Submissions

Author Guidelines

New rules

3. The author must ensure that no identifying traces remain, to facilitate the anonymous review process. To this end, in the anonymised text, all data that could lead to identification must be removed. This anonymised text will be used for submission to the reviewers.

4. Acknowledgements and any mention of entities funding a project related to the article shall be placed at the end of the article. However, these should not be included in the anonymous version.

5. The article may not be co-authored by more than three authors. In the case of multiple authors, once the article is accepted, the authors must include a statement at the end of the text specifying "Author Contributions" and declare at the end that "All authors have read and agree with the published version of the manuscript and declare no conflict of interest."

6. Manuscripts must be submitted anonymously, ie without any element that allows identifying the author or authors of the article. The document ID must also be taken from the document properties.

7. Each author can only submit one article by number, as a author or co-author. No more than one article by the same author will be published in a period of one year, i.e., two issues of the journal. 

8. The use of self-citation should be moderate. Must be withdrawn in the submission process. In this case the references will be of the type (Author, 1999, p. 34) and in the bibliographic references the same principle of anonymity follows. We generally follow COPE's recommendations here (see “Self Plagiarism”: https://publicationethics.org/case/self-plagiarism).

STYLE RULES

– Manuscripts should not exceed 50.000 characters (including spaces, references and endnotes). Book reviews should not exceed 5.000 characters (including spaces and endnotes).

– Include the manuscript title and an abstract of no more than 1.000 characters (in portuguese and english) and 4 to 5 keywords (in portuguese and english).

– Manuscripts should be typed with double-space on standard pages (A4), using font Times New Roman 12pt. Submissions must be sent as an electronic Word (.doc), OpenOffice or RTF  and must not overcome 2MB; PDFs are not accepted.

– Articles must contain bibliographical references at the end, but only those references that are cited in the text. Bibliographic references follow the latest version of the APA standard (7th edition).

– Reviews and essays should be 1,500 to 3,000 words, including title, footnotes and references.

– Graphic elements (figures, tables, graphs) must have a legend and source, without endpoint. In the text, graphic elements are mentioned extensively (ex. in Figure 1).
Figures should be of high quality and need to be supplied in editable formats (JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX). 

– Footnotes: use footnotes, not endnotes (simple space, 10pt). Media & Jornalismo discourages the use of footnotes unless absolutely necessary.

– URL: all URL addresses in the text and bibliography / references must be active and ready to click, redirecting to the referenced website.

– About other aspects, please see COPE recommendations.

CITING REFERENCES

Submitted manuscripts should follow the APA styleguide for bibliographic referencing. 

Citing and references in the text

• Quotations of less than 40 words should be incorporated in the text and enclosed with double quotation marks (“ ”), in normal text, not italic.
• Quotations of 40 or more words should be highlighted in a free-standing block quotation on a new line, indented, smaller font and without quotation marks. 
• For indirect quotations: (quoted in Habermas, 2019, p. 37).
• Avoid using expressions such as idem, ibidem, apud, op. cit…

References (examples)

– Article in Journal
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Vol(Number), x–x. https://doi.org/XXXXXXXXXXXXX

example:
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

– Chapter in an Edited Book
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of chapter. In C. C. Editor & D. D. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (xx ed., Vol. xx, pp. xxx–xxx). Publisher.

examples:
Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016

–  Authored Book
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of book (xx ed., Vol. xx). Publisher.

– Edited Book
Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (Year). Title of book (xx ed., Vol. xx). Publisher.

example:
Torino, G. C., Rivera, D. P., Capodilupo, C. M., Nadal, K. L., & Sue, D. W. (Eds.). (2019). Microaggression theory: Influence and implications. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119466642

Source:  APA 7º edition
Update: 2024, July 5 

Previously copyrighted material

• Authors are responsible for gaining permission to reproduce any copyrighted material in their submissions, from other sources in both print and electronic form.

Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in the journal

• Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal.
• Authors should not submit manuscripts that have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content.
• The authors will also accept to cede the publishing, reproduction and diffusion rights to Media & Journalism. 

Ethical Conduct

• Authors should ensure that the sources of referencing used in the production of scientific work are accurate.
• Authors should identify the funding organisations of their work.
• Authors have permission to publish and distribute their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal website).