Music, Sound, and the Moving Image invites contributions from scholars across
the broadest range of disciplines, and we seek work from any disciplinary, theoretical or
methodological approach. External reviewers familiar with the area of study will consider
each submission, and in selection, preference will be given to those who challenge existing
orthodoxies, chart new areas of study, or who present original theoretical perspectives.
Contributors should provide text in English, or be able to have their texts translated.
To submit a manuscript for consideration, send an electronic copy as either Word file or PDF to:
journal@liverpool.ac.uk.
or mail a hard copy to:
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image
Department of Music
University of Liverpool
80-82 Bedford Road South
Liverpool
L69 7WW
United Kingdom
All manuscripts must be typed, formatted for A4 size paper, double
spaced, and with at least one-inch (2.5cm) margins on each side.
A separate title page should be submitted at the outset of the article,
containing the author’s name and postal address, institutional affiliation, telephone
number and electronic mail address.
Each manuscript page should be numbered and contain a header with
an abbreviated title. The author’s name should appear ONLY on the title page, not
on any subsequent page.
Manuscripts should be between 5,000–10,000 words in length,
including notes and bibliography.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining permissions on any material
in which they do not hold copyright, and for ensuring that appropriate acknowledgements are
included in their manuscript.
Tables, music examples, illustrations, etc., should be supplied as
separate pages, numbered consecutively. These numbers should be used to indicate their
approximate position within the text of the article. Illustrations and music examples
should be supplied in a form suitable for direct reproduction, with a resolution of at
least 300 dpi at final size.
Music examples should, where possible and appropriate, identify their
location within their source through a timing from the beginning of the film or programme,
giving hours, minutes and seconds: for example, Shrek 2, Travelling Music (from 00:09:09).
Quotations should be placed within single quotation marks, except
for quotations within quotations, which should use double. Longer quotations should be
indented and typed single spaced without quotation marks, with the source given on the
last line, aligned to the right margin.
Notes should be used for substantive comment, kept to a minimum and
numbered consecutively in the text as superscript figures outside of punctuation. Notes
should be provided as separate pages at the end of the article.
Bibliographical references should follow the Harvard system in both text
and notes: for example, ‘(see Neumeyer & Buhler 2001, pp. 23-26)’; ‘(Weis 1982, p.53)’.
A complete Bibliography should be typed, double spaced, at the end of
the article, following any Notes.
Film, Programme, Work titles , should be italicized with main words capitalised.
Song titles should be in single quotation marks with main words capitalised.
Foreign words in the text should be in italics and the translation given in
quotation marks in parentheses.
Receipt of manuscripts will be acknowledged promptly, and authors will be notified of
acceptance or rejection in a timely fashion. The Journal receives manuscripts on the
understanding that they have not been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere.
