Writing Guidelines
Plan
Haut de pageThe editorial team reminds authors that strict adherence to the guidelines is part of the evaluation criteria for articles. Authors are encouraged to strictly follow the guidelines below. The length of the articles is 30,000 characters, including spaces, bibliography, abstracts, and keywords. Each article must be preceded by an abstract in three languages. Texts should be submitted in Word format.
The author guarantees that their text is unpublished, entirely original, and contains no borrowings from another work of any kind that could engage the publisher's liability.
General Information
The entire text should be composed in "Normal" style. Authors who wish to highlight a term may do so using italics or bold, but never underlining. Avoid using capital letters in titles and the text as much as possible. The first page has a specific presentation detailed below, and the article always starts on page 2.
Composition of the First Page of the Article
The title of the article ("Title" style) should be informative and concise (no more than two lines). The author must provide versions of the title in two languages other than that of the article. The authors' first and last names, along with their contact information (institutional affiliation and email address), should be provided in the "Author" style.
The abstract ("Abstract" style) and keywords ("Keywords" style) must be provided in two languages other than that of the article.
Composition of the Following Pages
The texts should be presented in "Normal" style.
Do not insert a character at the beginning of the paragraph to indicate indentation.
Do not write words, titles, author names, etc., entirely in uppercase (except for acronyms) ; capitalize only the first letter when appropriate.
Avoid using the words introduction and conclusion as titles.
Citations
Citations should be presented in quotation marks and in italics, size 10. The author’s first and last name should be indicated in regular characters (no capitals). Specify the page of the citation. Citations should be integrated into the text unless they are particularly long, in which case the "Long Quotation" style should be used. Citations exceeding 7 lines require the author’s permission.
“Long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation long quotation…”
Footnote References and Notes
Footnote references should be placed right after the last letter of the final word of the citation (therefore before the punctuation), right after the last letter of the author’s name.
Example for footnote references: “ahira bahira cahira dahira eahira gahira hahira jahira ahira bahira cahira dahira eahira gahira hahira jahira1.”
Latin Phrases
Non-francized Latin phrases should be italicized in a roman text and, conversely, written in roman in an italicized text.
ad hoc, ad libitum, a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, bis, grosso modo, ibidem or ibid., idem or id., in extenso, in extremis, in fine, infra, locus citatum or loc. cit., statu quo, modus vivendi, opus citatum or op. cit., passim, quater, sic, supra, ter, via, vice-versa…
When these phrases begin a sentence, the first letter should be capitalized.
Footnotes
They should be in the "Footnote" style.
In-text Notes
In-text notes are bibliographic notes inserted directly into the text in parentheses.
For an author whose work you cite only once: (Author’s Last Name, Page), e.g., (Ela, 54).
For an author from whom you cite several works or articles:
(Author’s Last Name, Year of Publication: Page), e.g., (Amin, 1985: 54).
For an author from whom you cite several works or articles published in the same year: (Author’s Last Name, Year of Publication Letter: Page), e.g., (Ellul 1985a: 54).
Figures and Tables
Figures, illustrations, and tables should be incorporated into the text. Figures and illustrations should be numbered from 1 to n within the article, and tables should be numbered similarly. Explicit captions should accompany them ("Caption" style). Authors wishing to include illustrations must obtain reproduction permissions and attach them with the article submission (each illustration must be saved in high-definition JPEG format (300 dpi for photos) in a separate file).
Punctuation
For texts written in French:
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The following symbols [ : ; ? %] should have a non-breaking space before and a space after.
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The comma and the period should not have a space before them.
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Typographic quotation marks should have “a non-breaking space before.”
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The symbols: (parentheses), {curly brackets}, [square brackets] should not have spaces inside them.
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Ellipsis... (no space before).
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A space should be placed before and after the following symbols: = + -.
For texts written in English, the typography is different (no space before the symbols: ; ? % and “quotation marks” without a space).
Use Roman numerals for centuries following this format : I, II, III…
Bibliography
References should be compiled in the "Bibliography" style and listed at the end of the article following the APA format.
Individual Work
Author (Last Name + abbreviated first name). Year (in parentheses). Title (in italics). Place of publication: Publisher.
Example : Soupizet J.-F. (2004). La fracture numérique Nord-Sud. Paris : Economica.
Edited Volumes or Journal Issues Coordinated by an Editor
Always use (ed.) as the abbreviation for “edited by” or its equivalent in either French or English, regardless of the number of editors.
Book Chapter
Author (Last Name + abbreviated first name). (Year). Title of the chapter. Editor (ed.), Title of the Book (Pages). Place of publication: Publisher.
Example : Samba A. (1999). Anorexie mentale. In: Bloch H. (ed.), Grand dictionnaire de la psychologie (pp. 61-62). Paris: Larousse.
Article in a Print Journal
Author (Last Name + abbreviated first name). (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, volume(issue), start page - end page.
Example : Rousseau, F. L. & Vallerand, R. J. (2003). Le rôle de la passion dans le bien-être subjectif des ainés. Revue québécoise de psychologie, 24(3), 197-211.
Article in an Online Journal
Author (Last Name + abbreviated first name). (Year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, volume(issue), start page - end page.
Example: Gagnon, L., Peretz, I., & Fulop, T. (2009). Musical structural determinants of emotional judgments in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychology, 23(1), 90-97. http://journals.lww.com/neuroreport
Example: Navarro, R. D. (2013). El estado del conocimiento sobre la educación mediada por ambientes virtuales de aprendizaje. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 56, 90-97. http://goo.gl/cv7r2.
Conference
Author(s) Name, Initial(s). (Year, Month). Title of the presentation. Paper presented at the Name of the conference, Location.
Example: Richard, E. and Annot, E. (2014, May). The entry into the teaching-researcher profession. Paper presented at the 28th AIPU Congress, Mons (Belgium).
Dissertation or Thesis
Author(s) Name, Initial(s). (Year). Title (Type of degree, University Name, Location).
Example: Maire, H. (2016). From discomfort to self-awareness (Doctoral thesis, University of Lorraine, Nancy).
Website or Web Page
Author(s) Name or Organization (Year of publication or update). Title of the site or page. Online: URL address.
Example: World Health Organization. (2017). Tuberculosis. Online: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en.