This journal uses ScholarOne for online submission and peer review. ScholarOne is a “comprehensive workflow-management system for scholarly journals, books and conferences”. Further information on ScholarOne can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Editorial Office.
Articles may be submitted in English, French or German, in either Word (or equivalent) or pdf format. For double-anonymised refereeing purposes, please remove all personal identifying information (name, institutional affiliation, etc.) from your paper when you first submit it.
Your initial submission should include:
• A cover letter, including your address and email for academic purposes. For multi-authored articles, please indicate the corresponding author. Please note that your email address will be added to your article, if published;
• The text of your article in PDF, with filename: [short version of title].pdf, e.g., Brak2017.pdf. Your article should include an abstract (c. 200 words). Please embed any images and tables but DO NOT indicate your name and institutional affiliation;
• A bibliography in the name-date system of referencing (e.g., Mallowan 1954) at the end of your article text. Please refer to the instructions below for details;
• A list of captions for any figures, after your bibliography.
If, after refereeing, you are invited to proceed to publication, you should submit the following files:
• An abstract suitable for translation into Arabic (maximum 200 words), as filename: [short version of title] Abstract.docx (e.g., Brak2017 Abstract.docx);
• The text of your article and bibliography, as filename: [short version of title].docx, e.g., Brak2017.docx. Include your name and institutional affiliation after the title;
• Any images, each as a separate file, as filename: [short version of title] Fig[number].tiff (e.g., Brak2017 Fig1.tiff). DO NOT EMBED IMAGES IN THE TEXT DOCUMENT
• A list of image captions, as filename: [short version of title] Captions.docx
• Any tables, each as a separate file, as filename: [short version of title] Table[number].docx. DO NOT EMBED TABLES IN THE TEXT DOCUMENT
The maximum length of any article is 12,000 words; the maximum number of figures is normally 20, but the editors are happy to discuss exceptions, especially for primary publications of cuneiform texts and for archaeological fieldwork reports. It may be possible to include extra images in the online version.
Please use a Unicode font if your paper includes special characters such as used in cuneiform transliteration, for example. Please keep any formatting in your text to a minimum: do not use headers and footers or coloured text; do not use your software’s built-in heading or section styles or templates. Section headings should be italicized. We prefer that you do not use a section numbering system (e.g., Section 2.1, 2.2, 2.3a, 2.3b, etc.) but use short and clear text section titles.
Under the direction of the Editorial Board all contributions to the journal are peer-reviewed anonymously by members of the board and by selected experts.
First View
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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.