OMM
Observatoire de la migration de mineurs
Note to contributors

Note to contributors

YCM Journal- Young people and children on the move

Note to authors

All manuscripts –articles and research notes- must be submitted to the journal coordinators : Daniel Senovilla Hernández daniel.senovilla-hernandez@cnrs.fr & Mohamed-Walid Benyezzar mohamed-walid.benyezzar@hesge.ch

Articles and research notes (whether in English or French) must be unpublished work (unless previous agreement with the journal editors). Contributions will be submitted to two blind reviews. The review decision (acceptance, acceptance with amendments, refusal) will be communicated within maximum 3 months after submission.

Contributions must be between 35,000 and 50,000 characters (including spaces). This length must include bibliography, footnotes, figures, tables and annex.

The title must be followed by the author’s full name, position and contact details.

Text should be typed without tabs (MS Word or Open Office) in 12 pt. Times New Roman. Footnotes (no endnotes) must be in 9 pt. Times New Roman.

Images and figures shall be submitted under separated files of standard format (JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc.). Titles, sources and captions must be included in all cases. 

References in the text must appear in brackets in the following format: (Name, date: pages). Ex: (Dupont and Jones, 2000: p. 45-54)

Bibliography (only quoted references) must appear at the end of the text, in the following format:

Books

Bourdieu Pierre (1997), Méditations Pascaliennes, Édition du Seuil, Paris, 391 p.

Journal articles

Vervliet Marianne, Rousseau Cécile, Broekaert Eric & Derluyn Ilse (2015), Multilayered Ethics in Research Involving Unaccompanied Refugee Minors, in Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 28 (4), p. 468−485.

Book chapters

Senovilla Hernández Daniel & Kanics Jyothi (2010), Protected or merely tolerated? Models of reception and regularisation of unaccompanied and separated children in Europe, in Daniel Senovilla Hernandez, D., Kristina Touzenis & Jyothi Kanics (eds.), Migrating alone: unaccompanied and separated children’s migration to Europe, Éditions UNESCO, Paris, p. 37-61.

Reports

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2008), UNHCR Guidelines on determining the best interest of the child, UNHCR, Geneva Office, 97 pages.