The submission of an article is free of charge.

In order to submit a proposal or a text, it is necessary to be registered as an author: contact the editors (fixxion21[at]gmail.com) who will send you a form to collect your contact information and complete the registration process.

Proposals for articles and final texts will also be sent to the editors of the journal, who will forward them to the editors of the issue.
The proposal (title + text of 300 words maximum) will be accompanied by a paragraph indicating the issue to which you would like to submit your article, your name and affiliation, a short abstract (150 words maximum) and 3 to 5 keywords to identify the article. The abstract and keywords can also accompany the final text.

Typescripts must be received by December 1 (June issue) or June 1 (December issue).

Editorial protocol

In order to ensure the uniform layout of contributions to the journal, we have provided a detailed description of the electronic submission guidelines for your article.

General guidelines

• Document: MSWord, version 97-2008 or later (.doc or .docx)

• Maximum length: 5000 to 6000 words, including notes (= 10 pages in A4) (= 30 000 to 36 500 characters, including spaces)

• Notes: endnotes

• Quotation marks: English style (“example”) without inner spaces

Styles of the Word document

It is essential to assign these styles to the corresponding elements in your paper, respecting the names we propose:

Basic styles		Other predefined styles :
text subhead subhead level 2 quotation	fixnorm fixint fixint2 fixcit	title epigraph no numbered § signature endnote hyperlink	fixtit fixex fixnonr fixauteur fixnote fixlink

Please do find all these styles in the MSWord template created for the journal.

Conventions

Quotations

• Quotations of primary sources in French or in English are left in the original; that is, quotations in French will not require an English translation, and vice versa.

• Quotations of secondary sources in other languages should be accompanied by their translation into the language of the article (with the notation : « my translation »).

• An ellipsis within the quotation will be indicated by […].
  If an ellipsis is already present in the source text, (…) will be maintained.

• Offset quotations in a separate paragraph (style fixcit) have no quotation marks.
  If the quoted passage already contains quotation marks, replace this foregrounding procedure by putting the sequence in italics
  (in order to avoid the accumulation of quotation marks - even if you have to change de formatting of the original text).
  In the body text also, use italics to emphasize an expression.

Insertion of an endnote reference

• at the end of a sentence : the reference should be inserted before the last punctuation mark (.,;:?!/)
  eg. […] dans cette perspective³. […]

• at the end of a quotation in the body text : between the quotation mark and the punctuation mark
  eg. […] avec ses damiers festonnés”⁷, […]

• at the end of a foregrounded quotation (style 0Fix_Citation) : the reference comes after the final punctuation mark
  eg. […] mes erreurs de jeunesse.¹²

Notes

Please mark the option “Endnotes” while inserting the first note.
Please insert a tabulation after creating an endnote (and before entering text).

If several quotations come from the same text and

• they are consecutive : the use of ibid. will lighten the note system.

• they are not consecutive : you should create a recognizable abbreviation of the title and mention it in the first note (Laurent Mauvignier, Apprendre à finir, Paris, Minuit, 2000, p. xxx; henceforth/ dorénavant AF)
  For subsequent quotations – in the body text, in offset quotations or even in notes -, this abbreviation with the page number (AF 24) will suffice. Insertion guidelines : see above.

Bibliographic entry

First Name + Last Name, Title of the book / “Title of the article”,  Name éd./éds// ed./eds  trad./trads//transl., City, Publisher, Year, <Collection>, p. xx-xxx.

Use of capitals in titles:

• French title : La comédie humainefirst letter + first letter of subtitle

• English title: The Life and Death of a Common Ladyfirst letter + all nouns and adjectives

• German or Spanish title : Ironie in alltäglichem Gebrauchfirst letter + all nouns

Spaces

The standard spacing provided by the word-processor will do.
Please

• do not put inner spaces for the <Collection>
  (and do insert the name of the collection AFTER the year)

• do put a tabulation at the beginning of a note (see above).

Please adhere strictly to these guidelines. The editorial staff will decline any submission that does not respect the above-mentionned principles.

Submission preparation checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submissionhas notbeen published yet,andit is notcurrently consideredby another journal(oranexplanation has been providedin your Supplementary file).

2. Thesubmission file has one of these file formats :.doc, .docx,.rtf,or .wp

The text conforms to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in Author Guidelines.

The text

• uses the styles fixnorm (fixnonr), fixcit and fixint (fixint2)

• uses “english quotes” without inner spaces

• uses italics rather than bold or underlining (except for URLs)

• Illustrations and tables are inserted in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.

• All references are given in endnotes (CRCFF does not accept final bibliography)
  When possible, the URLs of the references were provided.

Copyright notice

The contentof this review isunder Creative Commons license.

The contract stipulates thatthe contentsof this sitemaybesharedor citedprovided that they meet thefollowing three rules:

• Attribution (attribute the original author);

• No commercial use;

• No change (not the right to modify, alter or adapt the content).

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work

The texts of the Critical Review of Contemporary French Fixxion are made available under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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The names and addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes specified by the journal and will never be used for any other purpose or be disclosed to a third party.

Section policies

Avant-propos

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Introduction

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Etudes

Constituting the core of the review, this category invites submissions of studies of about ten pages in length, to be published upon the recommendation of the editorial committee after undergoing a double-blind peer review. Well aware of the exigencies of biblio-metrics, we are working towards obtaining recognition of the journal in these terms.
Each issue will have a specific theme in order to encourage multiple perspectives on a given topic. Scholarly in tone and presentation, articles should nevertheless also be more generally accessible to interested readers.  In addition to the central question addressed in each issue, other stand-alone contributions may also be proposed.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Interview

Proposes an interview of an author by a specialist in the field attentive to issues that literary journalists might ordinarily overlook.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Correspondence

Invites a writer or an academic to address another writer in the form of a letter. This type of written exchange will permit a more elaborate exploration of a specific question than would be possible in an interview. A writer may also wish to engage an academic on the topic of his or her critical approach to literature.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Carte blanche

This space gives contemporary authors the freedom to express themselves not only through the written word, but also through images or sound.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

(Re-)Reading

Shines a spotlight on a particular author in order to introduce his or her work to a wider audience.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer review process

All studies are published on the recommendation of an editorial committee under the principles of double blind review by peers.

Publication frequency

The papers are due

• before December 1 (June 15 issue)

• or before June 1 (December 15 issue).