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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 Article I have submitted to the journal is original, has been written by the stated authors and has not been published elsewhere.
  • The Article was not submitted for review to another journal while under review by this journal and will not be submitted to any other journal.
  • The Article and the Supplemental Materials contain no libellous or other unlawful statements and do not contain any materials that violate any personal or proprietary rights of any other person or entity.
  • The authors of the Article hold no conflict of interest that may affect the integrity of the Article and the validity of the findings presented in it.
  • If the preparation of paper was (co)financed by an EU or national founding agency/Ministry, both the title and ID of the project is stated in the paper under Acknowledgements.
  • I/we have obtained written permission from copyright owners for any excerpts from copyrighted works that are included and have credited the sources in the Article or the Supplemental Materials.
  • If I am using any personal details about  research subjects or other individuals, I have obtained all consents required by applicable law and complied with the publisher’s policies relating to the use of such images or personal information.
  • I have informed the co-author(s) of the terms of this Author Statement and that I am signing on their behalf as their agent, and I am authorized to do so.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 11-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions inEnsuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • Illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end; references are written in a separate section at the end of the paper (even when they are written in footnotes).

Author Guidelines

In order to be reviewed, articles submitted for publishing should be prepared according to the CM journal standards. Inadequately prepared articles will be returned to the author(s).

 

Manuscripts should be a maximum of 9000 words in length (inclusive of references, tables, figures, appendices, and endnotes).

ELEMENTS OF THE PAPER

Title. Times New Roman, 14, left alignment

If the article is an extract from a master or doctoral thesis, the footnote should be added containing title of the thesis, place and the faculty where the thesis has been defended. Articles prepared as a result of research projects should be accompanied with the name and the number of the project, financial supporters to the project and the institution of project implementation.

 

Abstract. Times New Roman, 11, justified

Abstract of 200-250 words should be placed under the title, and it should contain information of the aim, methods, key results and conclusions. If an article is not written in English, abstract in English (200-250 words) should be placed at end of the paper together with the title and keywords.

Keywords. Times New Roman, 11, justified

Keywords (not more than 10) are given bellow the abstract. Keywords should be typed in lowercase and separated by coma.

Main text. Times New Roman, 11, justified

The article should be written in concise and understandable style, in logical order that includes introductory part with a clear statement of aim and problem, description of methods, overview of results as well as discussion about the results with conclusions and implications.

CITATION AND REFERENCING

Manuscripts should follow strictly the 6th edition (2nd printing) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA; see http://www.apastyle.org/)

 

Text citations. The bibliography referred to within the text follows the style (author, date: page), for example (Bloomfield, 1933: 22). If there are source authors with the same surname, initials of the name should be used, for example (Hamilton, C. L., 1994), i.e. C. L. Hamilton (1994). If two or more authors are being referenced at the same place, they should be listed in alphabetical order, within the same reference, for example (Brown 1991; Smith 2003). If there are two authors of the same referenced source both surnames need to be provided. Where there are more than three authors, et al. should be used.

Quotations. Quotations should be placed in the appropriate places in the text. All quotations should be followed by a reference containing page number(s) with obligatory quotation marks at the beginning and at the end of quotation. Quotations should be followed by the brackets in which surname of the author, year of publishing and page(s) are stated, in the letters of the original publication.

 

Examples: (Veber, 1976: 341); (Weber, 1989: 59).

Bibliographic references. List of references should contain only books, articles and other sources cited in the text. Bibliography/List of references is a list of all relevant sources or material for further reading. Sources should be given in the letter of the original publication. References should be ordered alphabetically. If no author is identified, use the first few words of the title in place of the author (Word: Format/paragraph/indentation/special: hanging). If there is up to 5 authors, all the surnames and initials of the authors’ name should be provided. If there is six or more authors, only surname and initials of the first author should be stated followed by et al. abbreviation. If the same author is referenced several times, sources should be given in accordance with the year of publishing. If there are sources of the same author published in the same year, references should contain letters together with the year of publishing, for example 1999a, 1999b. If necessary, references of the unpublished papers should contain as detailed information about the source as possible.

Book references should contain:

Surname, initials of the author name / editor (year of publishing). Title. Place of publishing: Publisher.

Examples:

Bausch, P., Haughey M. & Hourihan M. (2004). We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs. NY: L&A Associates.

Conway F. & Siegelman J. (2005). Dark Hero of the Information Age. New York: Perseus Group.

Guerin, W. L. et al. (2005). A handbook of critical approaches to literature. New York: Oxford University Press.

Book chapter references should be provided in the following manner:

Jensen, J. (1992). Fandom as pathology: The consequences of characterization. In A. P. Lewis, (ed.), The Adoring Audience – Fan Culture and Popular Media (pp. 9–29). London: Routledge,

Luhman, N. (1986). The autopoiesis of social systems. In F. Geyer & J. Van.d. Teuwen (eds.), Sociocybernetic paradoxes: Observation, control and evolution of self-steering systems (pp. 172–192). London: Sage.

Journal article references should contain the following information:

Surname, initials of the author name (year, date of publishing). Title. Title of the journal. No.(Vol.), page numbers.

Example:

Luhmann, N. (1992). Autopoiesis: What is Communication?. Communication Theory, 2(3), 251–259.

Web documents. Apart from all other data listed above, web documents should be accompanied with date of access, name of the data base or full web address (URL):

Surname, initials of the author (year, date of publishing). Title. Date of access. URL.

Examples:

Degelman, D. (2000). APA Style Essentials. Accessed 18. 5. 2000. URL: http://www.vanguard.edu/psychology/apa.pdf

Sopensky, E. (2002). Ice rink becomes hot business. Austin Business Journal. Accessed 16. 10. 2002. URL: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2002/10/14/smallb1.html

E-publications accessed through specialised readers should contain doi number or the web address of the publication.

Surname, initials of the author name (year). Title. URL: http:www.aaaa.

Surname, initials of the author name (year). Title. doi :aaaa.

For all other cases and dilemmas authors should consults http://www.apastyle.org.

Copyright Notice

Copyright

Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.

Licensing

The published articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA). It is allowed to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon it for any purpose, even commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), a link to the license is provided, it is indicated if changes were made and the new work is distributed under the same license as the original.

Users are required to provide full bibliographic description of the original publication (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages), as well as its DOI code. In electronic publishing, users are also required to link the content with both the original article published in CM: Communication and Media and the licence used.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Self-archiving policy

Authors are permitted to deposit author’s publisher's version (PDF) of their work in an institutional repository, subject-based repository, author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.), at any time after publication.

Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and links must be made to the article's DOI and the license.

Disclaimer

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