As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Submission and Peer Assessment Policy
Three times a year, Politiques et Sociétés publishes original and unpublished research articles, reviews, and research notes in all areas of political science. These are subject to an anonymous evaluation by at least two external evaluators on the basis of their contribution to the advancement of the scientific knowledge and the requirements of the discipline.
* Authors may submit a manuscript to Politiques et Sociétés, written using word-processing software not exceeding 30 double-spaced pages, including footnotes, references, and tables;
* Authors must include in their manuscript an abstract of approximately 100 words, in French and in English, as well as keywords in each language;
* A biography of up to 6 lines is also required. This can include, for example, the author’s title, institutional affiliations, areas of research, recent publications, and contact information;
* References should be presented in author-date citation style. The bibliography should follow references;
* Tables, figures, and graphs should be presented on separate pages in numerical order;
* The journal uses a double-blind peer review process. Authors are thus asked to avoid references to their own work, or footnotes that might render them easily identifiable.
Policy on inclusive writing and quotes
The journal encourages the use of inclusive writing through its policy, especially regarding the feminisation of texts as well as the inclusive application of quoting practices.
Copyright Policy
The editorial board accepts only those manuscripts that have been exclusively submitted to the journal. That is, a manuscript must not have been previously published, submitted, or accepted for publication in another journal.
Anti-plagiarism Policy
The journal rejects all forms of plagiarism. It considers the following as acts of plagiarism:
* Copying, in whole or in part, the work of others and passing it off as one’s own; * Copying, in whole or in part, one’s own already published work, without referencing the original publication (self-plagiarism).
Depending on the presence and the extent of the plagiarism detected, manuscripts may be rejected at any stage of the process.
