1. Submitting your manuscript
Articles should be submitted as electronic files using the online submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jromanarch.
Manucripts should be submitted as Word documents, and not as PDF files.
Submission of an article to the Journal of Roman Archaeology is taken to imply that it is the original, entirely unpublished work of the author(s) and is not under review for publication elsewhere in any form.
During the submission process authors should ensure they have supplied the following:
- a separate title page listing contact details for author(s) including email address and affiliation, and competing interests declaration (see below 'Publication ethics' section for guidance on what this declaration should look like)
- an abstract in the language of submission, no more than 150 words long (authors submitting a manuscript in Italian, French, German or Spanish will also be asked to supply an English abstract if their article is accepted)
- six keywords
- any accompanying figures or tables
Please contact the Editorial Office ([email protected]) if you you have any questions about the procedure.
2. Figures and Tables
For the purposes of initial submission, you should supply figures as separate files, indicating in your manuscript where they fall in the text, including an indication of preferred scale and orientation, numbering, and an appropriate caption in each case. Tables may be included within the manuscript.
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.
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.