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Open to all authors

Football(s). Histoire, culture, économie, société is committed to openness and inclusivity in scholarly publishing without author-facing charges for reading or publishing.

We welcome submissions from all authors, regardless of their institutional affiliation, geographical location, or academic status.

Submissions only must align with the aims and scope of the journal and meet the required quality standards once the reviewing process is completed.

Community-owned 

Football(s). Histoire, culture, économie, société is owned by Université Marie et Louis Pasteur a public institution dedicated to advancing research and scholarship. The journal’s ownership and governance structure reflect its mission to support open and accessible academic publishing. We confirm that any commercial service providers involved in our operations only deal with service-related aspects of journal publishing. All content-related aspects of publishing such as submission, peer review, acceptance, publication frequency and scope of the journal are controlled by the editors / the owners of the journal. 

Composition of the journal

Each issue of Football(s). Histoire, culture, économie, société is structured around a thematic dossier defined by the editorial committee, which solicits authors directly and issues calls for papers. Several sections complement this thematic dossier:

  • The ‘Archives’, ‘Football Heritage’ and ‘Football Objects’ sections are designed to complement the thematic dossiers and follow the same process. The “Archives” and ‘Football Heritage’ sections are limited to 30,000 characters, while ‘Football Objects’ is limited to 15,000.

  • The ‘Researchers wearing studs’ section welcomes unsolicited submissions on topics related to current issues in football or ongoing research in the humanities and social sciences related to these ball games.

  • The ‘Offside’ section welcomes unsolicited submissions on topics related to current issues in football or ongoing research in the humanities and social sciences related to ball games.

  • The ‘Key figures’ section consists of interviews with important figures in football (men or women), including former players, coaches, journalists, artists and scientists.

  • The ‘Football media library’ section brings together reviews of books, comics and films related to football.

  • The ‘Football Classics’ section revisits a pioneering work that laid the foundations for the academic approach to football.

  • The ‘Correspondence from abroad’ section brings together texts from football correspondents around the world who share news about the cultural, historical and heritage aspects of football.

Submission and evaluation process

Articles submitted to the journal may not exceed 30,000 characters (including notes and spaces), not including the article title, metadata and final bibliography. They must be accompanied by an abstract in French and English of 800 characters each (120 words), an English translation of the title and a list of 5 keywords in French and English (written without capital letters except for proper nouns). They should be sent to the journal in Word format to paul.dietschy[at]umlp.fr and sophie.lorioz[at]umlp.fr. All images must also be provided in separate files with good resolution (minimum 300 dpi, vector or .tiff format).

After validation by the editorial committee, the article will be submitted to two experts for review. In the case of positive feedback, the author must amend their submitted article taking these opinions into consideration and send the amended version to the journal. Once approved by the journal, this accepted version will be included in the editorial process for the corresponding issue and the appropriate section. A non-exclusive transfer agreement must be signed and returned to the journal’s editorial team at the same time as the author’s final version.

The average time between submission and publication of an article is 30 weeks.

If the reviews are negative, the author will be notified immediately and the article will not be accepted.

Instructions for authors

Body of the text

Texts should be submitted without complex formatting. Headings should be clearly structured and visible; the body of the text and long quotations should be clearly differentiated.

The following conventions must be strictly adhered to:

  • Capital letters must be emphasised.

  • In French, centuries must be written in Roman numerals, in small capitals, with the e in superscript.

  • In French, the names of major sporting events, whether periodic or not, are generally written with a capital letter for the first noun and any preceding adjective.

  • The numbering of footnotes always starts at 1 at the beginning of each unit. Any clarification by the author or editor regarding a text (reference to a thesis or other work on which the article is based) is made in a paragraph directly below the title of the article and not in a footnote. This brief text will be converted into an editorial or author’s note during the editing process and will therefore not be included in the numbering of footnotes.

  • In general, the journal follows the practices and standards set out in the Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l’Imprimerie nationale (Lexicon of typographical rules in use at the National Printing Office).

Tables

Standard tables will be created in Word. If they require a background colour or other enhancements, please provide an Illustrator file (Myriad Pro 8pt font). For longer tables, an Excel file can be provided and will be reworked.

Illustrations

Illustrations must be provided in a separate file, accompanied by reproduction authorisations.

They should be saved in uncompressed TIFF format or vector format (.eps) with a minimum quality of 600 dpi for colour (CMYK colour space) and 300 dpi for black and white (in terms of file size, images must be at least 800 KB – for a cover design, files must be at least 1 MB). As PDF is not an image format, it is not recommended.

In the final format, any lower resolution will result in a proportional reduction or even removal of the figure in the published version.

If a caption is included in the image file itself, it should be written in Myriad Pro font (8pt, max. 10 pt).

The location of figures is indicated in the text by clearly noting the title of the figure, its caption (commentary and details about the figure) and its credits (sources, copyright, rights holder).

Illustrations may also be placed at the end of the article, in the form of appendices before the bibliography, under the heading ‘Figures’.

Authors are responsible for requesting and providing authorisation for the reproduction of illustrations. The journal will only publish images that are free of copyright or for which the rights have been acquired. The editorial team reserves the right to reject any illustrations that could be subject to dispute.

We recommend using resources distributed under open licences (e.g. CC BY) such as those available on Wikimedia Commons or other platforms.

Internal references to a number

References to a page in the submitted file should be avoided, as the page numbering will change and will not be relevant for the digital version. The name of the paper to which the author is referring should be indicated, along with ‘p. XXXXXXXX’; this field will be filled in during the editorial process.

Quotations

Quotations in Latin are always italicised without quotation marks. Quotations in vernacular languages are always placed between quotation marks and in roman type. Omissions from the quoted text are indicated by square brackets [...].

In the case of long quotations (more than three lines), they should appear without quotation marks in a separate paragraph in a smaller font size.

References to quotations are given in footnotes and not in parentheses in the text. They follow the bibliographic standards indicated below.

Bibliographical references

Bibliographical references contained in footnotes and at the end of the article must be entered, according to their nature, in accordance with the following standards:

  • Books: François da Rocha Carneiro, Les Bleus et la Coupe. De Kopa à Mbappé, Paris, Éditions du Détour, 2020 (p. x if referring to a specific passage).

  • Book chapter: Joris Vincent, « De 1888 à 1987 une histoire singulière de l’internationalisation du jeu rugby. De la logique discriminante de tournées internationales à la genèse d’une coupe de monde de rugby », in Jean-Yves Guillain (dir.), Regards sur la planète ovale, Volume 1, Biarritz-Paris, Atlantica / Musée National du Sport, 2007, p. 149-176.

  • Print journal article: Joseph Jurt, « La Nouvelle Allemagne: quels symboles ? » Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 1993, no 98, p. 43-58. When citing a journal as a source, do not simply italicise the title and publication date, but also add the title of the article in quotation marks, e.g.: « Dopo la parola del Duce. Basta coi regionalismi! », Il Littoriale, 28 July 1932.

  • Article from an electronic journal: Indicate the journal references as above and add Available at: URL… (Accessed on: Date).

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