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NON-THEMATIC ISSUES

Submitted manuscripts are processed on an ongoing basis. After an initial quality control by the Parallèles team, manuscripts that fail to meet the journal’s basic quality standards are desk rejected. Those found suitable for further consideration are sent to at least two experts for peer review. All submission of manuscripts and peer review is handled via OJS. Articles are released online as soon as they are finalized. Those ready by the end of September will normally be included in the October non-thematic issue. Later ones will be included in the following year’s issue.
 

THEMATIC ISSUES

Proposals for thematic issues may be submitted any time via our online form, in either English or French. Guest Editors have the option of choosing the continuous publication model, allowing contributions to be published as soon as they are peer reviewed and approved by the Editorial Board. Please contact the Editors before submitting a proposal to check for available slots. 

Thematic issues currently under preparation:

  • Issue 39:1 (2027): Severine Hubscher-Davidson: Psychological sustainability in translation spaces
  • Issue 40:1 (2028): Maude Gonne & Elisabet Carbó-Catalan: De l’écrivain liégeois à l’auteur mondial: Georges Simenon en traductions. Circulations internationales, médiations et dynamiques transmédiatiques
  • Issue 41:1 (2029): Noemí Barrera-Rioja, María López Rubio & Juan José Martínez Sierra: Making humour accessible or making accessible humour? New perspectives on humour, audiovisual translation, and accessibility

 

BOOK REVIEWS

The purpose of the Book review section is to discuss important publications (monographs and collective volumes) in the field, as well as introduce innovative works written in a range of languages, including minor ones, to a wider international readership. Book reviews should provide an accurate description of the contents of the book and critically assess its relative value with reference to similar works in the field. They should be between 700 and 1,500 words and will be solicited by the Editor-in-Chief.


CHECKLIST FOR AUTHORS
Please take the time to read the following guidelines before you begin drafting your manuscript. All submissions must follow the general editorial policy of the journal and meet the following requirements:

  • The manuscript, in part or in whole, has not been previously submitted or published elsewhere, and is not a translation or adaptation of a previously published article.
  • Do not submit a manuscript if another submission is already under review or in production at Parallèles.
  • If you have had a manuscript rejected in the past 12 months, you may only submit a new manuscript after another period of 24 months.
  • The manuscript is within the journal’s scope. Note that Parallèles does not consider manuscripts whose primary focus is a comparative analysis of source and target texts limited to the study of translation strategies.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author guidelines and Stylesheet.
  • The manuscript is submitted as a single Microsoft Word file.
  • The manuscript is anonymized: it is your responsibility that your name and affiliation do not appear anywhere in the text.
  • All necessary authorization has been obtained from the holders of rights to any works that have been reproduced in the manuscript (illustrations, tables, and any other element subject to copyright protection).
  • All works cited are referenced following APA 7th Edition guidelines and the instructions provided in the Stylesheet. We recommend using a reference management tool such as Zotero to ensure accuracy and consistency.


CHECKLIST FOR REVIEWERS
Before you review the manuscript(s) assigned to you, please take the time to read the following guidelines and documents:

  • Comments must be anonymized by deleting all identifying information from the document properties.
  • Use the OJS platform to submit your review.
  • The review questions are available in the Review Form – last update: 09.09.2026.


AUTHOR GUIDELINES
We reserve the right to refuse a manuscript if the author has not complied with our guidelines.

Online submission
Please upload your manuscript to the OJS platform. 

Language policy
You may submit a manuscript in any of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, or Italian. You can choose any variety of the aforementioned languages (e.g., British English or American English), provided that you are consistent throughout the manuscript.
If the manuscript is written in a language that is not your mother tongue, we request that you have it proofread by a native speaker before submitting it. 
We reserve the right to refuse a manuscript if the quality of language is unsatisfactory.

Article length
An article should be between 4,000 and 8,000 words (including abstract, footnotes, references, and appendices, if applicable). The first version of the manuscript must not exceed 7,500 words.

Abstract and keywords
Your manuscript should include – after the title and before the body text – a summary and a list of keywords in English. The summary should be 150-200 words long and the list should comprise no more than five keywords.

If your article is written in English, the heading of the abstract should simply be “Abstract”. If the article is written in another language, the heading should be an English translation of the title of your article, followed by a dash and the word “Abstract” in italics.

Layout
In order to simplify the submission process, Parallèles accepts format-free submissions, though authors are welcome to use the templates from the start. Once a submission is accepted for publication, however, all authors are required to conform to the Parallèles templates:

Manuscript structure 
Submissions should be divided into clearly defined sections to facilitate the evaluation process and must include:

  • Title
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • References
  • AI disclosure statement: specify which tools were used and for what purpose. Note that the use of AI tools must be disclosed regardless of the extent of use.

The following sections should be added after peer review:

  • Ethical considerations (if the research involves human participants): confirm that informed consent was obtained. If the research was reviewed by an ethics committee, specify the committee’s name and approval number.
  • Author contributions (if the manuscript has more than one author): specify each author’s role using the CRediT taxonomy.
  • Declaration of conflicting interests: specify any financial or personal interests that could influence this work, or state: The author(s) declare(s) no conflicting interests.
  • Funding: specify the funding body and grant number, or state: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sector.
  • Data availability statement: specify where data can be accessed, or state the reason data cannot be shared.

 

STYLESHEET

1. Specific guidelines

Citations

Short citations should be included in the body of the text, using the style “P_Text”. Longer citations (more than three lines) should be presented on a new line and indented, without quotation marks, using the style “P_Quotation”.


Footnotes

In general, try not to use footnotes. When necessary, however, the notes must be placed at the foot of the page and must end with a period; a horizontal line should separate the body of the text and footer. The purpose of footnotes is to give additional information and references (e.g., acknowledgements at the beginning of the manuscript) or cross-references that cannot be integrated into the text (e.g., web addresses); they should not be used to provide bibliographic information (see section 2). The footnote should be placed before the punctuation mark (in particular before “,”, “.”, “:” and “;”); however, the footnote is placed after the punctuation mark when using quotation marks, an exclamation mark or a question mark.

Please use the “P_Footnotes” style.


Figures and tables

All graphics (including figures and tables) should be accompanied by a descriptive caption. Captions should be centered beneath the graphic and numbered in the order in which they are intended to appear in the article, e.g., Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. or Table 1, Table 2, etc.

Graphics should be placed in the text as close to the reference as possible. Avoid making reference to the position of the graphic itself (e.g., "the figure below"). Instead, use the appropriate number reference. For instance: (see Figure 1).

For legends, please use the “P_Figure_Legend“ style and put the word “Figure” or “Table” in bold, along with the number that accompanies it.


Numbering

If you wish to divide your text into several sections, please use the following numbering system:

1.

1.1.

1.1.1.
 

2. References in the running text

The names of authors and publication years must be mentioned again in each new paragraph. Abbreviations such as “ibid.“ or “ibidem“ will not be accepted. If a work is cited several times in a row within one and the same paragraph (no other works are cited in between), simply refer to the page cited, i.e., (p. 11) or (pp. 11-12) after the first complete reference (author, year, page). In accordance with the 7th edition of the APA manual, bibliographic references that appear in the running text should be inserted as follows:


One author:
If the author is already mentioned in the text, simply insert the date in parentheses (2014). If you are referencing a direct or indirect quote, you should also include the applicable page number (2014, p. 2) or page numbers (2014, pp. 2-3).

If the author’s name is not mentioned in the running text, please include it in the parentheses: (Mossop, 2014, p. 2) or (Mossop, 2014, pp. 2-3).


Two authors:
If a work is written by two authors, systematically mention both authors in the running text: Cordingley and Montini (2015) or (Cordingley & Montini, 2015).


Three authors or more:
If there are more than two authors, only mention the first author in the text, followed by “et al.“: Meier et al. (1999) or (Meier et al., 1999).


Multiple works:
The various elements that appear between parentheses (author’s name, date of publication, page numbers) should be separated by commas. When multiple works are cited, they should be separated by semicolons and cited in alphabetical order: (Arthern, 1983; Nord, 1999). When multiple works of a single author are cited, they should be listed by year (earliest first) and separated by commas: (Kade, 1961, 1964, 1965).

3. Bibliography

General guidelines

Bibliographic references should appear at the end of the article in a specific section. The bibliography should follow the American Psychological Association (APA, 7th edition) format. The bibliography should contain all the works cited and may only include the works cited in the article. Any other work that is not mentioned in the text should not be included in the bibliography.

For the presentation of your bibliography, please use the “P_Bibliography” style.


Multiple works by the same author in the same year:
If several publications by the same author have the same date, they should be listed in alphanumeric order by title.

Titles of works:

Use sentence case, i.e., capitalize only at the beginning, with proper nouns and after a colon:

Covert multilingualism: The case of the translation policy in France and Belgium during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.

Place of publication and name of publisher:
The place of publication is no longer required. Please only specify the name of the publisher.

Edition number:
If you would like to cite the edition number, you should do so in the language of the publication, as with the place of publication, for example, “2nd ed.” for publications in English and “2e éd.” for publications in French.

Edited volumes:
You can choose to use a generic term (e.g., in English, “Ed.” and “Eds.”) or the appropriate abbreviation in the language of the work being referenced (“dir.” for works in French, “Hrsg.” for works in German, etc.).

More than twenty authors or editors:
There should be no more than twenty names in the bibliographical reference. After the nineteenth author’s name, use an ellipsis (three dots) in place of the author names, then provide the final author’s name.

Websites:
In your bibliography, website references should be listed by the author’s name; you may use a group author name in place of a person’s name. They should also include the website name after the title of the page (unless it is the same as the author’s name) and a hyperlink. It is not necessary to specify the date on which you consulted the site. If a work has a DOI, present it as a hyperlink beginning with “https://doi.org/”.

Examples of references

Monographs:

Hewson, L. (2011). An approach to translation criticism. Emma and Madame Bovary in translation. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.95

Journal articles:

Bolaños-García-Escribano, A., Díaz Cintas, J., & Massidda, S. (2021). Latest advancements in audiovisual translation education. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 15(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399X.2021.1880308

Chapter in a collective work:

Depecker, L. (2000). Le signe entre signifié et concept. In H. Béjoint & P. Thoiron Eds.), Le sens en terminologie (pp. 86-126). Presses universitaires de Lyon.

Multiple works by the same author in the same year:

Peraldi, F. (1982a). Présentation. Meta, 27(1), 126-128.

Peraldi, F. (1982b). Psychanalyse et traduction. Meta, 27(1), 9-25.

Websites:

American Psychological Association (2020). Group author abbreviations. https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/abbreviations/group-authors

Derico, B., & Kleinman, Z. (7 novembre 2023). OpenAI announces ChatGPT successor GPT-4. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64959346