Journal Details
Media History
Instructions for Authors
***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.***
Manuscripts, usually between 5000 and 6000 words, should be double spaced and follow MLA referencing style. To ensure an anonymous refereeing process, name(s), address(es) and affiliation(s) should appear on a separate page and not on the manuscript. Please send an electronic copy to Tom O'Malley; Email mehstaff@aber.ac.uk.
Contributors should keep in mind that they are addressing an international audience. Jargon should be avoided where possible and all authors should use non-discriminatory language. In empirical reports the breakdown of the research sample (e.g. class, race, ethnicity, sex, age and disability) should be clearly stated and acknowledged in the discussion. Authors should define their choice of terms clearly.
Authors will be required to submit an accepted manuscript in electronic form, preferably Word files.
An email address and full postal address must be supplied for the corresponding author.
Figures or photographs should not be embedded in the text but supplied as separate files, preferably TIFF or JPG, saved to a high resolution. The location of the image should be indicated in the text file.
Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce in both print and online form any copyright material used, and for the payment of any fees to do so. Authors must obtain permissions before submission and include any acknowledgements in the typescript. Where photographs or figures are reproduced, acknowledgement of source and copyright must be given in the caption.
References should follow MLA style. Keep text citations of printed and primary printed sources as brief as possible while directing the reader to the correct reference, using the name followed by the relevant page number, e.g. (Curran 64). Use an abbreviated title if the reference list contains more than one work by the same author, e.g. (Nye Paradox 178). Use endnotes for references to manuscript collections and for any additional comment. The order of material in the manuscript submitted for publication should be: Title, abstract of 150 words, list of 6 key words, text, endnotes, list of primary and secondary printed sources. There should be a separate cover sheet with full name and affiliation and contact details of the author.
Books:
HAMPTON, MARK, Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004).
Chapter in edited book:
KAUL, CHANDRIKA. "Popular Press and Empire: Northcliffe, India and the Daily Mail, 1896-1922." In PETER CATTERALL, COLIN SEYMOUR-URE, and ADRIAN SMITH, eds, Northcliffe's Legacy. Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896-1996 (London: Macmillan, 2000), 45-69.
Journal article:
ADAMTHWAITE, ANTHONY. "The British Government and the Media, 1937-1938." Journal of Contemporary History 18 (1983): 281-97.
Newspaper article:
These should appear in the list of primary and secondary printed sources.
"Duped Women." Manchester Evening News 8 Oct. 1915: 5.
References to recorded materials: Films, radio, TV:
These should appear in the list of primary and secondary printed sources.
The Power Game. ITV (1965-6 - or precise date of transmission ie.9 Sept. 1978).
Proofs . Proofs are sent to the corresponding author via email as PDF files. Please note that proofs are supplied for correction of errors only, and no rewriting or reorganisation of text can be undertaken at this stage. Corrections should be returned to the editor within 3 days
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