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These instructions apply to papers written in French or English indiscriminately unless otherwise specified.

Submit an article

Please submit:

  • Two anonymous electronic versions, one in .docx/.doc format and one in .pdf format, without any formatting at all, except italics and bold type (no indentations, no tab-stops, no hard spaces).

  • The author information document including:
    – Name and surname
    – Personal address and phone number
    – E-mail address
    – Institution and Research Unit (acronym, full title)
    – Title in English (and, if applicable, only one subtitle)
    – Abstract in English (about 1,500 characters)
    – Keywords in English (5 max.), separated by a comma
    – Title in French
    – Abstract in French (about 1,500 characters)
    – Keywords in French (5 max.), separated by a comma

  • A separate file containing a list of figures with their captions.

General considerations

ENG

If you are submitting an article in English, please use English punctuation in your text, footnotes and bibliography (i.e. no space before colons and semicolons, English quotation marks: “example” rather than French marks « exemple », and comma inside the quotation marks, etc.) whether the references are in English or not. Titles will be capitalized according to English norms.
Footnote numbers will be placed after the punctuation marks.
If writing in English, please make sure you use British or American spelling consistently throughout the paper.

FR

Si vous rédigez votre article en français, les règles françaises de ponctuation s’appliquent tout au long de l’article, dans les notes de bas de page et dans la bibliographie quelle que soit la langue citée (par exemple, inclure un espace devant les deux points ou les points d’interrogation et employer des chevrons pour les citations ou les titres d’articles). Le premier nom dans les titres d’ouvrages, de chapitres et d’articles portera une majuscule.
Les appels de note sont à placer avant la ponctuation.

Formatting

  • 7,500 words maximum, or 35,000 and 45,000 characters (spaces included) including references and footnotes.

  • No formatting at all, except italics and bold type (no indentations, no tab-stops, no hard spaces)

  • Italics should be used for emphasis and foreign words, not bold face or inverted commas. On the other hand, do not use italics for indented quotations or for the names of organisations, even when these are in a foreign language.

  • Ex: the Opéra national du Rhin, but In memoriam, Michaux’s neologism rague

  • Please spell out centuries in lowercase letters, and use a hyphen when they appear as an adjective (during the twentieth century, in nineteenth-century London).

Article title and subtitles

No reference in the title of the article

The title should not exceed 60 to 80 signs.

Do not number subparts but include subtitles. In section headings within articles, all the words are capitalized.

If the conclusion does not have a specific title, then simply skip a line.

In-text citations

Presenting in-text references

– Use footnotes, not endnotes.

– No references in the footnotes, in-text references only. Quotations are referenced directly in the body of the text in brackets.
Ex: (Lévi-Strauss, 6)

– Dates are necessary in references if the paper refers to several publications by the same author. Use a colon between the date and the page number.
Ex: (Woolf, 2024: 7)

– If several pages are quoted, separate the pages with commas.
Ex: (Woolf, 2024: 6, 9, 12)

– If the reference includes two authors, the two names appear separated by the conjunction “and.”
Ex: (Deleuze and Guattari, 5)

– If there are more than two authors, use the Latin phrase et°al. in italics, with a full stop after al.
Ex: (Jones et al., 72)

– If several works are referenced, separate them with semicolons.
Ex: (Derrida 12; Latour 23, 35-36, 42)

– When two works by the same author were written in the same year, they are distinguished by a letter next to the date of publication of the edition used.
Ex: (Woolf 1927a: 7)
N.B.: This letter also appears in the bibliography.
Ex: WOOLF, Virginia (1927a): To the Lighthouse, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

– If there is no author, use an abbreviated version of the title in italics or in inverted commas, as appropriate.

– In the case of a quotation from a webpage, if possible, give a paragraph number or, where appropriate, n.p. (unpaginated).
Ex: (Latour, §°5; Davies, n.p.)

– In the case of films, include the specific timing of the referenced sequence, using the following format: hh:mm-hh:mm. In the case of TV series, the season and episode numbers should also appear, using the following format: season, episode.
Ex: (Penny Dreadful 3,10, 01:45-01:46)

– Do not abbreviate page numbers.
Ex: (156-159 rather than 156-59)

– If previous sentences make it clear whose work is quoted, or if a work is referenced several times in a row, only indicate the page number within parentheses.
Ex: This idea is developed in Adorno’s article (37).

– Preferably cite the original source. In the case of a second-hand source, use the phrase “quoted°in”
Ex: (quoted in Adorno, 76).

– In English, whatever the nature of the reference (book, article, chapter, poem, etc.), the first word and all subsequent words of the title are capitalized, except for articles, conjunctions and short prepositions. Long prepositions, such as “throughout,” “between,” “within” or “without,” are also capitalized.
Ex: Much Ado About Nothing
Ex: “Towards an Alternative Aesthetics of Destruction in the Anthropocene”
Ex: Read Between the Lines.

Punctuating in-text quotations

 Please use double quotation marks for all cases (inverted commas) except for embedded quotes (single quotation marks).

 Use a hard return for quotes longer than 3 lines. They will be indented by the editor.

– Translate quotations in other languages than French and English into the language of the article (in a footnote).

 Use […] for omissions and transformations in quoted passages.

 When punctuating around quotation marks, full stops and commas should be included before the ending quotation mark, including when they are not part of the original quotation.
Ex: “Modernity is a qualitative,” Adorno writes, “not a chronological, category.”

 Question marks and exclamation marks should only be placed before the ending quotation when they are part of the quoted material.
Ex: He wondered: “Where am I?”
Ex: Could we argue, with Adorno, that love “is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar”?

 Colons and semicolons should always be placed after the ending quotation marks.

 “Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category”: this famous assertion needs further analysis.

 Cuts, additions or modifications to a quotation should appear in square brackets: [].

 Square brackets are also used to insert a parenthesis within a segment that is itself enclosed in brackets.
Ex: The adjective “logical” (12) is used in the expression “[t]he logical [...] reasoning of…” (and in a footnote [315]).

Images

Only include images which are analysed in the article, up to a maximum of ten images.

Authors are responsible for obtaining reproduction rights and purchasing images, which the magazine cannot cover.

They are requested to provide proof of reproduction authorizations for all images they wish to publish alongside their text. Please note that authors incur all fees related to the acquisition of reproduction rights.

Please do not embed images in the text but send them in a separate file.

When using images, please ensure that they are accompanied by alt text, so that the online version of articles will be more accessible for readers with visual impairments and/or those using screen readers.

Please send each image in its original format (.tiff, .jpg, .png). Minimum quality: 300dpi.

Images should be numbered and accompanied by a full legend (where applicable: author, title, place where the image is held, medium and size, any relevant details about the source and permissions).

  • Fig.°x. Author, Title (date), type(s) of material, dimensions, usual exhibition location, source (for example: website and copyright).

  • Fig.°1: Frederick Sandys, Medea (1868), oil on canvas, 61.2°× 45.6°cm, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/birmingham-museum-and-art-gallery, Creative Commons 0 – Public Domain. Optional attribution: Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0.

In the body of the text, these images will be cross-referenced as follows: (fig.°x).

References (final bibliography)

Please use the following style

NB: all examples apply to articles written in English.

NB: Articles written in French use French punctuation rules and apply them throughout the bibliography

Books, edited work, and chapters in a book

BOURDIEU, P. (1992): Les Règles de l’art, Paris, Seuil.

ALLEN, C. (2016): “Typological Change: Investigating Loss of Inflection in Early English,” in KYTÖ, M. & PAHTA P. (eds.), English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 444-459.

TRUSWELL, R., ALCORN, R., DONALDSON, J. & WALLENBERG, J. (2019): “A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English,” in ALCORN, R., KOPACZYK, J., LOS, B. & MOLINEAUX, B. (eds.), Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, p. 19-38.

Journals

WINFORD, D. (2005): “Contact-Induced Changes: Classification and Processes,” Diachronica 22.2, p. 373-427.

KLEIBER, G. (1997): “Les Anaphores associatives actancielles,” in KUPFERMAN, L. & SARFATI, G.E. (eds.), Scolia: Sciences Cognitives, Linguistiques et Intelligence Artificielle 10, p. 89-120.

Electronic references

You should provide DOIs when available, or the complete reference with access date as in:

PROFFITT, M. (ed.) (2018): Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., Oxford, Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/ (accessed 16 September 2019)

PEREK, F. & HILPERT, M. (2017): “A Distributional Semantic Approach to the Periodization of Change in the Productivity of Constructions”, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22, 490-520. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16128.per.

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