Guidance for Contributors | Proposing a paper | Length | Preparing manuscripts for submission | Supplementary materials | Policy on prior publication | Authorship and contributorship | Author affiliations | Competing interests | ORCID | Author hub | English language editing services
Antiquaries Journal: Guidance for Contributors
The Antiquaries Journal is published annually in hard copy in October with individual papers published online in advance of the hard copy using the Cambridge Core FirstView system.
The Journal is concerned with the study of the human past through material culture and material remains. It is international, multi-period and multi-disciplinary in scope, covering the full range of historical disciplines from earliest prehistory to the recent past, including, but not confined to, archaeology, art history, architectural and buildings history, conservation, heraldry, and the histories of collecting and intellectual enquiry into the past.
Proposing a paper
We welcome original submissions of international significance, or national significance and international interest, which fall within the scope of the Journal.
Papers can be submitted at any time but 31 December is the deadline for consideration for inclusion in the volume to be published the following October.
As a first step, we ask prospective authors to download, complete and submit a Proposal Form by email to the Editor, Dr Stuart Brookes.
Download The Antiquaries Journal proposal form here.
We encourage potential authors to contact the Editor at an early stage in the preparation of research for publication for advice about its suitability for the Journal or the submission process.
Length
Papers for the Journal should be no longer than 10,000 words including captions, footnotes and bibliography. In addition, supporting data such as transcripts and data tables can be made available through Cambridge Core as supplementary material.
Preparing manuscripts for submission
Please bear in mind that the journal has a wide audience and that your paper will be read by colleagues whose primary expertise lies in other disciplines. Please write in plain English, using the active voice where possible, and explaining specialist and technical terms for a wider readership.
For review purposes your manuscript should not include any names or information identifying authors.
Detailed guidance
When preparing manuscripts, illustrations and supplementary material for submission please refer to the following detailed guidance:
- House Style (includes referencing and bibliography)
- Illustrations
- Copyright and permissions
- Supplementary material
Structure
Manuscripts for submission should be structured as follows:
- Title
- Abstract (max 250 words)
- Main Text
- Abbreviations and Bibliography
- Figure Captions
The following should be supplied on a separate cover sheet in order to ensure anonymous peer review:
- Authors' names, affiliations and email addresses
- Acknowledgements
- Competing Interests Statement
Referencing
For referencing please use footnotes, numbered consecutively in one series, electronically integrated and appearing in superscript.
Headings and sub-headings
Headings should be in CAPITALS, centred; sub-headings in lower case, left justified; sub-sub-headings in lower-case italic, left justified.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
ORCID
We encourage 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 can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
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.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.