Author Guidelines
Plan
Haut de pageThe journal Études sur le XVIIIe siècle publishes only original articles, after double-blind evaluation. Submissions may be written in either French or English and should be no longer than 50,000 characters (approximately 7,000 words). They must be accompanied by :
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an abstract in French and English
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a list of 10 keywords in French and English
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a 5-line biography of the author
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a bibliography
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any illustrations ( free of copyright)
The journal Études sur le XVIIIe siècle publishes thematic issues.
All volumes include at least one index.
Please respect the following editorial protocol.
Presentation of Bibliographical References
Outside quotations, the footnote is always placed after the punctuation mark (full stop, etc.) (Servitude was the social condition of the working classes.1 But: Servitude was the ‘social condition’1 of the working classes.
References to works are only made in footnotes, not within the text.
Footnotes, and more specifically references placed in footnotes, begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop. When several references are cited one after the other, they are separated by a semicolon.
In footnotes, bibliographic references are presented as follows:
First name Last name, Title of book, place, publisher, year, p. x-y.
First name Last name, ‘Title of contribution’, in Title of main publication, place, publisher, year, p. x-y.
First name Last name, ‘Title of article’, Name of journal, volume.issue, year, p. x-y.
The specification for an Internet reference corresponds to that of a journal article, followed by the URL address and, in brackets, the date of consultation preceded by ‘Retrieved on’.
In the final bibliography, the bibliographical references are classified by type of source, then in alphabetical order, and presented as follows:
Last Name, F., Title of book, place, publisher, year.
Last name, First name, ‘Title of contribution’, in Title of main publication, place, publisher, year, p. x-y.
Last name, First name, ‘Title of article’, Name of journal, year, volume.issue, p. x-y.
Punctuation
one. Two
, one, two
; one; two (preceded by a non-breaking space)
: one: two (preceded by a non-breaking space)
? one? Two (preceded by a non-breaking space)
! one! Two (preceded by a non-breaking space)
“” “one" (with non-breaking spaces)
“one ‘two’ one”
– one – two – one (with en dashes – not em dashes – and non-breaking spaces)
- one-two
p. 1 with non-breaking space.
t. 1 with non-breaking space.
n° 1 with non-breaking space.
vol. 1 with non-breaking space.
Quotations
# A quotation is never italicized, unless it is in a foreign language (► “To be or not to be.” ► « Être ou ne pas être. »)
# If the quotation consists of several words and is merged into the sentence (it therefore begins with a lower case letter), the punctuation is placed at the end of the sentence, inside the inverted commas. (►According to Hannah Arendt, servitude was “the social condition of the working classes.”)
# If the quotation is a whole sentence, whether or not introduced by a colon, the punctuation is placed before the closing inverted commas (► “Servitude was the social condition of the working classes.”)
# Passages omitted from quotations are indicated by [...]. Never place [...] at the beginning or end of a quotation. A quotation is by definition incomplete.
# When a quotation ends with a final punctuation mark, no punctuation is placed after the closing inverted commas (► He exclaimed: “The project is risky!” We then abandoned it without a second thought.)
# A footnote referring to a quotation is always placed after the closing inverted commas and is not preceded by a space (► “To be or not to be.”1).
# The quotation must be reproduced verbatim to the comma, except for errors which must be eliminated. If you wish to keep an error to draw attention to it, indicate "[sic]" immediately after the error.
# When an oral intervention is quoted, it must be reproduced legibly, free of all errors typical of oral language.
Other language
# When a quotation is in a language other than French, it is placed in italics, despite the presence of inverted commas (► "To be or not to be.").
# Within the passage in the other language, whether it is a quotation or a bibliographical reference, the typographical rules follow those of that language (► "To be or not to be: that's the question” : no space before punctuation in all languages except French. ► A Woman of No Importance: all the main words in an English title are capitalised).
# An organisation in a foreign language remains in Roman (► Marine nationale).
# Whatever the language of the reference, the specification for a bibliographical reference complies with the rules of the text's language, generally French (► Eichmann in Jerusalem. Ein Bericht von der Banalität des Bösen, Munich, Piper, 1964. ► “Was ist Existenzphilosophie?”, in Sechs Essays, Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Anton Hain, 1990), but possibly English or Dutch in the case of a collective work where the contributions are in the language of their author.
# When only one word is quoted in a foreign language, its gender is that of its translation into French, even if it is not that of the original language (► le Sonne éclatant).
Miscellaneous
# Numbers are written out in full except for dates, years, times, numbers that are too large, or in an enumeration (► there were 12 girls, 3 boys, 8 chairs, and 7 tables).
# Thousands are separated from hundreds, millions from thousands, etc. by a comma (►1,234,567,890).
# Spell out and lowercase the first through ninth century. Use ordinal numbers for all others (including future centuries); superscript the letters. (For more on ordinal numbers, scroll down.) Hyphenate centuries when used as adjectives: 20th century.
# Write “the 1960s” not “the sixties.”
# Write: "on the basis of" and not “based on."
# Write: “compensate for something” not “compensate something.”
# Internal references to a text are made using the full title of the chapter or subtitle, never a page, note, or chapter number.
# Write cf. and not cfr.
# We write nO with the letter [o] and not n° with a degree sign.
# Never insert a non-breaking space between a symbol and the number that follows or precedes it (► €100, 10%).
# Decimals are separated from the whole number by a point (1.51%).
# To isolate a member of a sentence, use the en dash (–) before and after it, never the hyphen or the em dash.
# Never make manual cuts in words.


