Submissions

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors

The Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations welcomes high quality contributions investigating topics in the fields of mass media, communication and public relations, from theoretical, empirical and critical perspectives. The RJCPR mainly favors original and articulate research papers, but theory-focused articles, book reviews and other scientific contributions are also welcome.

All contributions are subject to a blind peer review process.  All submitted work must not have been published elsewhere or be currently under review for any other publication. All submissions (with the exception of book reviews) are initially evaluated carefully by the editors of the journal. The manuscripts passing the initial review will undergo peer-review.

Style and Paper Guidelines

General information: 

Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations (RJCPR) welcomes the following manuscript types: articles, books reviews (of books published no earlier than 2 years before the submitted review), and essays.

The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.

All authors should verify that their names have also been removed from Properties, which is found in the Microsoft Word File menu.

Please, use the online submission form available on this website (part of the PKP - OJS platform). Please note that we have stopped accepting articles sent via e-mail.

• RJCPR does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges. 
• RJCPR does not have a waiver policy.

Before submitting, please consult our Code of ethics, in the About section of the website. In preparing your manuscript, it will be useful to read all the info in the About the Journal section. See also the COPE guide for authors. 

Author details:

All authors' full names, affiliations (university and country only!), and email addresses should be included on the title page. There is no need to add postal addresses, telephone numbers or any information regarding authors’ professional status. In case of a paper co-authored by three or more people, one author shall be identified as corresponding author to whom all correspondence with the editorial team will be addressed. No changes to affiliation can be made after the paper is accepted.

All submissions must include authors' ORCID IDs. If you do not already have an ORCID ID please register here, and access the ORCID website to learn more.

Article format:

All contributions should be written in English. Please use American English spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.

Articles shall be accompanied by an abstract of max. 250 words, and up to 5 keywords.

Articles should range between 7,000 – 9,000 words (reference list included).

Book reviews should range between 1,000 - 1,500 words.

Essays should range between 1,500 - 3,000 words.

Submitted papers should include a word count.

The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining or bold.

The editorial staff of RJCPR reserves the right to edit articles and book reviews, both for content and style. All substantial changes will be referred back to the author before publication. Authors will receive page proofs for correction, which must be returned by dates determined by the publication schedule.

Tables and figures:

All tables and figures are placed within the text at the appropriate reference points, rather than at the end of the article.

All tables and figures must be numbered.

Tables should present new information rather than duplicating information already available in the text.

All figures used are in TIFF image file format at a 300 dpi resolution or higher.

Captions must be provided for all figures.

Figures should be placed IN the body of the text (NOT in separate files to the text files), in their appropriate position and they should be clearly labeled. It necessary, the editorial staff may require that the author send the figures in a separate folder.

Tables and figures should be kept to a reasonable minimum.

Style guidelines:

References:

All submitted manuscripts must follow the most recent version (APA 7^th Edition) of the APA style guide (American Psychological Association Publication Manual). For more information about APA style, visit the APA website, and the APA Style Blog. 

In-text references: References in the text should be indicated by giving the author’s name with the year of publication and pages in parentheses, e.g. (Chouliaraki, 2013, p. 7), (Chouliaraki & Stolic, 2017); or if there are more than two authors Partington et al. (2013, p. 3). If several papers from the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, (a), (b), (c), etc. should be put after the year of publication, e.g. (Chouliaraki, 2013b, pp. 5-7). If you refer to more than one work at the same time, enclose all the references within the same parentheses and separate each reference from the next by a semi-colon (Chouliaraki & Stolic, 2017, p. 12; Partington et al., 2013, p. 23).

End references: References should be listed in full alphabetical order at the end of the paper.

Citations:  Always give the full author-date citation: do not use “op. cit.”, “loc. cit.”, or “‘ibid.” When citing more than one work by the same author/editor published in the same year, please differentiate the works by using letters: Kuipers (2008a, 2008b). Page number ranges: (Chouliaraki, 2013, pp. 108–112); please do not drop digits (e.g., 108–12). Give page numbers in full: do not use “f.”, “ff.

Footnotes: Any footnotes should be converted to endnotes. However, the use of endnotes should be kept to a minimum.

Emphasis: Emphasized and foreign words should be italicized (not bold/ underline).

Quotations: Short quotations (fewer than 40 words) should run-on in the text and be enclosed in double quotation marks. Single quotation marks enclose quotations within quotations. Longer quotations should appear as a separate block and should not be enclosed in quotation marks. The citation to the source should be placed at the end of the quote following the punctuation. All quotations in languages other than English should be followed by a translation in square brackets.

Quotation marks: Please use double quotation marks “” and << >> where a “quotation is <<within>> a quotation”. Long quotations (more than one phrase) should be indented, with no quotation marks. Quotations should close after the full-stop which ends the sentence.

Foreign titles: use original titles (in transliteration for non-Latin scripts) followed by translations into English in square brackets, as in the example below. There is no need to translate names of journals, if they do not use official English names as well. 

Funding Source

Authors are requested to identify the financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s) in Acknowledgements/ Funding. Please note to provide a statement even if there is no funding for the paper.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission is original, has not been previously published, nor is it submitted for publication in another journal. No parts of the text have been generated with AI.
• The text has been formatted according to the guidelines made available at the journal’s website. In particular, the text uses a double spacing, 12-point font, italics instead of underlining (except for URLs and DOIs), and all illustrations, drawings and tables are placed in the text in the right places, not at the end.
• The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements (i.e., APA 7^th edition) specified in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in the About section of the journal.
• I have read and accept the principles of publication ethics published on the journal’s website.
• I have acquired my personal ORCID number, which I am ready to verify when prompted (this requirement concerns coauthors of the submitted articles as well). 
• When submitting articles I accept the journal’s policy of providing a double-blind, anonymous review. Hence the author's name, affiliation and email address have been removed from the text to ensure anonymity of the review.
• I have submitted a title page that includes only the manuscript title, the author list (names, affiliations, emails), and the corresponding author’s contact information. 
• I have submitted a document with the completely anonymised manuscript.
• If the submission contains drawings, illustrations, cartoons, etc. for which the copyright is held by the third party, I have approached the third party and obtained the necessary copyright. The journal publisher is not liable for any infringement of the copyright in that respect and sole liability lies with the author.