Journalism Practice accepts original articles which are not under consideration by another publication at the time of submission. Articles should not exceed 8000 words in length, should be free from jargon and should be written as clearly and concisely as possible. Unsolicited articles cannot be returned. Accepted articles must conform to Journalism Practice style requirements.

Please submit articles to Bob Franklin, The Editor, Journalism Practice, The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB, UK; E-mail: journalismpractice@press.uk.net

Submissions. Journalism Practice accepts submissions by e-mail. Where possible, the file should be saved in the 'Word for Windows' format. If this is not possible then the document should be saved in either a 'Text' or 'ASCII' format. Whichever is used, please indicate this clearly. If e-mail is used then documents should be sent unencoded to journalismpractice@press.uk.net. A delivery confirmation will be sent on receipt of the e-mail. Alternatively authors may submit four typed copies of their manuscript along with a copy of the manuscript saved onto a CD.

Presentation. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including all quotations and footnotes) and typed in English on single sides of paper. Generous margins on both sides of the page should be allowed for and pages numbered consecutively. The author should retain a copy as submitted manuscripts cannot be returned. Full names of the author(s) should be given, a full address for correspondence, and where possible a contact telephone number, facsimile number and e-mail address. Current and recent academic and professional affiliations should be supplied for inclusion in 'Notes on Contributors', together with a list of major publications (with dates and name of publisher) and forthcoming books.

References should conform to the Harvard style and be indicated in the typescript by giving the author's name with the year of publication in parentheses. If several papers by the same author and from the same year are cited, a, b, c, etc. should be placed after the year of publication. References should be listed in full alphabetically, with the least recent first where more than one work by the same author is cited, at the end of the article in the following standard form:

For books: MACHIN, DAVID and NIBLOCK, SARAH (2006) News Production: Theory and Practice, London: Routledge.

For articles: SUGDEN, JOHN and TOMLINSON, ALAN (2007) "Stories from Planet Football and Sportsworld: Source relations and collusion in sport journalism", Journalism Practice 1(1), pp. 44– 61.

For chapters SCHUDSON, MICHAEL (1998) "The Public Journalism Movement and Its Problems", in books: in: Doris A. Graber, Dennis McQuail and Pippa Norris (Eds), The Politics of News, Washington, DC: CQ Press, pp. 132–49.

For conference SINGER, JANE B. (2003) "The Sociology of Convergence: challenges and change in papers: newspaper news work", paper presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Kansas City, Missouri, August.

For web sources: THELEN, GIL (2000) "Convergence", The American Editor, 1 July, <http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/00.july/thelen1.htm>, accessed 12 September 2005.

Tables and figures should be prepared on separate sheets using originals where possible; they should not be included within the text. The author(s) should clearly indicate in the margin of the paper where tables and figures are to be inserted. Each table and figure should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals with an appropriate caption (e.g. Table 1, Table 2; Figure 1, Figure 2, and so on). Permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the author(s) prior to submission and any acknowledgements should be included either in the text or the caption as appropriate. For a more comprehensive profile of how to prepare your manuscripts for publication in Journalism Practice, please write to the Editors requesting an information sheet.

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