About Film-Philosophy

Founded in November 1996, Film-Philosophy is an international academic journal dedicated to philosophically reviewing film studies, philosophical aesthetics, and world cinema - with an online readership of over 5000 individual visitors every month, as well as more than 1200 permanent worldwide members of the email discussion salon. The journal is published three times per year and is fully peer-reviewed.

Film-Philosophy Style and Referencing guidelines for Authors

General Style

Articles should be submitted via email as an A4 Word document.

The article should be double-spaced.

A space should be left between paragraphs, which should not be indented.

When mentioning a film for the first time, italicise the title and include the name of the director and the date of release in brackets (unless this information is mentioned elsewhere in your sentence). i.e. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940). The title of any film should be italicised throughout the article.

When referring to a non English-language film, the original title, also in italics, and director and year of production should be listed after the first mention of the film and in parentheses (after this, refer to the film’s English title, except where it is more usual to use the original language name). For example: Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat, Jan Hřebejk, 2000) but La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962).

Book and journal titles should be italicised while article titles should be in quotation marks.

Quotation marks should be single quotes, except for quotes within quotes (which should be double).

Quotations longer than thirty words should be separated from the main text, indented, single-spaced and should have no quotation marks.

Diacritics (accents) should be added to all names or words where appropriate.

Footnote references come after commas and full stops. Page references come inside, except for an indented quotation.

When referring to something owned by a person whose name ends in either s or z an extra s is used: Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane, Karel Reisz's book on editing. When referring to something made by a plural name, simply use an apostrophe on the end: Warner Bros' film, the Coens' film.

Length

Articles should generally be between 4000 and 8000 words long, while book reviews should be between 2000 and 4000 words. Please consult with individual editors if you have any concerns about length.

Referencing

Film-Philosophy articles should be fully referenced and all sources must be properly acknowledged. References are expected to conform to the Harvard Style of referencing. ALL quotations need book/page references.

In-text referencing format:

(Smith 2001, 55) – single author

(Smith and Jones 2001, 55) – two authors

(Smith et al. 2001, 55) – more than two authors

(quoted in Smith 2001, 55) – citation of a quotation


Bibliographical format

An alphabetical bibliography of all (and only) works cited should appear at the end of the text using the following formats:

Smith, John (2001) A Philosophy of Film. London: Blackstones.

Smith, John and Simon Jones (2001) A Further Philosophy of Film. London: Blackstones.

Smith, John (ed.) (2001) A Compendium of Film Philosophy. Whitstable: Whitstable University Press.

Smith, John (2003) “More Philosophy, Less Film” in Beyond the Philosophy of Film. Ed. Simon Jones. Cambridge: Rowteldge, 107 – 120.

Smith, John (1999) “Towards a Philosophy of Film”. Journal of Obscure Media, v. 23, n. 6: 25 – 36.

Smith, John (1998) “Philosophy, Film and Internet Referencing”. Film-Philosophy, v. 67, n. 1. [http://www.film-philosophy.com/v67n1/Smith.html]. Accessed 26 June 2006.


Filmography

A separate filmography of all (and only) films cited should appear at the end of the text using the following format:

Ford, John (1940) The Grapes of Wrath. USA.
Hřebejk, Jan (2000) Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat). Czech Republic.

Footnotes

Footnotes (at the bottom of the page) should be used for material or comments that are either not absolutely necessary to the flow of the argument or which give information that a general, academic reader may not reasonably be supposed to have. Footnotes should not be used for referencing sources.

Spelling

Film-Philosophy uses the new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. American spelling should only be used if it is appears in a quotation.

Use the ending –ise (not –ize, -ization, -izing)

Abbreviations

f. - following page
ff. - following pages
e.g. - for example
i.e. - namely
cf. - compare
ibid. - as above