Publish in an issue

Language

Full paper must be written in French, English or Spanish. The abstract must be written in the same language as the paper. The abstract will be translated in both the other languages of the journal.

Length

Articles must not exceed 45,000 characters (including footnotes, final bibliography and spaces).
Footnotes must be limited (the number of signs in footnotes must remain below approximately 20% of
the total number of signs in the text of the article, excluding bibliographical references) and located at
the bottom of the page, not at the end of the text.
Articles must be accompanied by an abstract in the language in which the article was written of a
maximum length of 1,000 characters (including spaces). A longer abstract (up to 2,000 characters
including spaces) may also be attached for translation into the other two languages of the journal.

Ethics and rules relating to plagiarism and the use of AI

Regarding ethics and scientific integrity, the journal’s charter can be consulted by clicking on this link.

Paper submission

Articles submitted to the journal are first subject to a decision by the executive board to admit them
to the peer review process, which may result in a desk reject for the following reasons in particular:

• Obvious failure to comply with author instructions (layout, formatting, citations, etc.)
• Insufficient syntax and/or linguistic level(s)
• Suspicion of plagiarism
• Suspicion of undeclared use of AI (in particular generative AI)

Submitted articles are reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers appointed by the by the editor-
in-chief under the supervision of the executive board as part of a double-blind evaluation. On the
basis of the review reports, the board accepts, rejects or asks the authors to make the necessary
adjustments and modifications, up to a maximum of three rounds of revision.

By submitting a full paper, the authors agree that the paper is published in both digital and printed
form. Projectics is indeed available online at www.cairn.info.

Digital submission

The full paper must be sent by email to Christophe Schmitt (revue.projectique@gmail.com), the
journal coordinator.

The file must be in a standard format: TXT or RTF (text file), DOC or DOCX
(Microsoft Office Word file), ODT (OpenOffice or LibreOffice file), PAGES (Apple Pages file), etc.

Authors must provide their current researcher identifiers (in particular ORCID).

Two files have to be provided:

• An anonymous version of the full paper, with title, abstract and 4 to 6 keywords in the same
  language as the paper.
• A page indicating:
  • The title of the full paper;
  • The title of the full paper in french ;
  • The full names, contact information, title and institution of the author(s);
  • A short notice (less than 500 characters spaces included) for each author, indicating
    his research topics and a couple of recent publications ;
  • The abstract and the keywords of the full paper ;
  • The abstract and the keywords of the full paper in french.

Formatting

The full paper must be in A4 or US Letter format. The font size is 12 with 1.5 line spacing. Headings
and subheadings must be in a larger font size and must not be numbered. The full paper cannot present
more than 2 levels of heading (paper’s title excluded).

Detailed formatting instructions:

• Long quotations (more than 5 lines) constitute a separated paragraph;
• Quotation marks have to be in the usual typographic form of the full paper’s language:
  English quotations marks are the following: “…”, and quotation marks used within other
  quotation marks are single: ‘…’;
• Any modification of a quotation (deleting, adding, substituting any word or character)
  performed by the author(s) must be indicated by square brackets […];
• Any word in a different language than the one used in the full paper must be in italic
  character;
• Last names must be in small cases with only the first letter in capital. First names must be
  fully written.
• Acronyms must be developed when they are used for the first time, after whiat they can be
  written in capital letters and without any punctuation, for instance: “World Health
  Organization (WHO)”.

References

References must be formatted in APA6:

• In-text references must be used in the author-date format, either:
  • Author(s) name(s) and reference’s year of publication in brackets, e.g.: “(Schumpeter,
    1911)”
  • Only reference’s year of publication in brackets, if the author(s) name(s) is written in
    the text, e.g.: “Schumpeter (1911) suggests…”
  • Nothing if both author(s) name(s) and reference’s year of publication are written in
    the text, e.g.: “In 1911, Schumpeter published…”
• Page numbers have to be indicated for quotations.
• The full list of references must be inserted at the end of the paper, in alphabetical order, then
  chronological order. If several references share the same author and year, they must be
  distinguished by adding a lowercase later (a, b, c, etc.) both in the list of references and in the
  text.
• References must be complete. Especially, the year of first publication has to be indicated,
  between brackets, when not citing the first edition. In the same way, the original title must be
  indicated when citing a translated reference.

Some examples:

• Glaser, B.G. (1962). Secondary Analysis: A Strategy for the Use of Knowledge from Research Elsewhere. Social Problems, 10(1), 70-74.
• Latour, B. (1996). Petites leçons de sociologie des sciences. Paris :Seuil, 251 p.
• Girin, J. (1990). L’analyse empirique des situations de gestion : éléments de théorie et de méthode. In A.C. Martinet (Ed.), Épistémologies et sciences de gestion (pp. 141-182). Paris:
  Economica.

Detailed instructions: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/index.aspx

The journal recommends the use of bibliographic management software (such as Zotero), to make the
use of citations more reliable, and to systematise and harmonise their form.

Figures

Pictures and other figures must be of the best quality available. The resolution must be convenient for
printing, at least 150 dpi. Copies are not allowed. Pictures have to be provided either in printed or high
definition digital format (higher quality JPEG). Figures have to be provided in a separated file, both in
the original format of the software used to compute them and in a vector format such as PDF or EPS.
Original printings will be sent back to the author(s).
A caption must be written for every figure, citing the reference of the original source and put in the
text where the figure is to be inserted.
Provide any authorisation suitable for printing the figure, if necessary.
Entrusted documents (copies and / or originals) are returned to the authors upon issue publication.