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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs or DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The journal medien & zeit is published by the Working Committee for Historical Communication Research (Arbeitskreis für historische Kommunikationsforschung) twice a year in digital form. medien & zeit allows immediate open access to its content without charging a publication fee, subscription fee or licence (platinum open access).

 

STYLESHEET

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

  • Full papers are max. 7,000 words (including title, abstract, tables, figures and bibliography). After the review, authors can extend the length of the article to a maximum of 8,000
  • Please include an abstact (about 150-200 words).
  • Please include 4-6 keywords.
  • Please include a short biography (about 100 words) with academic title, affiliation, important academic milestones, main areas of work, etc.

FORMAL CRITERIA

  • Please send illustrations (graphics, diagrams, tables, pictures, photos, etc.) separately in high resolution (at least 300 dpi) and include the graphic titles in square brackets in the body text. Please clarify any image rights and indicate the source in the caption.
  • Please format highlights in italics.
  • Highlight subtitles in bold and do not use numbering if possible.
  • Be sure to use non-discriminatory and gender-inclusive language (see, f.e., UN Guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English)

CITATION

REVIEWS

  • Typically, the length of the text is between 1,000 and 1,800 words (including bibliographic information).
  • Please include the reviewing author's first and last name and place of work at the end of the review.
  • Direct quotations from the reviewed text should only be given with page numbers (without "p.") in single brackets.

 

Copyright Notice

Public access to articles in the journal medien & zeit is free of charge, at no charge to authors, and is available to all readers under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. All versions of articles may be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo. The rights for the contributions belong to the respective authors (no apc).

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