Information for Authors
Please see the online submission instructions.
Crossref Funding Data Registry
In order to meet your funding requirements authors are required to name their funding sources, or state if there are none, during the submission process. For further information on this process or to find out more about CHORUS, visit the CHORUS initiative.
Please note: when submitting papers to Screen, authors should include with submitted material a brief biographical note, including institutional affiliation, and a 250-word abstract.
Published articles are usually around 8-10,000 words, excluding footnotes.
Important: Screen's editorial board does not offer pre-submission guidance, to allow editors to participate in the blind peer review of manuscripts. If you have queries before or during the submission process, please contact the editorial office. Do not contact individual Screen editors before, or during, the submission and peer review process. The only exception involves submissions to our reports and debates section, when initial enquiries may be sent to Professor Joshua Yumibe.
Submission of a manuscript is taken by the Editors to imply that the paper represents original work not previously published, in print or online, and not under consideration for publication, elsewhere; and if accepted for publication that it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the Editors and Publisher. It is also assumed that the author will have obtained the necessary permissions to include in the paper copyright material such as illustrations, extended quotations, etc.
Screen does not accept unsolicited book reviews or conference reports.
Issues
Authors who have material published in Screen will receive one free copy of the journal issue free of charge. These will be sent to corresponding authors by the Editorial Office. Republication in an anthology or collection of an author's own work is freely permissible, with due credit to Screen. Republication otherwise requires the permission of Screen, the Publisher and the author.
All corresponding authors will be provided with a free access link to their article upon publication. The link will be sent via email to the article’s corresponding author who is free to share the link with any co-authors. Please see OUP’s Author Self-Archiving policy for more information regarding how this link may be publicly shared depending on the type of license under which the article has published.
All authors also have the option to purchase an additional 10 print copies of the issue in which they publish at a 50% discount. Orders should be placed through this order form. Orders must be made within 12 months of the online publication date.
Flexible Colour Option
Screen operates a Flexible Colour Option for all articles. All figures submitted to the journal in colour will be published in colour online at no cost (unless the author specifically requests that their figures be in black and white online). Authors may choose to also publish their figures in colour in the print journal for £350 per page; you will be asked to approve this cost in an e-mail when your proof is sent out. Colour figures must have a resolution of at least 300 dots per inch at their final size.
Notes and References
Notes and references, which should be kept to a minimum, should be on an automatic numbering system where possible, and appear at the end of the article, not at the foot of individual pages.
Style for citations of written sources is as follows:
- Christian Metz, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier, trans. Celia Britton. Annwyl Williams, Ben Brewster and Alfred Guzzetti (London: Macmillan, 1982).
- Ginette Vincendeau, 'Melodramatic realism: on some French women's films in the 1930s', Screen, vol. 30, no. 3 (1989), pp. 51-65.
- Monika Treut, 'Female misbehaviour', in Laura Pietrapaolo and Ada Testaferri (eds), Feminisms in the Cinema (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 106-21.
References to films in both notes and main text should include full title with initial capitalisation according to accepted style of the language concerned. Titles should be italicised, and in the case of non-English language films original release title should precede US and/or British release title, followed by director and release date in round brackets:
A bout de souffle/Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Where such information is relevant to the argument and does not appear elsewhere in the text, details of production company and/or country of origin may also be included:
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, Warner Bros, US, 1945).
References to television programmes should be dated from the year of first transmission, and, in the case of long-running serials, the duration of the run should be indicated. Details of production company, transmitting channel, country, may be supplied where they are relevant to the argument:
Coronation Street (Granada, 1961- )
Where writers or producers are credited their role should be indicated:
Where the Difference Begins (w. David Mercer, BBC, 1961).
Figure accessibility and alt text
Incorporating alt text (alternative text) when submitting your paper helps to foster inclusivity and accessibility. Good alt text ensures that individuals with visual impairments or those using screen readers can comprehend the content and context of your figures. The aim of alt text is to provide concise and informative descriptions of your figure so that all readers have access to the same level of information and understanding, and that all can engage with and benefit from the visual elements integral to scholarly content. Including alt text demonstrates a commitment to accessibility and enhances the overall impact and reach of your work.
Alt text is applicable to all images, figures, illustrations, and photographs.
Alt text is only accessible via e-reader and so it won’t appear as part of the typeset article.
Detailed guidance on how to draft and submit alt text.
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, Screen strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.
Data Citation
Screen supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:
- [dataset]* Authors, Year, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier
*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.
Preprint policy
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
Licence to Publish
It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Screen. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, you may however reuse your material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the Publisher.
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.
Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ('OUP') may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
Open Access:
Screen authors have the option to publish their paper under the open access initiative; whereby, for a charge, their paper will be made freely available online immediately upon publication.
After your manuscript is accepted the corresponding author will be required to accept a mandatory licence to publish agreement. As part of the licensing process you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay for Open Access. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.
Open access articles are published under Creative Commons licences. All other authors publishing in Screen can use the following Creative Commons licences for their articles:
- Creative Commons licence (CC BY)
- Creative Commons Non-Commercial licence (CC BY-NC)
- Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives licence (CC BY-NC-ND)
Visit the OUP licensing website to find out more about Creative Commons licences
You can pay Open Access charges using our Author Portal.
Screen offers the option of publishing under either a standard licence or an open access licence. Please note that some funders require open access publication as a condition of funding. If you are unsure whether you are required to publish open access, please do clarify any such requirements with your funder or institution.
Should you wish to publish your article open access, you should select your choice of open access licence in our online system after your article has been accepted for publication. You will need to pay an open access charge to publish under an open access licence.
Details of the open access licences and open access charges.
OUP has a growing number of Read and Publish agreements with institutions and consortia which provide funding for open access publishing. This means authors from participating institutions can publish open access, and the institution may pay the charge. Find out if your institution is participating.
Please note that charges are in addition to any colour/page charges that may apply.
AUTHORS PLEASE NOTE: for information on film and TV image permissions please follow this link.
Language Editing
Language editing, if your first language is not English, to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers is optional. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. Further information on this service. Several specialist language editing companies offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Free Link to Online Article
On publication of your article, you will receive a URL, giving you access to the published article, and information on use of this link.
