Author Guidelines

Adherence:

The aim of the publication, with biannual frequency, is to present texts with theoretical discussions and/or unpublished research reports in communication, society and culture, providing graduate students, researchers and academics in general a space for debate and deepening of ideas. In this sense, Media Action accepts the contribution of authors that propose works pertinent to the focus of the journal and the Graduate Program in Communication and Society of Federal University of Parana. 

The content of works represents the viewpoint of their authors, not the official position of the journal, its editorial board or the Federal University of Parana.

The accuracy of the data published in articles is the sole responsibility of their authors.  

Types of publication:

Texts must be original, unpublished in books and academic journals, and address studies related to the dossier of the edition with open call and/or intended for continuous demand section, keeping the focus on Communication, Society and Culture.

The ARTICLES can be produced by doctors, doctoral candidates and masters; masters students only in co-authorship with doctors. And they must present:

a) opinionated/reflexive nature;

b) discussions and results come from theoretical or empirical research;

c) bibliographic review – since it is linked to the state-of-the-art that constitutes effectively an original contribution to the communication field.

The REVIEWS can be produced by doctors, masters or students from stricto sensu graduate programs (academic or professionalizing masters and doctorate). They must come from published or re-edited works in the present year or in the previous one to the publication of the ongoing edition.  

The editorial team of the journal is responsible for the INTERVIEW section, with the aim of promoting discussions and counting on the contribution of a guest who is specialist on the theme of each dossier.

Structure, formatting and submission:

Works must be sent according to the formatting model described here, under penalty of those ones in a different format not being accepted.

The texts should not contain any information that could identify them (such as authorship, co-authorship, academic and professional credits etc.). Articles and reviews will be evaluated by blind peer review, and the author himself is responsible for adding this information into the Registration Act and article submission by the journal system.

The ARTICLES must have a minimum of 30 and the maximum of 35 thousand characters (with spaces), including titles, abstracts and references. The extent of the references of the work must not exceed two pages, except in cases that newspapers and magazines are used as corpus of analysis and these appear in the references list.

Fonts in capital letters should be restricted to the use of acronyms and references.

Highlights in bold can be used only in the title and in the inter-titles of the work.

REVIEWS must not contain abstract and keywords. After the title of the review (which should also be translated into Spanish and English, and different from the title of the work reviewed), you must include the complete reference of book, thesis or dissertation (LAST NAME, First name of author. Title. City: Publisher, year. Number of pages. ISBN). The reviews must have between three and five pages. 

The manuscripts must be presented in Word format (.doc), with up to 2 MB (in case the file size is beyond this limit, we recommend attaching images as supplementary documents).

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS should be written preferably in Portuguese. Works in Spanish and in English (and exceptionally in French) will also be accepted, published in the original versions. Top and left margins must be of 3 cm, and bottom and right margins must be of 2 cm. The body of the text should be in Times New Roman font, 12pt size, 1.5 line spacing, justified, with indentation of paragraphs (1st line) of 1.25 cm.

The texts must be submitted according to the ABNT standards (NBR 6022), with the following structure:

a) TITLE in capital and lowercase letters, bold, followed by the Spanish and English versions, in Times New Roman font, 12pt size, single-spaced;

b) ABSTRACT from 5 to 10 lines, in Times New Roman font, 12pt size, single-spaced, in Portuguese, followed by the versions in Spanish and English, accompanied by three to five keywords, only first letter in upper case (e.g. scientific communication), separated by semicolons, also translated into English and Spanish;

c) INTERTITLES (not numbered) must be preceded by a blank line;

d) FOOTNOTES must be in the font Times New Roman, 9pt size, justified, and restricted to strictly necessary comments to the development of the explanation, not to bibliography;

e) QUOTES from up to three lines should be incorporated within the text, enclosed in quotation marks and followed by the reference (author’s surname, year and pages) in parentheses, according to the NBR 10520 (ABNT). Ex.: (SILVA, 2003, p. 224-7). Quotes with more than three lines should be highlighted in the paragraph, with 4 cm indentation in the font Times New Roman, 10pt size, and separated by blank lines before and after the quote, single-spaced, without quotation marks, followed by the reference of the work in the pattern described above;

f) CHARTS, TABLES, ILLUSTRATIONS and FIGURES should appear in the body of the text, duly numbered and identified. Below each image, in the body of the work, its caption and credit shall be included, and preceded by the word “Figure”, serial numbering and colons. Ex.: Figure 3: Still Life, 1960, Giorgio Morandi (MuseoMorandi, Bologna). The use of tables should be in accordance with the same formatting (NBR 6021). The used images must contain the full credit (author and source) and the authors of the texts should be responsible for permission for reproduction, while respecting national and international copyrights (Law 9,610 and Berne Convention of the World Intellectual Property Organization). Photographs and maps, besides charts, diagrams, and complex flowcharts should be in appropriate formats for print (300 dpi with 20 cm wide);

g) complete REFERENCES should be submitted only at the end of the work, under the title “References” (only first letter in upper case) according to ABNT standard in force (NBR 6023) and standard indicated below, single-spaced and in alphabetical order.

For a book:

LAST NAME, First Name. Title. City: Publisher, year.

For more than one author:

LAST NAME, First Name; LAST NAME, First Name. Title. City: Publisher, year.

For a book chapter:

LAST NAME, First Name. Title of the chapter. In: LAST NAME, First Name (Org (s).). Title. Ed. City: Publisher, year. p. initial-final.

For an article in journal:

LAST NAME, First Name. Title of the article. Title of the journal, acronym of the institution, City, issue, year. p. initial-final.

For an article in an online journal:

LAST NAME, First Name. Title of the article. Title of the journal, acronym of the institution, number, year. Available at: <http://exemplo/arquivo.html>. Access on: 21 Feb. 2010 (example).

For a report in a newspaper:

LAST NAME, First Name. Title of the report. Name of the newspaper, City, day, month, year. Number or title of the book/section/supplement, p. initial-final.

EVALUATION AND SUBMISSION POLICY:

Every submission and monitoring of the process for the evaluation of works submitted to Media Action journal shall be made exclusively through the Electronic System of Journals (Sistema Eletrônico de Revistas – SER) of the Federal University of Paraná, in the e-mail address of the journal, in the link: <http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/acaomidiatica/index>.

It is necessary that the authors make a prior registration in the system before submitting their works. Papers submitted via email or mail will not be accepted; they will only through the electronic system.

Works which are not compliant with the requirements of publication will not be submitted to reviewers.

Each text will be reviewed by two reviewers through the blind peer system, selected according to the theme of each issue and adherence to the focus of the journal.

The evaluation system of scientific production is a process by which all scientific literature goes through before its publication. In order to be published, a scientific article goes through a careful, strict and parametric assessment procedure signed by prepared, ethical, critical and trusted reviewers. An evaluation that is called as a blind peer one is when evaluators do not have information about the authors of the articles either the authors are informed of who participated in the evaluation of their work.

The authors will be notified of the acceptance or refusal of the papers submitted during the editing process.

The authors of texts approved by the reviewers give automatically, and without any kind of burden, the right of first publication of the material submitted.

Doubts:
The questions will be addressed by the team of Media Action via email: revistaacaomidiatica@gmail.com.