Guide for submitting articles in New Media Studies journal

In order to submit an article to the New Media Studies journal follow the below procedure:

1. Select the registration option from the system login page.
2. Complete the requested information such as name, surname, etc. (stared fields are necessary.)
3. Saving the data.
4. Log in to the system with the username and password sent to the author’s email.

Copyright and Permissions

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Respected authors are required to:

1. Prepare 2 separate files according to the structure guideline which is available below, these files’ characteristics are:
1. The authors’ profile file, this file is according to the structure placed on this page along with the authors’ full profile and information.
2. The main file is according to the structure guideline without mentioning the authors' names.
2. Download the commitment letter and conflict of interest form (available in Persian and English) available below and after filling it out, sign and scan it and submit it along with the article files.

Articles sent by students, professors, and research faculty members of universities and research institutions should be sent by their organizational or academic email.

It is necessary to mention any financial support from organizations, etc.

Download the conflict of interest file in Word format

Download the commitment of compliance file in Word format

Download the article structure format file in Word format

Acceptable articles

Publications of Allameh Tabataba’I University publish articles in various fields of humanities studies. All these articles are scientific, research-based, and of high quality. All qualitative and quantitative research are accepted, but it’s worth mentioning that the articles must be creative and innovative and contribute to the advancement of science in their specific field.

The way of writing an article

Considering the nature of the specialized journals of the university and their scientific degree, the emphasis of the content of this section is on the way of organizing and writing research articles. However, other types of articles may be accepted and published at the discretion of each journal’s editorial board. In addition to research articles, it is possible to publish other types of articles such as review articles, theoretical articles, letters to the editor, etc. And this possibility is available for other types of magazines (review paper and specialized) on a wider level.

All types of articles have common and different features. These features are related to their content and structure. In this section, although due to the importance of research articles compared to other articles, the content and structure of research articles are described, the common feature of other articles are also discussed. In most of the sources that describe and explain the types of articles, as in the approach of the present text, the emphasis is always on research articles. Before submitting the article to the journals of Allameh Tabataba’I University, it is recommended to consider the following points in writing and editing the article:

Article structure

Must be following the guideline specifically discussed in the article structure’s file, available above.

Content of the article

The content of the article must be related to the subject of the magazine.

The bulk of the articles in each issue of a journal is devoted to research articles that are reports of specific research.

The articles must not have been sent or published before in any domestic or foreign publication. It should be noted that after submitting an article to the journal, the authors should refrain from sending it to another journal until the status of their article is fully determined, and during this time, they should be informed about the status of the submitted article through the electronic system of the journal or by contacting the internal manager of the journal.

Title

The first page of every article is the title page. On the first page, the title of the article, the name of the author(s), and their organizational affiliation, abstract, and keywords should be present. The title of the article should be accurate, and as short and interesting as possible to make the reader interested in reading the article. It also shows the main idea of the article, and briefly states the variables, the problem, and the relationship between them. The length of the title should be between 10 to 15 words (Hassanzadeh, 2012). The title should not be too short or too long. If the title is too short, it will confuse the reader and create ambiguity, and if the title is too long it will distract the reader.

It is desirable to avoid using extra words in the title of the article. For instance, using words such as “studies about”, other than meta-analysis, is not allowed. It is recommended to include the variable or dependent variables as a function of the independent variable or variables in the title. If the title of the article is extracted from the thesis or research project, the title of the article doesn't need to be completely similar to the title of the thesis or research project (Hassanzadeh, 2012).

Author(s) and affiliated organization(s)

After the title, the name of the author(s) is written and their organizational affiliation is stated. It is desirable to include the e-mail address of the author(s) in the form of footnotes (especially for the corresponding author) so that audience can contact them. If the author is not affiliated with a particular organization, his/her educational qualification should be included.

The order of writing the names of the author(s) depends on their cooperation and is an agreement between the author(s) of the article. If the amount of activity of all creators is the same, their names can be written in alphabetical order. You should avoid writing titles like the doctor, professor, engineer, etc.

Abstract

There are different types of abstracts. Each type of abstract is suitable for certain types of articles. For research articles and other types of articles such as reports, a full-length abstract is used. But the suitable abstract for other types of articles does not consider specific research as the guiding abstract. For theoretical (conceptual) articles, a full-length abstract is also recommended, in the following, the three mentioned abstracts are described:

Full-length abstract

This type of abstract is prepared for research articles. Its content includes purpose, methodology, findings, innovation (value), and conclusion, respectively. In the article structure file, the mentioned items are presented separately. Its length is between 150 to 250 words. When this abstract is prepared for theses and dissertations, it can be up to 500 words. It is recommended to write each type of abstract in one paragraph. The content of the full-length abstract should comprehensive enough that makes the full text of the article, trivial. Its structure is the target, methodology, findings, innovation (value), and conclusion.

Guiding abstract

It is prepared for review articles or other articles other than research articles. This abstract is a representation of the most important topics raised in the article and is not a summary of the topics themselves, it only shows the necessity of reading the text of the article and does not make the reader unnecessary to read the text. Its length is between 75 to 150 words. Its structure is scope, the logic (argument) used, conclusion.

Full-length-guiding abstract

A combination of the previous two abstracts is especially suitable for theoretical (conceptual) articles. Its length is similar to the length of the guiding abstract.

Extended abstract

There is another type of abstract that is very suitable for indexing in citation databases such as Scopus or Thomson Reuters. The preparation and editing of this type of abstract are recommended for all specialized journals of the university. Regarding the structure and content of the extended abstract, refer to the fifth attachment of the article structure file.

Introduction

The content of the introduction based on the latest guidelines and international standards includes introductory explanations, a statement of the problem, the main goal, questions or hypotheses, and a background review.

All these items should be put together like pieces of a puzzle so that after finishing this section, the reader will have a general picture of all the information used in this article.

Literature review

 If it’s necessary to review and present the background in a separate section, and it’s not considered appropriate to review the background in the introduction due to its brevity, it is possible to review the background in an independent section after the introduction. In this first part, the introductory material about the research topic is stated, and then the research background is reviewed. Then a logical conclusion is drawn from the background review, and the existing research gap(s) are indicated. Obviously, the best review method is the analytical or analytical-critical method, in which the records are grouped based on similarities in approach, regardless of the time and place of their implementation, and the opinion and viewpoint of the researcher(s) regarding them are expressed.

Methodology

This section includes the design, method, or approach of the research (with a detailed description of the general method and the specific method of conducting the research), the research community, the data collection tool, and the data analysis method. In the first stage, the researcher must explain the research method and the research plan so the reader got a clear picture of what has happened during the research. Therefore, it is necessary to provide detailed and clear explanations of the process, such as the method of applying the independent variable, defining the variables, sampling method, assigning people to the experimental and control groups, how to record the reaction of the samples to the independent variable, how to record and measure the dependent variable, and so on…

The researcher should specify the intended community so that the reader of the research knows which people this research has studied. Then he should specify the subjects or participants in the research, who actually determined the research sample. Of course, in the case of studies, the method of selecting the sample and the type of subject is different from the samples of other research.

In the next step, the researcher determines the means and tools of the research (data collection). In this section, it is necessary to pay attention to this point, if the means and tools used in the scientific community of the audience are known, there is no need to give a detailed and complete explanation, and only mention the name of the test or the research tool along with a brief explanation about the reliability and the validity of the tool is sufficient. But if the research tool is designed by the researcher himself, a full explanation of how to evaluate the reliability and validity of the tool is required. Then, the method of data analysis should be described, and the statistical steps taken should be mentioned.

Data analysis

The analysis and expression of the collected data in statistical (descriptive and inferential), qualitative, and mixed formats along with the limited interpretation of the data is done in this section. It should be noted that to explain and represent the collected data, it is sufficient to use one of the graphs, figure, and table tools. In cases where the research has a question, the answer to the question should be explained clearly and unambiguously. If there is a hypothesis in the research, a detailed description of the tests should be done and the rejected or confirmed hypotheses should be specified.

Discussion and conclusion

The main value of research lies in this section. Because the research findings are determined and the researcher’s final understanding of the research is expressed. In general, this section, the detailed interpretation of the data and the expression of the researcher’s point of view regarding the findings, the comparison of the research findings with the findings of previous research, and showing the position of the research among similar researchers, the brief statement of the limitations that the research has faced while conducting, and presenting the research proposal(s) deduced from the research findings.

Research design

in some research (mostly in experimental research) it is necessary to express the conceptual design of the research in detail before writing the findings. The purpose of expressing the conceptual design of the research is to investigate how the independent variables affect the dependent variable. Therefore, at this stage, it should be explained how to control disturbing variables, and how to remove their effect on the dependent variable and the independent variable.

Having several tests in one article

If it is intended to present and reproduce the findings of several researches in one article, an effort should be made to clearly mention the foundation, logic, and methodology of the research for the reader. If necessary, each research can be described separately and briefly, such as “Experiment 1”, “Experiment 2” and others. It also provided a description of the integration of the findings. “Methodology” and “Findings” sections should be included under the title of each research.

Meta-analysis

A lot has been said about meta-analysis in various sources, and it is sufficient to mention only a few points here. If the number of articles in the meta-analysis was limited (for example, less than 50 titles), the bibliographic information of the articles should be listed in the reference list and distinguished from other sources by an asterisk. Otherwise, the bibliographic information of the articles should be arranged in a separate list, and made available as a separate file but linked with the archived article.

References

Should be following article structure file guidelines.

The scientific council of the journal invites all professors and researchers to send their scientific and research articles to the journal’s office in compliance with the following criteria:

1. the articles that are sent for publication must be the product of the author’s studies and research and include new scientific achievements.
2. Submitted articles should not have been previously published in a journal or submitted to another journal at the same time.
3. The article should be sent through the journal system of Allameh Tabataba’I University to the email address journals@atu.ac.ir
4. The author is responsible for the correctness of the contents of the article and the list of references.
5. The authors are responsible for the view and opinions presented in the articles, and their publication does not mean approval of the content.
6. The journal is free to edit and summarize the received articles.
7. If using the cooperation of organizations and legal persons, it is recommended to mention gratitude at the end of the article.