Manuscript Submission
All manuscripts should be submitted via Ancient Mesoamerica's online submission system, which can be found at:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/atm
Ancient Mesoamerica operates a double-anonymous peer review policy. Submissions should be anonymized and stripped of identifying information. Guidance on anonymising your manuscript may be found here.
Queries about submitting a manuscript may be sent to [email protected].
Authors contributing to a special section should indicate this during the submission process using the drop-down menu provided.
Special and Compact Sections
Information about proposing and submitting contributions to Special and Compact Sections can be found here.
Required Files and Statements
An English abstract (200 words) must submitted in ScholarOne.
An abstract of 200 words or less and a longer summary (1–2 double-spaced pages) of the paper in Spanish should also be included with the submission.
Authors will be asked to submit 1-5 keywords indicating the cultural/geographical areas studied, and a further 1-5 keywords indicating the field/expertise represented in the work.
Authors should submit title page, main document, figures/tables. Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals.
Supplementary material must be submitted in ScholarOne at the point of the main submission. Please see here for further information about preparing supplementary material. Additional information about research transparency and data repositories may be found here.
Authors must submit a Competing Interests statement as part of their submission. For further information please see here.
Authors will also be required to submit a Funding statement outlining any support for the research undertaken.
From late 2022 Ancient Mesoamerica will require all authors to publish a Data Availability Statement as part of their article.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.