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Author Guidelines

Format and Style of Articles

There are two kinds of contributions: Explorations are primarily theoretical articles that focus on historical, sociological, anthropological approaches to television and have a European focus. Discoveries focus on (national) case studies, empirical work, methodological reflections, discussion of archival sources, news from archives.

1. Both discoveries and explorations undergo a double-blind review process. Reviewers are selected by the guest editors of each issue.

2. The average length of articles in each section is 3000-6000 words.

3. Articles need to be web-friendly. Authors need to reflect on the characteristics of the medium they are writing in and for. We encourage authors to think of their text as a non-linear narrative. This means the readers are also “viewers”: they not only read, but also see the texts on screen. The screen is therefore the basic visual frame for the presentation of texts. Within this frame, you should apply the following rules:

• Always provide a stimulating headline
• The main statement / argument has to be presented first (not as a conclusion at the end)
• Write in chunks / separate paragraphs that contain one clear message / idea
• Use an active style (based on verbs, not nouns)
• Think of html-environment as a multi-media narrative platform: don’t think of photographs / audiovisual sources as “illustrations” of your text, but make them a relevant (probably most relevant) part of your story!
• Try to engage with the readers by confronting them with questions, strong statements, offering alternative views (by including external links)

4. Articles must make use of audiovisual / visual sources available on the EUscreen platform or contain links to other audiovisual sources available online (YouTube, etc.).

5. Articles have to comply with academic standards of scientific writing (references, footnotes, quotations). See details on the house style of the journal below.

Discovery Articles

Discovery articles should mainly aim at:

1. Stimulating the curiosity of the reader:
2. By offering interesting glimpses, for instance by inviting the reader to visit the homepage of the project / archive presented in order to get deeper knowledge
3. By presenting interesting / new / rare audiovisual material
4. By using audiovisual media as part of the story/argument, therefore demonstrating the added value of publishing the article in an online environment rather than a printed journal.
5. Building bridges between archival and academic communities
6. By offering information on how to access material in archives and cultural heritage institutions
7. By inviting scholars to work with the material and the sources presented.

Exploratory Articles

Exploratory articles should mainly aim at:

1. Making a contribution to theoretical or methodological debates in the field of television history:
2. By situating the discussions in the article within the state of the art debates on the topic
3. By providing overarching arguments/reflections that go beyond the analysis/discussion of isolated case studies
4. Present research on issues related to television history and culture from a European perspective
5. By situation your arguments within a European context
6. By providing comparisons with or references to television in other European countries

Style Guidelines

Format and Style of Articles

The following guidelines are intended to help ease the reviewing and editing process. Please ensure that articles submitted to VIEW comply with these guidelines to avoid delays in the production process or rejection of the article. The style should be consistent throughout the article and compatible with the rest of the journal. While preparing your manuscript, please adhere to the following:

• Do not add your personal information (affiliation, address and short biography) when submitting the first draft!
• Provide an abstract (approximately 100 words) and 5-8 keywords (separated by commas) at the beginning of the article.
• Use UK punctuation throughout the article.
• Use UK spelling consistently throughout the article, but retain US spelling in American proper names, such as Pearl Harbor, or in quotes originating from US publications.
• Capitalize all titles, subtitles and section titles, except for articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions, and prepositions, which need to be in lower-case (e.g. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture).
• Number all sections and sub-sections (e.g.: 1 Introduction, 2 Section 1, 2.1 Sub-Section to Section 1, 2.2 The Next Sub-Section, etc.).
• Number all images and videos and provide them with a caption (e.g. Figure 1. Screengrab of so-and-so scene / Video 1. So-and-so scene from so-and-so tv series).
• Clearly mark in the text when a video should be embedded (e.g. Embed Video 1 here).
• Use hyperlinks instead of lose links throughout the text (e.g. VIEW Journal). Please double-check that all links work.
• Use italics for programme and publication titles only. Use bold letters for emphasis (only where it is needed).
• Indent all quotations longer than 2 lines. Shorter quotes can be indented if they are important for the argument.
• Paragraphs should be separated by one spacing (no indentation when starting a new paragraph).

All references should be listed in endnotes. If you are using a reference management software you can prepare the references according to the notes system of the Chicago Manual of Style. If you are preparing them manually, please do so according to the examples provided below.

Citing print or online sources

• Books: John Hartley, Uses of Television (Oxon: Routledge, 1999), 3. (Or: John Hartley, Uses of Television (Oxon: Routledge, 1999), 3-5. – when referring to multiple pages).
• Edited collections: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe, eds., Reading Sex and the City: Critical Approaches (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2004).
• Books or edited collections with multiple authors or editors: Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, and Justin Lewis, eds., Television Studies: The Key Concepts, (Oxon: Routledge, 2007). Thereafter Casey et al., Television Studies. – see also the bullet points below for instructions on repeatedly citing the same source.
• Chapters in edited collections: Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1968), 220.

• Conference papers: William Uricchio, “Moving beyond the artifact: Lessons from participatory culture,” paper presented at the UNESCO/KNAW conference Preserving the Digital Heritage, The Hague, November 4-5, 2005.

• Journals/newspapers: Michele Hilmes, “The Bad Object: Television in the American Academy,” Cinema Journal 45, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 113.
• Citation from web sources: Sarah Hughes, “Boardwalk Empire State of Mind,” Guardian, January 20, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jan/20/boardwalk-empire-martin-scorsese
• Kindle: Referencing system same as books (see above), but add ‘Kindle’ at the end of the note: e.g. Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, trans. Reg Keeland, (London: Maclehouse Press, 2010),147-55, Kindle.
• DVD: Matthew Graham, “Take a Look at the Lawman: The Making of Life on Mars, Part 1,” Life on Mars: The Complete Series One, DVD, Disk 1, Bonus Features (Contender Home Entertainment, 2006). Thereafter: Graham, “Take a Look at the Lawman.”

• Personal communication (including face-to-face interviews, emails, text messages and direct messages sent through social media): Michelle Edwards, Interview with author, August 1, 2017.
• Archival sources: First cite the specific archival record, followed by the date (day, month, year), identifier (box/folder/item number), name of collection, name and location of repository. For example: Photograph of Susan Novak's installation Cinematic Worlds, February 1995, MS-4-250, Box 74, Folder 7, Digital Photography Collection, National Archives, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Citing film or television

• Use italics for titles of TV programmes (but not episodes), videos, films, plays or radio shows throughout the article, i.e. The Sopranos (1999-2007); The Social Network (2010).
• When citing a character for the first time, include full name and actor (in brackets): e.g. Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco). Thereafter use character name (or how they are most commonly known), unless when discussing the actor’s performance.
• When offering an example from a particular programme, always cite the episode used. The title in quotation marks, followed by a comma, the season (as number), colon and space, the episode (as number): e.g. ‘Pilot,’ 1: 1.

When repeatedly citing the same source:

• Use an abbreviated version after the first full citation, e.g. first: Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006), 112-15. And thereafter: Jenkins, Convergence Culture, 113.
• When citations from the same work follow each other directly use Ibid. or Ibid., 7 (in case the page number differs).
• With three or more authors use the first author followed by et al., e.g. first: Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, and Justin Lewis, eds, Television Studies: The Key Concepts (Oxon: Routledge, 2007). And thereafter: Casey et al., Television Studies.

Using endnotes:

• There is no need for a separate bibliography!

• The endnotes should be numbered—1, 2, 3 and so on—consecutively throughout the article.
• The numbers should be in Arabic superscript.¹
• When citing different sources in one endnote, they should be listed separated by semicolons, e.g.: ¹³ John Hartley, Uses of Television (Oxon: Routledge, 1999), 3; Michele Hilmes, “The Bad Object: Television in the American Academy,” Cinema Journal 45, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 113.

For sources in languages other than English, please provide the original title and a translation of the main title within brackets, e.g.: Lothar Mikos, Film- und Fernsehanalyse [Film and Television Analysis] (Konstanz & München: UTB, 2003).

 

Including audiovisual media in your article

Illustrations

1. Upload illustrations as jpeg. files onto the journal platform as well as in the text of the article.
2. Always provide a relevant caption/description with your illustrations.

Video Files

1. Provide links for videos that need to be embedded into your article
2. Clearly mark in the text where the video should be embedded. E.g. Embed Video 1 here.
3. Where possible include in the text both the URL and the embed codes for the videos that need to be embedded
4. Always provide a title, and a relevant caption/description with your URL.
5. Where relevant and if possible, try to include the following metadata for each clip to be embedded: Title, Broadcaster, Broadcast Date. Caption/Description as relevant for your article.

Audio Files

1. Audio files need to be uploaded to an external platform (e.g. SoundCloud) before they can be embedded into the article.
2. Please check with the managing editor (Rieke Böhling: journal@euscreen.eu) and with the publishing support (Erwin Verbruggen: support@viewjournal.eu) if you need assistance with this.
3. Provide the link to your audio file that needs to be embedded into your article.
4. Clearly mark in the text where the link should be embedded. E.g. Embed Audio 1 here.
5. Always provide a title, and a relevant caption/description with your URL

Copyrights should be cleared before submission of the final draft of the article. If there is no copyright clearance, VIEW cannot publish. Responsibility for copyright clearance rests with the author, and not the publishers/editors.

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.

1. The submission has not been previously published, in part or in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission has been obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. All authors qualify as authors, as per the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that the submission is ready for peer review according to the journal's review policy (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
5. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
6. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
7. All patients included within case reports or other article types in which an individual or a group of individuals can be identified have signed consent forms, or had had their guardian do so, giving permission to publish the submitted content under a CC-BY licence.
8. Research has been approved by an appropriate ethics committee, with the name of the committee and reference number of approval included within the submitted file. Otherwise, a statement that ethics approval was not required has been added to the file.
9. The corresponding author is submitting an ORCID identifier in their author data and co-authors have been recommended to also provide an ORCID, as per the journal policy.

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