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.- Please note that RCR has started to charge a production fee. RCR wants to keep its contents open access. Still, we need to pay some necessary technical products (e.g., monthly web space, server support, DOI numbers) and technical collaborators (e.g., copy editors, proofreaders, designers, computer specialists). Please, click the link below. Read the information to check the list of discounts and waivers before submitting the manuscript. However, if you do not qualify and the fee is expensive for you, write to us and ask for a discount or waiver before submitting the manuscript. Tell us your case! We may help you! contact@rcommunicationr.org Information: https://www.rcommunicationr.org/index.php/rcr/submit/production-charges
- Does your manuscript comply with our "Author Guidelines"? (remember that you can send a proposal to the editor before writing a manuscript. Write to: editor[at]rcommunicationr.org)
- Ensure that you have obtained the necessary permission from coauthors and copyright holders. The reproduction of any illustration, table, figure, or lengthy quotation that have been previously published requires a written permission.
- Ensure you acknowledge all the funding entities.
Copyright Notice
The philosophy of the journal is to be open and to make all articles accessible. It is our belief that open access is a must in the future of science.
Authors who publish with RCR accept a slightly modified Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
You, as author, retain the copyrights for your paper and you are invited to give the widest diffusion to your article. However, the Review of Communication Research is granted exclusivity for publication. The agreement allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and publication in this journal (i.e., citation). We do not want third parties to make a commercial use of the article, unless the authors and RCR agree to grant permission.
The journal will run an open review process as well as a traditional peer-review process.
When the manuscript is accepted for publication, it gets a doi number and is available online to facilitate early citation.
The journal posts the published articles to many public repositories for further diffusion and permanence.
You, as author, are permitted and encouraged to post your work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on your website), as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
If you have any doubts, please, contact the editor: editor@rcommunication.org
Many thanks for submitting your work to this journal!