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Author Guidelines

Authors wishing to propose a thematic issue to the journal Musiques : Recherches interdisciplinaires must submit their proposals by email to the journal coordination (Anthony Grégoire : musiques@ulaval.ca). Proposals must include an abstract of the proposal (500 words), a summary of each of the envisaged contributions (300 words), as well as the names, contact details and short biography (150 words) of the authors for each article. A thematic issue must have at least 6 articles.

To submit an independent article, an essay, an interview or a book or recording review, submit the complete proposal in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format directly to the journal platform.

Articles must respect a maximum of 8000 words (notes and bibliography excluded), and be submitted in separate files:

  1. a title page mentioning the title of the proposal, the full name(s) of the author(s) with email addresses and academic affiliations, an abstract of 300 words maximum, as well as five (5) keywords (for indexing);
  2. the complete, anonymized proposal.

Essays and interviews must have between 5000 and 8000 words maximum (including notes and bibliography), and reviews must respect the limit of 1500 words (including notes and bibliography).

Any sound, audio-video and image files must be submitted separately in the proposal submission platform.

For any proposals, please consult the journal's editorial protocol:

We also invite you to consult our Artificial Intelligence Policy and our Inclusion Policy.

Musiques: Recherches interdisciplinaires only publishes unpublished texts written in French and English. All submissions, with the exception of essays, reviews, and interviews, are subject to a double-blind peer review, meaning that neither the authors nor the reviewers know the identity of the others. An initial reading is conducted by the journal's coordination, which ensures that the texts comply with the journal's editorial standards. Submissions are then evaluated anonymously by at least two external reviewers. The journal provides the reviewers with an evaluation form. A third person may be contacted in the event of a discrepancy between the two evaluations. Authors are subsequently informed of the outcome in one of three ways: 1) accepted with minor modifications; 2) accepted with major modifications requiring a second round of evaluation; or 3) rejected.

Musiques: Recherches interdisciplinaires will not accept any cases of plagiarism and reserves the right to contact the authors for verification and to reject any proposal that is subject to reasonable doubt. The authors undertake to submit a proposal that meets this requirement.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • I confirm that I have the rights for the images, audio and video used in the text.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

AI Disclosure Checklist:

  • Have you used a Generative AI (GAI) tool in your writing, data analysis, or image creation process?
  • Have you indicated the GAI tool used (e.g. ChatGPT, Copilot, Meta AI, etc.)?
  • Have you provided a brief description of how the tool was used in your writing process?
  • Have you justified the use of AI?
  • If you included AI-generated text in your submission, have you fact-checked the text, reviewed it for plagiarism, and substantially revised it?

For further clarification or to report any use of AI, please provide an explanation in the "Comments to Editor" field.

Copyright Notice

Note that authors publishing in Musiques : Recherches interdisciplinaires retain all their property rights, namely the right to:

  • reproduce their article for teaching, research and study purposes;
  • reproduce, present and communicate their article to the public for the purposes of teaching, research and study;
  • deposit, distribute and communicate the first publication of the article on an institutional repository with immediate open access and under CC-BY 4.0 license;
  • authorize third parties to use the article for teaching, research and study purposes to the extent that the author is mentioned as author and/or the Journal is cited as the source of first publication of the article.

At the time of publication, the Journal will ask you to grant it first publication rights allowing it to reproduce, distribute and communicate the article, in whole or in part, in paper or electronic format, on any platform and by any means.

The article will be made available in open access under the Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), which means that the article may be reproduced, distributed, communicated, including in a commercial context, provided that the author is cited. It may also be modified provided that the original version is cited.

Self-archiving of the accepted version under CC-BY license

If the Author has received a grant from a funding organization under Plan S (list of funding organizations adhering to Plan S) to write the Article, the Journal authorizes them to deposit, disseminate, and communicate the accepted version of the Article on an institutional repository with immediate open access under CC-BY 4.0 license.

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