Instructions for author's > Article

GUIDELINES FOR WRITING PAPERS

• Length of the articles: between 3 500 and 5 000 words, including the summary, the bibliography, authors’ biographical notices and captions of the illustrations.
• Number of illustrations: 8 to 12
• Length of the text is to be balanced with the number of illustrations, according to the table below:

• The article is written in one single column.
• The title of the article fits on one line, in Arial 14, bold, black.
• 1 line break (font size 14).
• Then comes the reminder of the theme and sub-theme in which the article is situated, in Arial 12, bold, black.
• 1 line break (font size 12).
• Name of the authors, in Arial 10, bold, black, immediately followed by the name of the authors' institutions, in Arial 8, light, black.
• 7-line breaks (font size 8).
• The summary is written in 200 words maximum. It presents the objectives, methods and results.
• 7-line breaks (font size 8).

 
WRITING THE ARTICLE

• The article is written in Arial 12, light, black. English is used. No personal enrichment of the text is proposed.
• 1 line break (font size 26).
• The article then begins with an introduction, written in 300 words maximum (different from the summary).
• The author(s) develop(s) the article in a determined number of parts, as he/she wishes.
  • The titles (1, 2, 3 ...) of each part, after the introduction, are written in Arial 12, bold, black, capital letters.
  • The subtitles of each part (1.1., 1.2., 1.3. / 2.1., 2.2....) are written in Arial 12, bold, black, lower case.
  • 1 line break between the end of a part (1, 2, ...) and the next (font size 26).
  • 1 line break between the end of a sub-part (1.1., 1.2., ...) and the next one (font size 20).
  • The article ends with a conclusion, which updates the results of the program, the research project or the interest of the case study and the perspectives for future development.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations can be photographs, drawings, graphs and tables. Each proposed illustration is referenced in the text (Fig. 1 / Fig. 2, etc.). The caption of each illustration is written on a maximum of one line, in Arial 10, light, black, in italics.

AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
Maximum of 3 to 4 lines, in Arial 10, light, black

BIBLIOGRAPHY, ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS, FOOTNOTES, ETC.
See IFAO documents