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Submission guidelines

1. Presentation of the files

Please send us, into .doc or .docx format:

– A file with your manuscript and its abstract (around 1 000 characters);

– a file with the list of references;

– a last file containing the list of figures, with their captions and sources. Thank you for indicating in the manuscript where each figure should be included.

Figures has to be send in separate files (.png or .jpeg format), with a resolution of 150 DPI (7 million pixels maximum, width x height, e.g. 2000 x 3500 or 1000 x 7000).

Your text will be formatted according to a precise layout; any formatting on your part will be removed by our editorial secretary. Please provide your text without specific layout, but clearly structured. Remember to highlight:

– boxes;

– quotations;

– location of tables and figures;

– numbered headings (two levels maximum) and your conclusion.

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum to make the article easier to read online.

2. Editorial advice for non-academic and/or international readers

For all articles, but particularly those to be translated into English (manuscript for Dossier ou Varia sections), there are two sets of recommendations:

2. 1. Use a clear language

Make sure that your English version is as clear as possible, which will facilitate both the work of the translators and the reading of the original text—BS/SG aims to be read by researchers from a variety of disciplines, but also by students at different levels as well as professionals and amateurs from the cultural worlds concerned. This does not mean abandoning the necessary technicality of scientific language, but rather asking ourselves a number of questions:

– is technical vocabulary necessary in every instance? When it is highly specialized, is it sufficiently explained in the text or in a note, or is the explanation referred to a bibliographical reference (which seems insufficient)?

– is the syntax clear enough? The proliferation of incises and embedded subordinates is sometimes a necessity, but also sometimes the unfortunate result of successive rewrites.

Passages with an obscure enunciative status should be avoided: quotation marks around an expression that you don’t know who to attribute it to, or more implicit forms of distancing (free indirect style, irony, etc.) based on prior knowledge of a field or subject, often complicate reading, and even more so the transition into a different language and cultural universe.

2. 2. Explain cultural references

As far as possible, cultural references or those typical of other English-speaking areas should be made explicit for an international model readership of what is known as the “educated general public.” It is therefore necessary to describe the content of these cultural references. In the fields covered by BS/SG and in the cultural context, this may involve specifying school titles, public institutions, cultural products with a predominantly national audience, and so on.

This requirement applies to references specific to an artistic or cultural production sector (literature, music, philosophy, etc.) or to a social science discipline (sociology, anthropology, history, etc.); these references must remain accessible to a readership which is not a specialist in either the subject or the method.

3. Bibliographic standards

BS/SG follow a reference standard based on APA standard.

3. 1. In-text references

Please quote in brackets family name of the author and the date of publication, followed by precise pagination if it is necessary. In case of plural references, you have to respect firstly the alphabetical order, and secondly the ascending chronological order for references by the same author, i.e. “Key contributions to this literature include studies of the diffusion of ‘creative towns and cities’ strategies (Alasuutari 2013) and the ‘creative industries’ model (Prince 2010; Rindzeviciute et al. 2016; Vlassis & De Beukelaer 2019)”; “The work of David Dolowitz and David Marsh (2012) on policy transfer has revealed how copying, emulation, and in some cases lesson-drawing take place between states in the production of public policy.”

3. 2. List of references

A final bibliography indicates all the references quoted in your manuscript, following a alphabetic order and chronological order for the references of the same author. If the reference is a translation, thank you for mentioning the name of the translator.

If your manuscript is in English, whatever the language of the publication cited, the reference follows English standards (with inverted commas “”, the abbreviation (ed.), etc.).

Name of the author is written in small caps: Ctrl+Maj+K (Windows), Cmd+Maj+K (Macintosh).

To quote a book

Abbott Andrew (1988). The System of Professions. An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.

Bourdieu Pierre (1996). The Rules of Art. Translated from French by Emanuel Susan. Cambridge, Polity. [Les Règles de l’art : genèse et structure du champ littéraire. Paris, Le Seuil, 1982.]

To quote an article published in a scientific journal

Sapiro Gisèle (2013). “Le champ est-il national ? La théorie de la différenciation sociale au prisme de l’histoire globale.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 200(5): 70–85.

4. Language standards

BS/SG follow the Oxford spelling. Papers are published in British English spelling, but in combination with the suffix -ize instead of -ise.

English spelling of selected words:

programme (and not program);

– suffix -re: centre (and not center), theatre (and not theater);

– suffix -our : behaviour (and not behavior), favour (and not favor);

– suffix -ogue : catalogue (and not catalog), dialogue (and not dialog) ;

– past and present participles with double consonants: cancelled (et non canceled).

5. Punctuation rules

English text headings and titles use title case: capitalize all words except for ‘a’, ‘an’ ‘it’, ‘of’, etc. (except when the first word).

Punctuation goes inside quotation marks and superscript footnote-reference figures follow punctuation mark, i.e. The first works collected were kept and exhibited in the basement of the Drouin gallery in Paris.9

Commas are used in numbers to indicate units of thousands and millions, i.e. 12,000 pounds. Decimal points are indicated with full stops, not commas, i.e. 6.5%.

Use the Oxford, or serial, comma (e.g., in a list, add a comma after each item, including before the final ‘and’: ‘I like apples, cherries, and bananas.’)

The em dash s used for strong interruptions disrupting the flow of the sentence, or coming at the end of the sentence. The en dash is used for range of numbers, pages our dates, i.e., “The concept of a professional ethos, developed by Pierre Bourdieu (2000: 99–100)—who was inspired by the work of Max Weber—refers to a ‘specific habitus, which is demanded of the new entrants as a condition of entry,’ and which is ‘nothing other than a specific mode of thought (an eidos), the principle of a specific construction of reality, grounded in a pre-reflexive belief in the undisputed value of the instruments of construction and of the objects thus constructed (an ethos)’.”

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