Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Manuscript Format

The journal accepts manuscripts primarily in French but also in English.

Manuscripts submitted for publication must adhere to the following guidelines:

• A maximum of 40,000 characters (including spaces and references, but excluding the abstract and keywords);
• Times or Times New Roman font, double-spaced;
• A title and a short title (maximum of 45 characters, including spaces);
• A maximum of three levels of headings (excluding the article title), numbered as 1., 1.1., and 1.1.1., with each heading not exceeding 50 characters (excluding numbering);
• The first paragraph of the text should not be preceded by any heading (other than the article title).

Italicized text should be used for all words written in a language other than the one in which the article is written.

Examples:

• La condition sine qua non (for articles in French);
• The raison d’être of this process (for articles in English).

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

Punctuation in the article should follow the conventions of the language in which it is written. Specifically:

• In French: Include spaces before and after colons, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation marks; include spaces after (but not before) commas, periods, and ellipses.
• In English: Use only one space after periods, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, and ellipses.

2. Author Identification in the Manuscript

The manuscript should begin with its full title but must not include the identity of the author(s) to ensure double-blind peer review. Similarly, in citations and references, authors must present their own work in the third person to prevent identification through this means.

3. Figures and Tables

Within the text, figures and tables should be numbered sequentially (e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2… and Table 1, Table 2…) and accompanied by captions.

Figures should also be submitted as separate files in TIFF, JPEG, PNG, or SVG formats, with a minimum resolution of 600 dpi for bitmap images.

4. Abstract and Keywords

The manuscript must include an abstract of 100 to 150 words, along with three to five keywords.

Both the abstract and keywords should be entered into the online submission form and included in the submission file, placed between the title and the first paragraph.

5. Citations and References

Short quotations should be enclosed in double quotation marks.

Long quotations (over forty words) should be presented in an indented paragraph (with a left margin larger than the standard) and should not be enclosed in quotation marks.

Within quotations:

• Modifications made by the author (such as deletions, additions, or replacements of words or letters) must be indicated with square brackets: […] for deletions or [added text] for additions.
• Emphasized excerpts should be italicized, followed by the mention "emphasis added" in parentheses.

Citations and references within the text should include the author's name, the year of publication, and, if applicable, the page number, all in parentheses.

For publications with two authors, both names should be cited. For publications with more than two authors, only the first author's name should be cited, followed by "et al." in italics.

When referencing multiple publications simultaneously, they should be grouped in the same parentheses:

• Use semicolons to separate works by different authors.
• Use commas to separate multiple works by the same author without repeating the author's name.

Examples:

• (Barthes, 1964, p. 42)
• (Lakoff & Johnson, 1985, 1999)
• (Boullier et al., 2004)
• (Metz, 1968; Jost & Gaudreault, 1990)

References to sources such as films, television programs, press articles, and other media productions should display their title in italics, followed by the author's name (if identified) and the production date in parentheses.

Examples:

• […] article published in Le Soir (January 21, 2006)
• Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

6. Reference List Format

The full references for publications cited in the text must be grouped at the end of the article and listed alphabetically under the title "References". If several works by the same author(s) published in the same year are cited, they should be distinguished by adding a lowercase letter to the publication year (e.g., 2004a, 2004b, etc.).

The formatting of references must follow the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) style. The examples below highlight the main features. In case of uncertainty, refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

All references must be checked for accuracy and completeness. Every reference listed must be cited in the text.
Punctuation rules for references should follow the language of the article (see Manuscript Format).

Examples:

• Book:
• Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books.
• Perriault, J. (1989). La logique de l'usage. Paris: Flammarion.
• Edited Book:
• Beguin, R., Dussault, M., & Dyotte, E. (Éd.). (2006). La circulation des images. Médiation des cultures, coll. Esthétiques. Paris: L’Harmattan.
• Crinon, J., & Gautellier, C. (Éd.). (1997). Apprendre avec le multimédia, où en est-on ?, coll. Pédagogie. Paris: Ceméa-Retz.
• Journal Article:
• Bertin, J. (1970). La graphique. Communications, 15, 169–185.
• Meunier, J. (1995). La médiation socio-sémiotique. Recherches en Communication, 4, 85–118.
• Journal Article with DOI (Online Access):
• Chen, C., Czerwinski, M., & Macredie, R. D. (2000). Individual differences in virtual environments – Introduction and overview. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(6), 499–507. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(2000)51:6<499::AID-ASI2>3.0.CO;2-K
• Mitchell, T. J., Chen, S. Y., & Macredie, R. D. (2005). Hypermedia learning and prior knowledge: Domain expertise vs. system expertise. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21, 53–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2005.00113.x
• Online Journal Article:
• Fortis, J. (1996). Sémantique cognitive et espace. Dans F. Rastier (Éd.), Sens et textes. Paris: Didier. Disponible à : http://www.msh-paris.fr/texto/nouveautes/Fortis.html
• Chapter in an Edited Book:
• Legros, D. (1997). La construction des connaissances par le multimédia. Dans J. Crinon & C. Gautellier (Éd.), Apprendre avec le multimédia, où en est-on ?, Education active et société (pp. 181–191). Paris: Ceméa-Retz.
• Maglio, P. P., & Matlock, T. (2003). The conceptual structure of information space. Dans K. Höök, D. Benyon, & A. J. Munro (Éd.), Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach, CSCW Series (pp. 385–404). New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Conference Proceeding:
• Moreau, S., Rouet, J., Demange, C., & Metta, S. (2003). Influence de la scénarisation sur l'utilisation d'un cédérom d'initiation à la sociologie. Dans EIAH'2003 – Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain (pp. 343–354). Paris: Association des Technologies de l’Information pour l’Éducation et la Formation.
• Paquelin, D. (1996). Les cartes de concepts. Outil pour les concepteurs et utilisateurs d’hypermédia éducatif. Dans E. Bruillard, J. Baldner, & G. Baron (Éd.), Hypermédias et apprentissages 3 (pp. 45–52). Paris: Presses de l’INRP / EPI.
• Doctoral Dissertation:
• Williams, R. F. (2004). Making Meaning From a Clock: Material Artifacts and Conceptual Blending in Time-Telling Instruction. Doctoral dissertation, UCSD Department of Cognitive Science. Disponible à : http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/index.php?cat=research&page=publications-dissertations-rfwilliams