Instructions for Authors

Instructions for authors

Thank you for submitting to the Florida Communication Journal. Please follow these instructions carefully to ensure a smooth peer review, production, and publication process.

About the Journal

The Florida Communication Journal (FCJ) is a professional, double-blind refereed publication of the Florida Communication Association that accepts manuscripts for the Fall and Spring issues and is indexed by EBSCO. FCJ accepts original research and pedagogical scholarship that advance our understanding of communication issues and phenomenon or communication’s role in teaching and learning. While submissions authored by Floridians and on Florida-related topics are encouraged, we welcome manuscripts on all communication topics and from all regions, including international submissions; however, this journal only publishes manuscripts in English. The Florida Communication Journal is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous experts.

Preparing Your Paper

Submission Guidelines

We publish communication research and pedagogical essays from diverse disciplines, approaches, and methodologies, but please adhere to the following:

• Ethics and Inclusivity: Authors must uphold high standards of ethics and inclusivity.
• Acceptance Rate: Approximately 40% (as of 2024).
• File Format: Submit Word documents (no PDFs).
• Length: Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words, including abstract, main text, references, notes, tables, figures, and appendices.
• Cover Page: Includes the title; the name, title, and affiliation for all authors; contact information for corresponding author; 100–200-word abstract; 3-7 keywords
• Formatting: Use double-spacing, one-inch margins, and the latest APA style manual.
• Structure: Manuscripts should be compiled in line with the Original Research Article Suggested Format or the Pedagogical Article Suggested Format guidelines provided separately.

See the following guidelines specific to Research Articles and Pedagogical Articles.

Checklist: What to Include

1. Author details. Provide all authors’ full names, affiliations, and titles on the cover page. One author must be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any author moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote.
2. Should contain an unstructured abstract of about 150 words.
3. Funding details.Please supply all details required by your funding bodies as follows:
   For single agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
   For multiple agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
4. Disclosure statement.This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare.
5. Figures must be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size) and in one of the preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files for figures drawn in Word.
6. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

Queries

If you have any queries, please contact the journal editor at dpainter@rollins.edu