Authors' Guideline

CALL FOR PAPERS

The academic journal of the Nigeria French Language Village REFECV (LA REVUE D’ETUDES FRANÇAISES DES ENSEIGNANTS ET CHERCHEURS DU VILLAGE) calls for high quality original and well researched papers related to French studies from academics.

Guidelines for the journal contributors

Contributors should indicate, on a separate page, their names, institution, area of specialization, e-mail address and mobile phone number.

Language: Contributions must be written in French. Each of them should be preceded by an abstract of about 200 words followed by at least 5 (five) key words in French.

Format: All contribution must be double spaced and written in Times New Roman, 12pts.

Contributions should not exceed 20 pages including maps, charts, photographs, notes, references, etc.

References: Contributors should adhere strictly to the MLA style of documentation as illustrated below:

For in-text quotations

For Charles Dickens the eighteenth century was both “the best of times” and “the worst of times” (35).

“He was obeyed”, writes Joseph Conrad of the company manager in Heart of Darkness, “yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect” (87).

The aesthetic and ideological orientation of jazz underwent considerable scrutiny in the late 1950s and

early 1960s (Anderson 7).

If a quotation extends to more than four lines when run into the text, set it off from your text by

beginning a new line, indenting one inch from the left margin, and typing it single-spaced, without

adding quotation marks.

Example:

At the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, Ralph and the other boys realize the horror of their actions:

The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body.

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the little boys began to shake and sob too (186).

Bibliographical presentation / Works cited

For a book

Maingueneau, Daniel. Le Discours littéraire. Paratopie et scène d’énonciation. Paris : Armand Colin,

Print.

Harbord, Janet. The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies. Cambridge: Polity, 2007. Print.

N.B. “Print” indicates that the publication is a printed book.

Two or more works by the same author

Borroff, Marie. Language and the Poet: Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. Chicago: U of

Chicago P, 1979. Print.

…….. . Tans. Pearl. New York: Norton, 1977, Print.

…….. . “Sound Symbolism as Drama in the Poetry of Robert Frost”. PMLA 107.1 (1992): 131 – 44.

JSTOR. Web. 13 May 2008.

……. . (ed.). Wallace Stevens: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1963.

Print.

For a chapter in a book

Tiham, Ndiassé. « Alternance codique » in Marie-Louise Moreau (éd.). Sociolinguistique. Concepts de

base. Sprimont : Mardaga, 1997 : 32 – 35. Print.

For an edited book

Moreau, Marie-Louise (éd.). Sociolinguistique. Concepts de base. Sprimont : Mardaga. Print.

For a journal article

Guiziou Durand, Marie-Claire. « L’effet palimpseste dans Verre Cassé d’Alain Mabanckou », Ecrire

au-delà des limites, 2. (2006) : 31 – 48. Print.

Published Proceedings of a Conference

Chang, Steve 5. Lily Liaw and Josef Ruppenhofer (eds.).

Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkely Linguistics Society, February 72 – 75,

7999: General Session and Parasession on Loan Word Phenomena. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics

Soc., 2000. Print.

Web Publication

Eaves, Morris, Robert Essick and Joseph Viscomi (eds.). The William Blake Archive. Lib. of Cong.,

28 Sept. 2007. Web. 20 Nov. 2007. < http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/>.

 

Submission and Deadline:

Electronic copy of manuscript should be sent on / before the 30th

of Sepetember 2024 to:

submissions.refecv@gmail.com or submissions@refecv.com with an

assessment fee of N5, 000 (Five thousand naira only). The paper will undergo a blind-peer review. Based on the final decision of the reviewer’s comments, authors of accepted manuscripts shall be communicated and shall be asked to pay an insertion fee of N20,000 (Twenty thousand naira only). Payments for the journal should be made into the following bank details:

Account number: 3014637420

Account name: MBANEFO Roseline Ngozi

Bank: FIRST BANK OF NIGERIA PLC

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Editor-in-chief:

Prof. Tunde Ayeleru

Email: tundeayeleru@yahoo.com, Phone : +234 (0)8033481993

Editor:

Prof. O.A Laditan

 laditanaffin@frenchvillage.edu.ng,  Phone : +234 (0)8037280121

Secretary:

Mbanefo Roseline N.

Email: roseng338@yahoo.com, Phone: +234 (0) 8034724422