teodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author:
Alperson, Philip, ed. What is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author:
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Truth. Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Chapter or other part of a book:
Leppert, Richard. “Seeing Music.” In The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, edited by Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard, 5–12. New York, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Article in a print journal (after page numbers, include a DOI if the article lists one):
Maclaran, Pauline and Stephen Brown. “The Center Cannot Hold: Consuming the Utopian Marketplace.” Journal of Consumer Research 32, 2 (September 2005): 311–23.
Article in an online journal (after page numbers, include a DOI if the article lists one):
Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 405–50. Accessed February 28, 2010. doi:10.1086/599247.
Thesis and dissertation:
Choi, Mihwa. “Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008.
For the complete guide to The Chicago Manual of Style please visit The Chicago Manual of Style Online.
Other remarks:
Em dash is used in years, page numbers or as a continuation of sentence: 112–35. 1995–2003. En dash is used in compound nouns: mail-art.
Double opening (“) and double closing (”) quotation marks and regular font are used in citing. Single opening and closing quotation marks (‘’) are used in citing words, syntagms or sentences of existing citation (cit.cit). If one or more parts of a sentence is under quotation marks order of punctuation marks is: ”1,
If whole sentence is under quotation marks order of punctuation marks is: .”2
Italic is used in: 1) work title (books, compositions, paintings, sculptures, etchings, installations, photography); when citing translated and original work title in brackets: “The Hand of Fate” (Die Glückliche Hand); 2) emphasizing specific word, concept, syntagm, or sentence: heterotopy; 3) using words from foreign language; 4) using figures of speech and stylistic devices: silence of consciousness. For releasing a concept from essentialism or tradition please use single opening and closing quotation marks: ‘being in the world’.
Authors have to make a “New Submission” when upload the paper using the online interface. All subsequent versions should be uploaded using the same paper ID and defined password.
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