• Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form (Word document in an email attachment) to cbaron@bgsu.edu

• Do not put your name in the body of your work or in the header/footer.

• Submissions should include an abstract of 150-175 words. 

• International submissions must follow current American English grammar, spelling, and punctuation conventions. Authors are responsible for supplying a document that conforms to the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) prior to submission. CMS guidelines can be found here:  https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

• All citations must follow Chicago Style citation rules (author-date format). Authors are responsible for converting citations to Chicago Style Author-Date formatting prior to submission. 

  • Chicago Style Author-Date formatting guidelines can be found here:   https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

• Film titles should be in italics; first mention should include director’s name and release date in parentheses if this information is not mentioned in the text. Example: Film Title (Director Name, Release Date).

• Photographs or illustrations must be either JPG files or a link to an online source. For online images, please include the URL for the site where the image originated for attribution purposes (so that we can credit the source of the image when we use it).

• For layout reasons, images should be used sparingly and limited to just those absolutely necessary to show visual elements of film scenes central to the article analysis. Images for illustration purposes only are not necessary.

See our current issue for examples.