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Instructions for authors

Comicalités welcomes all proposals for articles and dossiers on comics in particular and graphic culture in general. As a scholarly journal with a double-blind peer-review process, its objective is to promote the work of researchers from all disciplines and all career stages. The journal publishes articles and dossiers on a regular basis as detailed below.

Publishing with Comicalités

The journal is open to different types of proposals:

  • Thematic collections, akin to special issues, are intended to open up new research perspectives on comics and are directed by researchers who are specialists in the field in question, in collaboration with the journal's editorial board. They are subject to an open call for papers, allowing these dossiers to evolve over time and to continue to grow with new research. Comicalités accepts proposals for thematic dossiers, in the form of a call for papers (with an indicative bibliography) and, if possible, a provisional summary.

  • To propose a text to be included in an existing thematic dossier, you are free to send your proposals, in the form of a preliminary draft of up to 500 words or 3000 characters, directly to the journal’s board.

  • Varia are articles that do not respond to a thematic call for papers. Comicalités is always open to new proposals for individual articles on any topic in comics and graphic culture research. Proposals for articles take the form of an abstract of no more than 500 words or 3000 characters, detailing the research hypothesis, the corpus, and the methodology envisaged. They are evaluated by the editorial board. Authors of accepted proposals are then invited to submit a full paper, which is in turn subject to double-blind peer review.

All proposals can be submitted to the journal by e-mail to: comicalites@gmail.com. Please note that e-mail does not recognize accents, so the use of "comicalités@gmail.com" will result in a failure to send error message.

Evaluation of proposals

Comicalités is organized around a publication process involving an editorial board and peer reviewers. The editorial board examines proposals and helps researchers to improve their work by indicating any useful ideas or references. The editorial board of Comicalités pays particular attention to the improvement of articles before submission for external evaluation by peer reviewers. Articles are presented anonymously to a pair of experts, chosen by the coordinators of the thematic collection or by the editorial board in the case of a proposal for Varia. See also peer-reviewing template in attachment.

Stylesheet

Length and size

While the digital format does not impose any particular length constraints, the recommended size of articles is between 25,000 and 50,000 characters including spaces. Articles exceeding 50,000 characters may be published, but must be discussed with the editorial board beforehand.

Structure

Keep it simple! The document must show no specific formatting other than typographical formatting (bold, italic ...), predefined styles, and paragraphs. Page breaks, captions, indent variations, and blank lines should be avoided: the rationale is to affect the continuity of the article as little as possible. The article should follow this template:

  • Title: Times New Roman, 14 pt.

  • Text: Times New Roman, 12 pt. It is imperative to use only one font throughout the text, except in special cases necessary for linguistic reasons (citations in languages using non-Latin alphabets.).

  • Heading: use the predefined styles of Microsoft Word or Open Office.

  • Block quotes: Times New Roman, 10 pt.

  • Footnotes: Times New Roman, 9 pt.

The article must be delivered in “.docx”, “.doc”, “.odt” or “.rtf” format. No “.pdf” format.

Footnotes

Footnotes are not used to indicate main bibliographic references in Comicalités (see the citational style below), but rather provide a space for additional specifications, or possible directions for future research.

Gender-inclusive language

Comicalités is committed to gender equality and a better representation of the realities of the comics field and its socio-cultural context(s). Authors who submit an article to the journal are therefore asked to use language that does not systematically universalize the masculine. While English grammar has relatively few gender markers, attention should nevertheless be paid to the gender-neutral use of pronouns and possessives (they, them, and their). Gendered grammatical forms should be used when they specifically correspond to real world gender appropriate to the historical situations and phenomena that the author describes, analyzes, and presents. Authors planning to submit a potential contribution in French should review the more detailed guidelines here.

Abstract, keywords and index

Articles should include an abstract (500 words maximum) and a biographical notice (150 words maximum). They should also include a list of 5 to 10 keywords that will feed into the general index of the journal. Please check the list of existing terms so as to avoid double entries. Index terms are meant to both enhance the discoverability of articles on search engines, but also to allow for the transversal navigation within the journal’s contents.

Image Use

Comicalités strongly encourages the use of images, as long as the use of these images explicitly serves the article’s argumentation. The images must explicitly be referred to in the body of the text, by means of an indication "see image x" (in bold) placed at the desired insertion point. Images should be submitted separately from the text, as independent files (named "Image1", "Image2" etc.) in "png", "jpg" or "tiff" format. The images must be of sufficient quality. They must be accompanied by a file (entitled "Captions") in which the information to be included under the image as well as the iconographic credits are indicated (by default: author, title of the work, editorial structure, followed by the words "Rights Reserved"). It is also possible to insert videos in the text: they must be hosted on a site independent of the journal (Internet Archive, YouTube). Authors are then invited to include the URL where they wish the video to appear.

Reproduction permissions

The images reproduced in Comicalités must have been the subject of a request for permission to reproduce from the rights holders. As Comicalités is a non-commercial publication with a scholarly focus, the journal does not pay licensing fees for images. Truly exceptional cases may be considered by the board. Requests for reproduction rights are submitted by researchers, but the editorial board is willing to facilitate the process in more complex cases.

Citation style

Previously organized according to the ISO 690 citation style, Comicalités follows since spring 2022 the author-date model of the Chicago Manual of Style. This bibliographic style is easily implemented by using reference management software such as Zotero. References are indicated in the text and the bibliography is gathered at the end of the article.

In-text citations standards

Citations are noted as follows :

(Author, year, possibly followed by a letter in the case of multiple works published the same year, page)

(Baetens 1997b, 133)

For example: “notably for George Lucas’s Star Wars (Zito 1999, 47)”

References may appear in footnotes when they provide details (e.g., “as reported by Thierry Groensteen (2006, 123)”) but the full reference should not appear outside the bibliography.

Works Cited

Bibliographic references should be listed at the end of the article as a separate section titled “References.” The list is organized alphabetically according to authors’ names. Bibliographic norms vary slightly according to document formats; you can find below various reference models and their examples.

Books

Monographs

Last name, First name. Date. Title. Translator. Edition version. Place: publisher.

Nash, Eric P. 2006. Manga Kamishibai. Du théâtre de papier à la BD japonaise. Traduit de l’américain par Jean-Yves Cotté. Paris : Éditions de la Martinière.

Chute, Hillary. 2016. Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Multiple-volume books

Last name, First name. Date. Title (title of the series, volume number). Translator. Edition version. Place: publisher.

Eisner, Will. 2009 [1994]. Les clés de la bande dessinée (L’Art séquentiel, tome 1). Translated from English by Arthur Clare. Paris : Delcourt.

Corgiat, Sylvaine et Christelle Pécout. 2006. L’île aux Démons (Lune d’ombre, tome 3). Paris : Les Humanoïdes Associés.

Edited collections

Last name, First name, ed. Date. Title. Translator. Edition version. Place : publisher, date.

Groensteen, Thierry, dir. 2000. Maîtres de la bande dessinée européenne. Paris : Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Seuil.

Ahmed, Maaheen, dir. 2020. Strong Bonds. Child-Animal Relationships in Comics. Liège : Presses universitaires de Liège.

Chapter in an edited collection

Last name, First name. Date. “Title of the contribution.” In Title, edited by first name, last name, pagination. Translator. Edition version. Place : publisher.

Pignot, Manon. 2008. « Suzette contre Fillette : la grande guerre de deux illustrés français ». In Les presses enfantines chrétiennes au XXe siècle, édité par Thierry Crépin et Françoise Hache-Bissette, 21124. Arras: Artois Presses Université.

Le Roy Ladurie, Irène. 2021. « Saints suaires : de la destruction des icônes à une poétique de l’empreinte dans Blankets de Craig Thompson ». Dans La destruction des images en bande dessinée, sous la direction de Henri Garric, 115-135. Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais.

E-books

Last name, First name, ed. Date. Title. Translator. Edition version. Place : publisher, date. <DOI> ou <URL>.

Baudry, Julien. Cases-Pixels. Une Histoire de la bande dessinée numérique en France. Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pufr.15654.

Berthou, Benoît. 2015. La Bande dessinée : quelle lecture, quelle culture ? Paris : Éditions de la Bibliothèque publique d’information. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.bibpompidou.1671.

Articles and periodicals

In print

Last name, First name. Date “Title of the contribution.” Title of the journal volume (issue): pagination.

Pizzino, Christopher. 2015. “The Doctor versus the Dagger: Comics Reading and Cultural Memory.” PMLA 130 (3): 631–47.

Caraballo, Laura. 2021. “Abolir el binarismo. Femimutancia y la historieta argentina transfeminista.” Caravelle 116 : 117-136.

Electronic resource

Always indicate the DOI or, if not available, the URL.

Last name, First name. Date. « Title of the contribution ». Title of the journal volume (issue): pagination. <doi> / <url>.

Mao, Catherine. 2009. « L’œil et l’oreille dans Faire semblant c’est mentir de Dominique Goblet. D’un faire-semblant sonore à une esthétique sonore » Images re-vues 7. https://doi.org/10.4000/imagesrevues.434

Baetens, Jan. 2010. « Strip, série, séquence ». Transatlantica 1. https://doig.org/10.4000/transatlantica.4921.

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