Plan
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Criminocorpus is a freely accessible French online publication focusing on monographic, historiographic, and review feature articles, as well as background notes about online literature (incl. archives, books, and corpora). Covering all aspects of research on the history of justice, crime, and punishment, Criminocorpus accepts submissions about all eras and cultural areas consistent with its editorial policy. While contributions are published in French, they may be supplemented by another version in a different language.
Articles published in Criminocorpus, les dossiers (“The Criminocorpus Files”) are specific in that they offer direct hyperlinks to some of the source material they use (print material, archives, iconography, multimedia documents, etc.), so that the reader may access both the historical material and its sources, in full or in part. This publishing policy is meant to contribute to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in the history of justice, crime, and punishment, while making the offered resources readily available for teaching purposes.
2. Sending a Book to the Editorial Board
Recent publications on the history of justice, crime, and punishment may be reported on the research log and/or reviewed. To help us keep track of recent publications, publishers are invited to send our press officers their newly published books – see mailing address at the bottom of the present page. For additional information, please email the editorial board.
3. Guidelines for Authors
Papers submitted to the editorial board should not exceed 70,000 characters (about 30 pages), including spaces, punctuation, and references.
3.1. Introducing the Article and its Author
Your submission should include a 10-line abstract in both French and English (as well as any other language, as agreed with the editorial board) and 5-6 keywords for indexing purposes.
The author’s biographical sketch should list their field, function, affiliation, 3-4 main research topics, their latest/main 3-4 publications, and include their professional mailing and email addresses.
3.2. Article Layout Guidelines
Please note that these guidelines apply to English-language articles and may differ from French-language guidelines (see “Conseils aux auteurs”).
The article: paginated; line spacing: 1.5; font: 12 pt ‘Times new roman’ or ‘Arial’; file format: *.doc or *.rtf. Abbreviations and/or acronyms should be written out in full on first use. Please refrain from using uppercase, normal capitalization excepted. However, the use of small caps is encouraged when relevant. Please do not use tabulations for first-line indent, and avoid blank lines at the end of paragraphs.
Quotations should be enclosed in double quotation marks: “quotation.” Any omission within a quotation should be replaced by a bracketed ellipsis: […]. Quotation marks should only be used for quoting someone else – even enclosed in so-called scare quotes, an inaccurate choice of word remains inaccurate: quotation marks are not a euphemizing device.
Please ensure you use nonbreaking spaces to avoid unwanted line breaks, for example in: 781 victims, fol. 100, Charles vi, vol. 1, 15th century. Ctrl + Shift + Space will generate a nonbreaking space in most word processors.
Please get rid of double spaces. The Find-and-Replace command does a very good job of cleaning up a whole document in a matter of seconds.
Footnote marks should be superscript, sequential numbers, placed before any punctuation mark.
Authors are invited to use supra and infra, which are particularly suited to non-paginated online publishing. Similarly, mentioning the paragraph numbers of online papers is encouraged – note that Criminocorpus does number each paragraph for this purpose.
Illustrations may be submitted as traditional documents (print photographs or drawings) or, preferably, in digital form. The resolution of scanned documents should be 300 dpi at 100% for photographs, postcards, etc. Preferred file formats for scanned documents are JPG, PDF, TIFF; PSD and PDD are accepted for Adobe Photoshop documents. For any other format, please consult the editorial board.
Tables should consist of actual tables (i.e., lines and columns) as opposed to tabulated text.
Captions should be clear and self-contained, such that no reference to the text is necessary.
Hypertext links: citations using hypertext links should point to stable URLs, and the link should be placed after the reference. For example: Jean-Marc Berlière, « Images de la police : deux siècles de fantasmes ? », Criminocorpus, revue hypermédia [En ligne], Histoire de la police, Articles, mis en ligne le 01 janvier 2009. URL: http://criminocorpus.revues.org/206. If available, please mention the permalink (ARK for Gallica, DOI for revues.org…).
Quality of Exhibits: to guarantee against mistakes, the quality of tables and figures should allow them to be reproduced “as is”, whilst remaining legible if scaled down (borders in particular should be thick enough, and letters and symbols large enough).
3.3. References (Footnotes and Bibliography)
Archival Sources : All archival sources should mention the country, city, repository, and precise reference number(s) of the material.
Printed Historical Resources and References:
- Book: Jean Imbert, La peine de mort, Paris, PUF, coll. Que sais-je ? n° 1834, 1989, 128 p ; 2e éd., 1993, 127 p ; 3e éd., 1998, 126 p.
- Collective book: Régis Bertrand, Anne Carol (dir.), L’exécution capitale, une mort donnée en spectacle XVIe-XXe siècle, Aix-en-Provence, Publications de l’Université de Provence, 2003, 282 p.
- Article in a collective book: Raymonde Monnier, « La question de la peine de mort sous la Révolution française », in Xavier Rousseaux, Marie-Sylvie Dupont-Bouchat, Claude Vael (dir.), Révolutions et justice pénale en Europe. Modèles français et traditions nationales, Paris, L’Harmattan, 1999, p. 225-242.
- Journal Article: Jacques-Guy Petit, « L’amendement ou l’entreprise de réforme morale des prisonniers en France au XIXe siècle », Déviance et Société, 1982, n° 4, p. 331-352.
The select bibliography lists the main bibliographical references (please mention first names in full whenever possible) in alphabetical order, at the end of the article. The only difference with footnotes is that the last name of the author should appear in small caps before their first name.
Multimedia Sources & Iconography: Sound samples, motion pictures, photographs may be used to illustrate the article or demonstrate something. The sources may only be included if copyright-free, or if copyright owners explicitly allowed the author to use them for free. Credit should be given accurately (individual or institutional owner, author, number(s), etc.), and the references should be located precisely in the text.
4. Contact us
You may email the editorial board at: redaction@criminocorpus.org
Complete mailing address of Criminocorpus:
Criminocorpus / Clamor
CLAMOR – CNRS UAR 3726
Campus Condorcet
Bâtiment Nord – 4e étage
14, cours des Humanités
93322 Aubervilliers CEDEX
France