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Author Guidelines

Formatting

• The text is written using the Georgia typeface, 11 points, with 1,5x spacing;
• Text is justified (left and right).
• Margins of 2.5 cm are left on all sides throughout.
• The first line of paragraphs is not indented.
• Headings and subheadings should be in bold face, flush left, and preceded by a single blank line.
• Short quotes (up to 3 lines) are included in the body of the text and delimited by quotation marks (“…”). References should be placed between brackets after the final punctuation mark.
  Example: Obviously, not one organization in government, industry or academia could undertake such a project. Like the World Wide Web, it would require the grassroots efforts of hundreds of thousands of individuals, companies, university researchers, and government organizations. […] It could also become a “collaboratory”—a laboratory without walls—for research scientists seeking to understand the complex interaction between humanity and our environment. (Gore 50)
• Long quotations should be separated from the body of the text by a single blank line, without quotation marks or indentation, formatted in 10-point font.

For your convenience and ours, consider using this Word template, which incorporates the above recommendations.

Typographical conventions

Please make sure you use the following typographical conventions in your manuscript:

• The following punctuation marks : ; : ! ? are not preceeded by any space in English, but must be preceded by a non-breaking space in French.
• After punctuation marks, use single spaces only.
• There are no spaces before or after dashes in English, contrary to French. Please note that dashes (—) are not hyphens (-).
• Quotation marks (“…” and ‘…’) are not separated from the citation by any space. Use single quotation marks (‘…’) only for quotes within quotes.
  Example: As Frith put it, “far from being ‘counter-cultural,’ rock articulated the reconciliation of rebelliousness and capital.”
• Please make sure to use “round” quotation marks.
• Within quotes, square brackets are used for the adding to or omitting from the original.
  Example: Nonetheless, for the first time in her life, Lucille was self-confident, and after talking to some experts […], who told her that, “if [she] want[ed] Desilu to be a major player in the television business, [she] ha[d] got to do it,” she took the risk.

Citing in the text

Source information is provided in parentheses immediately after a quotation (Cox 33), following the MLA 9 style. We recommend the use of a citation manager, such as Zotero.
Example: “Poststructuralism [...] by positing language or discourse as both preceding and exceeding the subject, deposed the author from his or her central place as the source of meaning and undermined the unified subject of autobiography” (Anderson 6).

• If you are quoting more than one work written the same year by the same author, provide an abbreviated form of the title instead of the author’s name:
  Example: Murray states that writing is “a process” that “varies with our thinking style” (Write to Learn 6).
  Example: Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of writing is to “carry ideas and information from the mind of one person into the mind of another” (A Writer Teaches Writing 3).
• If several authors have the same family name, add the first letter of their first name:
  Example: (A. Paterson 183-85)
• If a book was written by several authors:
  Example: (Rabkin, Greenberg, and Olander vii)
• If there are more than three authors:
  Example: (Lauter et al. 225-33)

Book titles should be in italics.
Footnotes (not endnotes) should be used sparingly, and only to provide additional information. They should never include bibliographical references, which should be included in the bibliography.

Bibliography

Works cited in the text or the notes should all be listed in full in the bibliography. The different parts of an entry are separated by full stops. Do not skip a space between entries. For web publications, only include the URL where absolutely necessary. URLs are placed after the date you accessed the material. The following examples apply to all references, without regard to the language of publication. They are borrowed from Purdue's guide MLA, which should serve as more complete reference, in addition to the MLA Handbook.

Books

Gleick, James. Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.

Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage-Random House, 1988.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. 1990. Routledge, 1999. [dans ce cas, le 1990 indique la première édition, 1999 l'édition consultée]

Articles

Case, Sue-Ellen. “Eve's Apple, or Women's Narrative Bytes.” Technocriticism and Hypernarrative, special issue of Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 43, no. 3, 1997, pp. 631‑50. Project Muse, doi:10.1353/mfs.1997.0056.

Duvall, John N. “The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise.” Arizona Quarterly, vol.  50, no. 3, 1994, pp. 127‑53.