Submission Guidelines

Platform is an open-access, fully refereed, graduate journal. Platform accepts submissions from graduate students and early career academics. Submissions are accepted for general or theme issues, as well as special issues from the annual conference of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA), https://anzca.org. Platform accepts book reviews of academic monographs and edited collections for general issues.

All articles considered for the main issues of the journal, as well as any special issues, will be sent for double-blind peer review by experts in their relevant field. Book reviews will be considered for publication by the Platform editors but not sent for peer review.

Note: All manuscripts submitted to Platform must be original work and not under consideration by any other publication.

Submission process

  1. Authors submit an article, ensuring that it closely follows the ‘Guidelines for Submission’ below and is written in house style.
  2. The editorial team reads the article and decides whether or not it is suitable for the journal. They then inform the author that the article will be considered for the upcoming issue and sent for peer review, or that it is not suitable for the journal.
  3. The peer review coordinator contacts two suitable referees from our list of people who have agreed to act as peer reviewers to see if they are willing to review the article in the allocated time (usually 4-6 weeks).
  4. The article is sent to each referee (with all references to the author removed from the document) to be independently assessed for its theoretical soundness, methodological rigour, quality of writing, and relevance to the field of media and communications.
  5. Authors are notified if their papers have been accepted, accepted with amendments, or declined. If the article is accepted, the author is sent a copy of the reviewers’ comments and (if necessary) asked to resubmit the article with any amendments as requested by the editor on the reviewers’ advice.
  6. Once the revised article is returned it will be edited by the Platform editorial team in negotiation with the author until it is ready for publication.
  7. The final articles will be reviewed by the editorial and advisory boards before publication.

Note: After examining a final copy of their paper, authors must sign a licence agreement stating that they grant publishing rights to the University of Melbourne as the publisher of Platform and inform the editors of which creative commons licence they wish to use (see Copyright section).

Read the submission guidelines and style page for further detail