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Bulletin d'histoire politique

Managing editor(s): Stéphane Savard (Codirecteur), Mathieu Arsenault (Codirecteur) / Editor(s): Ivan Carel (Coordonnateur), Emmanuel Bernier (Compte-rendus)

About

Aim and Scope

Published since 1992 by the Association québécoise d’histoire politique (AQHP), the Bulletin d’histoire politique (BHP) features a variety of scholarly writing related to political history. Our area of scientific inquiry is defined broadly and pluridisciplinarily to include political science, sociology, and literature. Through its focus on political history and its emphasis on the specific methods and theoretical perspectives associated with this field of study, the BHP stands out from other history journals

Recognized as a space for critical thinking and knowledge diffusion, the journal has established itself as a cornerstone in its field. It is now a preferred publication venue for historians, political scientists, and sociologists. Its interdisciplinary nature ensures strong scholarly relevance and remarkable vitality. 800 pages of original content are published each year.

Editorial Policy and Readership

The BHP pursues three objectives related to the advancement and dissemination of political history:

  1. To publish scholarly articles (in the “Articles” and “Research Notes” sections) that undergo peer-review, first by the Editorial Committee and subsequently through double-blind external review. These texts are essential to the advancement of knowledge and are intended for an expert or academic readership.

  2. To engage the scholarly community through the publication of debate pieces, opinion essays, columns (on parliamentary history, military history and politics and cinema), and papers reflecting on recent historiographical production, ongoing debates, methodological or conceptual discussions, and interpretive divergences within the field. This latter approach has enabled the BHP to reach diverse audiences while also directly contributing to historical research.

  3. To support the emergence of a new generation of historians, especially in the field of political history. By encouraging graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to submit the results of their work, the BHP has, over the years, become an incubator of scholarly talent.

These three objectives reflect the interests of the journal’s readership, which is notably comprised of members of the research community and history aficionados. Special issues, which are included in every release of the journal, provide a comprehensive overview of a topic that appeals to both scholars and the general public. Individual scientific articles may be published outside a special issue. They ensure the rapid dissemination of original research. Since scientific discourse is now at times challenged, it is more important than ever to insure its rigour and to be present in the world through wide and rigorous diffusion.

Opinions expressed in the pages of the journal are the responsibility of the author, although editorial pieces may convey the shared beliefs of the Editorial Committee.

Frequency

The BHP publishes 3 issues per year, in paper and electronic format. On occasion, two issues can be substituted for un one double issue. Issue are between 200 and 350 pages long. Every release also includes a special issue. The later may be the result of a thematic workshop or conference, or submitted spontaneously by one or more issue editors.

Ownership and Management

The journal is the property of the AQHP, a Montreal-based non-profit organisation. Its offices are currently located in the History department, UQAM. The AQHP oversees the journal’s finances, but the Editor and Editorial Committee are autonomous in matters of editorial management.

The AQHP’s administrators (President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer) are elected annually by the members’ assembly. AQHP membership includes a subscription to the journal. As such, the AQHP allocates all of its revenue to support the operations and editorial work of the BHP.

The BHP’s Editorial Committee is autonomous in its editorial work, as well as in the choice of its management and members.

Journal Funding

The Bulletin d’histoire politique acknowledges the financial support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Individual and institutional subscriptions, which are managed by the AQHP, support the development of its editorial activities and the continued printing of the journal. Additional revenue comes from electronic subscriptions via Érudit, as well as sales through bookstores and SODEP’s transactional website.

Contact

Telephone
514-987-3000 # 8433

Email
bulletinhistoirepolitique@gmail.com 

Website
www.bulletinhistoirepolitique.uqam.ca

Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/bulletindhistoirepolitique

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bulletin-d-histoire-politique-bhp

 

 

Access

A subscription is required to have access to issues disseminated in the last 12 months of publication for this journal.

Institutional digital subscription: Institutions (library, documentation centre, school, etc.) have the possibility to subscribe to Érudit journals by title or by title package. For more information, we invite institutions to fill out our subscription form.

Individual digital subscription: individuals wanting to subscribe to the digital version of the journal are invited to contact the SODEP (https://sodep.qc.ca/bulletin-histoire-politique) or to communicate directly with the journal:

Phone number
514-987-3000 # 8433

Email
http://www.bulletinhistoirepolitique.org/lassociation/nous-joindre/

Print version subscription:
http://www.bulletinhistoirepolitique.org/abonnement/
https://sodep.qc.ca/bulletin-histoire-politique/

Student: 40$

Individual : 60$

Institution : 80$

 

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Editorial policy and ethics

Review and Evaluation Policies

Peer-Reviewed Texts

Texts submitted as articles or research notes are first evaluated internally by members of the Editorial Committee, who will assess their admissibility. If the submission is deemed admissible, it will progress to the stage of double-blind external review (reviewers and authors remain anonymous to each other).

Texts submitted under the categories of Panorama, Testimony, Ideas, Debate, Column, and Review Essay are evaluated internally by at least four members of the Editorial Committee.

Texts submitted as book reviews are evaluated internally by the person responsible for reviews.

Review Process and Criteria

The Editorial Committee assess the admissibility of all texts submitted to the BHP upon submission. This assessment is based on five criteria: adherence to the journal’s editorial line, scholarly quality, originality of the topic and approach, clarity of writing, and intellectual rigor. Each text assessed by the Editorial Committee may be rejected, sent back to the author for rewriting with major revisions (which requires a new submission), or accepted on condition of minor revisions and adjustments.

Accepted articles and research notes are subsequently sent for double-blind external review to two experts, who typically have one and a half months to write a detailed report; they are also encouraged to annotate the manuscript. The choice of reviewers is the responsibility of the Editorial Committee and the editorial team. Reviewers receive a guide sheet to assist them in their work. They are asked to write a report of approximately one page and to annotate the manuscript as needed.

After receiving the evaluations, the Editor decides whether or not a manuscript is accepted. If the reviewers concur, the Editor will get in touch with the author(s) to relay the (anonymous) reports and to inform them of the decision. Possible outcomes are either rejection or conditional acceptance pending minor or major revisions. In his communication with the author(s), the Editor will highlight the main points for improvement, as indicated in the reports. In the case of conflicting evaluations, a third external review may be requested prior to a decision being made.

In the case of submissions requiring minor corrections, the Editor reviews the revised version to ensure that the reviewers’ suggestions and comments have been properly addressed. For submissions requiring major revisions, the revised version is sent back to one of the original external reviewers. The latter will assess the new text before the Editor makes a final decision.

Editing and Proofs

Authors are involved during the editing process to validate the key steps leading to publication. These are: linguistic revision and bibliographic formatting, final proofreading, and revision of the proofs.

Distribution

Access and Copyright Policy

Before publication, the BHP requires authors to sign a contract specifying that they retain their intellectual property rights over their texts, while granting the journal a license for first publication in both print and electronic formats, notably via the Érudit platform, for sale or subscription purposes.

The journal has signed a non-exclusive dissemination license with Érudit, allowing BHP articles to appear on other platforms, particularly electronic ones, and to be accessible through various databases. Furthermore, the journal encourages authors to deposit their published texts in the institutional repositories of their choice, in accordance with the policies of funding agencies; however, authors agree not to deposit unfinished (preprint) or accepted manuscripts, but only final, edited, and published versions.

In all cases, any full or partial reproduction of a text originally published in the BHP must be credited with an exact reference including the permanent DOI link.

Revenues from photocopying for educational use and electronic dissemination managed by Copibec, as well as revenues from sales and subscriptions, are paid to the AQHP.

Distribution and Indexing

The BHP is distributed in two formats: print and electronic, and is available both by subscription and per issue.

  • The print version is available through the journal's office, in bookstores (via Dimédia), or through the Société de développement des périodiques culturels (SODEP).

  • The electronic version is accessible via the Érudit consortium (with a one-year subscription embargo), or via SODEP, the Anel/DeMarque digital repository, and LesLibraires.ca.

The Bulletin d’histoire politique is referenced in a number of research tools, and its articles are indexed in several national, international and institutional catalogs and databases:

  • America: History and Life: history database managed by Ebsco

  • AuréHAL: Accès Unifié aux Référentiels HAL, portal to French multidisciplinary open archives

  • BAnQ : Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

  • Dimensions : multidisciplinary database

  • Érudit : Quebec platform for scholarly and cultural journals

  • Google Scholar: search tool drawing on various Internet resources

  • Portail ISSN papier et numérique : international database managing journal identifications.

  • Isidore : French search engine for the humanities and social sciences

  • Library of Congress: America's National Library

  • Mir@bel: French portal for scientific journals in the humanities and social sciences

  • National Library of Medicine: national library for science and medicine

  • Repère : Multimedia documentary service. Quebec analytical index of French-language periodicals

  • Sofia: catalog of Quebec university libraries

  • Sudoc: Catalog of the Système Universitaire de Documentation of French libraries and documentation centers

  • Ulrichsweb: directory of international periodicals

  • UQ: index of research and creative journals from the Réseau des Universités du Québec

  • UQAM : showcase of UQAM journals

  • VIAF: virtual international authority file

  • Worldcat: Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) database

Archiving

All BHP issues from its inception in 1992 are hosted and archived on Érudit and Portico, ensuring the journal’s long-term preservation. They are freely accessible after a one-year subscription embargo.

Offprints

All authors receive an electronic offprint (PDF) of their final published text by email. In addition, those who have contributed a scholarly article, opinion piece, column, book review, or a panorama also receive a print copy of the journal.

Policy on Plagiarism

Any detection of professional misconduct by the Editorial Committee or a reviewer (plagiarism, self-plagiarism, falsification, manipulation or fabrication of sources, data or citations, lack of references, etc.) will lead to the rejection of the submitted manuscript.

Any use of artificial intelligence tools must be clearly disclosed by the author and can in no way take precedence over the ethical rules of scientific practice. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to consider such practice as professional misconduct, or even plagiarism.

If an act of plagiarism is detected after publication, the text will be removed from digital platforms. A notice will appear in the next print issue following the discovery.

Privacy Policy

When submitting a manuscript to the BHP, all authors must provide contact information to allow for editorial follow-up. However, this information is accessible only to the editorial team. Reviewers do not have access to it and may not contact the author(s), and vice versa. It is only at the time of publication that the author’s name(s) and affiliation(s) are made public. Other contact details (email address and phone number) remain confidential.

Information for contributors

Authors and submissions

Authors

The Bulletin d’histoire politique is open to established researchers as well as students and history enthusiasts. In order to facilitate communication throughout the editorial process, authors are asked to indicate their current or eventual institutional affiliation and their contact information when submitting their texts.

The submission and evaluation process is the same for everyone.

In addition, we encourage authors to register with the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID), a permanent international identifier that helps distinguish researchers and link them to their research activities.

Submissions

Each scholarly article must include a summary in French of approximately 7 lines, which will be translated into English by the journal, along with a list of 5 to 10 keywords.

All submissions must be exclusive and consist of original, unpublished work. The journal does not evaluate submissions that have already been published (including on institutional repositories or online) or that have been simultaneously submitted to another journal.

If the manuscript is not originally written in French, translation costs are the responsibility of the author. However, there are no fees required to submit or publish a text in the Bulletin d’histoire politique (no Article Processing Charges).

Categories of Texts

  • Article : A scholarly text aimed at advancing knowledge, presenting a clear research question and source-based analysis, or offering a historiographical study.

  • Research Note: A text presenting the early stages of scholarly research, highlighting a more limited set of sources than a full article. A research note may also intend to stimulate historiographical debates.

  • Panorama : A general and synthetic overview of a specific topic. Panoramas are not based on original source analysis. Rather, they offer broad observations and reflections on a scholarly field or topic.

  • Testimony: A contribution from a participant or witness of a specific period or event, providing personal insights and perspectives on a given subject.

  • Ideas: A reflective text on a historical or contemporary topic of interest to historians, especially in the political realm. Unlike scholarly articles, idea pieces are not subject to the same scientific rigor and do not necessarily aim to advance academic knowledge, but they encourage reflection on society or given a field.

  • Debate: A space for critical and open discussion related to ongoing reflections, positions, or controversies within the field of political history.

  • Column: A recurring contribution by the same author, highlighting thematic developments or innovations in areas connected to political history: public history, military history, labor history, politics and cinema, parliamentary history, etc.

  • Review Essay: A more detailed and extensive analysis than a standard book review, placing one or more works within a broader historiographical context.

  • Book Review: A concise text presenting, analyzing, and commenting a recent publication in political history. They provide an accessible appreciation of its relevance to the field.

Management of Special Issues

The BHP opens its pages to special issues led by individuals who are not necessarily members of the editorial team. These individuals must however follow certain guidelines in addition to those that apply to authors.

Special issue editors must ensure that the texts submitted cohere when considered as a whole and that they follow the journal’s editorial line.

Special issue editors are moreover expected to carry out an initial critical reading of each text with the authors, in order to streamline and facilitate subsequent editorial interventions.

Issue editors should first contact the journal to tentatively present the special issue project along with a preliminary list of texts and authors.

Once each submission has been gathered and reviewed, the issue editor(s) will submit all of them to the Editorial Committee together as a single package. The Editorial Committee will then take charge of the special issue and will be contacting the authors for editorial follow-up.

Maximum Length of Submitted Texts

  • Scholarly article: 9,000 words, including notes (ideally between 7,000 and 8,000 words)

  • Opinion or debate piece: 6,000 words, including notes (ideally between 3,000 and 5,000 words)

  • Research Note: 6,000 words, including notes

  • Review Essay: 4,000 words, including notes

  • Book Review: 1,500 words

Writing Guidelines Inclusive Writing

Inclusive Writing

Norms and practices regarding inclusive writing are in constant evolution. The BHP has no established guideline on the matter. Yet, in order to promote as equal a representation as possible of women and men, the journal encourages authors to opt for a writing style that is as inclusive as possible.

The Office québécois de la langue française (https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/banque-de-depannage-linguistique/la-redaction-et-la-communication/feminisation-et-redaction-epicene) provides definitions and tools that may be of use from the beginning of the writing process, especially regarding epicene (gender-neutral) writing, defined as “[a] writing practice that, through techniques promoting more inclusive texts, allows for balanced representation of women and men, or for referring to people regardless of their gender1” (Our translation).

The Université du Québec network adopted its Guide de communication inclusive in 2021:
https://reseau.uquebec.ca/system/files/documents/guide-communication-inclusive-universite-du-quebec-2023.pdf

The Université de Sherbrooke adopted its Guide relatif à la rédaction épicène as early as 2008:
https://www.usherbrooke.ca/langue/fileadmin/sites/langue/documents/guide_redacepicene.pdf

Formatting

  • Submissions should be in .doc or .odt format, with minimal formatting. Use Times New Roman, 1.5 line spacing, and 12-point font.

  • Foreign language terms should be italicized.

  • All quotations must be in French and, if necessary, translated by the authors. Original quotations should be placed in footnotes.

  • Short quotation (4 lines or fewer): within the text, between French quotation marks « ».

  • Long quotation (5 lines or more) : indented, in 11-point font, single-spaced.

  • References to footnotes:

    • Always before punctuation

    • For quotations, placed inside the quotation marks

  • Any figures (photos, drawings, maps, graphs) must be in JPG or TIFF format, 300 DPI, and submitted in separate files. Authors must ensure they have copyright.

  • All quotations must be accompanied by a reference in a footnote. However, in a book review, when quoting from the reviewed work, the author should indicate the page number(s) in parentheses after the quote, without using a footnote.

Citation and References

  • The BHP follows the same bibliographic formatting style as the online journal Histoire@politique, which is available in Zotero.

  • Markers from bibliographic software (EndNote, Zotero, etc.) must be removed before submission.

  • References must be written in full upon first mention.

  • For the first mention:

    • Book : First name Last name, Title of the Book, Place, Publisher, Year, pages (total number of pages or p. ??–??).

    • Journal article: First name Last name, “Title of the Article,” Journal Name, vol. ??, no. ??, Year, p. ??–??.

    • Book chapter: First name Last name, “Title of the Text,” in First name Last name (ed.), Title of the Book, Place, Publisher, Year, p. ??–??.

    • Thesis or dissertation: First name Last name, Title, Master’s thesis (discipline), Place, University, Year, number of pages.

  • For second and subsequent mentions:

    • Same reference as the preceding one: Ibid., p. ??–??.

    • Book previously cited (but not immediately): First name Last name, op. cit., p. ??–??.

    • Previously cited article or chapter (but not immediately): First name Last name, loc. cit., p. ??–??.

  • When referring to multiple works by the same author that are cited more than once:

    • First name Last name, Abbreviated Title of the Book…, op. cit., p. ??–??.

    • First name Last name, “Abbreviated Title of the Article or Chapter…”, loc. cit., p. ??–??.

  • For archival sources, specify the name of the archive center first, then the collection, and the item:

    • For example: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (hereafter BAnQ), Simonne Monet and Michel Chartrand Collection, P839,S8,D69, “Simonne Monet on a Bicycle in Beloeil,” June 1935 or 1937.

Editorial board

Management and Coordination

Co-directors: Stéphane Savard (UQAM) and Mathieu Arsenault (U. de Montréal)
Coordinator: Ivan Carel (UQTR)
Book Review Editor: Emmanuel Bernier (Université Laval)

Editorial Commitee

Marise Bachand (UQTR)
Jean-Philippe Bernard (UQO)
Louise Bienvenue (U. de Sherbrooke)
Stéphanie Chouinard (Collège militaire Royal de Kingston et Queen’s U.)
Catherine Côté (U. de Sherbrooke)
Virginie Hébert (INRS)
Sophie Imbeault (Éd. du Boréal)

Scientific Commitee

Marc Bergère (Rennes II)
Christian Blais (Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec)
Catherine Desbarats (McGill)
Magali Deleuze (CMR Kingston)
Karine Hébert (UQAR)
Serge Jaumain (U. Libre de Bruxelles)
Valérie Lapointe-Gagnon (U. d’Alberta)
Marcel Martel (York University)
Martin Pâquet (U. Laval)
Stéphane Paquin (ENAP)
Martin Petitclerc (UQAM)
Béatrice Richard (CMR Kingston)
Jean-Philippe Warren (U. Concordia)