Submission of manuscripts

Submission of manuscripts

We are accepting manuscripts on a rolling basis on media studies, including but not limited to media law and policy, media history, journalism and political communication at .

Manuscripts are peer-reviewed using a double-blind system. Authors are requested to submit two copies of their manuscripts: one complete copy and one anonymized copy from which any information that could compromise the anonymity of the author(s) was removed, including the author(s)' names, contact details, acknowledgements, or first-person bibliographical references.

Before submitting your manuscript, please consult the journal's Aims and Aspirations, Ethical Standards and the Guildelines to Authors below.

Guildelines to Authors

The following information should be included at the beginning of the manuscript:

The manuscript length should ideally be 5000-6000 words. Exceeding this will only be accepted in justified cases.

Please run a language check on your paper.

We also publish shorter manuscripts of 3000-4000 words, under the headings of "Essay", "Report" or "Methodology", if they report on an important new feature or new idea.

We regularly publish book reviews of 800-1400 words.

Studies based on non-representative quantitative research (e.g. self-completion) will be accepted only in exceptional cases, when the target population cannot be researched in any other way.

Please submit your manuscript following the Médiakutató [Media Researcher] style guide.

Style Guide

Figures: If the text includes illustrations, tables or figures, please format them as follows: different shades of grey should be clearly distinguishable to match the black and white appearance. Please export the original illustrations in pdf format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

Font: 11 point Georgia (9 point in footnotes)

References in the text:

Please use author-date Chicago format with in-text citations.

For example:

Reference to a single printed source work in the body of the text, e.g.:

In-text direct quotes from a printed source work in the body of the text, e.g.:

Three authors:

Four or more authors:

Use of AI

The editorial board of the Médiakutató journal’s position on the use of AI in academic publishing:

1. Manuscripts are expected, as a matter of principle, to contain original ideas and solutions, as well as new findings.

2. Should the article show signs of unethical use of AI, the editorial board of Médiakutató will reject the article without providing a detailed explanation. Such signs include, in particular, problems relating to the authenticity of the literature or the consistency of its content; for example, if a different type of content is attributed to the source, the source does not correspond to the content cited, or does not exist in that form. Similarly, content-related or stylistic features characteristic of AI that appear in the text are also considered as such. Verbatim translation constitutes plagiarism. If an author is translating and wishes to publish their own previously published text, they must indicate any overlaps in a footnote attached to the title at the time of manuscript submission. As a general principle, we do not permit authors to present text generated independently by generative AI as their own work.

3. Authors bear full responsibility for the content of the manuscript and for respecting copyright and publication ethics.

4. If the authors have used AI tools as part of their research methodology (e.g. database analysis), they must provide the relevant details in the methodology section of the article, describing how and which tool they used. It is not necessary to disclose the use of AI for linguistic correction or proofreading, nor the use of AI for formatting.

5. AI statement: The following statement must be included at the time of manuscript submission, at the end of the manuscript, immediately before the references:

a) The authors did not use generative artificial intelligence in the preparation of this work.

or:

b) In the preparation of this work, the author(s) used the [NAME OF AI TOOL/SERVICE / VERSION NUMBER] tool/service for the purpose of …[SPECIFY PURPOSE]. Following the use of the tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as necessary and accept full responsibility for the content of the publication.

For further information, please consult The Chicago Manual of Style.

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