Instructions to authors
Plan
Haut de pageArticles and images specifically commissioned or prompted by a call for papers should be sent electronically to the editorial secretariat insitu.arss@culture.gouv.fr. Please specify in your message: a postal address and a professional and personal telephone number.
The articles published by In Situ. Au regard des sciences sociales must be original. The author agrees to keep the exclusivity of his or her text to In Situ until notification of acceptance by the editorial board of the journal. The journal In Situ. Au regard des sciences sociales is an online periodical. All articles published on the website are subject to applicable copyright laws.
An article may only be accepted if it is complete (main text, footnotes, bibliography, abstract, keywords, illustrations, captions, and credits).
Delivery Guidelines
Number of characters
Articles submitted to the journal must be between 15,000 and 35,000 characters with spaces and notes, but excluding the bibliography.
Formatting
The article must be sent using a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx) single-spaced in Times New Roman, 12 points. Any specific formatting, particularly the use of styles, must be avoided as the publication software applies automatic formatting.
The article must specify, immediately after its title and subtitle (if applicable):
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The author’s first name and surname,
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The author’s affiliation and title,
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The author’s email address.
Subdivisions must not exceed three levels. For convenience, they may be numbered (but this numbering will not be retained during publication).
Please indicate where each illustration appears (photographs, graphs, maps, etc.) in the text by inserting its number in square brackets: [fig. 1], [fig. 2], etc.
Footnotes should be in Arabic numerals (automatic continuous numbering), in Times New Roman, 10 points.
The article should be submitted with the following separate files:
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an abstract (about 1,500 signs with spaces) and keywords, which will be translated into French,
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a table of illustrations.
References/Bibliography
References used by the author will be grouped in alphanumerical order in the form of a list at the end of the article. They must be presented as follow:
Monograph
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ex. : ROCHE Daniel, 1998 [1990], La Culture des apparences. Une histoire du vêtement, xviie- xviiie siècles, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, coll. « Points », série « Histoire ».
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ex. : PICARD Charles & LA COSTE-MESSELIÈRE Pierre de, 1928, « Les trésors ioniques », Fouilles de Delphes, t. IV, Monuments figurés, fasc. 2, Sculpture, Paris, De Boccard.
Edited books
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ex. : BOISLEVÉ Julien, DARDENAY Alexandra & MONIER Florence (dir.), 2016, Peintures et stucs d’époque romaine. Une archéologie du décor, Bordeaux, Ausonius, coll. « Pictor ».
Contributions to edited books
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ex. : PASTOUREAU Michel, 1994, « Morales de la couleur : le chromoclasme de la Réforme », in JUNOD Philippe & PASTOUREAU Michel (dir.), La Couleur. Regards croisés sur la couleur du Moyen Âge au XXe s., Paris, Léopard d’Or, p. 27-62.
Journal Articles
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ex. : JATON Anne-Marie, 1986, « Du corps paré au corps lavé : une morale du costume et de la cosmétique », xviiie siècle, n° 18, p. 215-226.
Online Journals
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ex. : WARMOES Isabelle, 2017, « Le musée des Plans-reliefs. Diversité des collections (1668-1940) et enjeux contemporains », Artefact. Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines, n° 7, « Os, bois, ivoire et corne : l’exploitation des matières dures d’origine animale », p. 223-230. Available online, https://journals.openedition.org/artefact/1577 [link valid in May 2020].
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ex. : ZACCAÏ-REYNERS Nathalie, 2005, « Fiction et typification », Methodos, n° 5, « La subjectivité ». [Online], http://methodos.revues.org/document378.html [link valid in September 2020].
In-text citations
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References must be cited within the text as follows:
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(Name of the author(s) Date: pinpoint)
URLs and Cross-References
The text may include URLs pointing towards one of its subdivision or another material (article, website, databases, etc.).
Illustrations
Authors should propose about ten captioned illustrations (or suggestions for illustrations) that may illustrate their article.
These images should not be purely illustrative (i.e. redundant with the text) but should provide, through their content and/or through their captions, information that enriches, counterpoints, shifts, and opens up... the topic.
Copyright
The selected illustrations (about ten) will ideally be royalty-free.
Our iconographer, Dorine Bertrand (dorine.bertrand@culture.gouv.fr), will assist the authors with selecting illustrations, carrying out research based on their ideas, requesting higher resolution, and negotiating license fees in case of copyrighted material.
Formatting documents and illustrations
Do not embed documents (graphics, maps, tables, and images) in the text, but provide them as separate computer files with the following characteristics:
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for photographs, scans, etc.: .jpg, .tiff, or .png format, a minimum size of 2000 pixels for the largest side, a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, the images should not be ‘resampled’ to reach artificially this resolution;
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for computer graphics: .ai format
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for tables: .xls, .doc, or .docx formats
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The files will be named as follows:
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name author_fig_X.tiff / .jpg / .ai / .xls
Captions and Credits
All illustrations must be accompanied by a complete caption and credits, which shall be arranged and worded as follows, on three separate lines
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Figure X
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[Comment:] Text (3 lines maximum) allowing to make the link between the content of the article and the image.
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[caption:] Title, author, date, dimensions, medium, place of conservation (inventory number)
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[credits:] © author of the work or the rightful owners / place of reproduction or conservation, or organization of diffusion of the image [ex: © Picasso succession / RMN]
Copyright
In Situ is a collective work. A contributor agreement (illustrations and texts) will be concluded between the author and the publisher.
Authors may reproduce texts that they have published in the journal if they mention the original publication and send the editor a copy of the document concerned or indicate the URL of the site that accesses the document (personal or institutional site).
For contributors from the French Ministry of Culture and its public institutions, the economic rights of any work created by a civil servant in the course of his or her duties belong to its employer.

