JSA operates a strictly blinded peer review process in which the reviewer's name is withheld from the author and the author's name from the reviewer. The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their name to the author in their review, but our standard policy practice is for both identities to remain concealed. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least three referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, and an editorial decision is generally reached within 4-6 weeks of submission.
Notes for Contributors
Submission of mss: Email your submission as a Word or RTF file (accompanied by submission letter) to either the US editorial office: Lynn Meskell, Department of Anthropology, Main Quad, Building 50, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA [lmeskell@stanford.edu] or the UK/Europe editorial office: Joshua Pollard, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK [Joshua.Pollard@bris.ac.uk].
Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary material (e.g. data, text, images) that could be linked to their article and accessed online.
Dual submissions are not accepted: 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. Owing to the broad range of subject matter, authors are asked to specify two or more subfields or areas of inquiry to which their paper pertains and are encouraged to include the names of one or more potential referees.
(ii) abstract of 100-150 words and 5-8 key words
(iii) main text and word count -- suggested target is about 7000 words. Text to be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of headings and subheadings and quotations exceeding 40 words displayed, indented, in the text . Texts of a length greatly exceeding this will be considered as interest warrants and space permits.
(iv) 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
(v) references in both the text and end notes should follow style below. References are cited in the text thus: (author, date: page)
(vi) an alphabetical references section should follow the text (and end notes if any), samples below:
Books and articles in edited books
Gell, A. (1998) Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Blake, E.C. (1999) 'Coming to Terms with Local Approaches to Sardinia's Nuraghi', in A. Gazin-Schwartz and C.J. Holtorf (eds) Archaeology and Folklore, pp. 230-40. London: Routledge.
Journal articles
Trigger, B.G. (1998) 'Archaeology and Epistemology: Dialoguing across the Darwinian Chasm', American Journal of Archaeology 102(1): 1-34.
Papers and dissertations
Sewell, R.L. (1997) '"Mother Africa": Afrocentrism, African-Americans and Africa's Past', paper presented at the 95th American Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco.
Moser, S. (1995) 'Archaeology and its Disciplinary Culture: The Professionalisation of Australian Prehistoric Archaeology', PhD dissertation, Dept of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Sydney.
Websites
Anja Wolle (2000) 'Catalhöyuk: Excavations of a Neolithic Anatolian Höyuk' (consulted June 2000: http:/atal.arch.cam.ac.uk
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.
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. They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Illustrations on disk should be supplied as TIFF or EPS files at high resolution. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Permission letters must be supplied to SAGE.
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.
Spellings: UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).
Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Present dates in the form 1 May 1998. 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 another diskette (IBM-compatible or Mac) of the final version.
Proofs and offprints: authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to Lynn Meskell (address above) within 2 weeks. They are given controlled access to a pdf of their article and a complimentary copy of the whole issue after publication.
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