Submission Format and Procedures

Mechademia essays may be up to 5,000 words, plus citations. Shorter pieces are also welcome, and we will consider submissions in creative, non-traditional formats as well.

Mechademia uses Chicago style documentation. Accepted pieces must be revised to conform with the citation and romanization guidelines in the Mechademia Style Guide, which can be downloaded from the link on this page.

Mechademia encourages authors to include relevant illustrations, up to five black-and-white images per article. Color images may be possible with special permission from the publisher. In the case of copyrighted images or other copyrighted material, it is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce the material, but authors need not have these permissions in hand at the submission stage. Note that screen grabs from films and anime, book covers and manga covers, and ephemera (including advertising) are considered fair use by the publisher; authors need not and should not seek permissions for these things.

Articles should be submitted in electronic form, as Microsoft Word (1997-2004 format), RTF, or PDF documents. Email these as attachments to submissions AT mechademia.org. Files larger than 5 MB should be sent through a file transmission service like http://www.mediafire.com.

For questions about the submissions process

Please contact:
Wendy Goldberg
Submissions Editor
submissions AT mechademia.org

For other inquiries:

Please contact:
Frenchy Lunning,
Editor-in-Chief, Mechademia
frenchy AT mechademia.org