Guidelines for Authors

Submitting an Article to Regent Online Journal of Communication (ROJC)

Authors submitting papers for publication in ROJC warrant that their papers are not currently under consideration by any other publication and that the material contained within the work is not subject to any other copyright, unless consents as required are obtained. Authors agree, in any other publication of the work, to credit the prior publication of the work in ROJC.

General Guidelines:

Manuscripts should be submitted in English.

Articles should be 1000 lines or less, including notes and references.

Papers may be submitted following either APA or MLA guidelines, with the following formatting exceptions.

Formatting:

Single space most text.

Insert blank lines between paragraphs, between heading and text, and between reference notes.

Do not hyphenate words across lines. Hyphens may be used in words that normally contain them.

Do not underline. Instead, use an underscore character at the beginning and at the end of emphasized text, as in: _Do not underline_.

Use italic characters to identify titles within the text, as in: Book Title

Do not use bold or superscript characters.

Set the left margin at column 1, the right margins set at column 60, and paragraph indentations set at column 6.

Do not justify the right margin.

Abstract:

Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract (50-100 words) preceding the text of the manuscript.

References and Notes:

All references and notes should appear at the end of the manuscript.

Endnote numbers within the text and in the list of notes should appear inside square brackets (e.g., [1]).

Insert blank lines between items in lists of notes and references.

Do not underline titles or volume numbers in a reference.

All contributions to the Regent Online Journal of Communication are submitted by electronic mail attached document in RTF (Rich Text Format) source format. Most word processors have the ability to save files in RTF format. If you encounter problems, please contact your computer resource person or the managing editor of ROJC. If your contribution is accepted, the editor will work with you to prepare the document for delivery over our WWW site.
To submit an article for consideration by the editors, choose a short name for your contribution and prepare the following files.

name.doc; a plain ASCII file containing your name, as many ways of reaching you as possible (mail, e-mail, telephone, fax), the name of the other file that you are submitting, and any special message that you would like to provide for the editors ;
name.rtf; an RTF source file containing the text of the article, formatted with the standard article style.
If you have drawings, artwork, or graphics that cannot be represented conveniently in RTF, also prepare a PostScript file for each such drawing: name.eps, an encapsulated PostScript file of the graphic.

Submit your article by electronic mail to:
ROJCeditor@beacon.regent.edu
Be sure to use the file name as the subject line of the e-mail message.

Your contributed article will be assigned to a contact editor, who will use anonymous referees to help review it. The review process normally requires 6 weeks. After the review, the editors may decide to accept the article for publication, decline it, or ask for revisions. When revisions are required by the editors and referees, you should submit a complete revised version of your article, along with comments on how your revisions address the concerns of the editors and referees.

If your article is accepted for publication, it will be forwarded immediately to the copy editors, who will correct stylistic problems and edit your RTF source into a document display form suitable for WWW distribution. Copy editing is not intended to introduce substantive changes in your article. However, because the boundary between format and substance is not always simple, the copy editors will need to communicate with you to ask questions and to gain your approval of the final version. Please address all replies directly to the copy editors. If you wish to propose any revisions during copy editing, please describe the appropriate changes to the copy editors, instead of submitting fresh versions of the complete article. Copy editing requires 10 working days. In order to maintain this schedule, you need to respond to queries from the copy editor within 3 working days.