Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Articles
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Copyright Notice
All articles published in UCP Journal Mass Communication (UCP-JMC) are open access and free for everyone to read, download, copy, and distribute. UCP-JMC protects the work of our researchers, defined by the License Agreement under Creative Commons Attribution License. Upon acceptance of an article, authors agree to transfer the copyright of their work to the journal and its publisher. This transfer allows the publisher to hold full rights to publish, distribute, and archive the work in all forms and media.
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- Readers and researchers are free to share and build upon the work under the CC BY license.
- The journal complies with best practices recommended by DOAJ and COPE.
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