THE MACRO-COMPARATIVE JOURNAL
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Submission Guidelines
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Authors may submit an article, a comment on an article, a
reply, a (book) review or a paper freely discussing any relevant issue. Please
make sure that your submission meets the editorial scope of the journal, which
is available here: About The Macro-Comparative Journal. Papers are preferably written in
English. Citations from languages other than English must be followed by an
English translation. Authors may propose more than one submission.
Submissions are expected to be original and most of their
contents should be unpublished. They should not be simultaneously sent to
other journals. They must refrain from direct offense or prejudice to
other people even in the case of scientific disagreement, a situation which is
more or less inevitable.
As far as is possible articles should be self-sufficient
and references to other external materials should reinforce rather than disrupt
the scientific stability and understandability of the submissions. Data can be
integrated in the body of the articles or dealt with as annexes, depending on
which solution seems most adequate for the readability and purpose of the
submission.
The articles sent
to The Macro-Comparative Journal
will be first discussed by the Editorial Board to determine their suitability
for publication. Approved manuscripts will then undergo peer-review. Based on
the reviews, the submissions may be accepted as is, returned for partial
revision, or rejected. The authors will be informed about the status of their
submissions in due time.
Authors are responsible for the content of the articles.
When sending the papers to the journal, the author(s) agree(s) that all
copyrights referring to the papers are granted to The Macro-Comparative Journal.
A (.doc) model for articles is available here and is preformatted. Articles
should include an abstract, keywords and relevant bibliographical information.
References can either be limited to works cited in the paper or tend to cover
the topic of the paper exhaustively.
Articles can be of any length but the usual range is 10
to 50 pages depending on its nature. Papers dealing with fairly complex
subjects and containing large amounts of linguistic data are logically in the
upper half of the range. Authors are reminded that not infrequently ultra-long
articles tend to deal with more than one issue and that it may therefore be advisable
to break ultra-long articles into several items of lesser size focusing on more
specific issues. Long articles dealing with one particular topic can also be
cut into separate parts and be published as a series in several issues of the
Journal.
Reviews (and comments) should normally contain at least
three parts: a descriptive section, a critical assessment of the positive and
less positive features, a general conclusion. As a rule, reviews should contain
approximately 10 times as many words as the document being reviewed originally
contained pages: for example, if the book is 350 pages long, the review should
preferably have between 3,000 to 4,000 words. Reviews should normally not have
more than 8,000 words. A (.doc) model for reviews and comments is available here and is preformatted. References should be
limited to works cited in the review or comment.
Submissions should preferably remain below 3,5 Mo in
size.
Please send your submission as attached MS Word (.doc)
and (.pdf) files here: fournet.arnaud@wanadoo.fr.