***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.***
Gary Burns, Editor, Popular Music and Society, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL 60115, USA,
Email: TM0GCB1@wpo.cso.niu.edu
The Review Process:
Every manuscript is subject to an initial screening. If your paper passes this screening, it is sent to one or more (usually two) reviewers, anonymously. Often reviewers are members of the editorial board, a distinguished group of popular-music scholars listed at the front of the journal. However, other reviewers besides the Editorial Board are also used. Reviewers are carefully chosen and where possible have expertise in the subject matter of the paper. Reviewers are asked to disqualify themselves if they have previously reviewed the paper for another journal, if they lack sufficient expertise in the subject matter, or if they know who you are and feel that that would prevent a fair review.
Usually the review process takes 4-8 weeks but it can take longer. Once reviews are returned to the editor, it is decided whether your paper should be accepted, rejected, or returned to the author for revision. If we suggest revisions, it is strongly recommend that you follow this up. It is common for revised drafts to be accepted. In the event that we do not accept a paper you have submitted, we nonetheless encourage you to submit other work in the future.
Manuscript Format and References:
Article manuscripts must be word-processed, in English. Please double-space the entire manuscript, including abstract, end matter, references, and any set-off song lyrics or other quotations. Number your pages. The first page of text counts as page 1. Put the title of the paper at the top of page 1. Please also include a detachable title page that includes the title of your paper and your name, address, telephone and email. The title page is the only place where your name should appear, because we follow a policy of blind review.
Please include an abstract on page 1 before the beginning of the text of the paper. The abstract should be a 50 to 100 word summary of the paper, including a description of what you did and the conclusions you reached. Spell-check your manuscript before you submit it. It is easier for us (and probably you) to proofread or copyedit your work if you use a fairly large typeface and if you do not use proportional spacing. Courier New 12 is recommended.
Please include a word count on your title page. The word count should include your abstract and end matter. We prefer articles of 4,000-10,000 words, although we may occasionally publish longer or shorter works. In Microsoft Word, you can get a word count by clicking on "Tools" and then "Word Count." Be sure to include end matter (click on the box that says "Include footnotes and endnotes").
We will review manuscripts in any standard format (i.e., MLA, Chicago/Turabian, or APA), but for publication we require MLA format. For full information please consult the MLA Handbook, 6th Edition. Some examples are listed below:
REFERENCES
JOURNAL: Mann, Susan. "Myths of Asian Womanhood." Journal of Asian Studies 59 (2000): 835-62.
BOOK: Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.
ED BOOK: Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.
CONFERENCE Hualde, Jose Ignacio. "Patterns of Correspondence in the Adaptation of Spanish Borrowings in Basque." Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12-15, 1999: General Session and Parasession on Loan Word Phenomena. Ed. Steve S. Chang, Lily Liaw, and Josef Ruppenhofer. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Soc., 2000. 348-58.
NEWSPAPER Jeromack, Paul. "This Once, a David of the Art World Does Goliath a Favor." New York Times 13 July 2002, late ed.: B7+.
ELECTRONIC Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Poetical Works. 1884. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. 2002. 5 May 2002.
DISSERTATION Boyle, Anthony T. "The Epistemological Evolution of Renaissance Utopian Literature, 1516-1657." Diss. New York U, 1983.
For a more detailed guide please click here.
The rules to follow are published in: Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 2nd ed. (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1998), pages 149-254. For an example, consult the following:
Joe Gow, "Political Themes in Popular Music Videos: MTV's 'Top 200, Ever,'" Popular Music and Society 18.4 (1994): 77-89.
Note that the list of Works Cited must include authors' first names. Every written source you cite must be included in the list of Works Cited. This includes newspaper and magazine articles, and for these you must include authors and page numbers. For anonymous works and government publications, follow MLA's instructions on pages 168, 177-79, and 192. For matters not covered in the MLA book, please refer to the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
For nonprint sources such as films, sound recordings, and music videos, most works can be sufficiently cited in the text and should not require end matter. Include the date. For films, include country and director if they are important. For sound recordings, include the recording artist and , if possible, he format, label, and catalog number. You may, if you wish, include end matter if you think it would be helpful (discography, filmography, songography, videography, etc.).
For websites, cite by author if possible and include a bibliography entry with the complete URL and the date you used the site. Please be sure that the reader can tell, somehow, what the site is (or whose). In some cases it may be more elegant to provide the URL in the text and not include a bibliography entry.
Use quotation marks for the titles of articles and songs. Use underlining or italics for the titles of books, plays, periodicals, TV series, videotapes, music videos, films, and record albums (including CDs). Use lower case for articles (a, an, the) and short prepositions within and before band names and song and album titles, for example:
Mott the Hoople (not Mott The Hoople) the Rolling Stones (not The Rolling Stones) Between the Buttons (not Between The Buttons) "Eight Days a Week" (not "Eight Days A Week")
Use:
rock and roll (not rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, or rock & roll)
Use United States spelling and punctuation. These differ in some respects from those used in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and elsewhere. For example:
color (not colour) neighbor (not neighbour) center (not centre) defense (not defence) program (not programme) connection (not connexion) recognize (not recognise) "California Girls" (not 'California Girls')
Note that we use double quotation marks for titles and quotations, rather than the single mark (apostrophe). In addition, in United States style, commas and periods go inside quotation marks, for example:
"Drive," he said. (Not 'Drive', he said.)
Do not set off quotations unless they are four lines or longer. Do use a comma before the last item in a series.
Use disc, not disk.
On matters of spelling and hyphenation, please refer to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (or to the abridged version, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary).
Copyright Issues:
Quotation of copyrighted song lyrics is often a problem. Usually you may quote up to four lines per song without permission from the copyright holder but it is best to check this with the copyright holder. If you wish to quote more than four lines, we need written permission from the copyright holder. Usually the copyright holder will want to know about the journal, so don't talk to the copyright holder until after we have accepted your paper. (The main thing the copyright holder will want to know is our circulation. Check with Routledge for the latest information on that.)
Sometimes it is not immediately obvious who the copyright holder is. If the song has been recorded, the record company may be able to help you with this. Other good sources of information are BMI and ASCAP. It is often best to make your initial contact with the copyright holder by telephone rather than letter. The company will then let you know whether they need something in writing from you. Please send in two photocopies of your written permission and keep the original for yourself.
While this paragraph is concerned specifically with song lyrics, the same rules would apply to sheet music and the like.
If your study includes photographs, drawings, maps, or other artwork, we will need camera-ready materials after your paper is accepted for publication. Photos should be black-and-white glossy. Every piece of artwork should be labelled and should be referenced in the text. We will return your artwork after the article has been published. If the artwork is copyrighted, we will need written permission from the copyright holder to reprint the material. In addition, please be careful when quoting from original interviews. As a precaution, you may wish to get written, signed permission from the interviewee to use his or her words in your publication. Routledge may require you to provide such documentation, especially if the quoted material is lengthy or potentially controversial.
We require a diskette once we have accepted an article. We can handle almost any word-processing program (if your manuscript needs extensive copyediting and I need to do it on your diskette, I will need it in Microsoft Word). If you have artwork, it may be possible to scan it onto your diskette for publication (please check with Routledge first to ascertain whether they have the right software). We will return your diskette after the article is published. The normal delay before an article is published is about a year from the date I send your manuscript and diskette to the publisher.
Submitting an Article:
To submit an article, send a cover letter and four hard copies to:
Gary Burns, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL 60115, USA. Queries are welcome. Telephone (815-753-7108) Fax (815-753-7109 or 815-753-5930) E-mail: gburns@niu.edu. If the work you are submitting has been published elsewhere or is in press or under review elsewhere, you must so state in your cover letter. In most cases we will not be interested in reviewing or publishing such work. In addition, it is our policy that while we are reviewing your work, you may not submit it elsewhere. After we publish the work, you may not have it reprinted elsewhere without permission from Routledge. Such permission is routinely granted in most cases. Like most academic journals, we do not pay authors.
Free article access: Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink?when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
We do not return review copies of manuscripts (normally we use two copies for that purpose). If you would like your other two copies returned, please provide a self-addressed, stamped manila envelope, with sufficient postage affixed.
Other types of Article accepted:
In addition to articles, we publish reviews and discographies. If you would like to submit work of that sort, please contact the appropriate department editor.
Book Review Editor: Timothy E. Scheurer, English and Humanities, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth OH 45662, USA, e-mail tscheurer@shawnee.edu
Audio Review Editor: George H. Lewis, Sociology and Anthropology, University of the Pacific, Stockton CA 95211, USA, telephone 209-946-2925, fax 209-946-2318, e-mail glewis@uop.edu
Film, Video, and Software Review Editor: Steve Waksman, Music, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063.
Discography Editor: George M. Plasketes, Communication, Auburn University, Auburn University AL 36849-5211, USA, telephone 334-844-2727 fax 334-844-4665, e-mail plaskgm@mail.auburn.edu
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