Author Guidelines
Plan
Haut de pageYour article proposal must be sent to mpa-angevine-europe@services.cnrs.fr in DOC, .DOCX, .ODT, .RTF, or equivalent format (do not send PDFs). Do not use any specific style sheet or automatic numbering when writing your article. Articles can be written in French, Italian, or English.
Font
Use the Times New Roman font, with a font size of 12 for the body text and 10 for footnotes.
Paragraphs and Titles
Section and subsection titles should be written in lowercase (not in capitals). Numbering of sections and subsections is necessary to facilitate the work of reviewers. Do not exceed 3 levels of titles.
Quotations
Quotations in French should be placed between typographical quotation marks (e.g., « citation »), but those in a foreign language —as well as foreign words— should be in italics. Quotation marks and italics are mutually exclusive: « à l’école, ils étaient tous avec leur cartable… », but La vita è bella…
Long quotations should be distinguished from the body text by a paragraph indent of 0.5 cm on the left and a font size of 10. In this case, quotation marks should be omitted. Cuts or restorations of words should be indicated by square brackets: […] or [école].
Typographical Conventions
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Do not forget to accentuate capital vowels : Moyen Âge, École, À la mer…
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Do not forget the capital letter at the beginning of a footnote.
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Write: Œuvre or sœur and not Oeuvre or soeur.
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Write: xive siècle in Roman numerals and not 14e.
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Write: Philippe Ier (and not Philippe I), but 1re partie (and not 1ere partie).
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Write: etc., cf. (in roman) and supra, infra, ibid., op. cit., loc. cit., alii, a priori, a posteriori (in italics).
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Write: fo 1ro for a recto, fo 1vo for a verso, fo 1ro-vo for a recto/verso.
Non-breaking Spaces
Non-breaking spaces (Ctrl+Shift+Space on PC) are mandatory :
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Between the initial of a first name and a surname: C. Gauvard.
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Between the name of a sovereign and their ordinal number: Louis IX.
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In numbers, between 1 and 000 to write 1 000, for example. Avoid unnecessary non-breaking spaces, which can cause layout problems.
Note Calls
Note calls should be placed without indentation, without space, and without parentheses.
Bibliographic References
Indicate the initial of the author's first name in capitals, accented if necessary, followed by a non-breaking space and the author's surname in capitals. This should be followed by the title of the work in italics, then the place, publisher, and date of publication. For articles in French, foreign places of publication should be spelled in French (Rome and not Roma).
Example : Ancient and medieval authors' names should not be abbreviated : write, for example, THOMAS D’AQUIN (first name and surname in capitals because the first name is classifying in this specific case) and not Th. D’AQUIN.
For articles, indicate the author's name, the title of the article in typographical quotation marks, the title of the book or journal in italics, then the name of the director or editor of the volume, followed by (dir.) or (éd.) (for directed by or edited by) and the publisher, without forgetting the pagination of the article.
Example : For journals, specify the volume and year. Example: J. LE GOFF, « Ordres mendicants », Annales ESC, 25, 1970, p. 924-946. For a work in several volumes, do not indicate the total number of volumes, but specify the cited volume (t. 10) after the publication date. If a bibliographic reference has already been given, indicate as follows G. DUBY, Guillaume…, op. cit., p. 34.
If the reference is in the immediately preceding note, use Ibid., + the page. If it is not the same work but the same author as in the immediately preceding note, write Idem, followed by the title, place, publisher, date, and page.
References to Sources
For manuscript sources, indicate the reference as follows: name of the repository, city of the repository, collection and reference, folio/piece.
Examples : Arch. dép. de Maine-et-Loire, G757, fo 12ro.
BNF, Paris, ms. 989, fo 45vo.
Bibl. mun., Angers, ms. 456, fo 23ro.
Tables, Graphs, Maps, and Illustrations
Tables, graphs, and maps should be created directly in the publication format (12 cm by 17 cm). Texts on these figures must comply with the typographical conventions above (Times New Roman, but font size adapted to the figure format). Digital reproductions of original documents must be of good quality (300 dpi, ppp, minimum). Prefer TIFF or PNG format over JPEG. If the quality of digital images is insufficient, photographs of the documents to be reproduced must be provided. The author must guarantee that they have the right to reproduce the illustrations in their article. Do not forget to write the captions and clearly indicate the location of the illustrations in the article. Any figure, table, graph, map, illustration, etc., should be presented in a separate image format document (.TIFF, .PNG, .JPG, .PDF, or equivalent), as well as its caption and title in a separate .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt, or equivalent document. Images pasted into a Word document are to be avoided.

