Author Guidelines
Here you may download the documents relevant to the article submission:
Author Guidelines, Copyright Form_Visual Examples, and Copyright Transfer Agreement
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 ensure 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. For 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 with observations, comments, and annotations to the authors. Please see the Peer Review Procedure.
The Peer Review Procedure
When a manuscript is submitted to the AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, it undergoes an initial prescreening by the Editorial Team and appropriate members of the Editorial Board in order to determine whether or not the paper fits the scope of the Journal. In that process, the Editorial Team and appropriate members of the Editorial Board are guided by the AM Journal Editorial Policy: Editorial Responsibilities.
If the Editorial Team and appropriate members of the Editorial Board establish that the manuscript meets the journal’s minimum standards for publication, the paper will then undergo the external peer-review process. The Managing Editor will inform the authors whether the manuscript is accepted for the external peer-review process a few days after closing the submission.
AM Journal of Art and Media Studies has established an external peer-review procedure – every manuscript is evaluated by two independent experts on the subject matter. The Editors and the Editorial Staff take all reasonable measures to ensure that the reviewers remain anonymous to the authors before, during, and after the evaluation process and that the authors remain anonymous to reviewers until the end of the review procedure. In the peer-review process, every reviewer is guided by the Editorial Policy: Reviewers’ Responsibilities and Editorial Policy: Peer-Review Form. All of the reviewers of a paper act independently and they are not aware of each other’s identities. If the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Editor may assign additional reviewers.
The external peer-review process usually takes 4–6 weeks.
Manuscript preparation
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 texts.
Original scholarly papers should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words (section Main Topic and Beyond the Main Topic). Book review articles should be about 1,000 words. Artist Portfolio should contain 4 to 6 illustrations and 1,500 words of 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 the 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, career, 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. Visual examples must have permission from the author, photographer or owner of the rights. 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 as 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 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 University Press, 2002), 15.
Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 18.
Editor, translator, or compiler instead of the author:
Philip Alperson, ed., What is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), 110–11.
Alperson, What is Music?, 83.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to the author:
Martin Heidegger, Being and Truth, trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt (Indiana University Press, 2010), 18.
Martin, Being and Truth, 25.
Chapter or another part of a book:
Richard Leppert, “Seeing Music,” in The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, ed. Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014), 9.
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, no. 2 (September 2005): 322, https://doi.org/10.1086/432240.
Maclaran and Brown, “The Center Cannot Hold,” 322.
Article in an online journal (after page numbers include a URL, preferably one based on a DOI):
Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 411, https://doi.org/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” (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 2008).
Choi, “Contesting Imaginaires.”
In References:
Book:
Bloch, Ernst. The Spirit of Utopia. Stanford University Press, 2000.
Book – two or more authors (for four or more authors, list all the author):
Horkheimer, Max, and Teodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments. Stanford University Press, 2002.
Editor, translator, or compiler instead of the author:
Alperson, Philip, ed. What is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to the author:
Martin Heidegger. Being and Truth. Translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. Indiana University Press, 2010.
Chapter or other parts of a book:
Leppert, Richard. “Seeing Music.” In The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, edited by Tim Shephard and Anne Leonard. 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, no. 2 (September 2005): 311–23. https://doi.org/10.1086/432240.
Article in an online journal (after page numbers include a URL, preferably one based on a DOI):
Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 405–50. https://doi.org/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 notes and bibliography documentation systems please follow The Chicago Manual of Style Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations.
Other remarks:
Em dash is used in years, page numbers or as a continuation of the 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 the 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’.
When submitting an article, either through an online interface or by e-mail, each author should sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement.
AM Journal of Art and Media Studies does not charge for manuscript processing and/or publishing.
Contributions not conforming to style may be returned by the Editors.
