Author Guidelines

Instructions for authors

• Article submission

 The texts (in Word format) will be sent to the editor-in-chief: Alina.Iorga@ugal.ro. The articles must be original texts. The author agrees to keep the exclusivity of his/ her text during the period of evaluation, and, if accepted, until publication.   

 The texts, written in French or English – research articles (6000 – 8000 words, including works cited, abstract, keywords, and footnotes), forum articles or essays (max. 4000 words), or reviews (max. 1500 words) – will be single-spaced, font Times New Roman, 12 pt., justified.

 Each article or review will be accompanied by a short bio (approx. 150 words, TNR, 10 pt., justified, in French or English), which will include the institutional affiliation and the scientific title of the author, his/ her e-mail address, and the latest work published.

• Abstract

 Each article will be accompanied by an abstract placed in front of the text (approx. 150 words, TNR, 10 pt., in italics, single-spaced, justified), written in French and in English, as the title of the article (TNR, 12 pt., bold, centered). The abstract will be followed by five keywords (TNR, 10 pt., in italics), separated by commas, also in French and in English.

• Footnotes

 The footnotes (TNR, 10 pt., single-spaced, justified) will be inserted automatically in continuous numbering. They will be avoided in the abstract, in the titles (3 levels of headings at maximum, not including the introduction and the conclusions), as well as in the section headings and subheadings (TNR, 12 pt., bold, justified). The footnotes are not dedicated to the bibliographical references.   

• Bibliographical references

 The bibliographical references will be inserted in abbreviated form in the text of the article and in the footnotes, in parentheses – ex.: (Boym, 2001, p. 58-59). They will be listed fully under the heading References (TNR, 10 pt., single-spaced, justified, hanging: 0.5 cm), in alphabetical and chronological order.

If in the phrase it is mentioned the author or the year, the latter will be omitted in parentheses. If there are several authors with the same surname, the initial of the first name will be added. If there are more than three authors, after the third it will be added et al.. If there are several publications of the same author in the same year, a letter will be added after the year (2022a, 2022b, 2022c).

Examples of bibliographical references (placed at the end of the article)

 Book:

 Erll, Astrid (2011), Memory in Culture, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

PhD Thesis:

 Popović, Milica (2021), Post-Yugoslav memories as a resistance strategy and the political significance of Yugonostalgia, PhD Thesis, Institut d’études politiques de Paris – Sciences Po, Univerza v Ljubljani.

Chapter:

 Cento Bull, Anna; Hansen, Hans Lauge; Colom-González, Francisco (2021), “Agonistic Memory Revisited”, in Stefan Berger, Wulf Kansteiner (ed.), Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe, London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 13-38.

Article in journal:

 Rigney, Ann (2018), “Remembering Hope: Transnational activism beyond the traumatic” Memory Studies, no. 11 (3), p. 368-380.

Online publication:

 Leggewie, Claus (2009), “Battlefield Europe. Transnational memory and European identity”, Eurozine, April 28th, URL: https://www.eurozine.com/battlefield-europe/, accessed July 14th 2024.

• Quotation marks

 Inside a citation, the suspension points in square brackets ([…]) indicate the abbreviation of the text. The modifications or the personal comments inserted inside the citation will be put in square brackets. In the articles written in French, the citations will be put in « French inverted commas », whereas for the ways of saying, euphemisms etc., but also for the citations inside the citations will be used the “double inverted commas”. In the articles written in English, the citations will be put in “double inverted commas”, whereas for the ways of saying, euphemisms etc., but also for the citations inside the citations will be used the ‘single inverted commas’. The same rules will be applied to the bibliographical references placed at the end of the article. The short citations (less than three lines) will be incorporated into the text in inverted commas (« citation » / “citation” / ‘citation’), using the same font size (TNR, 12 pt.) as for the body of the text. If the head of the citation is omitted (the first word of the citation is not a capital letter), the final point will be put after the inverted comma. If the citation begins with a complete phrase (its first word gets an initial capital), the final point will be placed inside the inverted commas. The footnotes will be attached to the text, before the inverted commas, and before any punctuation mark. The long citations (more than three lines) will be indented (1 cm, left/ right), separated from the body of the text by a double line, written with TNR, 10 pt., and without inverted commas. If the text cited is written in a different language than the body of the text, other than French or English, it is recommended to find an already published translation and cite it. If there is no published translation, the excerpt will be translated accurately, and accompanied by the mention [notre trad.] / [our translate]. The original text will be also reproduced in a footnote.

• General rules (for the article, the abstract, the footnotes, and the references)

 It is highly recommended to avoid the bold and the underline. In the articles written in French, the capital letters will be accentuated. The italics will be used for the words in a foreign or ancient language, for the titles of books and journals, whereas the titles of articles, chapters etc. will be put in inverted commas. The abbreviation of the mentioned pages is p., not pp. The acronyms will be written in capitals and without points. The following Latin abbreviations will be written in italics: supra, infra, i. e., vs, et al.