Call For Contributions - PRism General Issues

(For special topic issues, see specific calls linked from the PRism home page.)

If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student of public relations, relationship management, social marketing, media, communication, journalism, communication technology, or any areas related to communication and its associated relationships and technologies, you are invited to submit your work to PRism.  By contributing to PRism, you will be supporting an important mission to make communication research widely and freely available to all.

Academic papers should cover any area of relevance to the study, teaching, or practice of public relations and related communication and media fields. Postgraduate and final or honours year undergraduate students in communication, media, and public relations are especially encouraged to apply, as PRism has a particular mission to encourage new writers.  We offer new authors the opportunity to receive high-level, constructive feedback on work in progress. We also publish, and have published, important work from established and well-known communication researchers who are interested in supporting the open access dissemination of research.

PRism does not pay for contributions but all authors whose work falls within the general parameters of our topic area and is considered likely to be suitable for refereed or commentary publication will receive valuable feedback via expert referee reports.  

We do not have closing dates for general issues because we use ongoing, continuous publication.  In other words, if your article is successful in meeting referees' requirements, it will be published when corrections and editing are complete. We believe that this will assist authors to get quality work published fast, while it is timely and relevant.

Please register your initial interest by submitting a 150 word abstract to the editor, Dr Elspeth Tilley (click here to email). 

Articles should be 3000 to 5000 words maximum (excluding references) and adhere to the submission guidelines.

PRism also includes a 'commentary' section for shorter, non-refereed articles. If you have an opinion about an industry issue or controversy that will be of interest to your peers, are developing a research project that is in the early stages and would benefit from peer feedback in formalising your ideas or methods, or have an interesting case study or practitioner experience to share, please consider sending a 2000-3000 word (MAX) article, clearly marked for the commentary section.

Commentary articles should be designed to stimulate discussion and generate feedback on new or evolving ideas, to showcase practice, or to share pilot research with your peers.

Timely opinion pieces of up to 500 words may also be submitted for publication in the ViewPoints segment of any issue.

Book reviews and conference reports are also welcome at all times: please see the reviewer guidelines.

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