Guidelines for Authors

Edit your text using Word, with a minimal layout. Contents in header, foot page, and automated paragraphs should be avoided.

Your article must be accompanied by a 100-word abstract, in both French and English.

Following the title of your article, add: your first name(s) and name(s), your university and / or research center and / or other academic affiliation, as well as your email address.

The subtitles are left justified and numbered.

Typography

When they are not written out, ordinal numbers representing centuries should be provided in Arabic numerals, followed by “th” in superscript (the 17^th century).

Add quotation marks (“ ”) around short quotes (1 to 49 words), and incorporate them to the paragraph. Long quotes (50 words and more) are indented and printed in smaller prints. They are not enclosed in quotation marks, nor preceded or followed by line spaces (unless they conclude a paragraph). Inside a quote, ellipsis and brackets ([…]) should be used to point out a break. A break at the beginning of a quote is notified by the use of a capital letter in square brackets:

- original sentence: “The Merovingian dynasty dominated much of Western Europe from the 5^th to the 8^th century.”

- cut: “[M]uch of Western Europe ” (reference) then lived under the Merovingians.
Breaks at the end of a quote are not notified by other means than placing quotation marks before the period (People lived under the domination of “[t]he Merovingian dynasty”.)

Brackets are also used to provide additional information, a definition, etc. within a quote (e.g. the definition of a term, a first name or a surname, etc.). Everywhere else, parentheses should be used.

Double quotation marks (“Abc”) are placed around quotes, as well as words used in a non-conventional or connoted meaning. Simple quotation marks ('Abc') are used around a quote within a short quote. Quotes within long quotes are surrounded by double quotation marks.

The colon is preceded by a non-breaking space, which is not the case of the following typographic signs:

- semicolon;
- exclamation mark;
- question mark.

Periods are followed by a single regular space.

The use of italics is restricted to:

- titles of books, journals, movies, etc.;
- words in a language other than English;
- concepts or other terms on which you want to draw attention.

Do not use bold script or underline.

The footnote number is placed directly after the word (or group of words) to which the note's contents refers. Footnotes should be used only to provide additional information, definitions, etc. and not references, as these are provided in the body of the text, in parentheses (see below, “References and Bibliography”).

Writing

Avoid abbreviations, except the most common ones:

- ch. for chapter;
- fo for folio, fi for folii;
- ro and vo for recto and verso
- frag. for fragment;
- B. for Book;
- par. or § for paragraph;
- etc.

Abbreviations and their following number (e. g. ch. 8) should be separated by a non-breaking space.
Write civility titles throughout and capitalised: Madam, Lord.

Use an acronym from the second time the name or title it represents has been written throughout, followed by the said acronym in parentheses: “According to the United Nations (UN) […]. A UN report says […] “; “As stated in the Rariorum plantarum historia (RPH) […]. Historians of botany should refer to the RPH […] “.

References and Bibliography

Abbreviated references are provided in parentheses in the text, using an abbreviated form allowing an easy identification of the source in the bibliography (included at the end of the article):

- (Montaigne, 1965: II, 12, 505) means: book II, chapter 12, and page 505 of the following edition: Montaigne, Michel (1965). Essais [1582= publication year of the reproduced original edition if mentioned], ed. by Pierre Villey, 3 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

- (Naya, 2004: 215): page 215 the following source: Naya, Emmanuel (2004). “Le doute libérateur : préambules à une étude du discours fidéiste dans les Essais”. In L'écriture du scepticisme, ed. by Marie-Luce Demonet and Alain Legros : 201-221. Geneva : Droz;

- avoid id., ibid., op. cit., etc. If two or more quotes come from the same source, do not repeat the author and the year, but just the page or chapter/volume/tome if they differ from the ones already mentioned, followed by the page: “first quote” (Montaigne, 1965: II, 12, 505); “following quote” (506); “following quote” (13, 520); etc.

- if you use italics in a quote to emphasize one or many terms, a semicolon should be added after the reference, followed by “my emphasis”, or “italics mine” (Naya 2004: 2015; my emphasis).

The references of quotes in footnotes should be formatted in the same manner as those provided in the body of the article.

A bibliography placed at the end of the article gathers the full references of all quoted sources. Please use the following models:

- monographs:

• without a scientific editor:
Author's surname(s), First name(s) (year). Title. Subtitle. City: Publisher.

• with a scientific publisher:
Author's surname(s), First name(s) (year). Title. Subtitle, ed. by First name(s) Name(s). City: Publisher.

- articles or chapters from collective works:

Author's Name(s), First name(s) (year). “Article or Chapter's Title”. Collective Work's Title. Subtitle, ed. by First Name(s) and Name(s): page-page [ex. 77-95, without “p.”]. City: Publisher.

- articles from periodicals:

Author's name(s), First name(s) (year). “Article or Chapter's Title”. Journal title. Subtitle volume (number) [ex. 45 (2)]: page-page.

- articles from dictionaries or encyclopaedias:

Author's name(s), First name(s) (year). “Title of the article”. In Title of the Dictionary, ed. by First Name(s) and surname(s) of the scientific director: page-page. City: Publisher.

- manuscripts:

Author's name(s), First name(s) (year). “Title of the manuscript”. Institution, Department, Collection, catalogue number: page-page or folio-folio.

- electronic editions:

An electronic edition is not a scanned reproduction of a printed copy): follow the above models for monographs or articles, replace page numbers by the permalink, and add: “Accessed on day month.”

Example:

Nicot, Jean (2015=year of your visit on the web site), « Cœur », Le thresor de la langue francoyse [1606= publication year of the original edition if mentioned]: http ://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/dicos/pubdico1look.pl?strippedhw=coeur. Accessed on February 23.

In the case of articles, chapters, or books or signed by several authors, mention the authors in alphabetical order of surnames:

- two authors: Surname(s), First name(s), and First name(s) Surname(s) (year). Title, etc.
- three or more: Surname(s), First name(s), First name(s) Surname(s), First name(s) Surname(s), and First name(s) Surname(s) (year). Title, etc.

All anonymous sources should be alphabetically sorted using the first word of the title, or the word appearing just after the articles “A”, “An”, “The”, etc.,:

“Title of the article, The”. In Title of the Dictionary, ed. by First Name(s) and surnames(s) of the scientific director: page-page. City: Publisher.

Tables, Images, and Figures

Tables, images, and figures should be provided in separate files. Names of files should allow cross-checking with the instructions provided between brackets in the article, as to where their contents (table, image, or figure) are to be inserted. On the next line, provide the most complete legend possible, including copyright information when needed. In this regard, make sure you have obtained all necessary rights of reproduction before using any content of which you are not the author, except quotes of books and articles.