darkmatter Journal

To submit to darkmatter, please go to the submission page. You will be asked you fill out an on-line form and upload your article. Submissions can be uploaded in a variety of formats (e.g. doc, rtf, html, odt, mp3, theora). If you have any queries or problems, email the General Editors directly editors@darkmatter101.org or use the Contact page.darkmatter consists of two main sections: Journal and the Commons.

The Journal comprises of content organised as: (i) Special Issues; (ii) Files (articles, essays, multi-media); Interviews; Reviews (books, films, events). In addition to written work, we welcome alternative types of content such imagery, audio, video, multimedia etc.

All Journal content undergoes an Editorial Review Procedure (see below).

(i) Special Issues
The Special Issues are a collection of commissioned themed Journal articles. A Special Issue comprises of a collection of ‘principal’ articles, and/or ‘dialogue’ pieces.

We welcome Guest Editors for Special Issues, please see the Issue Proposal page.

(ii) Files, Interviews & Reviews
These Journal sections are published on a continuous ‘rolling’ basis – no deadlines for submissions. (Word count only apply to written texts).

• Files – 1500-6000 words
• Interviews – 1500-4000 words
• Reviews (Books, Films, Events) – 1000-3000 words

The Commons section consists of more topical posts and social commentary, outside of the normal editorial review process; length: 300-2000 words.

For further details – see here.

If you would like to propose a book to review, please email: reviews@darkmatter101.org

Publishers can send books to:
Ash Sharma
darkmatter Journal
c/o School of Social Sciences
Media and Cultural Studies
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London, E16 2RD UK

darkmatter is run by the General Editors/Management Team. Each submission is read and internally reviewed by members of the editorial team. A team member is appointed as an article editor, and takes responsibility for communication with the contributor. (In the case of a Special Issue with a Guest Editor, see the Issue proposal page). For Journal content, the review procedure usually takes six to eight weeks for a submission. For publishing in the Commons section (which falls outside of a formal review), the process is within two weeks.

Unless otherwise stated, all darkmatter Journal content is published under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Unlike many journals which retain copyright and distribution over your work, darkmatter operates on the principle of open access, encouraging the free distribution – ‘copyleft’ – of culture and knowledge. An author published in darkmatter retains copyright over their own work, and is free to republish elsewhere (in original or altered form). All we expect is to indicate original attribution to the Journal by citing – linking back to – the original article’s URL. Any work published under the creative commons license may be republished for non-commercial purposes by other third parties as long as attribution to darkmatter Journal is indicated.

For citing bibliographic sources or references, the journal uses an endnoting method.
When writing a reference, in the main body of the article indicate where the endnote is to be located by using a number enclosed by curly brackets {{..}}
At the end of the article, wrap the endnote text twice with a set of square brackets with the corresponding number [[..]]endnote text here[[..]]
Some examples below:

Note the following:

• Leave no space between the article text and {{..}} and put after punctuation.
• Number each endnote in your text
• Do not use automatic endnoting or footnoting in Microsoft Word or any other word processor

The following examples, indicate the formatting of references:

• Book: Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks, (New York: Grove Press, 1967).
• Book (with page reference for a quote): Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks, (New York: Grove Press, 1967), 43.
• Subsequent mention of reference: Fanon, 100.
• Edited book: Mbye Cham, ed. Exiles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema, (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992).
• Chapter in book: Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Cinematic Representation,” in Exiles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema, ed. Mbye Cham (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1992), 220-236.
• Journal article: Robert Stam and Louise Spence, “Colonialism, Racism and Representation,” Screen 24.2 (1983): 2-20.
• Web page: Jim Zwick, Anti-Imperialism in the United States, http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fjzwick/ail98-35.html (May 1997).
• Film: Lee Tamahori, Director, Once Were Warriors, 1995.

For further info, see Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide.