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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Paper Formats  

The Journal accepts Research Papers. All manuscripts must be preliminarily approved by the Editor/Editorial Board of the Journal. If approved, they will undergo a double-blind peer review. 

All papers should be typed in Times New Roman 12 pt font. 

Research Papers: Original papers containing a full introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections.  

Papers must be a minimum of 5000 words (bibliography excluded).   

Images: Images should be in color, 300 dpi minimum - at least 640x480 px. 

Line drawings should be at least 600 dpi. Accepted formats are JPEG, PNG.  

Please ensure you have cleared all copyright for the use of images. Up to 10 images are allowed per manuscript. 

Authors need to provide clear reproduction rights for any kind of visual material (photos, graphs, plates) included in the manuscript crediting the relevant third party in the captions. 

Authors wishing to include figures, tables that have already been published elsewhere, are required to check or obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence in the caption that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers.  

Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the author(s). 

Plates: Plates and graphs must be provided in editable raw text or vector format (CSV, TXT, XLS, DOCX, AI, PSD, PDF etc.). 

Preferred position, sizing, and groupings of tables/images in the text can be indicated within the text.

 

General prescriptions

Paper title/paragraph titles: no capital letters except for the first word.

Latin and foreign words: must be italicized.

Special meaning of some words requires their inclusion between single quotes ‘…’.

Short quotations must be within quotation marks “…” block quotations do not need them.

Dates must follow the day/month/year format. Years, centuries and millennia must be followed by BCE/CE (i.e. 4th century BCE). Couple of years must be expressed as follows: 1994-95.

Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (IS units).

Decimal numbers must be expressed separated by full stop (i.e. 3.4 km), while a comma is required for a thousand units (i.e. 11,000). The unit of measurement must be separated from the number by a space (i.e. 5x7.2 m).

Square meters must be expressed as follows: sq. m / sq. km.

Percentages must be expressed as follows: 35%.

In-Text References and Bibliography 

The citation system used in this journal is a variant of the Harvard European Archaeology style. Cited publications are referred to in-text by giving the author’s surname and the year of publication, and should be listed in bibliography at the end of the text. Only the sources cited in paper body must appear in bibliography. Please make sure that the sources are in alphabetical order both in-text and in the final bibliography and that they respect the format prescriptions. 

Footnotes are allowed. Please use footnotes only for detailed explanations and comments and not simply for reference, for which in-text references should be used. In the text, footnotes should be referred to as fn. 

Figures should be referred to in the text as Fig. 1; Figs. 2-3.

Tables should be referred to in the text as Tab. 1; Tabs. 2-3.

 

REFERENCING 

  • Single-author book 

Knapp, A.B. 
2018 Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean, Leiden.  

Cited as: Knapp 2018.  

  • Multi-author book

Edzard, D.O., Farber, G. and Sollberger, E. 
1977 Die Orst- und Gewässernamen der präsargonischen und sargonischen Zeit (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 1), Wiesbaden.  

Cited as : Edzard et al. 1977.  

  • Edited book

Durand, J.-M. (ed.) 
1996 Mari, Ebla et les Hourrites dix ans de travaux, Première Partie: Actes du colloque  international (Paris, mai 1993) (Amurru 1), Paris.  

Cited as: Durand (ed.) 1996.  

  • Section in book

Nissen, H.J. 

1993 Settlement Patterns and Material Culture of the Akkadian Period: Continuity and Discontinuity, in M. Liverani (ed.), Akkad. The First World Empire. Structure, Ideology, Traditions (History of the Ancient Near East. Studies 5), Padova: 91-106.  

Citated as: Nissen 1993.  

  • Section in book with multiple editors

Pardee, D. and Bordreuil, P. 
2008 Découvertes épigraphiques ancienne et récentes en cunéiforme alphabetique. De la bibliothèque de Ḫouraṣanou aux archives d’Ourtenou, in Y. Calvet and M. Yon (eds), Ougarit au Bronze moyen et au Bronze récent. Actes du Colloque international tenu à Lyon en novembre 2001 “Ougarit au IIe millénaire av. J.-C. État des recherches” (Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée 47), Lyon: 183-194.  

Cited as: Pardee and Bordreuil 2008.  

  • Journal article 

Rahmstorf, L. 
2006 Zur Ausbreitung vor den asiatischen Innovationen in die Frühbronzezeitliche Ägäis, Prähistorische Zeitschrift 81: 49-96.  

Cited as: Rahmstorf 2006: 50-55. 

  • Online publication

Please provide the URL and include an access date:  

Such-Gutiérrez, M. 
2015 The Texts from the 3rd Millennium BC at the Oriental Museum, University of Durham (England), Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2015: https://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj / 2015/cdlj2015_003.html (accessed April 2, 2022).  

In-text reference of the same author with multiple publications: the author is only reported once and the publication dates are divided by; Example: Schwartz 2000; 2010; 2013.

DOI numbers should be reported in the bibliography.

Manuscript Submission

Contact Details: Please clearly indicate first and last names, affiliation, ORCID, e-mail addresses of all contributors.

Paper submission details: Manuscripts should include title, authors, affiliations, abstract (250 words max), 5 keywords.

Figures: Figures should be renamed as AUTHOR SURNAME_YEAR_FIG1 and uploaded as single files.

Captions: Captions should be sent on a separate Word file. 

Plates: Plates should be sent as editable .doc or xls files. 

Datasets: If you are attaching a dataset to your manuscript, please have a look at the Policies and Ethics section. 

Language: The Journal’s official language is English. Authors are responsible for the linguistic quality of their papers. Manuscripts with an insufficient level of English will be rejected. 

Upload: Manuscripts may be sent to the Journal’s email address enkiandptah.journal@unimi.it or through Make a new submission

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