French Politics, Culture & Society
Information for Contributors
General Submission Information PDF version
1. Contributing authors may submit articles as text attachments by e-mail, formatted as Word or Word Perfect files; mailed submissions should be sent in triplicate. Please include a self-addressed envelope (with proper postage for US mail) if you want your manuscript returned to you.
Send manuscript and editorial communications to:
Managing Editor
French Politics, Culture & Society
Institute of French Studies
New York University
15 Washington Mews
New York, NY 10003-6694
E-mail: frenchpcs.journal(at)nyu.edu
2. Mailed submissions must include a labeled computer disk copy of the manuscript in PC or Mac format and with either Word or Word Perfect text files. Clearly label the disk with your name, article title, program and format used, and filenames.
3. For optimal reproduction photos or line art should be submitted as TIFF (resolution at 300 dpi) or EPS (800 dpi), black and white, with all fonts embedded. Additionally, all images should be approximately 4 x 4 inches at the resolution indicated.
Guidelines
4. Research articles should be 4,500 to 10,000 words (30,000 to 66,000 signes), including notes. Essays on recent debates and events may be 3,000 to 6,250 words (20,000 to 40,000 signes). Review articles must be between 2,000 and 3,000 words (13,000 to 20,000 signes). Book reviews should run between 750 and 1500 words (6,500 to 10,000 signes).
5. All submissions should include the name, e-mail and mail addresses, institutional affiliation, and telephone number (as well as fax number if available)
6. Authors will be required (with the exception of Book Reviewers) to send an abstract of no more than 150 words, 5 keywords, and biographical data of less than 100 words for each contributor.
7. Manuscripts may be submitted in French or English. All article titles, abstracts, and keywords should be supplied in English for abstracting purposes.
8. Upon acceptance, authors are required to submit copyright agreements and all necessary permission letters for reprinting or modifying copyrighted materials. Authors are fully responsible for obtaining all permissions and must furnish proof in written form.
Style Guide
9. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with this style sheet and the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
10. All normally italicized words in a typescript should be italicized in the manuscript rather than underlined.
11. Double-space everything, including quotations and endnotes.
Endnotes
12. Notes should be kept to a minimum, but must include all works consulted by the author. All notes should be endnotes (and not footnotes).
13. We use the short-title system and follow the notation of the Chicago Manual of Style. We do not use the author-date system (where internal notes are accompanied by a list of sources) and so, may require revisions prior to acceptance.
14. The first reference to any work gives full bibliographic information, including the subtitle, if any, which should be separated from the title by a colon (for books published in English). Subsequent references may be abbreviated.
Follow the examples listed below:
Books
Please be sure to include place of publication, publisher, and year of publication for the first citation.
First reference: Kristin Gager, Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 50-65.
Subsequent references: Gager, Blood Ties and Fictive Ties, 55.
Journal Articles
First reference: Patrice L.-R. Higonnet, "The Politics of Linguistic Terrorism and Grammatical Hegemony during the French Revolution," Social History 5, 1 (1980), 80.
Subsequent references: Higonnet, "Politics of Linguistic Terrorism," 82.
If the article is referred to in its entirety, then use the colon to set off the page numbers.
Patrice L.-R. Higonnet, "The Politics of Linguistic Terrorism and Grammatical Hegemony during the French Revolution," Social History 5, 1 (1980): 80-98.
Book Essays
First reference: Dorothy Pickles, "The Politics of Linguistic Terrorism and Grammatical Hegemony during the French Revolution," in Conflict and Consensus in France, ed. Vincent Wright (London: Frank Cass, 1979), 122-24.
Subsequent references: Pickles, "Politics of Linguistic Terrorism," 160.
Newspaper Articles
Le Monde, 10 December 1992.