Guidelines

(All submissions must also adhere fully to our House Style)

Articles, reviews, reports and interviews submitted to Alphaville must in all cases be rigorously original and previously unpublished. It is a strict requirement of the Alphaville Editorial Board that all manuscripts submitted to Alphaville have not, under any circumstances, been either published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. Alphaville reserves the right to take all appropriate measures in cases where multiple publication or submission is discovered. The Editorial Board may consult with the other journal to which the manuscript was submitted, may return the manuscript without review, or may reject it without regard to peer reviewer recommendations and may decide not to consider any further submissions from the author.

 

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Article Guidelines

Alphaville accepts articles for consideration through both an open call system and through special, themed issues. Articles should be approximately 6,000 words in length (minimum 5,500 words), including all Notes and Works Cited.

Articles submitted to Alphaville must be original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.

Articles should follow MLA style (see the House Style section of this website); should be double-spaced and typed in Times New Roman size 12; and should contain page numbers. All titles should appear at the beginning of the document (left aligned), in bold type, font size 12.

The name of the author, or any indication of the author’s identity, should not appear on the article document.

Articles should be sent as a Word document attachment (no RTFs or PDFs).

Information Document

With each article submission, please send a separate Word document containing the following information:
- Author’s name
- Article title
- Author’s affiliation
- Author’s email address
- Article abstract (max. 200 words)
- Up to five keywords for the article
- A short biographical note (max. 100 words)

Article Submissions

If you are submitting to the journal’s open call, please use the subject heading “Article Submission: Open Call” on the email. The email address for all open call submissions is as follows: alphavillejournal@gmail.com

Each special issue will have its own email address (to be advertised on the respective issue’s Call for Papers). For example, the email address for Issue 3 is as follows: Issue3.Alphaville@gmail.com

With each submission, both Word document attachments (your article and the Information Document) should be sent in one email.

 

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Review, Report and Interview Guidelines

Alphaville accepts relevant book reviews (of books published or reprinted within the last three years, from the time of first contact), conference reports (of events that took place within the last six months), film festival reports (of festivals that took place within the last six months), and interviews (that took place within the last six months) for consideration. While this may from time to time be advertised via a Call for Papers, the reviews/reports section of Alphaville operates on an open call system. See also the Reviews section of this website for a list of books currently available for review.

All reviews and reports should be a minimum of 1,500 words and a maximum of 2,500 words. Interviews can be submitted in print, video and audio form; there is no word count limit for interviews sent in print form; video and audio interviews should be submitted as .mov files and mp3 files, respectively. Each review/report/interview should engage with its subject in an erudite manner and from an informed perspective.

Reviews/reports/interviews submitted to Alphaville must be original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.

All reviews/reports/interviews should follow MLA style (see the House Style section of this website), and provide a Notes and Works Cited section, where necessary. Each piece should be double-spaced, typed in Times New Roman size 12, and should contain page numbers. All titles should appear at the beginning of the document (left aligned), in bold type, followed (underneath) by the words “A [Review/Report/Interview] by [Author’s Name, Affiliation].

Example of Titling

- Titling of Book Reviews should follow this example:

Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader, Elizabeth Ezra and Terry Rowden (eds.).
Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2006 (213 pages). ISBN: 12345678.

A Review by [Author’s Name, Affiliation]

- Titling of Conference Reports and Film Festival Reports should follow this example:

Full Name of Conference/Film Festival
Location, Dates

A Report by [Author’s Name, Affiliation]

- Titling of Interviews should be as follows:

An Interview with [Name] (enter position, where necessary)
Location (or medium of communication), Date

By [Author’s Name, Affiliation]

Review, Report and Interview Submissions

When submitting a review/report/interview, send the file as a Word document attachment (or .mov/mp3 file for video/audio interviews). Please also include a separate Word document attachment with the following information: author’s name, affiliation, and short biographical note (max. 50 words).

Both documents should be sent to us at alphavillejournal@gmail.com, with the subject heading “Book Review Submission” for book reviews, “Conference Report Submission” for conference reports, and so on.

 

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Information for Authors

Peer Reviewing Process
Each submitted article that is deemed eligible by the respective issue editors and that abides by Alphaville's guidelines and house style will be sent for double-blind peer review. The editors will then be in contact with the author regarding the reviewers’ decisions and comments. Feedback will be provided in the form of an article report and, in some instances, suggestions and corrections will be given using Word’s Track Changes feature. The Board reserves the right to reject an article at any stage in the peer-review and editing processes.
Any article received that does not observe Alphaville house style will be directly returned to the author for appropriate revision and resubmission.

Reviews, reports and interviews submitted to Alphaville do not undergo blind peer review, but will be subject to rigorous review by the Editorial Board, which can either accept or reject them on the basis of the same criteria as applied to articles. We encourage authors of reviews and reports to treat these as short articles that engage intellectually with their object. The Board may request changes; reviews, reports and interviews may be edited by the Board. The Board reserves the right to reject a review, report or interview at any stage in the editing process. Any review, report or interview received that does not observe Alphaville house style will be directly returned to the author for appropriate revision and resubmission.

Editing
During the process, from submission to publication, the editors reserve the right to make minor editorial changes to any format, punctuation, grammar, or spelling errors that may be present in a given piece. However, no major alterations will be carried out by editors.

Copyright
All authors retain the rights to their work, while granting the right of first publication to Alphaville.