How to submit a paper

We welcome articles for consideration, whether from established or early scholars. Please help us process your article by following a few basic rules.

All articles for WPCC should be a maximum of 8,000 words long. They should be written in English following our simple Manuscript Submission Guidelines.

The journal is edited on PC-based systems using Microsoft Word for Windows for text editing, and care should be taken to ensure that electronic versions are readable by this software application.

Please send an electronic version of your manuscript to the editor, Dr Anthony Mcnicholas, or to one of the issue editors responsible for a themed issue.

Invited articles

Some articles for the journal are commissioned, and in these cases you should make sure you have clarified the deadlines and editorial procedures with the issue editor with whom you are working in order to avoid later problems.

Unsolicited articles

WPCC has a very broad range of interests, and we want to encourage work addressing any topic within the fields of communication, media, and cultural studies.

If you are uncertain whether your article falls within the range of the journal, please do contact the editor, Dr Anthony Mcnicholas, who will be happy to give advice on your work.

Because we are keen to encourage younger scholars, particularly those who are still working on their doctoral dissertations, we are happy to discuss proposals that are some way short of completion, and we are prepared to help, wherever possible, in working them up to a publishable form.

Articles will be subject to double blind peer reviewing before being accepted. In order to facilitate that process, please send three printed copies of your article, plus an electronic copy in Word, to the editor.

The editorial address is:

Dr Anthony Mcnicholas
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
University of Westminster
Harrow Campus
Watford Road
Harrow
Middlesex HA1 3TP
UK

All three printed copies should have a detachable front sheet containing title, author name(s) and contact details. There should be no way of identifying the author(s) in the body of the text or in the notes and references.

Your article will be refereed and you will be informed of the outcome as soon as possible, but please bear in mind that this is a journal that runs on limited resources.