Author Guidelines
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
Recherches Francophones publishes articles that follow the guidelines presented below. The submitted articles need to routed electronically on the journal's website:
https://recherchesfrancophones.library.mcgill.ca/about/submissions.
The length of the articles vary between a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 15 pages. The journal accepts only unpublished articles which have not been submitted elsewhere.
All of the articles have to be submitted to a double-blind evaluation and will be retained only the ones that answer to the scientific, linguistic and redactional requirements. The content of the published texts, the accuracy of the information and the judicial consequences related to plagiarism are the sole responsibility of authors. All of the submitted texts need to respect the following guidelines:
- Personal information and abstracts need to be directly added to the Metadata section.
Add the following information :
- Title of the article
- French abstract of 20 lines
- English abstract of 20 lines
- 5 keywords
In the section References, the author should include a biobibliographical notice of maximum 10 lines which indicates the home University, areas of research and main publications.
For anonymity reasons in the evaluation process, none of the personal information should appear in the body of the text.
- Guidelines for the article which will be attached on the website of the journal
Margins, length, font and titles of chapters
Number the pages at the bottom-right corner of each page.
Leave a 4 cm margin (top, bottom, right and left).
The hole of the article have to be redacted in Times New Roman 12.
The text needs to have a 1,5 spacing and be justified to the right.
Skip a line between paragraphs.
Titles and sub-titles of chapters should be limited, in bold using numbering.
- Charts and illustrations
Insert the references of the charts, figures or illustrations in the body of the text, numbering in a continuous manner. Every graphic element integrated in the text should be found in the body of the text or in a separate folder with high image resolution. In the following case, where the graphic element should be located should be clearly indicated in the body of the text. The author needs to obtain the rights to use any illustration and provide the written proofs to the journal prior to the publication of the article.
- Footnotes
Only include footnotes with explicative purposes (precisions from the author of the article, complements to a theoretical definition, excerpts from an interview, additional excerpts. Etc.). Avoid using the footnotes for mentions of pages ( Ibid + page ) or a simple references to a book. Use your automatic call to note in a continuous manner.
- Citations and punctuation
The citations in the body of the text have to mention, in between parenthesis, the name, surname of the author or authors, the year of publication of the cited work, the precise page or pages.
First example:
According to Mikhaïl Bakhtine (1963 : 68), ‘‘…’’
Second example:
‘‘…’’ (Achille Mbembe, 2010 : 124-125).
As for occurrences of the same work or article, put in parenthesis (Ibid. : page) when they follow each other or (op. cit. : page) when they don’t.
Citations of 4 lines or more will use an indent of 1 cm to the right and to the left, without using quotation marks and without line spacing, separated from the text by a line break before and after the citation.
Punctuation (coma or semicolon) needs to be placed after the closing quotation mark, the parenthesis and note numbering throughout the hole text.
- Varia
The journal offers a Varia section, which publishes off-file texts (reflexional texts, creation pieces – poems, short-stories, etc.). These are also evaluated by the redaction committee and need to answer to the guidelines.
- Final bibliography: add a separate Word document, following the same procedure as for the article.
All cited works are indicated in alphabetical order with complete references following these examples:
Books
Mbembe, Achille, Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l’Afrique décolonisée, Paris, La Découverte, 2013 [2010].
Articles
Semujanga, Josias, « La mémoire transculturelle comme fondement du sujet africain chez Mudimbe et Ngal », Tangence, n°75, 2004, pp.15-39.
Collective Monography
Seka Apo, Philomène, « Boubacar Boris Diop, un modèle d’atavisme littéraire », dans Luc Fotsing Fondjo et Moustapha Fall (dir.), Traditions orales postcoloniales, Paris, L’harmattan, 2014, pp.131-142.
Filmography
Falardeau, Philippe (réalisateur), La moitié gauche du frigo, [DVD], Saint-Laurent, Christal Films, 88 min, son, couleur, 2000.
Webography
Touré Fanny-Cissé, Fatoumata, « Sexe et tabous dans les fictions francophones », Les Cahiers du Grelcef, n°11, 2019, pp.23-34.
https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/grelcef/article/view/10275
