Submitting an Article

Articles must be submitted to the following address: ethnoecologie@openedition.org

They must be written in French, English or Spanish.

Articles may be unsolicited, submitted in response to a call for papers or commissioned. Thematic issues and thematic sections are managed by an editor responsible for their planning and coordination, with the support of associate editors. The editors of thematic issues and sections may or may not be members of the journal’s Editorial Committee or Editorial Board. All articles submitted for publication undergo initial screening by the Editorial Committee, followed by double-blind peer review by at least two external reviewers.

Calls for Papers and Commissioned Articles

The editors of a thematic issue or thematic section circulate a call for papers to specialists in the relevant field. Working with the Editorial Committee, they oversee the editorial process for these articles, including double-blind peer review. They then submit the table of contents and, in due course, the complete articles, together with their illustrations, abstracts and keywords, to the journal’s editorial office.

Unsolicited Articles

On receipt of a submission, the journal’s Editorial Committee carries out an initial assessment to check that the manuscript is consistent with the editorial policy of Revue d’ethnoécologie and meets the standards of scholarly writing. Manuscripts that pass this initial screening are sent for peer review.

Double-Blind Peer Review

All articles, with the exception of editorial content, undergo double-blind peer review. Reviewers’ reports are sent to the journal and, where applicable, to the editor of the thematic issue or thematic section. After consulting the Editorial Committee, the editor-in-chief makes the editorial decision: acceptance, acceptance subject to minor revisions, a request for major revision, or rejection. The author is notified of this decision by email.

The editorial team sets a deadline for authors to make any changes requested by the reviewers. The time allowed varies according to the publication schedule.

Where changes are requested, the corresponding author submits the revised manuscript, together with a response to the reviewers, to the person responsible for handling the article. The manuscript may undergo a second round of review, depending on the extent of the changes requested. Authors may then be asked to undertake a further round of revisions.

If the requested corrections are not made, the Editorial Committee reserves the right not to publish the article concerned.

Selection Criteria

Content: the scholarly merit of the submission, assessed in terms of the relevance of the theoretical framework, the quality of the data presented, the methodology used, particularly in articles reporting research findings, and its relevance to the journal’s scope;

Presentation: accuracy of language, clarity and precision of expression, the quality and consistency of the references (compliance with the journal’s referencing style and an exact match between in-text citations and entries in the reference list), and the quality of the illustrations.

Originality of Content

Submitted articles must be original works. Authors are responsible for the originality, scientific integrity and content of their article.

For any document, data, image, table or extract for which they do not hold the rights, authors must obtain explicit permission from the rights holders and clearly acknowledge the source in the article.

Guidelines for Authors

Manuscript Format

Manuscripts must be submitted to the journal by email as electronic files. Paper submissions are not accepted. Formatting should be kept to a minimum to facilitate editorial work, except where needed for italics, superscripts and heading levels. Page size, margins and tab settings must be consistent throughout the document. Foreign words that have not entered common usage in the language of the article must be italicised. Transliterated terms must follow a clearly specified standard, stated at the beginning of the text and applied consistently.

Articles must not exceed 15,000 words, including notes but excluding the reference list.

Formatting Guidelines

• Headings and subheadings must never be numbered.

• Heading levels must be clearly distinguished using bold, italics or different font sizes, preferably by applying the word processor’s built-in heading styles. Headings must never be set entirely in capitals or underlined.

• Capital letters must retain any accents required in the language concerned: É, È, À, etc.

• Do not use underlining.

• Initialisms must be written in capitals, without full stops between the letters: CNRS, INRAE, and EHESS, for example. Well-known acronyms pronounced as words may be written with an initial capital only, e.g. Unesco.

• All initialisms and acronyms must be written out in full at first mention, unless they are universally known.

• Short quotations must be incorporated into the main text, using quotation marks appropriate to the language of the article. Omissions within quotations must be indicated by an ellipsis in square brackets: […].

• Footnotes must be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript, with superscript markers in the text and the notes placed at the bottom of the relevant page. Use footnotes sparingly to provide supplementary information. References must be cited in the main text using the author–date system, rather than in footnotes.

Manuscripts must include:

• An informative title in the language of the article. For articles in French, the title must be accompanied by an English translation; for articles in English, by a French translation; and for articles in Spanish, by translations into French and English.

• The names and full contact details of all authors (surname and given name; discipline and/or position; professional affiliation; full postal address, telephone number and email address). The editorial team will remove these details from the copies sent to reviewers. Any acknowledgements and any information that directly identifies the authors must be removed from the main file.
  For manuscripts with more than one author, the corresponding author must have obtained the consent of all co-authors to act on their behalf. All authors are expected to have contributed to the conception of the article, the analysis, the writing or the revision of its scholarly content, and to participate in any revisions following peer review.

• An abstract in the language of the article. For articles in French, the abstract must be accompanied by an English translation; for articles in English, by a French translation; and for articles in Spanish, by translations into French and English.

• A list of keywords describing the content of the article. Each translated abstract must be followed by keywords translated into the corresponding language.

• A reference list containing all works cited in the text.

References

In-Text Citations

References must be cited in the main text, giving the author’s surname and the year, for example (Bahuchet 2002). For works by two authors, give both surnames followed by the year, for example (Bahuchet & Betsch 2007). For works by more than two authors, give the first author’s surname followed by et al. and the year, for example (Bahuchet et al. 2006). Where several references support the same information, list them in ascending chronological order, for example (Friedberg 1997; Bahuchet & Betsch 2007).
The final reference list must contain all works cited in the text, following the style below.

Book

Surname of each author, followed by their initials, year of publication — Title of the book. Place of publication, publisher (series), number of pages.

Example:
Brush S. B. 2004 — Farmers’ bounty: Locating crop diversity in the contemporary world. New Haven & London, Yale University Press (Yale Agrarian Studies Series), xix + 327 p. DOI: 10.12987/9780300130140

Edited Book

Surname of each editor, followed by their initials, year of publication (dir. or dirs; ed. or eds. for references in English) — Title of the book. Place of publication, publisher (series), number of pages.

Examples:
Roué M. & Nakashima D. (dirs) 2024 — Coproduction entre savoirs autochtones et sciences : Faire face au changement global. Versailles, Éditions Quae, UNESCO (Indisciplines), 176 p. DOI: 10.35690/978-2-7592-3810-1

Ellen R., Parkes P. & Bicker A. (eds.) 2000 — Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations: Critical anthropological perspectives, Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, Taylor & Francis (Studies in environmental anthropology, vol. 5), xii, 351 p.

Chapter in an Edited Book

Surname of each author, followed by their initials, year of publication — Title of the chapter. In surname(s) of the editor(s), Title of the book, place of publication, publisher (series): page range of the chapter.

Example:
McKey D., Elias M., Pujol B. & Duputié A. 2012 — Ecological approaches to crop domestication. In Gepts P., Famula T., Bettinger R., Brush S., Damania A., McGuire P. & Qualset C. (eds.), Biodiversity in agriculture: Domestication, evolution, and sustainability, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 377-406. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139019514.023

Journal Article

Surname of each author, followed by their initials, year of publication — Title of the article. Journal title, volume (issue): page range of the article. DOI. For online publications without a DOI, give the URL and date of access.

Example:
Grenand F. & Haxaire C. 1977 — Monographie d’un abattis wayãpi. JATBA 24 (4): 285-310. DOI: 10.3406/jatba.1977.3296

Tables and Figures

Tables and figures must be inserted at the appropriate point in the manuscript and also supplied as separate files. They must be numbered in Arabic numerals and accompanied by a title and a short caption (Figure 1: Grazing…).

All illustrations must be referred to in the text as Figure 1, Table 1, etc. A list of illustrations with their captions must be placed at the end of the text. Tables, graphs, maps and figures created in other software must be supplied in their original format or as a high-quality export. Vector illustrations (including graphs) must be supplied as vector files; photographs must be supplied as high-resolution JPEG files (300 dpi at the final publication size and, where possible, at least 2,000 pixels wide); line drawings must be supplied in PNG, TIFF or vector PDF format. Authors must therefore provide publication-ready files.

All illustrations must include a credit. For photographs, also provide the location and date of capture. The credit must name the image’s creator and, where applicable, the institution or collection holding it.

Illustrations are published in colour; however, they must remain legible when printed in black and white. Where relevant, authors are encouraged to include fieldwork photographs or other visual material in the formats specified above.

Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission from the rights holders to reproduce photographs, figures or tables. The source must always be acknowledged.

Rights

Authors retain the rights to the text of their submitted manuscript and grant Revue d’ethnoécologie non-exclusive permission to publish it on its website on an open-access basis, under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required to reproduce documents.

For their manuscript to be published on the Revue d’ethnoécologie website, authors warrant:

• that the manuscript is an original work, has not previously been published and is not being submitted simultaneously, in its final form or in a substantially identical form, to another print or electronic publication;

• that their manuscript does not infringe any copyright or third-party rights;

• that, where a manuscript has several authors, they have obtained the agreement of all co-authors to its publication in Revue d’ethnoécologie, and that all co-authors have read and accepted the above provisions.

Authors must request permission to reproduce illustrations and pay any associated fees. The editorial team reserves the right to reject any illustration for which reproduction rights have not been clearly established.

Flowcharts of the Submission and Publication Process

Figure 1: The process for an article submitted to the journal

Source: Revue d’ethnoécologie

A full-resolution version is available in the supplementary files at the bottom of the page.

Figure 2: The process for a thematic issue proposed to the journal

Source: Revue d’ethnoécologie

A full-resolution version is available in the supplementary files at the bottom of the page.

Publication Ethics

The principles followed by Revue d’ethnoécologie in relation to publication ethics, scientific integrity, peer review and the prevention of malpractice are set out in the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement: https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/10803