International Journal of Francophone Studies: Contributor notes

The guidance on this page is by no means comprehensive: it must be read in conjunction with the Intellect Style Guide.

Opinion

The views expressed in the InternationalJournal of Francophone Studies are those

of the authors, and do not necessarilycoincide with those of the Editor or theEditorial Advisory Board.

Referees

The International Journal of FrancophoneStudies is a refereed journal. Strict anonymity

is accorded to both authorsand referees. There are normally tworeferees, chosen for expertise withinthe subject area, and they are also askedto comment on comprehensibilityand the significance of the article toother disciplines and professions.

Other submissions

The Editor wishes to encourage articleswhich are of a more speculative nature,and especially those from practitionersin the field, often precluded fromproducing detailed research articles.Photographic and illustrative materialis also most welcome. Such articlesshould be clearly different from refereedresearch articles in tone of language.

They do not normally contain an abstract or a list of references.

Length

Articles should normally be a minimumof 8000 words in length and morespeculative pieces would normally beconsiderably shorter.

Submitting

Articles should be original and notbe under consideration by any otherpublication and be written in a clearand concise style. Three hard copies and disk or e-mailattachment in Word for windows mustbe sent to the Editor, typewrittenor printed on one side only, anddouble-spaced.If the article is accepted, it should beput on disk, with any required

amendments, and this electronicversion of the article as agreed for finalpublication should then be sent to theEditor. The electronic version should be in Word. Formats other thanWord are not encouraged, but pleasecontact the Editor for further details.

Language and style

The Journal uses standard BritishEnglish, and the Editor reserves theright to alter usage to that end.Because of the interdisciplinary natureof the readership, jargon is to beavoided. Simple sentence structures areof great benefit to readers for whomEnglish is a second language. Thejournal also uses standard metropolitanFrench, with English punctuationand English quotation marks.

Illustrations

Illustrations are welcome. In particular,discussions of particular buildings,sites or landscapes would be assistedby including illustrations.All images need a resolution of at least 300 dpi. All images should be supplied independently of the article, not embedded into the text itself. The files should be clearly labelled and an indication given as to where they should be placed in the text. Reproduction will normally be in black-and-white. Images sent in as e-mail attachments should accordingly be in greyscale.

All illustrations, photographs,diagrams, maps, etc. should follow thesame numerical sequence and beshown as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.The image should always be accompanied by a suitable caption (the omission of a caption is only acceptable if you feel that the impact of the image would be reduced by the provision of written context). The following is the agreed style for captions: Figure 1: Caption here. Please note the colon after the number and the terminating full point, even if the caption is not a full sentence. Copyright clearance should be indicated by the contributor and is always the responsibility of the contributor.

Quotations

Within paragraphs, these should beused sparingly, identified by singlequotation marks. All long quotations (i.e. over 40 words long) should be ‘displayed’– i.e. set into a separate indented paragraph with an additional one-line space above and below, and without quote marks at the beginning or end. Please note that for quotations within the text, the punctuation should follow the bracketed reference. For a displayed quotation the bracketed reference appears after the full stop.

Other styles

Margins should be at least one inchall round and pagination should becontinuous. Foreign words and phrasesinserted in the text should be italicized.

Author note

A note on the author is required,which includes an address. Thisshould not exceed 50 words. Authorsshould also indicate how they wishtheir names to appear. The custom iswithout titles, one forename plussurname, but authors may vary this.

Abstract

The abstract should be submitted inEnglish and in French, and should concentrate

on the significant findings.The abstract should not exceed 150words in length. Apart from its value toabstracting services, it should alsomake a case for the article to be read

by someone from a quite differentdiscipline. Do not use the personalpronoun within the abstract.

Keywords

Provision of up to six key words ismuch appreciated by indexing andabstracting services, these should be providedby the author with the article.

Notes

Notes appear at the side of appropriatepages, but the numerical sequenceruns throughout the article. Theseshould be kept to a minimum, and beidentified by a superscriptnumeral. These can be supplied asfootnotes on submission. Referencesneed not be made formally within thenotes as a full list of references mustbe supplied at the end of each article.

References and bibliography

References should be suppliedwithin a full list suppliedat the end of the article. They shouldadhere to the following models:

Books: author’s full name, title(italics), place of publication, publisher,year, and page reference.

Articles: author’s full name, ‘title’ (within single quotation marks), name of journal (italics), volume and issuenumbers, date, and page reference.

A bibliography may be included ifthis is deemed to be a necessaryaddition to the sidenotes.

Book and conference reviews

These must be presented as articles instyle and format.