APAD is particularly vigilant on issues of ethics and prevention of plagiarism. As a result, the association adheres to the COPE (Committee On Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct, which can be downloaded by clicking on this link.

Plagiarism consists in copying directly, or drawing very strongly on the writings of another author without quoting him/her. It is an example of serious moral and professional misconduct. In France, the plagiarist can face legal consequences and can be heavily sanctioned by the institution to which he belongs. In the event of plagiarism being proven in an article submitted to the Anthropologie & développement journal, APAD reserves the right to refuse the article and to inform the institution to which the author belongs.

Anthropologie & développement Anthropologie & développement publishes original scientific articles, book reviews, thesis reviews.

Original papers

The manuscript should be written in Word or Open document and should not exceed 50,000 characters with spaces (including footnotes and bibliography). The manuscript should be in the simplest possible style, entered in continuous text format (« au kilomètre ») without tabulations or style formatting (feuille de style) and using Times New Roman font size 12. The text should be written with single line spacing (there should be no paragraph breaks between paragraphs). The final version must be formatted according to the style of the journal (this will be sent to the authors following the acceptance of their text).

The author is responsible for ensuring the quality of the language in which the text is written and should seek assistance from a professional translator/proofreader if necessary.
The manuscript should include:
• A title and possibly a sub-title.
• The first and last name of the author. The institutional/academic affiliation and email address should appear at the end of the article.
• An abstract in French and in English (200 words each).
• 5 keywords.
• Footnotes numbered from 1 to 20 (maximum).
• Quotations should be in the running text. If longer than 2 lines, the quotation should be set off in a separate paragraph from the text with an extra line of space above and below).
• Figures, graphs and maps should be supplied separately and not embedded in the text.
• Titles, subtitles, headings and sub-headings should be short and clear. A maximum of two levels of titles in the text is allowed.
• A bibliography including all of the authors cited in the text

Bibliographic references should be inserted in the body of the text rather than footnotes, which are reserved for comments. The bibliographic reference should be given in parenthesis in the following form: (Dupont, 1960: 20); (Dupont and Dupond, 2000; Durand, 2014). The name of the authors should be written in lowercase letters. The works of the same author published in the same year should be distinguished by lowercase letters (1977a, 1977b).

The bibliography should be at the end of the text. All works cited in the text should be listed alphabetically by the author’s surname.

Rules for bibliographic references

For books and published working papers:

Kourouma A., 1968, Les soleils des indépendances, Paris, Éditions du Seuil.
Whitfield L. et Maipose G., 2008, Gérer la dépendance : les causes de la faible « appropriation » dans les pays africains et les stratégies pour en sortir, Global Economic Governance Programme, note d’analyse n°34, Oxford, Oxford University, 8p.

For papers published in an academic journal :

Althabe G., 1990, « Ethnologie du contemporain et enquête de terrain », Terrain, 14 : 126-131.

For thesis and reports :

Blanchet X., 1999, « La sensibilité des catégories affectives chez les pygmées », thèse de doctorat nouveau régime sous la direction de Jean Dupont, EHESS, Marseille, 452 pp.
Dupont X, 2014, « Evaluation ex-post du projet d’appui aux acteurs locaux », Cotonou, Ministère de la santé publique/Cabinet Experts associés, 39 p.

For chapters published in an edited book :

Beneduce R., Salamanta O. et Fiore B., 1990, « L’épilepsie en pays dogon. Une perspective anthropologique et médicale », in Coppo P. et Keita A. (éds.), Médecine traditionnelle. Acteurs,
itinéraires thérapeutiques, Trieste, Edizioni E : 195-238.
Bonte P., 1991, « Valeur » in Bonte P. et Izard M. (éds.), Dictionnaire de l’ethnologie et de l’anthropologie, Paris, PUF : 733‐735.

For unpublished work: author, year, title, place, institution, multigr.

Schwartz A., (janvier) 1993, « L’adhésion des paysans à la culture du coton au Burkina Faso. Des comportements contrastés », Bondy, ORSTOM, multigr.
Cheron G., 1948, « Quatre épisodes de l’histoire de la Haute-Volta : le siège de Bama, le royaume tiéfo, la prise de Bobo-Dioulasso, l’activité politique de la princesse Guimbi », Paris, multigr.

Other publications

Book reviews are a maximum of 2000 words in length.

Rules for PhD thesis abstracts

By dissertation summary, we mean a critical abstract which presents the content of the PhD thesis, its main arguments, and its theoretical position within and contribution to the field. To publish a review of one’s thesis, the author has two possibilities: they may ask a member of their evaluation committee to give such a review or they can do the work themselves.

References to the PhD thesis should be indicated as follows: first name author, last name, date, title. Sub-title, doctoral school (if any), institution, number of pages, key-words (maximum 5), e-mail address, URL (in case the thesis is accessible through internet).

The length of this summary should be between one and two pages (between 2000 and 5000 words). Text should be typed without margins, without tabulation or style sheet in Time New Roman Font 12. Short abstracts are not accepted. The Editorial Board reserves the right to publish or to reject a summary.