Editorial-AN

Editorial standards

Submissions must be single-spaced, Arial font, size 11.
Each author must give details of his or her affiliation: first name (lower case), surname (upper case), title and rank, institution, e-mail address.
Length of articles: articles should be approximately 40,000 characters including spaces and footnotes. Texts longer than this will be returned to the author for modification. The structure of the article must comply with the rules of scientific writing, depending on whether the article is a theoretical contribution or the result of field research. The structure of the scientific article must be presented as follows:

  • For an article that is a theoretical and fundamental contribution: Title (French and English), First name(s) and Last name of author, Home institution, E-mail address, Abstract in French, Keywords, Introduction (justification of the theme, problematic, hypothesis/scientific objectives, methodology), Articulated development, Conclusion, Bibliography.
    For an article resulting from field research: Title (French and English), First name(s) and surname of author, Home institution, E-mail address, Abstract in French, Keywords, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion (MIRAD), Conclusion, Bibliography.

  • Quoted passages are enclosed in inverted commas. When the quoting sentence and the quotation are longer than three lines, the quotation must be indented, by reducing the font size by one point. Citation references are integrated into the citing text as follows, depending on the case:

– (Initial(s) of the first name(s) of the author. Author’s surname, year of publication, pages cited).
Example:

The French geographer, speaking of the difficulty of quantifying the malnourished, points out that:
The reason why the malnourished are so difficult to quantify is that only certain individuals within a given population are affected. Estimates based on the level of food availability do not allow any conclusions to be drawn, and the term ‘hungry country’ means nothing. The media in particular are over-simplifying the situation by publishing a few images of living skeletons and locating them on a vague, very small-scale map, or an entire affected country.

(S. Brunel, 2002, p. 179).

-Initial(s) of the first name(s) of the author. Author’s name (year of publication, pages cited).
Examples:

According to B. Contamin (1997, p. 93), ‘when we speak of its privatisation, (…) we are generally referring to the freedom that would be granted to private carriers to operate a certain number of routes within the perimeter currently reserved for SOTRA’.

O. DEMBELE (1997, p. 494), speaking of the political role of people living in precarious neighbourhoods, said the following:

One of the immediate but indirect effects of the economic crisis is to encourage a new distribution of power that not only benefits people living in precarious neighbourhoods, but also elevates them to the role of players in the political game, particularly in the field of urban planning, where they will succeed in significantly changing the course of events.

Historical sources, references to oral information and explanatory notes are numbered in continuous series and presented as footnotes. Articles must be sent to the editorial office in a single file. The text must be preceded by the title, abstracts (300 words maximum) and 3 to 5 key words, all in French and English. NB: the keywords must indicate the location and cover the thematic field. The abstract should cover the main stages of the work and the main results. The main text must be followed by bibliographical references. All text should be paginated in Arabic numerals, at the bottom right of the page.

Presentation of articles

The main text of the article must be structured into paragraphs and sub-paragraphs. Headings are presented in three typographical levels:

1st level lowercase, bold, 14

2nd level lowercase, bold, 12

3rd level lowercase, italic, not bold, 12

Respect 2 line spaces between each level before the title.

Tables, figures and photos must be numbered in ascending order from 1 in a single sequence, using Roman numerals for tables and Arabic numerals for figures and photos. They must be cited in the text by their numbers (figure 1, table II, photo 3).

NB: Table title above and aligned to the left.

Titles of figures and photos below and aligned on the left.

Quote the sources of the various illustrations

The illustrations

Finally, we ask each author to attach at least one illustration to their article to liven up the presentation of the issue: a photo, map, drawing, graphic, etc. in good resolution. Each illustration must include a number, a title, a caption and the author. Illustrations must be integrated into the text, but photos and maps must also be sent separately in a source file, in ai format for maps and JPG for photos.

The bibliography will be classified according to the following standards.

Bibliographic references

The bibliographic references include only the references of the documents cited. Bibliographic references are presented in alphabetical order of authors’ names.

The various elements of a bibliographic reference are presented as follows:

Surname and first name(s) of the author(s), Year of publication, Title, Place of publication, Publisher, Page(s) occupied by the article in the journal or collective work.

The title of the article is presented in inverted commas, while the title of a book, dissertation or thesis, report, journal or newspaper is presented in italics. For the Publisher, we indicate the Publishing House (for a book), the Name and number/volume of the journal (for an article).

Example :

Bibliographic references

  • ANCEY Gérard, 1974, Relations de voisinage ville-campagne. Une analyse appliquée à Bouaké : sa couronne et sa région (Côte d’Ivoire), Paris, ORSTOM, 258 p.
    BEAUCHEMIN Chris, 2002, ‘ Des villes aux villages : l’essor de l’émigration urbaine en Côte d’Ivoire ’, In Annales de Géographie, Paris, Armand Colin, n°624, pp. 156-178.
    CAMBREZY Luc, JANIN Pierre, 2003, ‘ Le risque alimentaire en Afrique ’, In Les risques, Paris, SEDES, pp. 88-103
    DE CASTRO Josué, 1949, Géographie de la faim, Paris, Ouvrières, 260 p.
    TARONDEAU Jean-Claude, XARDEL Dominique, 1985, La distribution, Paris, PUF, 136 p.

    All texts are examined for compliance with the instructions in terms of presentation and length. Articles that do not comply with the instructions are returned to the authors. Articles that comply with the instructions are then submitted to the editorial board, which forwards them to two anonymous reviewers. Finally, an evaluation report is sent to the contributor, indicating whether the article has been accepted or rejected.