Editorial standards

Documents for the history of French as a foreign or second language (DHFLES)

Length of the text:

• For talks: 30 000 – 35 000 characters, spaces, notes, bibliographical references, abstracts and key-words included

• For lectures: up to 60 000 characters

NB: When making a choice, the Scientific committee will base its decision on criteria of quality and scientific interest, which explains the relative liberty as to the number of characters. The Committee reserves the right to require contributors to reduce the number of characters (even if the limit is not reached).

Software: Word (.doc or .docx)

Font: Times New Roman 12

Metadata of the article

In the following order:

• Title

• First name – Family name: if the name is double, separate the two names by an unbreakable space [Ctrl, Shift and Spacebar]; do not write the family name in capitals, a capital for the first letter is sufficient.

• Affiliation

• Electronic mail

• Abstract in French: 10 to 15 lines

• Abstract in English: 10 to 15 lines

• Key words: between 5 and 8 – no capitals except for proper nouns or specific conventions for a given language; no full-stop after the last key word – if the key word is an author, give the family name only.

An example:

https://journals.openedition.org/dhfles/7287

Page Layout

1. Select French as the language in your software so that quotation marks like « … » and unbreakable spaces before punctuation marks : ; ? ! appear automatically.

2. Times New Roman 12. Line spacing 1.5. Alignment left and right. No indentation at the beginning of paragraphs.

Italics are only used for foreign words, for emphasis, for titles of works, for collections, for journals and periodicals; bold will only be used for titles, sub-titles, specific to the document. Underlining is to be avoided. Write capitals with accents and other diacritics. For centuries, sovereigns and popes, use Roman numerals, thus: in the XVIIIth century, Louis XIV, Benedict XVI. For acronyms written in capitals there must be no full-stops between the letters (AIU and not A.I.U.)

3. Headings

• are to be used to avoid texts that are too compact

• no numbers and no indentation

• no more than 3 levels of headings

4. Footnotes

• references to footnotes with numbers in superscript before the full-stop, for example -: … specialised communication¹. « … religious orders»².

• footnotes at the bottom of the page are informative, explanatory.

• Times New Roman 10

5. Quotations

• Short quotations (maximum two or three lines): integrated within the text, between quotation marks.

• Quotations longer than four lines: indented (2 cm) right and left, no quotation marks, Times New Roman 10.

• Foreign language quotations in an article in French: integrate the translation into French in the body of the article and put the original text in a footnote if wished.

• Use […] for a break in the text quoted.

6. Punctuation marks

• an unbreakable space before and after « double » punctuation marks: « ... » : ; ? ! but not for brackets

• use single quotation marks for internal quotes ‘…’.

• for passages in a foreign language or titles of an article in a foreign language, keep French-style typographic quotes.

• for dashes, distinguish between the hyphen, small with no space on either side (linking the words) and the bigger dash, with an unbreakable space before and after.

7. Numbers and figures

• in letters up to sixteen, in figures from 17 onwards.

• in a list, they are in figures.

• numbers with more than three figures: insert an unbreakable space (and not a full-stop) every three digits, to mark the thousands. To insert an unbreakable space, press at the same time Ctrl, Shift and Spacebar.

8. Dates

• days: in figures and not in letters, linked to the name of the month by an unbreakable space, 2nd December, 1st January

• months: never abbreviated, no capital letter.

• years: always in figures. Use four figures eg. the 1960s. One can also write « the fifties».

• centuries: always in Roman numerals, followed by a simple superscript eg. XIXth century.

9. Various abbreviations

cf. ; sic ; supra ; infra ; ibid. ; ibid. : 9 ; vol. ; t. 9 ; p. 212.

Bibliographic references

In the body of the text, follow the model « author-date »: « … » (Ghiotti 1884: 5); (Pellandra 1998a : 36)

Family names (of authors) in small capitals

In the bibliography that is at the end of the article and only concerns the works cited, distinguish between primary sources (archival documents or printed sources) and secondary sources (studies). Write the family name of authors in small capitals and follow the models below. For a monograph:

WILMET Marc (2007). Grammaire rénovée du français. Bruxelles : De Boeck & Larcier.

If the edition used is other than the first edition, indicate the latter in square brackets:

PUREN Christian (1998) [1988]). Histoire des méthodologies de l’enseignement des langues. Paris: Nathan CLE International.

If the work has several authors:

PERELMAN Chaïm et OLBRECHTS-TYTECA Lucie (1983). Traité de l’argumentation. La nouvelle rhétorique. Bruxelles : Édition de l’université de Bruxelles.

VIATTE Auguste, LUTHI Jean-Jacques et ZANANIRI Gaston (1986). Dictionnaire général de la francophonie. Paris : Letouzey et Ané.

For one to three authors, write the name of each author. For four or more, write the name of the first author followed by et alii or et al.

For an article published in a journal:

PELLANDRA Carla (1993). « Le débat sur la méthode directe en Italie ». Études de linguistique appliquée 90, 40-49.

SANCHEZ-SUMMERER Karène (2010). « Les catholiques palestiniens et la langue française (1870-1950) ». Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde 45 [Karène Sanchez-Summerer (dir.). Langue française, identité(s) et école(s) : le cas de la minorité catholique au Levant (milieu XIX^e-XX^e siècles). Représentations identitaires et apprentissage des langues : Europe, bassin méditerranéen (XVI^e-XX^e siècles)], 17-39.

For an article published in a collective work:

FRIJHOFF Willem (2008). « Was the Dutch Republic a Calvinist Community? The State, the Confessions, and Culture in the Early Modern Netherlands ». In André Holenstein, Thomas Maissen & Maarten Prak (dir.). The Republican Alternative: The Netherlands and Switzerland compared. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 99-122.

ROCHE François (2002). « Pour une géopolitique de la culture ». In François Roche (dir.). La Culture dans les relations internationales. Collection Les Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Italie et Méditerranée (MEFRIM). Vol. 114, 11-38.

Special cases

Archival documents:

In the bibliography, start with the more general to reach the specific case: where it is kept, collection consulted (with eventual number), titles and/or numbers of dossiers consulted.

Archives de l’Alliance israélite universelle (AIU), dossier Bulgarie XXIII E 159.

Archives du ministère français des Affaires étrangères (MAE), Paris, Mémoires et Documents, Turquie, 7A (1710-1771).

Academic works:

BOCQUET, Jérôme, Le collège Saint-Vincent des pères lazaristes de Damas : l’enseignement français en Syrie (1864-1967). Thèse de doctorat, Université de Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), 3 vol. (1040 p.).

Foreign works

Romance languages:

FAMILY NAME First name (year of publication). Complete title (with capitals for important words and French punctuation) [it is possible to put a translation of the title in square brackets, no italics]. Place of publication (in the language of the journal):

Eg.: Firenze becomes Florence, Napoli becomes Naples, Granada becomes Grenade, Leiden becomes Leyde): publisher.

KIBBEE Douglas (1991). For to Speke Frenche Trewely : The French Language in England, 1000-1600 : Its Status, Description and Instruction. Amsterdam/ Philadelphie : Benjamins.

FLOOD John L. (2000). « German Studies and Collections since 1830 ». In Graham Jefcoate, William A. Kelly & Karen Kloth (dir.). Handbuch historischer Buchbestände in Europa. A guide to Collections of Books Printed in German-Speaking Countries before 1901 (or in German elsewhere) held by Libraries in Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 10. Hildesheim: Olms, 28-33.

Non-Romance languages

Use transliteration for the family name/first name of the author and place of publication. The title must be in the original language with a translation in square brackets.

BOULITCH Sergueї (1904). Очерк истории языкознания в России [Essai d’une histoire de la linguistique en Russie]. Saint-Pétersbourg.

TSOUKALAS, Constantin (2006 [1975]). Εξάρτηση και αναπαραγωγή. Ο κοινωνικός ρόλος των εκπαιδευτικών μηχανισμών στην Ελλάδα (1830-1922) [Dépendance et reproduction. Le rôle social des appareils scolaires en Grèce]. Athènes : Thémélio.

Referencing electronic sources

MINERVA Nadia (2009). « Apprendre les langues au XVIe siècle : Le Vocabulaire de trois langues, cestassavoir latine, italienne et francoyse ». Documents pour l’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde, 42 | 2009 [Maria Eugenia Fernandez Fraile et Javier Suso López (dir.). Approches contrastives et multilinguisme dans l’enseignement des langues en Europe (XVI^e-XX^e siècles)]. Online: <http://dhfles.revues.org/154> (01 novembre 2011).

Tables/Figures

In Word, with numbering (Table 1., etc.) and a key

Publication of images

• Digital format: jpeg.

• 300 dpi minimum, format 10 x 10 cm minimum, 20 x 20 cm maximum.

• The images must be accompanied by a caption in a Word.rtf document; each image file must have a caption.

For texts in English, authors are asked to refer to the norms and recommendations of the APA https://apastyle.apa.org/