Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Manuscript length and formatting

The journal accepts papers in French, English, Dutch or German.

Papers submitted for publication must meet the following requirements:

• Maximum 25,000 characters (including spaces and references, excluding abstract and keywords);
• Times or Times New Roman font, single spacing;
• No formatting, styles or bullet points;
• Maximum of three heading levels (not including the article title), numbered 1., 1.1., and 1.1.1., respectively, with each heading not exceeding 50 characters (not including the numbering). The numbers will be removed during layout.

Footnotes shall only be used to comment on the content or add additional information. The footnote reference shall be placed directly after the word to which it refers, before the punctuation, never preceded by a space.

Italics shall be used:

• For titles of works of art, books and exhibitions;
• For all words in a language other than that in which the article is written;
• To emphasise a word or passage.

Apart from these uses, bold and italics should be avoided as much as possible in the body of the text.

Years should be mentioned as follows:

• In French: 10 AEC (Avant l’Ère Commune) ou 10 EC (de l’Ère Commune) ;
• In English: 10 BCE (Before the Common Era) or 10 CE (Common Era).

Study days, round tables, symposia, etc. should be written in quotation marks “” (in roman type). Research programmes, study days and activity reports should always be written in lowercase and always in the singular form (research, study, activity).

The titles of papers, courses, etc. should be written in quotation marks “” (in roman type).

The reference work for the composition of printed texts and typographical rules for the French language is the Lexique des règles typographiques en usage à l'Imprimerie nationale. This should be supplemented by the ‘Vitrine linguistique de l'Office québécois de la langue française’ (Linguistic Showcase of the Office québécois de la langue française), which presents conventions that are more up-to-date than the classic codes, particularly for the use of capital letters.

For the English language, the reference work is the Chicago Manual of Style.

2. Author identification

The paper will begin with its full title but will not mention the identity of the author(s), to allow for double-blind peer review. Similarly, in citations and references to their own work, authors must present it in the third person to avoid identification in this way.

3. Figures

Within the text, figures shall be numbered in ascending order (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.).

A separate text file shall contain the list of captions, including the titles of the illustrations and the sources and credits. Illustrations must be copyright-free; where applicable, the author shall have obtained all necessary authorisations for their reproduction.

A separate folder shall contain the illustrations in JPEG format with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI.

4. Abstract and keywords

The paper shall be accompanied by an abstract of 1,500 characters, including spaces, and four to five keywords.

The abstract and keywords shall appear in the manuscript file, between the title and the first paragraph.

5. Quotations and references

Short quotations shall be enclosed in double quotation marks (“”).

Long quotations (more than forty words) shall be placed in a separate paragraph indented to the left (i.e. with a larger than normal left margin) and shall not be enclosed in quotation marks. The parenthetical reference shall be placed after the final punctuation mark.

Example:

The MCRC provides each Makah tribal member the opportunity to learn about their family history, the history of the Makah Tribe, as well as how to incorporate traditional cultural values into their contemporary lives… While interpreting Makah history and culture to interested visitors is important, even more important is sustaining a strong sense of Makah identity. (Sadongei and Norwood, 2016, pp. 205-206)

Within quotations:

• Modifications (deletions, additions, replacements of words or letters, etc.) made by the author of the text shall be indicated by square brackets: […] for a deletion, or by inserting the added text in square brackets.
• Excerpts highlighted shall be italicised, and the quotation shall be followed by the words ‘emphasis added’ in brackets.

Quotations and references in the text shall follow APA standards: they shall be accompanied by the author’s name, year of publication, and, where applicable, the page number cited, all in parentheses.

For publications with two authors, both names shall be cited and separated by ‘&’ in parenthetical references. For publications with three or more authors, only the first author shall be cited, followed by ‘et al.’.

If several publications are referenced at the same time, they shall be grouped in the same parentheses, separated by semicolons for different authors, and by commas (without repeating the author’s name) for multiple works by the same author.

Examples:

• Cameron (1968, p. 42) distinguishes between museology of knowledge and museology of objects...
• (Simon, 2010, p. 187)
• (Knez & Wright, 1970, p. 20)
• (Cameron, 1968; Knez & Wright, 1970)

6. Reference list format

The complete references for publications cited in the text shall be grouped together at the end of the article and listed alphabetically under the heading ‘References’.

If several publications by the same author appeared in the same year, they shall be distinguished by adding a lowercase letter to the year of each publication (2004a, 2004b, etc.).

References shall be formatted according to the style defined by the American Psychological Association (APA), the main features of which are illustrated in the examples below. If in doubt, refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The UQAM website lists the presentation rules to be followed depending on the type of document cited (https://style-apa.uqam.ca/regles-par-type-ressource/).

The punctuation rules followed for references shall be those of the language of the article (see point 1 above, Manuscript length and formatting).

Examples for an article in English

• Book:

Silverman, L. H. (2010). The social work of museums. Routledge.

Falk, J. H., & Dierking, L. D. (2000). Learning from museums: Visitor experiences and the making of meaning. AltaMira Press.

• Edited volume:

Davis, A., Desvallées, A., & Mairesse, F. (Eds.). (2010). What is a museum? Verlag Dr. C. Müller-Straten.

• Journal article:

Sofka, V. (1991). Museology research marches on: The museum communication on the agenda. ICOFOM Study Series, 19, 7-8.

• Journal article with online access (DOI):

Bertin, M. (2020). Le futur de la tradition: quelle muséologie pour les musées nationaux du Pacifique Sud ? ICOFOM Study Series, 48(1), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.2016

• Online journal article:

Galani, A., & Kidd, J. (2020). Hybrid material encounters – Expanding the continuum of museum materialities in the wake of a pandemic. Museum and Society, 18(3). Retrieved January 12, 2022, from https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3565/3163

• Chapter in a collective work:

Maroevic, I. (2010). Towards the new definition of museum. In A. Davis, A. Desvallées, & F. Mairesse (Eds.), What is a museum? (pp. 140-151). Verlag Dr. C. Müller-Straten.

• Theses and academic works:

Brulon Soares, B. (2012). Máscaras guardadas: musealização e descolonização (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Universidade Federal Fluminense.

• Website:

Mairesse, F. (n.d.). Two ICOFOM giants. ICOFOM. https://icofom.mini.icom.museum/obituaries/zbynek_stransky_and_vinos_sofka/

ICOFOM. (2021, December 31, 2021). ICOFOM in 2020. https://icofom.mini.icom.museum/icofom-in-2020/

• Exhibition in a museum:

Crill, R., & Stanley, T. (2006). The making of the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum [Exhibition catalogue]. Victoria and Albert Museum.

Martinez, J.-L., & Douar, F. (2018–2019). Archaeology goes graphic [Exhibition]. Louvre Museum, Paris, France. https://www.louvre.fr/en/expositions/archaeology-goes-graphic