Submission guidelines

General specifications for submissions

  • Essays length: between 3,000 and 7,000 words (including footnotes). To protect anonymity, do not identify the author. In a separate document, please include: title, author’s name, abstract (250 words maximum), Keywords (4 – 9 words), short bio (200 words maximum) and contact email address.
  • Film reviews length: between 700 and 1,200 words (including footnotes).
  • Book reviews length: between 700 and 1,200 words.
  • Video-essays: MP4 or MOV. format only. Minimum resolution of 720p or 1080p. The following elements are required for video-essay submissions: Title, author name and affiliation, 4-5 keywords, a 400-750 word statement including bibliography, and a brief bio.
  • Copyright allow artist, teachers and students to reuse protected works without permission for research and study purposes, but please be aware that the video essays could be potentially be removed from your channel (linked from our website if selected) in response to the threat of copyright claims.

Specifications for style

Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these style guidelines:

Spacing

Single-spacing all texts (body text, quotations, endnotes…).

Font size
  • Times New Roman 12pt. for text body.
  • 14 points for headings.
  • 13 points for subheadings.
  • 11 points for endnotes.
Quotations
  • Do not include in bibliography references not cited in the text. 
  • Quotations will be enclosed in double quotation marks.
  • If quotations exceed three lines, they must be separated from the main text, without double quotation marks, in a smaller font size (Times New Roman 11 points) and indented from the left.
  • Found Footage Magazine uses parenthetical citations, identifying source in parentheses in the text (Autor, Year:Page), keyed to the bibliography at the end of the writing piece.
End notes
  • Endnotes must be numbered consecutively and submitted as endnotes at the bottom of the essay.
  • Endnotes should be used for material or comments that give information which a general academic reader may not know.
Use of italics

Italics used for: emphasizing specific words, when referring to foreign words and denoting titles of complete works that stand by themselves (books, periodical publications, musical compositions, plays or films).

Use of quotation marks
  • Double quotation marks used for quotation or direct speech only.
  • Single quotation marks used for book chapters, articles, and essays.
  • If quote marks are used inside another pair of quote marks, then single quotes are used as the secondary style.
Illustrations
  • The author will be responsible for obtaining permission for the use of images under copyright.
  • Do not embed images in the body text. Wherever an image is to be placed, the following should be written: FIGURE X (where X is a sequential numerical order), centered between paragraphs and leaving separating lines.
  • Low-resolution images should be sent in a separate file. Once the manuscript has been accepted, we will ask you for high-resolution images of 300 ppi.
  • For essays/articles, you can use up to 6 illustrations.
Bibliographical elements
  • Books and journal titles should be in italics.
  • Articles, essays, and book chapter’s titles should be enclosed in single quotation marks. Page numbers are required for articles in journals, essays, and book chapters.
  • The abbreviations for paging will be p. (singular) and pp. (plural).

Books

Author (Year). Title of the book. Place of publication: publisher.

Example: Wees, William C. (1993). Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films. New York: Anthology Film Archives.

Book chapter

Author (Year). ‘Title of the chapter,’ in editors Title of Book. Place of publication: publisher. Page number.

Example: Delpeut, Peter (2018). ‘Prologue. Questions of Colours: Taking sides,’ in Giovanna Fossati et al. (eds.) The Colour Fantastic. Chromatic worlds of silent cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Pp. 19-29.

Periodicals

Author (Year). ‘Title of article,’ Name of periodical, volume number, issue number, page numbers.

Example: Baudry, Jean-Louis (1975). ‘Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematic Apparatus,’ Film Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 39-47.

Websites

Internet URL must be framed by the symbols < >. It is essential to add the date the document was accessed, in brackets.

Example <http://www.foundfootagemagazine.com> (accessed on December 10, 2014).