About the Journal

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Media and Entrepreneurial Studies is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing theoretically oriented, empirical research that is at the intersection of media and entrepreneurial studies. Research topics include media uses, processes, and effects.  Reports of empirical research, theory papers, state-of-the-art reviews, replication studies, and meta-analyses that provide a major synthesis of primary research findings in a pivotal area will be considered. We encourage preregistrations and welcome the inclusion of supplementary materials, such as stimuli, measures, pre-analysis plans, deidentified data, and code as a part of new submissions. Manuscripts will be judged by the degree to which they contribute to theory and advance the body of knowledge about Media Entrepreneurship, social media and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship Education for film and media arts, independent news media firms, media and women entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, media, and social entrepreneurship.

Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two anonymous referees. 

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

Guidelines for authors

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production, and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

Open Access

You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately upon publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Peer Review and Ethics

The Editorial Team 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 expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.

Preparing Your Paper

Structure

Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials, and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Word Limits

Please include a word count for your paper.

A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 7,000 words, inclusive of:

  • Tables
  • References
  • Figure or table captions

Style Guidelines

Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.

Please use the American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.

Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.

Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text.

Papers presenting statistical analyses should include measures of variability for all measures of central tendency reported, provide effect sizes for all significant effects, and provide evidence of measurement reliability and validity.

We encourage submissions from authors in all parts of the world, though all papers are to be written in English. To ensure that problems associated with English-language usage do not interfere with reviewers’ evaluation of the substantive content of submitted manuscripts, we respectfully ask that our international authors consider seeking the advice of native English speakers in the preparation of their manuscripts.

Author Guidelines for Submission of Registered Reports at The Journal of Media and Entrepreneurial Studies:

Registered Reports differ from conventional empirical articles in that part of the review process is conducted before researchers collect and analyze data. Unlike the more conventional process where a full report of empirical research is submitted for peer review, Registered Reports can be considered as proposals for empirical research, which are evaluated on their merit prior to the data being collected. For detailed guidance on how to prepare Registered Reports submissions please read the author and reviewer guidelines here (please see REVIEWER AND AUTHOR GUIDELINES FOR REGISTERED REPORTS).

In addition to the Registered Reports author guidelines, please adhere to the following requirements when submitting your manuscript:

  • Submissions for Registered Reports should be no more than 4,000 words for Stage 1 reports and no more than 7,000 words for Stage 2, inclusive of the abstract, references, tables, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes, etc.
  • Please provide full access to all study materials at Stage 1 submission. These supplementary materials do not count against the 4,000-word limit and should be made available in the anonymized form via a public repository such as the Open Science Framework.
  • A priori power analyses need to be included for all submissions at Stage 1.
  • In case of “acceptance in principle” at Stage 1, authors are required to complete data collection and submit Stage 2 reports within six months. Extensions can be granted upon request in case of substantial reasons.

References

Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper.

Taylor & Francis Editing Services

To help you improve your manuscript and prepare it for submission, Taylor & Francis provides a range of editing services. Choose from options such as English Language Editing, which will ensure that your article is free of spelling and grammar errors, Translation, and Artwork Preparation. For more information, including pricing, visit this website.

Checklist: What to Include

  1. Author details. Please ensure all listed authors meet the authorship criteria. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
  2. Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  3. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
    For single-agency grants
    This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
    For multiple agency’s 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. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). 
  6. Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale, and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  7. Tables. 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.
  8. Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that the equations are editable.
  9. Units. Please use SI Units. (non-italicized).

Using Third-Party Material

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses the Submission Portal to manage the submission process. The Submission Portal allows you to see your submissions across Routledge's journal portfolio in one place.

Please note that The Journal of Media and Entrepreneurial Studies uses Crossref to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to The Journal of Media and Entrepreneurial Studies you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

Upon acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript.

Data Sharing Policy

Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.

Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI), and recognizes a long-term preservation plan.

At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.

Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer-reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of the data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees, or page charges for this journal. Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge. 

Copyright Options

Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. The Journal of Media and Entrepreneurial Studies offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. 

Queries

If you have any queries, please contact us.

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