Styling of reviews
The best practices recommended by OpenEdition are the following:
Metadata
✪ Required metadata / ♥ Recommended metadata
| ✪ | Title: Author, Title of work (formatting allowed: small caps, superscripts) |
| Subtitle: simplified reference of the work: place of publication, publisher, year of publication. | |
| ✪ | Author: (of the review): lowercase with first letter in capital letters. |
| Author’s description: same as author’s description in an article. | |
| ✪ | Language |
| ♥ | Title of the reviewed book: in Roman and without dot at the end. |
| ✪ | Author of the reviewed book: First name Last name, lowercase with first letter in capital letters, remove the mentions (dir), (ed.) |
| ✪ | Reference of the reviewed book: author, title, complete reference as given by the journal. (formatting small capitals, superscripts allowed). |
| ♥ | Date of the reviewed book: Year on 4 digits (example: 1988) |
| Pagination: same as the pagination in an article, if there is a paper publication of the review | |
| Date of paper publication: 01 janvier 2012 or 01/01/2012 (if paper publication of the review) | |
| ✪ | Publication date (electronic): 01 janvier 2012 or 01/01/2012 |
Warning: This type of document cannot be under an embargo period.
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Same as styling for other document types.


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OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Gwenn Dossmann (October 4, 2022). Styling of reviews. OpenEdition Journals Support - Lodel 1. Retrieved November 10, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/sheg
