Submission of mss: authors should retain one copy of their manuscript and send three identical copies, each fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one side only of white A4 or US standard size paper, to the general editor, Alan Saville, Archaeology Department, National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street
Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, Scotland
[email:a.saville@nms.ac.uk].
Covering letter: please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal.
Format of mss: Each manuscript should contain:
(i) title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be supplied on a separate sheet. The address supplied will be used to send proofs and offprints -- if you plan to be away from your usual address during the 6 months after submitting your article, please supply alternative contact details.
(ii) abstract of 100-150 words in English, French or German. If French or German is your native tongue, please provide the abstract in that language, even if the paper is in English. The abstract comes at the start of the paper and summarizes the contents.
(iii) 5-10 key words.
(iv) main text and word count -- suggested target is about 8000 words. Text to be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of three levels of headings and subheadings and quotations above 40 words displayed, indented, in the text.
(v) end notes, if necessary, should be signalled by superscript numbers in the main text and listed at the end of the text before the references.
(vi) references should follow the Harvard or scientific convention. Bibliographic references in the text should contain within parentheses the author's surname or some conventional shortening of the title of the work if no immediate author or editor is listed (note that this should correspond to the bibliographic entry in the references at the end of the paper) and date of publication and page references, such as (Childe 1954:117) or (Radiocarbon Handbook 1988:iv). Multiple references should be separated with a comma, e.g. (Nadelkopf 1888, 1893) and dates should be separated from pages with a full colon (e.g. Tête d'épingle 1901:22). References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper with book or journal titles italicized or underlined, including place of publication and publisher, issue and page numbers. Examples:
FISHER, GENEVIEVE, 1988. Sociopolitical organization in early Anglo-Saxon England. In Mary Littlechick (ed.), England in the Old Days: 128-144. Oxford: British Archaeological Publications (British Series 329).
SILVER, M., 1985. Economic Structure of the Ancient Near East. London/Sydney: Croom Helm.
TROTTER, MILDRED and GOLDINE C. GLESER, 1952. Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 10:463-514.
WILLIAMS, J., ed., 1997. Money: A History. London: British Museum Press.
Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet and, if possible, on CD or diskette as TIFF or EPS files (all fonts embedded). They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Tables: tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables. AUTHORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING PERMISSIONS FROM COPYRIGHT HOLDERS for reproducing through any medium of communication any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Style: use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she. Capitalize sparingly. Never capitalize archaeological features, e.g. pit B and not Pit B. Capitalize magnetic directions only when part of a recognized name, such as South America, otherwise, e.g. northern England. Capitalize archaeological periods, such as Neolithic, whether as noun or adjective, but do not capitalize further refinements, such as early, late, upper, or lower, thus: upper Palaeolithic hand axe. Chemical elements should be spelt out in textual passages, but given in their abbreviated form, e.g. Au, Pb, in statistical paragraphs, tables and figures. Ratios should be presented thus: 1:10 or silver:gold.
Dates: give dates as date, month, year: e.g. 4 July 1776. Use 1960s (not sixties) without an apostrophe and spell out the number of centuries or millennia: e.g. fourth century AD or third millennium BC. Invert the order of date and AD when using specific numbers, e.g. AD 980. There are no commas in thousands of years old, but there are in tens of thousands of years old: e.g. 45M BC and 12,000 BP. Uncalibrated radiocarbon years follow ordinary conventions, dates are given in lowercase bp. When using calibrated radiocarbon dates, it should be clear which calibration is being used.
Spellings: UK or US spellings may be used but always use '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).
Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD)
Disks: on acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to supply a PC compatible diskette (MS-DOS Word 6.0 or similar) of the final version.
Proofs and offprints: Authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to SAGE. They will receive a complimentary copy of the journal and controlled access to a pdf of their article after publication.
Books for review and manuscripts of reviews should be sent to:
Cornelius Holtorf, Lunds universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden [email: Cornelius.Holtorf@ark.lu.se].
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