Note to the authors
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Articles should be submitted to the editorial board and sent to the journal's editorial office in electronic form (attached file in .doc or .docx format) at the following email address: bucema.contact@gmail.com
Articles must be unpublished and not be submitted simultaneously to another publication.*
Any author who sends an article to the Bucema acknowledges to the CEM, if the article is accepted, the right to publish it in electronic form on the OpenEdition Journals site.
Submission of a draft special issue
Projects for publication in a special issue of the Bucema should be submitted to the editorial board of the journal, by sending the submission form to the editorial office, in electronic form (attached file in .doc or .docx format), at the following email address: bucema.contact@gmail.com
The editorial and bibliographic standards and the abbreviations to be used in notes are the same as those used for a regular issue of the journal.
Once the manuscript is assembled, the publishers will submit it to the editorial board for review.
Publishers must ensure that they will be able to finance the final revision of the manuscript and the work of putting it online, which will be entrusted to the Bucema’s usual service providers and whose cost will be estimated on a case-by-case basis by them.
Editorial standards
Articles will be presented in the simplest form possible, with an economy of headings and subheadings.
Notes should be numbered consecutively and in Arabic numerals.
Articles will not include a final bibliography.
Please use proper quotations marks depending on the language of your article: Short quotations should be integrated into the text. Long quotations, indented, will not be enclosed in quotation marks.
Italics should be used for titles of books or journals.
Capital letters should be accentuated.
Illustrations should be presented separately, preferably in jpeg format (scanned at 300 dpi, with a simple naming without diacritical marks or punctuation marks, such as AuthorAWordFromFig1.jpg, e.g. MartinChapiteauxFig1.jpg) and with separate captions. Illustrations must be free of copyright.
In regards to indexing, authors are asked to suggest "subject" and "proper name" keywords for each article.
The author must indicate their professional biographical references (function, institution...).
The author must indicate the section for which the article is intended:
“Recherche active/Active research”: unpublished articles and background studies (50,000 signs maximum, including notes, excluding spaces; accompanied by a 10-line summary, in French and English);
“Entretien/Interview”: exchanges with a specialist on their experience in their field of research (30,000 characters maximum, including notes, excluding spaces);
“Note de lecture/Reading note”: thematic bibliographical essay on one or more works (30,000 characters maximum, including notes and excluding spaces);
“Point de vue/Point of view”: on a concrete experience of practice, with implications in the field of research (30,000 characters maximum, notes included, spaces excluded);
“Découvertes/Discoveries”: archaeological, archival, textual, iconographic, artistic, etc., and major (15,000 characters maximum, including notes, excluding spaces);
“Chantiers”: brief but problematized communications, reporting on scientific advances in new or ongoing research (archaeological excavations, archival research, iconographic research, lexical research, etc.) (15,000 characters maximum, including notes, excluding spaces);
“Chroniques/Chronicles”: substantial summaries of scientific meetings (15,000 characters maximum, notes included, spaces excluded);
Dissertatio: summaries of theses, dissertations and dissertations (15,000 characters maximum, including notes and excluding spaces);
“Rendez-vous/Appointments”: announcements of new research programs, upcoming meetings (15,000 characters maximum, including notes, excluding spaces).
Bibliographic standards
For books: the initial of the first name, followed by the surname of the author in small capitals, the title of the work in italics, the tome or volume or number of volumes (if applicable), the place of publication (in French), the date of publication, the name of the collection and its title in brackets, and, if applicable, the pagination.
Example:
D. Iogna-Prat, Études clunisiennes, Paris, 2002 (Les Médiévistes français, 2).
For journal articles: the initial of the first name, followed by the surname of the author in small capitals, the title of the article in quotation marks, the title of the journal in italics (preceded by in), the volume or tome, the year in parentheses, and the pages.
Example:
N. Deflou-Leca and C. Sapin, "Saint-Valentin de Griselles : du culte érémitique à la fondation monastique", in Mémoires de la commission des Antiquités de la Côte d'Or, 39 (2000-2001), p. 75-126.
For collective works: the initial of the first name, followed by the surname of the author in small capitals, the title of the article in quotation marks, the initial of the first name and the surname of the scientific editor(s) in small capitals [preceded by in and followed by the abbreviation (dir., ed. or coord.)], the title of the work in italics, the volume or tome, the place of publication, the year, the pages.
Example:
D. Russo, " Le nom de l'artiste, entre appartenance au groupe et écriture personnelle ", in B. Bedos-Rezak and D. Iogna-Prat (dir.), L'individu au Moyen Âge. Individuation et individualisation avant la modernité, Paris, 2005, p. 235-246.
For published texts: the first name and the surname of the author in small capitals, the title of the text in italics, the initial of the first name and the name of the scientific editor of the text in small capitals (preceded by ed., trad., introd.), the tome or volume or number of volumes (if applicable), the place of publication, the date of publication, the name of the collection and its title in brackets if applicable.
Example:
Benedict of Aniane, Concordia regularum, ed. P. Bonnerue, 2 vols, Turnhout, 1999 (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 168-168A).
For archaeological excavation reports: the initial of the first name and the surname of the author in small capitals, the full title of the report in italics, the volume, the regional conservation department, the city, the year, the pages.
Example:
F. Henrion, La Charité-sur-Loire. Ancien prieuré Notre-Dame. Rapport de fouille programmée 2012-2014, DRAC/SRA Bourgogne, Dijon, 2014, 3 vols.
Abbreviations to be used in notes
arr. for arrondissement
ca for circa
cf. for confer
chap. for chapter(s)
ch.-l. for chief town
cap. for capitulo
col. for column(s)
coll. for collection(s)
coord. for under the coordination of
dep. for department
dir. for under the direction of
ed. for publisher(s)/edition(s)
ed. for editor
f. for leaf(s)
fig. for figures
fol. for folio(s)
Id. and Ead. for idem and eadem (author)
ibid. for ibidem
l. for line(s)
l. for book(s)
ms. for manuscript(s)
n. for note
n° for number(s)
op. cit. to refer to a book or article already cited
p. for page(s)
pl. for plate(s)
r° for recto
s. for century(s)
t. for volume(s)
trans. for translator/translation
sq. for next page
sqq. for next page(s)
v. for verse (in a poem)
v° for verso
vol. for volume(s)
Review procedure and criteria
The articles of the journal are submitted anonymously to two experts. The synthesis of the evaluation reports is then sent to the authors.
Special issues will also be submitted for review, and the review report will be sent to the authors/editors.
Documents annexes
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Article evaluation form (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document – 48k)
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Occasional Issue Submission Form (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document – 19k)
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Occasional Issue Review Form (application/msword – 66k)