Instructions for Authors

Global Media Journal is self-financed and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the Journal operates solely through processing charges we receive from the authors and some academic/corporate sponsors. The handling fee is required to meet its maintenance. Being an Open Access Journal, GMJ does not collect subscription charges from readers that enjoy free online access to the articles. Authors are hence required to pay a fair handling fee for processing their articles. However, there are no submission charges. Authors are required to make payment (if they are willing to withdrawn the manuscript, then the processing fee has to be paid) only after their manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Authors of accepted peer-reviewed articles have the choice to pay a fee to allow perpetual unrestricted online access to their published article to readers globally, immediately upon publication. The article processing charge for Global Media Journal is EURO 2519. The article processing charge for authors funded by Government or Research grant is EURO 3,230.  Payment must be received in full for the article to be published open access.

The basic article processing fee or manuscript handling cost is as per the price mentioned above but the other hand it may vary based on the extensive editing, colored effects, tables, complex equations, extra elongation, no. of pages of the article and based on funding, etc.

From time to time an author may wish to withdraw a manuscript after submission. Changing one's mind is an author's preogative and an author is free to withdraw an article at no charge as long as the article is withdrawn before acceptance. After an article is accepted, the processing in initiated. Hereby if an article is withdrawan after its acceptance, a mandatory amount of post-processing fee is levied on the article.

All scholarly articles should adhere to the following guidelines:

• Articles and essays must be written according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, latest edition.
• Articles should include: (a) article title, (b) author name's, (c) current position/affiliation, (d) brief biography, (e) email and mail addresses, (f) a brief abstract, (g) five to ten keywords reflecting the contents of paper, and (g) the URL for author's personal web page.
• Submissions must be in camera-ready format and include tables, graphs, charts, etc. within the text.
• Although there is no absolute limit on length, submitted papers should be confined to approximately 7000 words.
• Authors are expected to carefully proofread their work before submission.
• Articles that do not conform to the stated submission guideline will be returned to author's for revisions.
• Authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing previously published material, including charts, graphs, photos, tables, etc.
• Authors should consider including links to any references, web pages, or sites related to their work (this is a strong advantage of electronic publications).
• Manuscripts must be submitted to the Guest Editor electronically via email, CD, or HD disc in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, or text format.
• Authors are strongly urged to not use the automated footnoting feature in Word or WordPerfect as these do not import well into HTML format.  Simply type the endnotes and footnotes at the end of the article per APA guidelines (http://www.apastyle.org).
• Scholarly articles will go through a blind peer review process while other submissions (invited papers and commentaries) will be reviewed by the GMJ guest editor and managing editor prior to publication.
• Authors should not submit their articles to more than one edition of GMJ simultaneously.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.