For the Authors
Who May Be the Author
A prerequisite for the publication of an article in the International Journal of Arts and Media Researches is that the paper must have been presented at the International Conference of Arts Researchers on the priority topic of the corresponding year.
Terms of Publication
New research is published in the International Journal of Arts and Media Researches only if the article has not been published elsewhere.
The author is responsible for the content of the article, including its ethical integrity and scientific validity.
The author must submit the article within the designated deadline in both Georgian and English, following the standards outlined in the Publication Guidelines. The author is also required to adhere to the journal’s citation style.
If you are publishing with us for the first time, you must submit a photograph and a CV in both Georgian and English (no more than 500 characters, including spaces). If you have previously published with us but need to update your CV, submission of the revised version is required.
The author must provide an email address that is checked regularly to ensure timely communication. If the author is unreachable, the editorial board reserves the right to suspend or reject the publication of the article.
For further information, please contact the journal’s editorial office.
Publication Guidelines
- Text
Please use a standard word-processing program. The text should have no images, no special layout formatting, no hyphenation, and no grouped styles.
The article should not exceed 23,000 characters (approximately 8–10 pages), including spaces, footnotes, and bibliography.
Please follow this structure:
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- Author’s first and last name, academic title, and institutional affiliation
- Title of the paper
- Abstract (no more than 200 characters)
- Keywords
- Main text
- Bibliography
– The bibliography should be placed at the end of the article and arranged alphabetically.
– All publications must be cited in their original language and in the form in which they appear in the publication. Translated titles should not be used.
– Publications printed in Cyrillic, Greek, or other non-Latin scripts should be cited in their original script.
– Bibliographic references should follow this order:
Author’s (or editor’s) surname, initial(s), title, place of publication, year of publication. For journal articles, please also indicate the title of the journal or edited volume, issue/volume number, and page range.
– Archival documents and unpublished manuscripts (dissertations, archival materials, unpublished papers, etc.) should be cited with the relevant archive, library, or electronic repository reference.
– Online resources must include the author, title, year of publication (where available), URL, and date of access.
– If a publication has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), it must be included.
Examples:
AUMONT Jacques, L’Image, Paris, Nathan, 1990.
BARTHES Roland, « Rhétorique de l’image », Communications, No. 4, 1964, pp. 40–51.
BORDWELL David, Narration in the Fiction Film, Madison, 1985.
კუჭუხიძე ი., თანამედროვე ქართული კინოს სტილის თავისებურებათა საკითხისათვის, საბჭოთა ხელოვნება, № 9, 1982, გვ. 26–31.
ბოკუჩავა თ., მითოსი და ქართული თეატრი, სადისერტაციო ნაშრომი, თბილისი, 2006. http://www.nplg.gov.ge/dlibrary/coll/0002/000038/ (accessed 15 May 2026).
ELSAESSER Thomas, Reiner Werner Fassbinder, Berlin, 2001.
PANOFSKY Erwin, Die Perspektive als symbolische Form, Leipzig und Berlin, 1927.
RITZ Joseph Maria, Das Künstlerische und die Denkmalpflege, in: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege, 1955, Heft 1, pp. 1–15.
MULVEY Laura, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Screen, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1975, pp. 6–18. DOI: 10.1093/screen/16.3.6.
- Footnotes
Footnotes should use a shortened bibliographic reference consisting of the author’s surname, a shortened title, year of publication, and page number.
Full bibliographic information should be provided only in the bibliography.
The abbreviation “Ibid.” should be used only when the cited source is identical to that in the immediately preceding footnote.
Examples:
1. გურაბანიძე, რეჟისორი, 1997, გვ. 12.
2. ELSAESSER, Fassbinder, 2001, p. 45.
3. AUMONT, L’Image, 1990, p. 67.
4. BORDWELL, Narration, 1985, p. 112.
5. MULVEY, “Visual Pleasure”, 1975, p. 10.
6. Ibid., p. 20.
- Historical and Religious Sources
Historical chronicles, religious texts, canonical works, and other primary sources should be cited with full bibliographic information for the edition used. Where applicable, references should indicate volume, book, chapter, verse, folio, or page number.
Examples:
HERODOTUS, The Histories, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt, revised by John Marincola, London, 2003.
ARISTOTLE, Poetics, translated by Malcolm Heath, London, 1996.
The Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version, New York, 1989.
BEDE, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, translated by Leo Sherley-Price, London, 1990.
Footnote Examples:
1. HERODOTUS, The Histories, 2003, p. 215.
2. ARISTOTLE, Poetics, 1996, p. 32.
References to the Bible may be given directly in the text or footnotes (e.g., Matthew 5:14; Psalm 23:1) and need not be included in the bibliography unless a specific edition is cited.
- Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and similar systems) is permitted for language editing, translation, text organization, and bibliographic assistance.
The use of AI-generated factual information, citations, references, or research data without verification is not permitted. Authors bear full responsibility for the accuracy of the content, the reliability of the sources used, and compliance with the principles of academic integrity.
Artificial intelligence tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors of a manuscript.
If AI tools have been used in the preparation of a manuscript, this should be disclosed in a separate statement placed after the bibliography.
Example:
Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
During the preparation of this manuscript, ChatGPT (OpenAI) was used for language editing, translation assistance, and bibliographic organization. All analyses, interpretations, and conclusions presented in this work are solely those of the author.
- Illustrations
– A maximum of 8 illustrations may accompany an article.
– Authors must ensure that all submitted illustrations are free of copyright restrictions or that the necessary permissions for publication have been obtained.
– Responsibility for securing publication rights rests solely with the author.
– Illustrations may be submitted in JPG or TIF format.
– Images must be of high quality, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
– The placement of illustrations should be indicated in the text as follows: [Fig. 1], [Fig. 2], etc.
– Each illustration must be accompanied by the name of the photographer/creator and/or the source.
– If an illustration is taken from a museum, archive, private collection, publication, or online resource, the source must be clearly indicated.
– Captions should not be written as full sentences; concise descriptive information should be provided instead.
Examples:
Scene from the performance Antigone. Director: Mikheil Tumanishvili. Cast: Zinaida Kverenchkhiladze, Sergo Zakariadze. 1968. Photo: Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema and Choreography.
Still from the film Namme. Director: Zaza Khalvashi. 2017. Source: Film Archive.
Merab Abramishvili. Black Panther. 2006. Source: Georgian National Gallery.
Jewish Museum Building, Berlin. Architect: Daniel Libeskind. 1999. Photo: Author.
View of Tbilisi. Photograph by Prokudin-Gorsky. 1910. Source: Library of Congress.
Please submit numbered illustrations (JPG or TIF files) separately, along with a separate Word document containing the corresponding captions, figure numbers, authors, and source information.
- Curriculum Vitae
Please include:
- A short CV in English (maximum 500 characters, including spaces)
- A recent photograph
Plagiarism Prevention
The editorial board of the International Journal of Arts and Media Researches upholds the principles of academic integrity and ethics. Our priorities include protecting intellectual property rights, ensuring adherence to international academic standards, and maintaining academic responsibility in accordance with the plagiarism detection, prevention, and response policy of LEPL Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University.
If plagiarism is detected, the article will not be published. The editors will report plagiarism to the author and the institution where the research was conducted.
The editorial board reserves the right to remove a published article from the online collection if copyright infringement or any violation of academic ethics is discovered. In such cases, the editors will notify the author and the affiliated institution.
Please submit your article to the following address:
conference@tafu.edu.ge
Professor, Nato Gengiuri:
ტელ.: 577 94 70 03; 593 24 42 78.