Guideline on preparing and ubmitting journal article for Film Studie Guideline on preparing and ubmitting an article for Film Studie Thee guideline are intended to help you and u; the better prepared the article i the more efficiently it will pa through the production proce. Pleae pay particular attention to the Note and reference ection. Pleae make ure that the tyle you ue i conitent throughout the article and i compatible with the ret of the journal. Submiion of manucript Article hould be a minimum of 5,000 word and not exceed 8,000 word, including note. The author i reponible for the word count. Article hould be ent via email to the managing editor, at filmtudiejournal@gmail.com together with an article abtract of around 100 word and a lit of between 3 and 6 key word. Page hould be numbered in the top right-hand corner. The article hould be anonymied for blinded review. A Title Page hould be included containing the article title, author name, contact detail, biography, acknowledgement and any other identifying information. Journal tyle point UK punctuation throughout article. UK pelling conitently throughout article (-ie/-ye NOT -ize/-yze) but retain American pelling in American proper name, uch a Pearl Harbor. Ue ingle pace after all punctuation. Initial hould alo be paced, A. J. Smith not A.J. Smith (NB, i.e. and e.g. are exception); pace after the point in the following contraction: ed., p., pp., ch., vol., etc. Maximum capitaliation i ued on all heading and title of publihed work within the text and the note (ue different typeize to ditinguih different level of heading). Page number are elided: 4 7, 8 13, 16 18 (not 16 8), 20 7, 34 76, 104 6, 136 42. Ue an en rule if poible between number pan. Date are written in full: 31 January 1678; BC year mut be given in full: 536 514, not 536 14; pell out nineteenth century, but 1800 (NB hyphenate when adjectival e.g. in the eventeenth century but eventeenth-century furniture ; ue 1930, not thirtie, 30 or 30). Year are elided to two digit: 1674 89, 1674 77, 1674 1723. Ibid., after reference that cite the title previouly mentioned; do not ue idem, loc. cit. or op. cit. Apotrophe: Thoma, Jone, but Moe, Bridge, i.e. when the word ending i pronounced iz, ue an apotrophe only. Parenthetical dah: ue a paced dah to indicate a parenthetical dah (indicate in typecript by a ingle hyphen with a pace either ide). Raied letter/upercript in quote hould be clear - thee will be et a upercript letter. Number Spell out number below 100, ue digit for number over 100. Exception a erie of number appearing cloe together; number in mixed equence (under and over 100) in which cae ue digit for all number in that ection; number giving exact meaurement or with abbreviated unit of meaurement uch a 7 kg, 15.8 mm; in uual cae like 5.00 p.m. (but five o clock); phrae involving hundred, thouand, million, etc., where round number are given (e.g. two hundred, fifteen thouand). Comma i to be ued in number with four or more digit (e.g. 1,000 not 1000).
Unit of meaurement: no to appear in plural (5 kg not 5 kg). If pre-decimal currency i ued, follow thi tyle: 5 15 6d. Alway put a number on either ide of a decimal point, e.g., 0.6 (not.6). Quotation: Ue ingle quote mark for quotation integrated within the text, and double quote mark for quote within thee quote. When quotation mark encloe le than a complete entence, the cloing quote mark hould precede the final punctuation. When quotation mark encloe a complete entence or more, the cloing quote hould follow the final punctuation. If the ource/page number appear with the quotation, place them in parenthee after the cloing quotation mark but before the final full point. If vere i integrated ue pace olidu pace (#/#) to indicate a line break. Quotation that are longer than five line hould become indented extract, with one line pace above and below, with no quotation mark unle it direct peech. Place the ource citation immediately after the cloing full point with no further punctuation after it. Ue three dot with a pace either ide to indicate material miing within a quote (but NOT at the beginning of a quote). Ue four dot to indicate material miing at the end of a entence. Abbreviation/punctuation/pacing Uncommon abbreviation hould be avoided, or explained at their firt occurrence. Idem, loc. cit., op. cit. hould not be ued. & may be ued for name of companie, intitution, etc. (Faber & Faber). Otherwie ue and. cf. (roman, not italic): note that cf. mean compare, not ee. fo for folio, not ff. which mean following. ll. ( line ) hould be avoided a it can be confued with roman numeral II or arabic 11: pell out intead. per cent (not percent): ue % only in table. v. not v. (roman, not italic). Ue full point after abbreviation (e.g., i.e., etc., ibid., v., Ph.D., vol., p.m., Prof., Rev., ed.) except per cent (two word). Do not ue a full point in the following cae: after unit of meaurement (kg, mm, cm); contraction (vol, ed, Dr, Mr, Mr, Ltd, i.e. where firt and lat letter are given) except no. (number); initial (BBC, DNA, GMT, NATO, USA, ICI, TV), except name initial which hould alo be paced (T. S. Eliot). No apotrophe with common abbreviation (phone, bu, pram, etc.). Inert a pace after p., no., vol., fo (p. 67, not p.67) and include a pace between number and unit of meaurement uch a kg, mm, p.m. (5 kg, not 5kg). Italic/bold Ue italic for title of publication (except erie), including journal and book (except the Bible, the Koran, etc.), and for TV programme, video, film, play, radio programme and titled muical work (but ue roman for Symphony no. 5 in C minor, etc.). Ue italic for title of long poem (e.g., Four Quartet), but roman encloed in quotation mark for hort poem. Ue italic for title of painting and culpture, name of hip; pecie and varietie; foreign term and phrae (except anglicied term, uch a elite, role, naive, which hould appear without accent, and except for thoe phrae which are quotation); name of partie in legal cae (but leave the v. in roman, e.g. Churchill v. Wilon); direction to the reader and tage direction, uch a ee alo and above; ibid., et al., c. (NB do not ue ca.), but via, vice vera, i.e., e.g. are roman.
A a general rule, avoid uing bold type heading will be marked up later and hould be in roman; if emphai i required, italic i preferred. Job title/affiliation/ubject the King (referring to a pecific individual), but a king. Member of Parliament. the Preident, but a preident, preidential (NB for Vice-Preident and other com title, capitalie both initial). the Prime Miniter, but a prime miniter. the Profeor of Political Science, but a profeor of political cience. Intitution/organiation/place the Church (intitution) but the church (building). the Crown (meaning the monarchy). the Government (pecific) but the government (general). Houe of Common/Lord (alway initial cap) and alo the Houe. Liberal (ue cap. only for Liberal Party or party member) and alo applie to Conervative, Labour, Communit, etc. Northern Ireland, but northern England. the Parliament but parliamentary. the Senate (alway cap.). the State (when referring to political communitie). the Wet, Wetern Europe, etc., but wetern England. Note on bia/gender/racial and ethnic group Avoid uing term and phrae which expre gender, racial or other bia, example are: humanity or humankind, not mankind; worker or workforce, not workmen; chairperon or chair, not chairman; artian or craftperon, not craftman; firefighter not firemen; manufactured, not manmade; ancetor, not forefather; enior citizen or the elderly, not old people; peron with a diability or differently abled peron, not cripple or handicapped/ retarded/diabled peron. Ue he or he, her or him (note alphabetical order); do not refer to object or place (uch a hip and countrie a he : ue it ). Be pecific and accurate when referring to a racial, ethnic or national group. The word aborigine ignifie the original inhabitant of any country; for native Autralian ue Aborigine with a capital A. Afro-Caribbean, African or black African etc., are preferable. Aian cover the whole of Aia, not jut India and Pakitan: be more pecific if poible. Avoid coloured people : pecify racial/ethnic origin. Ekimo: ue Inuit intead. Europe include Eat Europe and cannot be ubtituted for Wet Europe or European Community. Ue Native American or Native Canadian, not Indian (which ignifie a native of India) or Red Indian. North America: remember thi include Canada and Mexico; ue United State if thi i what i meant. Ue in Britain or in France not at home.
Note and reference General The journal ue end note rather than footnote. All reference hould have an end note and be numbered conecutively throughout the article. The note at the end of the article hould mention all the publication cited in the text. Where a ingle edition or text i referred to continually throughout the article, full reference hould be given to the firt citation in a note, followed by All ubequent quotation are taken from thi edition. Page/canto/tanza/line/act/cene (a appropriate) number will follow in bracket. Pleae ue the hort-title ytem a hown below. Pleae make ure that the tyle you ue i conitent throughout the note ection at the end of your article, and that all ource material i included. The title of book and journal hould be in italic. If the author initial are ued intead of their full firt name, pleae make ure thi tyle i carried through to all entrie, and vice vera. With regard to the note number ytem, number hould be in arabic upercript 1 within the text and full ize arabic number 1 in the note, with no punctuation after the note number. Unpublihed book, thee and diertation hould be in roman in quote: type, place and date hould be given, e.g. Ph.D. diertation, Univerity of Mancheter, 1999. Archival ource hould ue the following order: place, reference no. of document, tatu of document, author, title, date, page no. For example: Public Record Office, London (hereafter PRO), T235/134, MAC (52) 153, memo by C. Cottrell, Money, 6 Augut 1952, p. 2. Newpaper article and magazine title: do not include the The in reference (The hould only be ued for The Time). For example: J. Smith, The Prime Miniter on the Defenive, Guardian, 6 September 1989, 7 19. Unle publihed (in which cae treat like a chapter from a book), conference paper hould give the name of the organiing body, the title of the conference and the date given. Title of individual manucript hould be in roman in quote. Title of manucript collection hould be in roman without quote, and the citation hould contain the name of the depoitory and a full reference following the uage of the depoitory concerned, e.g. Britih Library, Additional MS 2787. Part of the reference may be abbreviated, provided that the abbreviation i explained or elf explanatory: e.g. ULC Add. 3963.28: the full reference hould alway be given at the firt occurrence. Government and official ource: enure the correct ue of C, Cd, Cmd, Cmnd and Cm, a thee refer to different erie: 1 4222 1833 69; C 1 9550 1870 99; Cd 1 9239 1900 18;Cmd 1 9889 1919 56; Cmnd 1 9927 1956 86; Cm 1 1986. Note that Hanard document are numbered by column rather than page; ue the correct abbreviation (vol., vol, col., col) before the appropriate number. Book Author firt name in full where poible. Book title: maximum capitaliation, no quotation mark, italic. Chapter title: maximum capitaliation, not italic, in ingle quotation mark. For all book reference, give publiher place: publiher name, date. Give full detail of the publication the firt time it occur, and on econd and further reference cite only the author urname and hort form of title, and page reference. Abbreviation to be ued: (ed.), (ed), fo. and fo or fol. and fo, p., pp., r and v for recto and vero on the line with no full point. Author, title, publiher location: publiher name, date of publication, page reference. For example:
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Pre, 2001, p. 22 3. Anne Friedberg, The End of Cinema: Multimedia and Technological Change, in C. Gledhill and L. William (ed), Reinventing Film Studie, London: Arnold, 2000, pp. 438 52. William Shakepeare, Hamlet, J. Wilder (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge Univerity Pre, 1995, p. 4. Manovich, The Language of New Media, p. 12. Friedberg, The End of Cinema, p. 440. Journal Journal title: alway in full at firt occurrence, maximum capitaliation, in italic. Article title: maximum capitaliation, not in italic, in ingle quotation mark. Give volume number either in arabic numeral; part or iue number (only neceary if each iue i paginated individually) eparated by a colon (vol., no., p. not neceary); parenthei round the year. Author, name of article, journal volume:iue, (year publihed), page reference. For example: Ramon Lobato, The Politic of Digital Ditribution: Excluionary Structure in Online Cinema, Studie in Autralaian Cinema 3:2 (2009), 167 78. Suan Sontag, The Century of Cinema, Parnau: Poetry in Review 22: 1 2 (1997), 23 8. Lobato, The Politic of Digital Ditribution, 169. Internet ource Do not include http:// if www i included. Do not underline or italicie. Do not include bracket. Include the author name if poible. Include a full top after the addre if it occur at the end of a entence or note. Give date when the ite were acceed. Graham Parker, MLS Chief Don Garber and Jurgen Klinmann Now in Open Conflict, Guardian, 16 October 2014: www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/16/ml-don-garber-jurgenklinmann-conflict. Illutration Incluion of illutration i only poible with the prior agreement of the Editor and Publiher. Thee intruction are for the ubmiion of image for accepted article. The journal print in black and white but colour will be retained for the online edition. Figure mut be numbered a Figure 1, 2 etc. in the order they are to appear. If an illutration conit of more than one image then label them a Figure 1 (a), (b), etc. Pleae indicate the deired poition of the figure in your article by inerting the figure caption into the text of your article. However, due to typeetting contraint it may not alway be poible to place the figure in the deired location. The caption hould include a ource and credit for the illutration. Scan and electronic image Pleae note that image embedded in Word document will not be accepted. Image hould ideally have a reolution of 300 dpi and be of a reaonable ize and clarity. Preferable format are Jpeg and Tiff but GIF, EPS, PSD and PDF are alo acceptable. Screen grab and image aved from webite are uually low reolution, rarely uable and difficult to get copyright for. Scan and electronic image can be checked in advance of publication. Pleae ubmit them to your Editor who will forward them to MUP for checking.
Line drawing Thee are non-half-tone image uch a bar chart and line graph. They hould be ubmitted a electronic file in their original file format (e.g. Excel). Do not ue colour coding to differentiate data a the file are converted to black and white for printing. Permiion All permiion hould be cleared before ubmiion of the typecript and copie of all correpondence hould be included. However, pleae do not contact intitution regarding permiion for the ue of image in the firt intance. Intead, bring any querie about illutration and permiion you have to the attention of the editor. Table Table hould preferably be integrated into the typecript. See example below for table layout. Unle the table i the original work of the author it hould have a ource line underneath, indicating where the information, tatitic, etc. came from. Table 7.23 The ditribution of lead export from England to the Baltic, decennial interval 1565 95 1565 1575 1585 1595 Detination Ship- % Ship- % Ship- % Ship- % Danzig 342.0 63.2 300.0 51.8 Elbing 777.0 99.8 264.0 87.2 Other 129.9 2.0 236.0 48.0 666.0 87.1 225.0 81.0 Total a 541.0 100.0 579.0 100.0 778.5 100.0 302.5 100.0 Note: Sample table therefore figure not arithmetically correct Source: Tabeller over kibfar..., Vol. xi A, pp. 19, 51, 105. Ue a olid rule above and below column heading and olid rule at foot of column. No rule in body of table and no vertical rule. Any note hould be given at the foot of the table (they hould not be included among note to the text). Ue lower-cae, upercript letter rather than number, to avoid confuion.