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Aims and Scope

Visual Communication Quarterly is an international, peer-reviewed journal of research, theory, creative work, and professional criticism in all areas of visual communication and visual studies. Areas include, but are not limited to, professional media practice; photojournalism; visual social science; graphic arts; fine arts; culture; ethics; ecology; history; geography; aesthetics; representation; technology; rhetoric; perception; literacy; cognitive studies and psychology; qualitative and quantitative research methods; and cultural, critical, traditional, and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches. For additional information about VCO, as well as resources in visual communication, visit the journal's editorial website: www.vcquarterly.org.

General Submission Guidelines

To submit work, send one copy of your manuscript within an e-mail message to the editor, Dr. Paul Martin Lester, at lester@fullerton.edu. Do not send a paper (print-out) version. Make sure your work does not contain identifying information. Within the body of the e-mail message include the full name(s) of author(s) with full contact information (address, e-mail, telephone, fax) and a 2-3 line autobiography. Your manuscript will be converted to a .PDF file for the review.

For portfolio/creative work, send three copies of your submission on three separate Macintosh-formatted CDs (Zip of Flash drive submissions are not allowed) to the editor through the mail. Two of the copies must not have any identifying information.

Work submitted for special issues must be sent to the guest editor. See Special Calls for details at www.vcquarterly.org/special_calls.html.

Manuscripts must be double-spaced, use 12-pt. type, and have one-inch borders. Your manuscript must conform to the conventions of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5 th ed. (see The Owl at Purdue for details at www.owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/) or your manuscript will be immediately rejected. Include an abstract of not more than 120 words. Manuscripts (including tables, captions, footnotes, bibliography, and so on) should total no more than 8,000 words.

Submissions must not have appeared previously in print and must not be simultaneously submitted to any other publication while they are under review. However, simultaneous submission to and presentation at an academic conference is allowed.

As an author who wants to include images produced by others, you must get permission to obtain nonexclusive world rights in all languages to reprint/adapt the material for the print version and in any future print and nonprint editions or online uses. See http://www.vcquarterly.org/submission-guidelines. html for more submission details and permission forms to download.

All submissions will first be assessed by the incoming editor for their publication potential. Acceptable work will be sent without identification to two reviewers, who will evaluate the work, make a recommendation about publication, and offer a critique of the work. Reviewers are selected from among VCO's editorial board of distinguished scholars, artists, and professionals, as well as from guest reviewers. Our turnaround time for a decision is about one month.

Proofs and Reprints

Page proofs are sent to the designated author using Taylor & Francis' EProof system. They must be carefully checked and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Reprints of individual articles are available for order at the time authors review page proofs. A discount on reprints is available to authors who order before print publication.