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Reviewer Guidelines
Please take note of the
following guidelines in writing your review:
1. The review should begin
with full details of the book including page length, ISBN and price, if known.
Book reviewers must utilize the Harvard (author-date) system of referencing for
this. Quotations from the book, reference to other books and end-noting ought
be kept to an absolute minimum, if not avoided altogether.
2. Books sent for review
are usually on transnational broadcasting, global media corporations, international
communications, satellite television, interactive media, etc. But if the book
is not directly on such topics, you are requested to relate the review to them.
3. The review should provide
an objective and critical evaluation of the book's strengths, weaknesses, and
contribution to knowledge, rather than merely a summary of content. A single-book
review should usually be approximately 500-750 words while a comparative review
article on two or more books may be between 750-1,000 words, in Times New Roman
12-point font, double-spaced, aligned left.
4. The review should include
the details of the reviewer in the following format: name in preferred style (academic
title optional), school/department, university affiliation, city/country.
5. Please complete your
review within a month of being sent the book. If you are unable to meet that deadline,
contact the review editor immediately.
6. Send the completed
review, preferably by e-mail attachment, using Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher)
software and no encoding. Do not send the review by fax or by mail unless accompanied
by a disk copy.
7. All book reviews will
be subject to review by the reviews editor, who reserves the right to edit them.
Book reviewers may be asked to make revisions before final acceptance is made.
8. The book sent to you
may be retained only if the review is formally accepted for publication, perhaps
after revisions. If your review is not considered of an acceptable quality for
publication, the book needs to be returned for use by another reviewer.
9. Given limitations of
space, it is not possible to guarantee the inclusion of a book review in any particular
issue of TBS. Most reviewers may usually expect their work to be published within
a year of their formal acceptance.
10. Direct all enquiries
and correspondence to the TBS reviews editor:
Dr. Amos Owen Thomas
School of Marketing & Management
Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld 9726, Australia
E-mail: a.thomas@mailbox.gu.edu.au
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