Information For Authors

Please see author guidelines for article submissions on this website. Click on the link to the right, "Make a submission."

This international and double blind peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the fantastic in today’s entertainment media. The journal offers a forum for multiple theoretical approaches to the fantastic, including genre theory, aesthetics, world building, design and production studies, transmedia, fan studies, etc. The journal is double blind peer-reviewed and 1-3 issues will be published per year. Articles will be available online when they have been peer-reviewed and edited.

 

SUBMISSION

Submitted articles must not be under consideration or review at any other publication. Authors should ensure that all self-identifying information (including metadata) is removed from all parts of the submission except the cover page. Authors may indicate if they would like their submission to not be sent to a particular person for review if there is a concern, e.g., bias. Referees are nevertheless assigned at the editor’s discretion.

 

An article should be 5000-8000 words, Chicago style (in text), please keep notes to a minimum. Illustrations are welcome, 300 dpi at print size, .jpg. Authors are responsible for all illustration copyrights.

 

The finished article should include a 125–150 word abstract and 5–7 keywords. Articles will be double blind peer-reviewed, edited and published online as they are submitted to the journal.

 

We respond to an author within two months to acknowledge the submission of an article or an abstract. If a submitted article is sent out for peer review a response may take longer time, typically two to four months. If longer than two months an editor will inform the author that the process is taking longer time (this can be due to the process of finding suitable reviewers).

 

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR REVIEW PROCESS

The review process works as follows:

  1. Article submissions are given an initial prereview screening by one of the journal’s editors. The editor decides, based on the submissions alignment with the journal’s profile and its adherence to the submission guidelines, whether to send the submission out for peer review. If the decision is not to send the article out for review, the editor contacts the author explaining the decision.
  2. The editor assigns two blinded peer reviewers to comment on the article and make a recommendation as to whether it should be published.
  3. The editor receives the referee reports and weights their comments and recommendations.
  4. The editor contacts the author with one of the following decisions:
    1. Accepted, possibly with some minor revisions
    2. Accepted conditionally, subject revisions carried out to the satisfaction of the editor and in the time frame specified by the editor.
    3. Rejected with encouragement to revise and resubmit. Resubmissions should be made within three months of the original decision and should track and/or outline how the revisions have addressed the referee comments. The resubmission will be sent out to at least one blinded referee, and acceptance will be conditional on the suggested revisions being carried out to the satisfaction of the editor.
    4. Rejected
  5. The editor will include comments from the peer reviewers alongside the decision. The editor has the discretion over what comments are forwarded to the author. Comments specifically written for the editors are not forwarded to the author.

 

Manuscripts accepted for publication that do not conform to the style guide may be rejected or returned to the author for amendment. The editors also reserve the right to alter usage to conform to the style guide issued by the publisher. Authors cannot supply new materials or request major alterations following the copyediting stage, so please ensure that all text is final upon acceptance.