Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Information to read before submitting an article :

  • the journal AES uses two working languages: French and English (exceptionally, the journal may publish articles written in other European languages provided that it is able to review them)
  • manuscripts must be original and should not reuse text from another source without appropriate citation
  • manuscripts should only report results that have not been submitted or published before, even in part
  • however to promoting research of systemics the journal can publish English or French translation of papers published before in an different langage, with the permission of the journal where the text was published first
  • all contents of the journal AES are protected by a Creative Commons license "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs" (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allow the downloading and sharing of content as the authors are credited citing their names, but you can not edit such content in any way or use it for commercial purposes
  • the ISSN number of the journal AES is eISSN 2225-9635 (online version) and ISSN 2225-9627 (printed version)
  • the platform OJS linked automatically each paper with a digital object identifier number (doi)

The submission includes:

  1. title (optional: a subtitle)
  2. information of the author(s) (First name Last name, Institution, Laboratory, University, email address)
  3. summary (no more than 1 500 characters including spaces)
  4. five keywords
  5. text (preferably between 45,000 and 75,000 characters including spaces)
  6. bibliography in APA style

We ask authors to respect these styles in the text submission file:

  • all the texts are in Times New Roman, 10pt
  • italics, colors, underlined and bold text are not allowed
  • italics are only accepted for emphasized words or words of different languages (e.g. a Latin word, a French word in an English text or an English word in a French text...)
  • quotation marks are used only for citations of other authors' works
  • (sub)titles are in bold text and numeroted (e.g. 1. Title, 1.1. Sub-title, 1.1.1. Sub-sub-title...)
  • a legend precedes each table and follows each figure (e.g. Table. X. Label of the table..., Fig. X. Legend of the figure...)
  • the journal use the author-date style from the American Psychological Association for citing and referencing information in publications (see below some example of APA style)
  • the authors of the document have deleted their names from the text to ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review (all over the text and the bibliograhy, they replace their names by the word "Author")

Some examples using the APA author-date method:

The author–date method of citation requires that the surname of the author and the year of publication be inserted in the text at the appropriate point:

  • single reference (Auteur, 2016), with a page number (Auteur, 2005, p. 254), several consecutive pages (Auteur, 2008, pp. 170-175), several non consecutive pages (Auteur, 2003, pp. 150, 174) or a chapter number (Auteur, 2004, Chapitre 3)
  • single reference with two authors (Auteur1 & Auteur2, 2018), three authors and more than three authors (Auteur et al., 2016)
  • double reference (Auteur1, 2014; Auteur2, 2013) and triple reference (Auteur1, 2014; Auteur2, 2013; Auteur3, 1996)

Some examples of bibliographical references with the APA style:

1. Periodicals (journal article, magazines, newspapers, newsletters)

  • Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
    xx(x), pp–pp. doi:xx.xxxxxxxxxx
  • Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
    xx(x). Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxx
  • If each issue of a journal begins on page 1, give the issue number in parentheses immediately after the volume number

2. Books (books, reference books, and book chapters

  • Author, A. A. (1967). Title of work. Location: Publisher.
  • Author, A. A. (1997). Title of work. Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxx
  • Author, A. A. (1967). Title of work. Location: Publisher. doi:xxxxx
  • Author, A. A. (2006). Title of work. doi:xxxxx
  • Editor, A. A. (Ed.). (1986). Title of work. Location: Publisher.
  • Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (1995). Title of chapter or entry. In A. Editor, B. Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pp. xxx–xxx). Location: Publisher.
  • Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (1993). Title of chapter or entry. In A. Editor & B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pp. xxx–xxx). Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxxx
  • Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (1995). Title of chapter or entry. In A. Editor, B. Editor, & C. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pp. xxx–xxx). doi:xxxxxxxx

3. Meetings and Symposia

  • Symposium: Contributor, A. A., Contributor, B. B., Contributor, C. C., & Contributor, D. D. (Year, Month). Title of contribution. In E. E. Chairperson (Chair), Title of symposium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Organization Name, Location.
  • Paper presentation or poster session: Presenter, A. A. (Year, Month). Title of paper or poster. Paper or poster session presented at the meeting of Organization Name, Location.

4. Audiovisual Media and Data set

  • Motion picture: Producer, A. A. (Producer), & Director, B. B. (Director). (Year). Title of motion picture [Motion picture]. Country of Origin: Studio.
  • Music recording: Writer, A. (Copyright year). Title of song [Recorded by B. B. Artist if different from writer]. On Title of album [Medium of recording: CD, record, cassette, etc.] Location: Label. (Date of recording if different from song copyright date)
  • Data Set: Rightsholder, A. A. (Year). Title of data set [Data file and code book].
    Location: Name of Producer.