Authors

Publication Process

There are no Author Processing Fees (APC). The publication is fully open access, and no APC are applied, either to authors or readers, at anytime.

Initial assessment: All submitted manuscripts are first evaluated by the Editors. Manuscripts may be rejected or returned to the author at this stage if they fall outside the journal’s scope, or if the structure or content is considered to lack sufficient quality. Papers should be submitted electronically according to editorial guidelines (see Template), thus incorrectly formatted papers will be rejected.

Double-blind review: Suitable manuscripts are submitted to a double-blind peer review process. On average, each manuscript is reviewed by three independent reviewers.

Selection of reviewers: Reviewers are selected from the Editorial Board as well as from an extended international network of experts, depending on the specificity of the article.

Decisions and revisions: Based on the reviewers’ reports, manuscripts may be accepted, rejected, or returned to the authors for revision (which may occur more than once). Authors are usually notified of the decision within one to two months.

Editing and production: Once accepted, manuscripts are copyedited and formatted according to JDMI’s style. The final version is sent to the author for approval before publication. The journal publishes two regular issues per year, with the possibility of additional special issues. Within each issue, articles are made available online on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready, following a continuous publication model.

 

Articles

Authors are invited to submit scholarly papers, under the stated aims and scope of the Journal of Digital Media and Interaction (JDMI).

The publishing language for the Journal is: English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.

Articles should be anonymized for double-blind peer review.

Articles must follow APA Reference Style, and it is mandatory to use a reference management software (e.g.: Mendeley) to insert automated references

Articles should follow the Template Guidelines, and should be between 4000 and 7000 words.

 

Reviews

JDMI also accepts reviews of books/films/games/apps of interest within the scope of the Journal of Digital Media and Interaction (JDMI).

Reviews should be between 1000 and 2500 words. 

 

Submitting Manuscripts Electronically

To submit a manuscript, authors must register on the journal submission system (make sure you check the "Author" role) and follow the submission process, by clicking the "New submission" link on the user Home:

  • Step 1: Select the journal section (Articles or Reviews) and verify the submission checklist.

  • Step 2: Upload the main file (Word document).

  • Step 3: Enter the submission metadata in English (author names, affiliation, abstract, keywords). And if not written in English, enter again the metadata choosing your language to have access to the metadata in your language (Portuguese, French or Spanish)

  • Step 4: Upload supplementary files. In this step you should provide a zip file with the image files used in the paper.

  • Step 5: Confirm the submission.

 

 

For questions regarding the submission process use the email address: deca-jdmi@ua.pt