Submission and selection procedure
When responding to calls for papers launched by the journal’s website, the authors submit their proposal as an attachment (.doc or .rtf file) accompanied by a brief biographical note mentioning their institutional affiliation, by sending it to the editors of the thematic issue. If the proposal is retained, the authors are given several months to write the full text and send it to the editors of the thematic issue. The article will then undergo a double-blind peer review process realized by at least two French or international experts, chosen by the issue’s editors. Once anonymized the review reports are sent to the article’s author(s). If modifications are necessary, the article may be sent back and forth between author(s) and reviewer(s) via the editor(s) until the potential acceptance of the article. The journal reserves the right to edit accepted manuscripts (e.g. language corrections, reference formatting and layout).
The journal also welcomes spontaneous contributions. In this case, the authors submit their article as an attachment (.doc or .rtf file) accompanied by a brief biographical note mentioning their institutional affiliation, by sending it to the editorial board. The article will then undergo a double-blind peer review process realized by at least two French or international experts, chosen by the journal’s editorial board. Once anonymized the review reports are sent to the article’s author(s). If modifications are necessary, the article may be sent back and forth between author(s) and reviewer(s) via the editor(s) until the potential acceptance of the article. The journal reserves the right to edit accepted manuscripts (e.g. language corrections, reference formatting and layout).
Style Sheet
General Guidelines
Articles are presented in 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman 12 pts font.
Footnotes, numbered continuously, are single-spaced, Times New Roman 10 pts font.
Accepted formats: .doc, . docx
Footnotes are called after low punctuation.
Quotations of less than three lines are kept in the body of the text and are integrated between English double inverted commas
Quotations of a length greater than or equal to three lines are detached from the body of the text. They do not include quotation marks. They appear in block letters without inverted commas and indented by 1.25 cm. Cuts in quotes are indicated by dots placed in square brackets [...].
Interpolations (additions, subtractions, modifications) are inserted between square brackets [ ].
English simple inverted commas are used for quotations within quotations (ex.: “XXXXXX ‘blabla’ XXXX”
Centuries are mentioned in Arabic numerals with th, nd, rd in superscript (19th century).
Headings and subheadings are NOT numbered and no full stops are placed at the end of titles or subtitles (except for exclamation marks, question marks, suspension marks).
No notes are called in the general title or subtitle of the article. All notes refer to the body of the text or, where appropriate, to the headings. Acknowledgements, if any, are mentioned in the first note of the article, at the end of the first sentence or first part of a sentence.
Footnotes are kept to a minimum and are not used to mention bibliographical references.
Tabulation (indentation) at the beginning of a paragraph should be avoided. Formatting should be kept to a minimum. Be careful not to leave any tags. Avoid copying and pasting scanned text from the Internet (often with tags and/or links).
Abstract and keywords
The author of the paper will provide an abstract (1,500 signs approximately) in English.
The author will also propose up to six keywords in English.
Illustrations
Illustrations, in .jpeg format, will be sent in a separate file, in black and white or colour, numbered and including a caption (author, title, date, source type).
We strongly encourage all writers to use royalty-free illustrations (e.g., film screen-shots are royalty free and present no copyright issues).
Minimum Format: 4in x 4in
It is the author’s responsibility to pay for the purchase of the illustrations from the copyright holders.
In-Text Referencing
Bibliographical references are indicated in brackets ( ) as follows: author's name in lower case, [comma], date of publication, [colon], pagination. Do not use "p." or "pp.".
- (Huxley, 1967: 21-22).
To concatenate a sequence of references, insert a semicolon between them.
- (Huxley, 1967: 21-22; Cooper, 1987: 21; Hawkins, 2001: 190-92).
If several works by an author are published in the same year, they are distinguished by the addition of the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., after the year of publication.
Bibliography
Full bibliographical details of the work(s) cited are given in the bibliography at the end of the article. References are arranged alphabetically by author’s family names, and by ascending chronological order.
Monographs
- SURNAME, First name, Book title, Place of publication, Publisher, Date of publication.
University press will be shortened → UP (ex. Cambridge University Press = Cambridge UP)
- JENKINS, Henry, Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide, New York UP, 2006.
If you cite several references by the same author published in the same year, add a letter to their publication date to differentiate (2006a, 2006b, etc.).
If a reference has multiple authors, list all authors: SURNAME, First name [author 1], SURNAME, First name [author 2], SURNAME, First name [author 3], Book title, Place of publication, Publisher, Date of publication.
If there are more than three authors, add et alii after 3rd author.
Collective works
SURNAME, First name ed., Title, Place of publication, Publisher, Date of publication.
MIKOWSKI, Sylvie ed., Ireland and Popular Culture, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014.
Academic papers and chapters
SURNAME, First name, “Title of paper”, Book title, Place of publication, Publisher, date of publication, pages.
JENKINS, Henry, “Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars”, Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide, New York UP, 2006, 175-217.
If the reference comes from an anthology:
SURNAME, First name, “Title of paper”, ed. First name Surname, Book Title, Place of Publication, Publisher, date of publication, pages.
GIUDICELLI, Xavier, “Dorian Gray in/and Popular Culture: Text, Image, Film”, ed. Sylvie Mikowski, Ireland and Popular Culture, Bern, Peter Lang, 2014, 53-69.
SURNAME, First name, “Title of paper”, Journal name, Volume, issue, date of publication, pages.
HERON, Timothy, “‘Alternative Ulster’: Punk and the Construction of Everyday Life in 1970s Northern Ireland, Imaginaires, 19, 2015, 91-115.
Press Articles
Same rules as for academic papers.
Doctoral dissertations, Master’s theses
SURNAME, First name, Title, type of document (PhD dissertation, M.A. thesis, etc.), University of defense, date of defense.
Online References
SURNAME, First name, “Title of article”, journal name, issue, date of publication, URL (last accessed + date).
GALINÉ, Marine, “ Capture a Feeling of the Old’ : Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) and the Victorian Gothic », Polysèmes, n° 23, 2020, http://journals.openedition.org/polysemes/68 (last accessed March 5 2021).