Instructions for authors
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The manuscripts should be sent to the address Nordiques[at]caenlamer.fr
Authors are invited to follow the following rules while writing their contributions:
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The manuscripts must be submitted in word.docx -format. They should not exceed 40 000 signs (notes and spaces included).
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Two summaries should be provided, one in French and the other in English, both maximum a dozen lines in length, with keywords. The editors will help with summaries in French if necessary. Furthermore, the author should provide his or her professional affiliations and his or her latest publications.
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All tables, figures, diagrams and maps have to be numbered and provided with a title and a caption (if necessary). Images not created by the author and submitted to copyright have to be clearly signalled (please mention the name of the author and references to the source document the image comes from). All figures and images to be included in the text have to be submitted in separate files and respect the following technical requirements:
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Format JPG or PNG
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150 DPI resolution
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Size: breadth 480 pixels maximum
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The placing of the images and of the other visual elements has to be clearly indicated in the text.
Style guide
The font used should be Garamond, 11 pts for the text, 8 pts for footnotes.
Notes should be footnotes, not endnotes.
Caps should be used only for the beginning of sentences.
If the text contains special characters, use Unicode fonts (Arial with Windows, Lucida Grande with Mac, etc). Failing that, give the editors the name of the font or fonts used and ideally provide the editors with a file containing the fonts used. In any case, give a paper version of the special characters used.
Articles should be structured as follows
Summaries
Written in italics, the summaries should be placed between the title and the article’s introduction, with a list of keywords.
Titles
Titles should be as short and precise as possible. The hierarchy of titles should clearly appear (different font, font size, or numbers). Do not go beyond three levels of titles/subtitles.
Paragraphs
Use the ruler to determine a first line indent to mark the beginning of a paragraph. Use a double space between paragraphs only to mark a strong and significant divide (for example after the introduction or before the conclusion).
Quotes
Please translate quotations from sources in other languages into English and give the original in the footnote. If the expression in the original language is particularly important for the argument, you may cite it in parenthesis after the translation in the main text.
Short quotations: less than two lines. They should be inscribed in normal font and between quotation marks, in the body of the text. If writing in English, use English double quotation marks “…” and simple marks ‘...’ to signal a quotation inside a longer quotation.
– When a quote is merged into a normal sentence, put the final dot outside the quotation marks.
Ex.1 : Mme Lepic said his hair were like “drum sticks. He would break his comb trying to brush them - if he had one”.
– If the quote starts with a complete sentence but is part of a wider sentence, it should be introduced by a colon. In any case, the quotation should in that case start with a capital letter and the final dot should be placed inside the quotation marks.
Ex.2 : Two centuries before the beginning of our era, the poet Terence said: “I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.”
Long quotations: Present them as a normal paragraph, same font, but only 10 in size, with a line break before and after, no quotation marks, and a small indent leaving space both on the right and on the left of the quotation.
Ex. 3 : Long quotations of more than two lines, should be marked as a paragraph using a smaller font size without quotation marks.
In a quotation, any cut should be marked with […], as well as any personal comment. All quotation of more than 10 lines, taken from a source less than 70 years in age and post mortem, can be subject to copyrights.
Quotations must exactly correspond to the original text, and be systematically accompanied by a footnote giving the source of the quotation.
Footnotes
Should be inserted using Word’s automatic footnote system.
The footnote reference number is placed after closed quotation marks, but before punctuation when the quotation is inserted in the text (example 1). In case of a complete quotation (example 2), or of a long quotation the reference number is placed at the end.
Ex.1 : Mme Lepic said his hair were like “drum sticks. He would break his comb trying to brush them - if he had one”1.
Ex.2 : “I am human, I consider nothing human alien to me.”1
Notes should be as concise and precise as possible (bibliography, sources, short comments…).
Basic typographic rules
Italic
Is used for words and expressions in foreign languages (not English), or to insist on a specific concept or expression (if the emphasis is inside a quotation, add a footnote with the mention “emphasis added”).
Quotation marks
Quotation marks (“…”) are used around a quotation. Simple quotation marks (‘ ’) are used inside a quotation.
Caps and accents (acute and grave)
The rule is, when necessary, to accentuate caps.
ⓘ Under Word, accents can be marked with the following short keys before writing the cap letter.
Ctrl + 4 (on the main keyboard, not the number panel) for the acute accent,
Alt + Bold + 7 for the grave accent.
First and Second Names
Those are always marked with a cap on the first letter, otherwise written normally. You can choose whether to use full First Names or just initials. Use the same system consistently throughout the article.
Titles of books
Are written in italic in a regular text, and in regular if the text is in italic.
Titles of articles
Are written between quotation marks
Acronyms
In caps, without dots (UNESCO, CNRS). If the acronym is not well-known, explain its significance in a footnote at first occurrence.
Names of societies, ministries etc… are in regular, with only a cap on the first letter.
Numbers
Will be written in full letters (five men, etc.).
Short forms
You should use the following: 20th century, BC., etc., Mr., Ms., Mm., Mlle, 1st, 2nd, ed., dir., chap., vol., p. 14 et p. 124-127.
Reference system
Please use footnotes for bibliographical information. There is no bibliography or list of works cited at the end of the article.
First references to sources in footnotes
Monograph
First names then Second name, Title, Print Run Number, Place of Publication, Publisher (Collection; Number in the collection), Date of Publication, the number(s) of the quoted page(s) if pertinent.
Ex : Claude Hagège, Halte à la mort des langues, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2002, p. 103-104.
Book of contributions
Title, First Name of the editor then Second Name of the editor, followed by (ed.), Place of Publication, Publisher (Name of the Collection; Number in the Collection), Date of Publication, p. x.
Ex: Advances in the Sociology of Language, Joshua Fishman (ed.), Paris, The Hague/Mouton, 1971.
For a book with several editors, separate their names with & and use (eds) and not (ed.). If there are more than two editors, separate only the last two ones with &, the others are separated using commas.
Book chapter
First Name then Second name, “Title of the chapter”, in Title of the book (for conference proceedings, add the name of the conference, date and place), First Name of the editor then Second Name of the editor, followed by (ed.), Place of Publication, Publisher (Name of the Collection; Number in the Collection), Date of Publication, full page length, the number(s) of the quoted page(s) if pertinent.
Ex : Eric Eydoux, “Les littératures du nord et le temps du paganisme”, in Dragons et drakkars : Le mythe viking de la Scandinavie à la Normandie XVIIIe-XXe siècles, Caen, Musée de Normandie, 1996, p. 29-36, p. 33.
For a book with several editors, separate their names with &. If there are more than two editors, separate only the last two ones with &, the others are separated using commas.
Journal or newspaper article
First Name of the Author then Second name of the Author, “Title of the article”, Name of the review, journal or newspaper, Volume, Issue, Date of Publication, full page length, the number(s) of the quoted page(s) if pertinent.
Ex : Jean-François Battail, “Peut-on parler d’unité du monde nordique?”, Nordiques, n° 1, janvier 2013, p. 33-48.
Theses and unpublished materials
First Name of the Author then Second name of the Author, Title, Thesis or memoir, Speciality/Department, University, Date of public examination, Number of volumes, page numbers followed if necessary with the mention (typ.), p. x.
Internet
Addresses of Internet website must be mentioned in the footnotes.
If the document is a text edited and available online, the reference must be written as for a paper document; the only difference being that, instead of the editor, the footnote has to indicate the address of the website and the date of last consultation (for example: consulted on 3 July, 2014). Please mention, when possible, the name of the organisation or country that produced the website. If the date of publication is unclear, add instead of the date [nd].
Ex. : Jacques Leclerc, “La mort des langues”, in L’Aménagement linguistique dans le monde, TLFQ, université Laval, Québec, May 3rd 2010, [http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/Langues/2vital_mortdeslangues.htm] (Consulted 10 February, 2011).
References to sources after the first occurrence
Do not in any cases use Ibidem.
1. If the reference has been given in the footnote directly preceding the one you are working on:
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Ibid. replaces the complete reference of the book you are referring to;
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Ibid., p. xx. refers to a page of the book you are referring to if other than in the directly preceding footnote;
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Ibid., p. xx-xy. refers to several pages of the book you are referring to.
2. For the second and next occurrences of references, and if the source you are referring to is not in the footnote immediately preceding the one you are working on, then use short-forms as follows: Name of the Author, Date of Publication, p. xx.