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Book Practices & Textual Itineraries is a series of peer-reviewed book-length publications devoted to the study of book history, textual scholarship and illustration studies. Published by the PUN – Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, with an international advisory board, the collection aims to facilitate dialogue in these fields between scholars and practitioners from France, Europe and the English-speaking world.

While each individual volume of Book Practices & Textual Itineraries focuses on a specific topic, the aim of the collection as a whole is to trace evolutions in the production, transmission and reception of books, texts and images over time and across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. It likewise provides a venue for scholarship which examines the new practices that have grown in response to the acceleration of textual and visual production and exchange provoked by electronic media, and which considers the significance of such practices for the editing, illustrating, publishing and interpreting of literary and non literary works. Finally, it seeks to publish both scholarly and professional work that examines issues related to the archiving of textual and visual productions and that engages with the subjects of literacy, visual communication and information science.

The general editors welcome the submission of unsolicited essays. However, since individual volumes of the series are organised around specific themes, it is recommended that potential contributors contact the editors before submitting their work to ensure that it is in keeping with the contents and goals of the collection and can be published without excessive delay. All contributions, without exception, will undergo blind review by two readers. 

Editorial Board

General Editors

Advisory Editors

 

Submission Guidelines

Decisions regarding the publication of all articles submitted to Book Practices & Textual Itineraries will be made by the general editors of the series on the basis of anonymous blind reviews provided by two readers. In most cases both of these readers will be members of the BPTI editorial board, though in certain circumstances a specialisit from outside the board might be invited to act as one of the two peer-reviewers for a given article. The general editors will make every effort to inform authors in a timely manner whether their submission has been accepted for publication, rejected or accepted on condition of revisions being made. Articles based on conferences organised by the Text and Book Itineraries research axis of IDEA, and articles solicited for a specific book in the collection will undergo the same blind review process as any other submission. All reports by blind reviewers will be made available to authors.

Given this editorial policy, it is necessary for authors to submit their work to the general editors, as a Word document, in two separate formats: 1) a version which includes the name and institutional affiliation of the author as well as all footnotes and a full bibliography; 2) a version which includes neither the author’s name nor his/her institutional affiliation and which contains no footnotes or bibliography.

Authors are advised to write to the general editors prior to submission of any unsolicited article in order to ascertain whether the subject discussed will be covered in a forthcoming volume of Book Practices & Textual Itineraries and whether the article can be published without excessive delay.

Style sheet

Document format 

Articles submitted to Book Practices & Textual Itineraries should be on standard A4 sized paper, in Times New Roman 12 font and double-spaced (with the exception of quotes that are set off from the body of the text). Two versions of each article should be submitted, one containing the author’s name, followed by his or her institutional affiliation and the title of the article, the second (for blind review) containing only the title of the article (see the collection's submission guidelines). This information should be followed by a brief abstract (about 150 words).

Quotations and punctuation 

References to works cited should be given parenthetically, in the body of the text, following MLA conventions on this point. Footnotes should be reserved for commentary and more detailed bibliographic information.

British punctuation conventions should be followed (single quotes, punctuation outside quotation marks, etc). Superscript footnote references should be placed within punctuation marks and should use a continuous numbering for the entire article.

Works Cited 

Place only references to works that you have cited or mentioned as being particularly important to the subject of the article in the list of works cited. Introduce this list with the mention ‘Works Cited’ and present it as follows:

Books 

  • Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. 1957. 2nd ed. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1998.
  • Barbier, Frédéric. Histoire du livre. Paris: Armand Colin, 2006.
  • Bradbury, Ray. Farenheit 451. 1953. London: Harper Books, 2004.
  • Derval, André, ed. Massin. Paris: IMEC, 1990.
  • Holgate, Andrew and Honor Wilson-Fletcher. The Test of Time: What Makes a Classic a Classic? Brentford, Middlesex: A. W. Magazine Publication, 1999.
  • Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. The Life of a Book. 1957. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1975.
  • Manguel, Alberto. La Librairie, la nuit. Trad. Christine Le Bœuf. Arles: Actes-Sud, 2006.
  • — . The City of Words. Toronto: Anansi P, 2007.
  • Rose, Jonathan, ed. The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.

Articles (etc.) in a collection / Articles (etc.) dans un ouvrage collectif :

  • Bacon, Francis. ‘Of Studies’. The Essays. Ed. A. S. Gaye. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1911.
  • Barthes, Roland. ‘The Death of the Author’. Image, Music, Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. 142-48.
  • Brown, Michelle P. ‘The triumph of the codex: the manuscript book before 1100’. A Companion to the History of the Book. Eds. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 179-93.
  • Epstein, Jason. ‘The Past, the Present and Future of the Book’. Book Talk. Eds. R. H. Jackson and Carol Z. Rothkopf. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll P, 2002.
  • Hugo, Victor. « Proses philosophiques des années 1860-1865 ». Œuvres complètes. Vol. 5. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1985.
  • Milton, John. Areopagitica. Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Ed. Don M. Wolfe et al. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1959.
  • Morris, William. ‘A Note on his Founding the Kelmscott Press’. 1896. Reprinted in The Ideal Book: Essays and Lectures on the Arts of the Book by William Morris. Ed. William S. Peterson. Berkeley: U of California P, 1982.

Articles in a journal or newspaper 

  • Bezos, Jeff. ‘Books are Not Dead’. Newsweek (26 January 2007) 1.
  • Chartier, Roger. ‘Language, Books and Reading from the Printed Word to the Digital Text’. Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 133-52.
  • Grant, Linda. ‘The Lid on the Id’. The Independent on Sunday (10 May 1992) 26.
  • Laloë, Frank. ‘Attention, l’humanité perd la mémoire’. Le Monde (27-28 January 2008) 16.

Internet sites 

Lebert, Marie. ‘Project Gutenberg, from 1971 to 2005’. http://www.etudes-francaises.net/dossiers/gutenberg_eng.htm> (accessed 8 April 2010). OR/OU (page consultée le 8 avril 2010)