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Editorial Policy

Articles are invited for publication in 3CMedia Journal. Submission should be original and previously unpublished works, and should not be under consideration by another journal.

Articles are refereed through a process of blind peer review.

The editor receives and acknowledges submissions and then arranges for them to be reviewed. Reviewers will be drawn from, but not limited to, the Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Committee.

An article will be suitable for publication if it is deemed by reviewers to meet the following criteria:

• It is relevant to the scope and purpose of the Journal.
• It offers an important or engaging critical or analytical insight.
• It is clearly and succinctly argued.
• Its findings are well supported.
• It demonstrates methodological soundness.
• It is situated in an appropriate field or tradition of scholarly work.
• It is stylistically consistent and submitted in a publishable form.

Where an article fails to meet one or more of these criteria reviewers may recommend publication subject to major or minor revisions, or they may recommend rejection. Reviewers will generally provide authors with reasons for rejection.

As far as possible, the review process will be completed within three months of an article being submitted.

Proposals for papers are also welcome. These should be submitted in the form of a 200-300 word abstract. The Editor will advise on the prospective suitability of a full article for publication.

Guidelines for Contributors

To facilitate the review process articles should have a cover page that includes the following information:

• Name(s) of author(s)
• Institutional affiliation(s)
• Email and postal address(es) of author(s)
• Title of the article
• Date of submission
• An abstract of no more than 100 words
• A short statement of the author's biographical details
• A short statement of acknowledgements, if necessary.

Information that might identify the authors should not be contained within the body of the submission.

Submissions should be formatted as MS Word or Rich Text Format files, and emailed to:

Christina Spurgeon, Editor, 3CMedia

The subject line of the email should be: "3CMedia"

Alternatively, submissions can be posted to:

Christina Spurgeon
Editor, 3CMedia
Media and Communication
Creative Industries faculty, QUT
Musk Avenue
Kelvin Grove 4059
AUSTRALIA

Postal submissions must include a hard copy as well as an electronic copy on floppy disc or CD ROM.

Style

Articles are published in PDF format and as far as practical submissions should be 'PDF-ready'. The following style parameters for submissions address paper size, margin settings, text formatting and styles, quotes, placement of tables, figures, and images, spelling, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and referencing.

Please note that an article will not be rejected if the only problem with it is that it does not meet the precise specifications set out here for being PDF-ready. It may, however, delay publication.

Paper

Paper size should be A4.

Margins

Margins should be 2.54cm from page bottom and top and 3.17 from page left and right.

Text formatting and style

Article title: Arial 16 pt; align left, 1.5 line spacing (do not finish with a full stop)
Article body: Garamond 12 pt; align left; 1.5 line spacing.
Use two hard returns to start a new paragraph.
Level 1 sub-heading: Garamond 12 pt; bold; align left; 1.5 line spacing.
Level 2 sub-heading: Garamond 12 pt; ital; align left; 1.5 line spacing.
Blockquotes: Garamond 12 pt; indent 1.27 cm; align left; 1.5 line spacing.
Bullet and numbered lists: indent 1.27 cm; otherwise same as article body.
Captions and titles for tables, figures and other objects: Arial 10 pt; bold; align with object; single line spacing.
References: Garamond 12 pt. hanging indent 1.27; align left; single line spacing.

Please substitute a similar sans-serif typeface for Arial and serif typeface for Garamond, if these specific typefaces are not available to you.

Quotes

Single quotation marks ('') should be used for quotes within paragraphs, and double quotes should be used for quotes within quotes ('""'). Extended quotes should be formatted as blockquotes (see note above).

Placement and numbering of objects

Tables, figures and images are welcome inclusions, as long as they are supported by the text. Objects should be located in the document as near as possible to their first mention in the text. They should also be numbered in order of their appearance in the document. For example, Table 2 should follow

Spelling

Australian English spelling should be used. Refer to the Macquarie Dictionary where possible.

Numbers

In general numbers below 10 should be written in full (including fractions and percentages). Numbers above 10 should be expressed as numerals. Thousands should be separated (for example 3,000, 30,000, 3,000,000).

Symbols

Symbols should generally be avoided. For example, use 'percentage' not %. Exceptions include currencies, for example, $AUD, $US and so on.

Abbreviations and acronyms

Abbreviations should generally be avoided. Use 'for example', not 'eg.,'; or 'for instance', not 'i.e.,'.

Acronyms should generally be spelt out in full and then bracketed the first time they are used, for example, 'the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA)'. Once introduced, an acronym can be re-used without elaboration.

Referencing

The Harvard author-date style of referencing is preferred. See, for example, the online guide produced by the Murdoch University library, available at http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/guides/citation/authordate.html.