JB-JKG
Jahrbuch fuer Kommunikationsgeschichte
The most important pages in the authors’ area
In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:
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On this page, we have also collected specific information about your journal – e.g. language variants in the article header, the citation guidelines and the required personal details:
General notes
- Please structure your manuscript with up to two levels of headings.
- Restrict references to sources and literature and avoid digressions in your footnotes.
- For text mark-ups, please primarily use italics.
- Titles of works quoted in the text (literature, pieces of music, films) are usually italicised and are without inverted commas:
Goethe’s Faust; Plato’s Republic; Mozart’s Zauberfloete; Coppola’s The Godfather
- These »Quotation marks« can be used to relativise and problematise terms or to create distance.
- Please mark longer quotations by indenting them as a separate text block.
Contribution header
- In addition to the original title, provide an english translation of the main heading and the subheading (unless they are already in English).
- An abstract and keywords in English as well as in the original language are obligatory for the Jahrbuch fuer Kommunikationsgeschichte.
Sample header
Sample header
Main Heading in Original Language
Subheading in Original Language
Mary Miller / Joe Bloggs
English Translation of Main Heading
English Translation of Subheading
Abstract in original language: This is the abstract.
Keywords in original language: Keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3, keyword 4, keyword 5, keyword 6
Abstract in English: This is the abstract.
Keywords in English: Keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3, keyword 4, keyword 5, keyword 6
Abbreviated references
- In the Jahrbuch fuer Kommunikationsgeschichte a bibliography is not provided at the end of an article. References are always provided in the footnotes.
- Full bibliographic reference for the first citation; for repeated citations in the same contribution, abbreviated form with short title.
- If there are several authors, their names will be separated by a slash (/).
- The edition appears between the subtitle and the place of publication. If it is the first edition, this information is omitted.
- Please avoid using „f.“ or „ff.“ for page ranges. Instead, provide the exact page range:
p. 15–17 or p.16f.
not: 15ff.
- Bitte geben Sie Aktenstücke in der archivüblichen Notation unter Angabe von Blatt, Tagebuchnummer und ähnlichen relevanten Informationen an. Bitte vermeiden Sie bei belegbaren Informationen Globalverweise auf komplette Akten oder gar ganze Archivbestände. Nichtfoliierte oder -paginierte Aktenbestände bitte als „nicht foliiert“ bzw. „nicht paginiert“ kennzeichnen.
- Directly after the short title, please refer in brackets to the note where the detailed bibliographic information is given.
- The abbreviated reference is given as follows: Surname (year) page numbers (cf. n. X):
Requate (1995) p. 13 (cf. n. 16).
- A consecutively repeated reference is abbreviated with “ibid.“ or “ibid., page number“
Detailed references
Monografien
- First name Surmame: Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher year (series), page numbers.
Joerg Requate: Journalismus als Beruf. Entstehung und Entwicklung des Journalistenberufs im 19. Jahrhundert. Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1995 (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 109), p. 47.
Journal article
- First name surname: Title. Subtitle. In: journal title volume, if applicable issue. (Year), page numbers.
Ansgar Diller: Haben Sie Auslandssender gehoert? Eine amerikanische Hoererbefragung am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. In: Rundfunk und Geschichte 24,1 (1998), p. 54–62.
Edited volume
- First name surname (if applicaple in cooperation with first name surname) (Ed.): Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher year (if applicable series).
Bernd Soesemann (in cooperation with Gunda Stoeber) (Ed.): Emil Dovifat. Studien und Dokumente zu Leben und Werk. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 1998 (Beitraege zur Kommunikationsgeschichte, Bd. 8).
Contribution in an edited volume
- First name surname: Title. Subtitle. In: First name surname (Ed.): Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher (if applicable series), page numbers.
Michael Schmolke: Kommunikationsgeschichte. In: Rudi Renger / Gabriele Siegert (Hg.): Kommunikationswelten. Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven zur Medien- und Informationsgesellschaft. Innsbruck and Wien: Studien-Verlag 1997 (Beitraege zur Medien- und Kommunikationsgesellschaft, Bd. 1), p. 19–43.
Newspaper article
- First name surname: Title of the article. Subtitle. In: Newspaper title no. from DD.MM.YYYY, page numbers.
Norbert Frei: Starrer Blick nach vorn. Gab es fuer die deutsche Presse eine Stunde Null? In: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, no. 29 from 4./5.2.1989, p. 137.
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Online contributions
Online contributions
- Please state the date of the last access in square brackets after the URL.