Submission of texts

Composition of the journal

Revue d'études culturelles publishes one issue per year. This issue includes:

• either a thematic dossier compiled by authors who submit their project to the editorial board;
• or a dossier of articles resulting from a call for contributions;
• or a dossier of articles from a seminar, symposium or study day.

Text submission and evaluation process

Proposals for dossiers to be included in an issue should be addressed to the journal’s director and editor-in-chief, respectively:

• Vanessa Besand, vanessa.besand@u-bourgogne.fr

• Virginie Brinker, virginie.brinker@u-bourgogne.fr

The editorial board ensures that contributions comply with the journal’s project (culturalist perspective in particular) and are scientifically rigorous. It submits them to a double blind evaluation by specialists in the field. The expert’s report determines final acceptance of the contribution. If corrections are required, a revised version of the article is requested from the authors and must be approved by the editorial board.

For all contributions, a non-exclusive assignment contract must be signed and returned to the journal’s editorial office at the same time as the author's final version. This contract enables authors to retain all their rights, in line with the non-exclusive assignment strategy to which the journal adheres.

Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Any manuscripts that do not meet originality requirements will be rejected without peer-review. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable. Submitted articles are evaluated on their intrinsic qualities and in relation to what they offer that is original in the field of research in the areas covered

Instructions for authors

Articles must not exceed 45 000 characters, spaces and footnotes included. They must be accompanied by a 300-word abstract, in French and English, and a list of 5 keywords, in French and English.

Texts

They must be sent in Word format.

Article title: Times New Roman, size 14, centered, capitalized, bold.

Subtitles: Times New Roman, size 14, then 13 for sub-subtitles, unnumbered, in lower case, bold and italics.

Author: First name LAST NAME, Affiliation, at the end of the article, justified on the right.

Text:

• Times New Roman, size 14, sigle-spaced, justified.

• Line breaks, single spacing between parts.

• Indent first line at 1 cm for all paragraphs.

Citations:

• Long quotations (more than 2 lines): Times New Roman, size 12, separated by single line spacing from the text, with a line break between each paragraph of the quotation where applicable, justified, without quotation marks, indented 1 cm on the left.

• Short quotations (less than 2 lines): inserted in the body of the text, between quotation marks.

• Quotations in a foreign language: these must be italicised in the text and translated into the language in which the article is written between quotation marks in the corresponding footnote.

• Quotation marks: quotation marks correspond to the language of the article.
  French quotation marks (« ») therefore for articles in French, German quotation marks („ “) for articles in German, English quotation marks (“ ”) for articles in English or only within a short quotation in French, and single quotation marks (‘ ’) inside a quotation in already surrounded by quotation marks (for English articles).

Note calls and footnotes:

• French articles: call inserted after the last punctuation mark.

• English/in foreign languages articles: call inserted after the last punctuation mark.

• Footnotes: Times New Roman, size 12.

• For multiple references: use Ibid. and op. cit.

Bibliography:

A bibliography at the end of the article is requested. It should include only the titles of the books and articles cited in the article, according to the following model:

• Monographs:
  NAME First name, Title, Place of publication, Publisher, “collection” (if necessary), year of publication.

• Collective works:
  NAME First name (dir.), Title, place of publication, publisher, “collection” (if necessary), year of publication.

• Article from a journal:
  NAME First name, “Title”, Journal, Number/volume, year of publication, pages.

• Article from a collective work:
  NAME First Name, “Title”, in Title of the book, NAME First Name (dir.), place of publication, publisher, “collection” (if necessary), year of publication, pages.

Generally speaking, the journal follows the practices and standards set out in the Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l’Imprimerie nationale. For articles in English, be sure to write the centuries in Arabic numerals, in the form “19th century” and not in the form “XIXth c.”/ “XIX^th c.”.

Illustrations

Illustrations must be supplied in a file separate from the text, with all necessary reproduction authorizations attached to the file.

Images must be in uncompressed format (.tiff) or vector format (.eps) with a minimum quality of 150 dpi. As pdf is not an image format, it is not recommended.

The location of figures must be clearly indicated in the text, with the figure title, legend (commentary and details of the figure) and credits (sources, copyright, rights holder) entered separately.

Authors are responsible for requesting and providing permission for the reproduction of illustrations. The journal will only publish images that are free of copyright or for which rights have been acquired. The editorial team reserves the right not to accept illustrations that may be contested. We recommend using resources distributed under open licenses (CC BY for example) such as those found on Gallica for scientific works, Wikimedia Commons or other platforms.

Since 28 June 2025, digital publications must comply with the accessibility requirements set out in Decree No. 2023-778 of 14 August 2023. Each image must be accompanied by alternative text consisting of one or two sentences describing the image in question. This alternative text is intended for people who are visually impaired or have visual disabilities.

Example of alternative text for the painting of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci: The image shows a painting depicting the portrait of a young woman seated in three-quarter profile and looking at the viewer. In the background is a mountainous landscape with a path, a bridge crossing a river and vegetation.