An anonymized manuscript, together with a title page (see Submission files below), must be submitted to the Editors by email. If your paper is a contribution to a special issue, please submit to the guest editors by email.

Before submission, please read carefully our Editorial Policy to ensure your contribution fits the aim and scope of the journal, then the Authors guidelines below as well as the Citation and referencing guidelines, to ensure your contribution follows the requirements.

Language of the manuscript

Manuscripts should be submitted in French or English.

For French, see Recommandations aux auteur·rices.

Submissions in other languages may also be entertained, subject to confirmation by the Editors.

If you wish to publish a translation of a work that is already published elsewhere, please contact the Editors.

Length of the manuscript

Papers should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words, inclusive of the title, the keywords, the abstract, the synopsis, the body text, the references and the footnotes but not the appendices.

For other types of contributions (republications, conversations, interviews, reviews, etc.), please contact the Editors.

Submission files

Please prepare two files:

1. Your fully anonymized paper: please include title, abstract (150-200 words), synopsis (1,000 words), keywords (5 to 6), body text and footnotes, and references, but remove any element that could compromise the anonymity of the paper.

2. A separate file with the identifiers of each author:

Please include the title, author, affiliation, email, and ORCID ID. If you do not have an ORCID ID, please create one on this site.

Please provide editable text files (.doc, .docx, .odt formats).

If you wish to propose a special issue, please fill out this Template and submit it to the Editors.

If you wish to propose a paper and would like to verify whether it would be of interest to the journal, please submit a synopsis of your paper (1,000 words), a title and 5-6 keywords to the Editors.

General style sheet

Headings and subheadings

Do not capitalize titles and headings.

Ensure heading levels are clear, and the sections are clearly defined; use subheadings judiciously, to orient the reader, and avoid too many subheadings with short paragraphs under each; avoid personalized layouts.

Font, size and spacing

Use Times New Roman, 12pt, single spaced, with a line break between paragraphs. Do not use indenting except for long quotations (see Quotations).

Spelling

Use British spelling except for –ize/izing – e.g. behaviour, humour, but organize, organization (unless you are quoting from a primary source or text, in which case please retain the original spelling).

Spell out nineteenth century, twentieth century, etc.

Numbers under 100 should be spelled out (ninety-nine, seventeen, etc.).

Avoid hyphenation: retranslation (instead of re-translation), postcolonialism (instead of post-colonialism).

Quotations

For short quotations (up to 40 words), use double quotation marks (“…”, if your paper is in English and « ... », if your paper is in French).

For long quotations (more than 40 words), do not use the above but present them as a block, indented on both left and right, with a blank line before and a blank line after.

For quotes within quotes, use single quotation marks (‘…’) if your paper is in English, and double quotation marks (“…”) if your paper is in French.

For any addition or omission of words in quotations, use square brackets: […].

Use scare quotes (i.e. the use of single quotation marks ‘ ’ to signal distancing) very sparingly.

For foreign language material cited in the article, please provide a translation in the language of the paper:

1. Where the quotation is long and set off accordingly in an indented block, it should be given first in the original language. The translation should appear underneath, in an indented block, separated by a line break. For non-Roman scripts, use the original script.

2. Where a quotation is shorter and included within the text, the translation of the quoted material should be placed first, followed by the original in the foreign language.

Example: Thus Han Jing discusses the Chinese-English bilingual panels in an exhibition which she designed as “manifesting a style that is precise without being severe, accessible without being vulgar, and elegant without being impulsive” (體現了嚴謹而不嚴肅，通俗而不庸俗，優美而不浮躁的文風) (Han, 2005, p. 142, my translation).

Indicate whether it is a published translation or your own translation (if the latter, use “my translation”, as above).

NOTE: Romanization should only be added where individual words or phrases are referred to in the discussion, and presented as in the following:

Example: What is meant here by the term qi (氣) is something akin to ether.

Italicization

Italicize lexical items that are discussed:

Example: … the problem of translating the word gender itself.

Use italicization sparingly for emphasis, and spell out whether emphasis is added or in the original:

Examples:

In his magisterial book on the influence of science on Nabokov’s writing, Blackwell, for example, points out that, “[f]or Nabokov, aesthetic pleasure and scientific pleasure are inseparable” (emphasis in the original).

“Some scholars have therefore argued that what is discarded bears meaning” (emphasis added).

Footnotes

Use footnotes, not endnotes.

Illustrations: pictures, charts, graphs

The format should be TIFF, PNG, JPEG, for pictures and EPS for graphs and line art.

Images supplied in colour will be published in colour free of charge.

Please provide the best resolution possible.

Illustrations must be placed in the body of the text by the author, and submitted as attachments alongside the manuscript.

The text must explicitly refer to the illustration.

The illustration must be followed by the number of the figure, its title, caption (if necessary), and credit/sources, including the URL whenever possible.

Tables

Avoid using spacing or tabs.

Tables must be placed in the body of the text.

The text must explicitly refer to the table.

The table must be followed by the number of the figure, its title, and source, if relevant.

Citation and referencing guidelines

Our Citation and referencing guidelines are available here.