Information For Authors
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Prerequisites
In order to be considered, submissions must meet the following prerequisites:
- They must be submitted on the online platform https://oap.unige.ch/journals/connexe/login in Word, Libre Office, or Open Office (not in PDF). In addition, authors must provide the title of the article, about 5 keywords, and a short abstract of approximately 250 words in English and in French.
- Length: Submissions should not exceed 50,000 characters for articles and 10,000 characters for book reviews (including footnotes and spaces). Submissions that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.
- Anonymity: Articles are double-blind peer-reviewed. Hence, they must not include any information revealing your identity such as the name of your institution, references to your works (e.g. "see my article..."), etc.
- Originality: Manuscripts must not have been submitted or published elsewhere, in any language, or in any form whatsoever, not even electronically.
Submission procedure
Once you have submitted your manuscript, the Editorial Board takes about 2 weeks to decide whether to accept it or not. Upon approval from the Editorial Board, authors are informed about the decision, submissions are anonymised and sent to two experts, who have 1 to 2 months to review them. Reviewers shall specify their opinion on whether submissions are 1) publishable as it stands 2) publishable after minor revision 3) publishable after major revision 4) rejected.
In the event of contradictory opinions, a third expert review shall be requested.
Depending on the conclusions of reviewers, authors have up to 1 month to rework their manuscript and to apply the editorial standards of our journal (see below). Revised articles are sent to the reviewers concerned, who make sure that their remarks have been sufficiently considered.
The Editorial Board is in charge of the final editorial checks and sends the article proofs to their authors. At this stage, only minor corrections will be accepted within 7-10 days.
In total, the procedure takes 6-9 months.
Submissions are peer-reviewed on the basis of their own merits and must therefore meet the prerequisites mentioned above and adhere to the editorial standards below
Style and formatting guidelines
Format: Times New Roman, font size 12, line spacing 1.5, justified text.
Numbered titles and subtitles: 1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, etc.
The English punctuation rules apply to all quotations and references including those in foreign languages.
Place commas and periods inside the quotation marks and dashes, colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks outside the quotation marks.
Use single quotation marks inside double quotation marks when you have a quotation within a quotation.
Example: He proposed “to use the anthem of the Polish legions ‘We throw ourselves into fire, we do not want anything from you.’”
Spell out the numbers zero through one hundred. You can use figures thereafter except for whole numbers used in combination with hundred, thousand, hundred thousand, million, billion, and beyond (e.g., two hundred; twenty-eight thousand; three hundred thousand; one million).
Indent the first line of your paragraphs, except after titles and subtitles.
Long quotations must appear in a separate indented §. Use single-spacing, font size 11, and no quotation marks. Should you have cuts in your quotations use: [...]. Long quotations are three or more lines long.
Footnotes are in font size 10, they include brief argumentative developments or references to archive materials. You can cite other types of references (books, articles, sites) when they are linked to explanations contained in the footnotes.Do not use footnotes in titles (article title, subtitles in the text).
Acknowledgements (if any) should be given in a separate paragraph at the end of the text, immediately before the bibliographical references, and under the subtitle “Acknowledgements”. They are therefore not mentioned in footnotes. If your article is funded by a research programme, this may also be mentioned in the “Acknowledgements”.
Do not insert images into your text. Submit scans of each image on the online platform and a separate document including the image’s captions and source credits. Use in-text citations in the body of your paper, e.g. (See Figure 1).
If the images displayed are not free of rights, authors must make sure they have the necessary permissions for their publication. This can take up to a year, so please contact permission holders as early as possible – ideally, before you submit your article.
Translation and Transliteration
Translation
Transcription
The usual English transcription is used for proper names in the body of the text
(e.g. Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Alexei Leonov, Alexandra Kollontai).
Translation
All quotations in foreign languages should be translated into English (except French).
In the body of the text and in your footnotes, please translate the titles of books/articles, as well as the names of journals, followed by the original version in square brackets.
Examples:
- Crime and Punishment [Преступление и наказание]
- The Spark [Искра]
- The Contemporary [Современник]
- Journal for East-Central European studies [Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung]
Commonly used or untranslated borrowings (e.g. mainstream, perestroika, glasnost, kulak, moujik, etc.) are italicised.
In the body of the text and in your footnotes, the names of institutions, archives, political programs, administrative documents, laws, online platforms (which do not appear in your references) and political parties can be transliterated in square brackets if necessary.
Examples:
- “The legal status of civil organisations in the USSR in 1920-1930” [Правовое положение общественных организаций в СССР в 1920–1930-х гг.]
- The National Bolshevik Party [Национал-большевистская партия].
Editorial Standards
As The Chicago Manual of Style, we use the author-date system. References appear directly in the text in brackets. They indicate the surname of the author, the publication date, and the exact page number after a comma:
Example:
David Burliuk argues that Vladimir Mayakovsky is revealed to be particularly original and innovative in his representation of himself as a “love poet” (Бурлюк 2006, 447).
When you have several references, you should separate them by using semicolons.
Example: (Lascault 1973; Kappler 1980; Clair; 2008).
Cite references to archival documents in your footnotes (not in your bibliography) in their original form and language.
Example:
Государственный Архив Российской Федерации (ГАРФ), ф. Р-1058, оп. 1, д. 105, л. 200; ф. Р-1064, оп. 7, д. 26, л. 104-104 (об.).
Cite references to interviews in your footnotes as follows:
Interview with James Watts, professor at EPFL, Lausanne, 7 May 2012.
References must be in their original language both in the body of the text (short form “author-date”) and in the bibliography (see examples below). In other words, references in Russian appear in Cyrillic.
Use of capitals: only the first word of the title and subtitle, and proper names are capitalised. This applies to articles and books as well.
Bibliography
Papers have a bibliography (font size 11) which only contains the articles and works cited in the body of the text. References are listed in alphabetical and chronological order.
References are in the language of the article or book cited. Thus, works in Russian are in Cyrillic; French book are mentioned in French, etc. The commas used depend on the language of the reference (“English,” « Français »,) and the order of punctuation follows this logic.
For articles and books whose original title is neither French nor English: add the English translation in square brackets [].
Examples:
FR : Papazian Taline, Merlin Aude, Hohmann Sophie, 2024. « Haut-Karabakh : vie et mort d’une enclave arménienne », Esprit (1-2) : 10-14.
EN : Horvat Lea, Žimbrek Ivana Mihaela, 2023. “The Kitchen Turn in Socialist Yugoslavia: Women, Materiality, and (un)paid Labor, 1950s-1970s,” Connexe: Exploring Post-Communist Spaces: 11-38.
RU : Коровин Евгений A., 1926. Современное международное публичное право [Contemporary public international law], Москва-Ленинград: Госиздат.
In the bibliography, references in Latin and in Cyrillic are separated into two blocks.
When a publication is edited by one or more persons, the mention (ed.) must be added after the Surname First Name (ed.). When a chapter of an edited book is cited, this is in the form Surname First Name, Date. “Title of chapter”, in Surname First Name (ed.), Title of book, City of edition: Edition, pages of the chapter.
BOOKS
In the bibliography:
Pollan Michael, 2006. The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of how eating has evolved. New York: Penguin.
Ward Geoffrey C., Burns Ken, 2007. The war: An intimate history, 1941-1945, New York: Knopf.
In-text citations:
(Pollan 2006, 99-100)
(Ward and Burns 2007, 52)
When there are three or more authors, cite only the first author, followed by “et al.”.
Please note that “et al.” is the same in all languages, so do not translate it.
(Barnes et al. 2010, 847)
If you cite several works published the same year by the same author, you should distinguish these references by adding a lowercase letter after the year (a, b, c, etc.).
In the bibliography:
Pollan Michael, 2006a. The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of how eating has evolved, New York: Penguin.
Pollan Michael, 2006b. Manifeste pour réhabiliter les vrais aliments, Paris : Thierry Souccar Éditions.
In-text citations:
(Pollan 2006a, 123)
BOOK CHAPTERS
In the bibliography (hanging indent):
Kelly, John D, 2010. “Seeing Red: Mao fetishism, Pax Americana, and the moral economy of war,” in Walton Jerem, Kelly John D., Jauregui Beatrice, Mitchell Sean T (ed.), Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 67-83.
In-text citations:
(Kelly 2010, 77)
E-BOOKS
If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you used. For books accessed online, mention the URL and the date. If the pages are not numbered, you can specify the name of a section or the title of a chapter.
In the bibliography:
Austen Jane, 2007. Pride and prejudice: A novel in five books, New-York: Penguin Classics, Kindle.
In-text citations:
(Austen 2007, 101)
ARTICLES
In paper journals
In the text, specify the page numbers used, if any. In the bibliography, indicate the entire page range.
In the bibliography (hanging indent):
Геллер Леонид, 2006. “Оборотень: из национальных мифов,” Slavic Almanach 12: 134-146.
Goetschel Laurent,1999. “Neutrality, a really dead concept?” Cooperation and Conflict XXXIV (2): 115-139.
In-text citations:
(Геллер 2006, 139)
(Goetschel 1999, 115-139)
Articles in online journals
In online journals
If available, cite the DOI. Otherwise, use the URL.
In the bibliography:
Kossinets Gueorgi, Watts Duncan, 2009. “Origins of homophily in an evolving social network,” American Journal of Sociology 115: 405-450, https://doi.org/10.1086/599247.
In-text citations:
(Kossinets and Watts 2009, 411)
Newspaper and magazine articles
Newspapers and magazines can be cited in the body of the text (“As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010…”) and can be omitted from the bibliography. If you read the article online, include the URL. If no author can be identified, cite the title of the article. The following examples are formal cross-references.
In the bibliography:
Mendelsohn Daniel, 25.01.2010. “But enough about me,” New Yorker.
Stolberg Sheryl Gay, Pear Robert, 27.02.2010. “Wary centrists posing challenge in health care vote,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
« En Russie, plus de 4000 personnes ont été évacuées après la rupture d’un barrage », 06.04.2024. Le Temps.
In the text:
(Mendelsohn 2010, 68)
(Stolberg and Pear 2010, 12)
(Le Temps 2024)
WEBSITES
You can cite websites in the body of the text (“On July 19, 2008, the McDonald's company announced on its website: ...”). For more formal options, see the examples below.
In the bibliography (hanging indent):
Google, 2009. “Google privacy policy,” http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
McDonald’s Corporation, 2008. “McDonald’s happy meal toy safety facts,” https://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
In the text:
(Google 2009)
(McDonald’s 2008)
