Information for contributors

The Journal of International Communication welcomes submissions of original, unpublished papers, essays, book reviews and short notes which examine world communication. Please remember that our readers may not be familiar with your particular disciplinary focus or area of specialty. Hence you will need to provide enough information to make your paper intelligible to scholars who, like you, are interested in international communication, but have other disciplinary and cultural backgrounds.

Deadlines

JIC works on two rolling ‘batches’ of articles per year:

* Batch 1 consists of articles received between 16 February and 15 September of the year. These will normally be looked at in relation to the March/April issue in the following year or a later issue. If you have sent a Batch 1 article, the earliest you can hope to receive notification of acceptance or rejection is November 15 in the year of submission.

* Batch 2 consists of articles received between 15 September and 16 February of the year. These will normally be looked at in relation to the August/September issue in the following year or a later issue. If you have sent a Batch 2 article, the earliest you can hope to receive notification of acceptance or rejection is 15 April in the year of submission.

Note that CFPs for Special Issues may post different dates.

If your article is selected you may be required to undertake revisions. These revisions would need to be completed within one month and submitted with a completed Submission Checklist and Copyright Assignment Form. You need to ensure that all references are complete and that all (and only) references are cited as full bibliographic entries.

JIC is run by a dedicated team who devote large amounts of time to making this publication as good as it can be. If you follow these simple steps you will make our job much easier.

1. Where to submit article. Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form to:
Editorial Coordinator
Journal of International Communication
c/o Department of International Communication
Division of SCMP
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2019, Australia

Fax: 612-9850-9689.
Email: mucicpa@scmp.mq.edu.au

NOTE: A COPYRIGHT ASSIGNMENT FORM MUST BE COMPLETED AND SENT WITH YOUR SUBMISSION. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF FORM (228KB)

2. Format. The manuscript should be in MS Word attached to the email. If you have figures or tables that will not readily work in electronic format please send a printed copy to the above address.

3. Cover page. The cover page must include article title, author name(s) and affiliations, corresponding address and email address/fax number/telephone number, and any notes of acknowledgment. All indication of authorship should be limited to this cover page, allowing for blind review of the article itself.

4. Abstract and profile. The second page should contain the title, a 300 word abstract and a 200 word author profile in the following form:

Christina Bouvier (PhD, La Crosse University, Montreal) is Professor of International Communication and Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the Kissinger School of International Studies, University of Manhattan, New York. Her recent publications include The UN’s Public Relations; A History of Public Diplomacy Gulf War PR; The Changing Face of Diplomatic Practice; Foreign Relations and Media. She is President of the World International Communications Society (WICS) and a former Canadian Ambassador to Washington DC.

For some reason, authors frequently neglect to send a profile, so we must chase it up. Please send one!

5. Figures and tables. Each figure or table should be provided on a separate page in camera ready form. Please note that the dimensions of available page space are 115mm x 185mm. Numbering should be with Arabic numerals. Indicate in your text where figures and tables should be located.

6. Length. Maximum lengths for JIC contributions are as follows:

Article: 7,500 words

Review article: 4,000 to 6,000 words

Book review: 1,000 words

7. Reviewers. All submissions will be reviewed by the Editor for suitability for JIC, before being sent to three anonymous reviewers.

8. Acceptance or rejection. Referees may accept, reject, or suggest changes to the paper which the author(s) will be required to address before publication. Please note that notification of acceptance or rejection of an article will be provided between one and two months before finalisation of a particular issue. Unsolicited hard copies of papers will not be returned.

9. In-text references. JIC basically uses a modified Harvard method of citing refences in text, like this:

According to Mattelart (1994, p.20), international communication ...

According to one theorist (Mattelart 1994, p.20), international communication ...

In order to encourage dialogue with cultural studies and humanities scholars we also accept references done using numbered endnotes within the text as follows:

According to Mattelart,2international communication ...

10. Bibliography.

For the bibliography we again use a modified Harvard style. If you can approximate the following the sub-editor will be eternally grateful:

Marques de Melo, J. (1994) ‘The cultural industries in Brazil’, Journal of International Communication, 1:2,
pp.5-17.

Mattelart, A. (1994) Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (trans. Susan Emanuel & James A. Cohen), Minneapolis, MA: University of Minnesota Press.

Pendakur, M. (1991) ‘A political economy of television: state, class and corporate confluence in India’, in
G. Sussman & J.A. Lent (eds) Transnational Communications: Wiring the Third World, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp.42-65.

For website references please give all the information you can (author’s name if applicable, website, date published, and date accessed). The minimum would be:

www.lewrockwell.com/kirkwood/kirkwood33.html, accessed 8 February 2004.

If you are using the endnote style of referencing then please make the text of your endnotes similar to the above, using ‘ibid’ and ‘op cit’ as appropriate.

11. Check your bibliography. Chasing up missing or inaccurate bibliographical references is time-consuming for the editor, so please closely check all your bibliographical references before sending in your paper. This means two things: all references in the body of the article must be in the bibliography (with the year correct in both places), and all bibliography entries must be complete and correct (see 10 above).

Thank you for your cooperation.