Guide for Authors
This periodical has, as its purpose, the presentation and analysis of materials relating
to the archaeology, ethnology and anthropology of Eurasia, including North and Central Asia. The Editorial Board would also be interested
in materials that extend the understanding of Eurasia to the Pacific Rim and where appropriate, to the Americas.
The journal is
published both in English and Russian versions four times a year.
Types of Contributions
The journal publishes papers and develops discussions on a wide range of research problems, e.g. human evolution and dispersals;
Quaternary geology and ecology; paleoeconomic reconstructions; physical anthropology; paleopopulation genetics; prehistoric art; archaeological
and anthropological methodology, ethnocultural processes, etc.
The journal also publishes results of field investigations conducted
by archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnologists, and announcements of symposia and professional meetings. It is the goal of this
publication to provide authors with an international forum for the presentation of their materials and ideas.
The Supreme Certification
Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education has included
Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia in the list
of Russian Federation periodicals recommended for the publication of the main results of dissertations for the degree of Doctor of Sciences.
Contact Details
Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: The Editors,
Archaeology,
Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva, 17, Novosibirsk 630090,
Russia. FAX: (383) 330-83-66, E-mail:
eurasia@archaeology.nsc.ru.
Any questions regarding publication in the journal
can be directed to Olga Volkova-Kozintseva, Issuing Editor, at:
eurasia.ola@gmail.com.
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Conflict of interest
All
authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships
with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived
to influence, their work. See also
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Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except
in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without
the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Retained author rights
As
an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct
of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the
collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this should be stated. Please see
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Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
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Russian submissions are also accepted. Use decimal points (not decimal commas); use a comma for thousands
(10,000 and above).
Additional information
The Editors reserve the right
to make necessary revisions and to accept or reject manuscripts. One or two possible referees with their addresses and e-mail accounts
should be suggested.
Use of Word Processing Software
Manuscripts should not exceed 32 double-spaced typewritten pages, including illustrations.
Review articles and informational notes should not exceed 4 pages. Please use Times New Roman 14-pitch font (approximately 28 lines per
page). All pages should be numbered. No automatic word processing commands (e.g. auto-numbering of references, paragraphs, foot- and
endnotes etc.) or macros should be used.
Article Structure
All papers
submitted should be organized as follows: Introduction, Data presentation, Discussion and Conclusion.
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed
literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material and methods
Provide
sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications
should be described.
Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which
may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval
systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
•
Author names and affiliations.
Where the family name
may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work
was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in
front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available,
the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at
all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code)
are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
•
Present/permanent address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent
address") may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained
as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Optimizing the title and abstract of an article for your audience
In order to increase the exposure of your article, we
suggest the following:
• The title of your article must be clear and descriptive, using keywords that are relevant to the subject
area, and would most likely be used in an online search.
• The abstract must also contain keywords and common phrases for
the subject area, perhaps using wording from the title. These carefully chosen keywords and phrases can also be emphasised in the text,
however please do this with caution as some search engines can reject overly repetitive webpages.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the
principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon
abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
The abstract should be 10-15 lines in length.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid,
for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords
will be used for indexing purposes.
Units
English common names of plants
and animals should be supplemented with Latin taxonomic equivalents. Measurements should be given only in the metric system.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be between number symbols (#) within the text and marked with an asterisk, i.e.
*#*Footnote#.
Artwork
Electronic
artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
•
Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier,
Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention
for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of
the printed version.
• Submit each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our
website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the
detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the application used, when your electronic artwork is
finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings,
halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF:
color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000
dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If
your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications please supply "as is".
Please do not:
•
Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation) document;
• Supply files that are optimised for screen
use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
• Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit
graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Non-electronic Artwork
The approximate location of figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Original line drawings, black-and-white and colour
photographs, and 35 mm transparencies (slides) are all acceptable. Only high-quality photocopies of illustrations will be accepted. Illustrations
should not exceed 190 x 270 mm in size. Colour photographs will be mainly published from 60 x 60 mm transparencies. On the reverse side
of each illustration, please pencil the author's name, an abbreviated title of the paper, the number of the illustration, and indicate
its top.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption.
Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure itself) and
a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Provide the list of figure captions at the end of the paper, after the bibliography.
Tables
The approximate location of tables should be indicated in the manuscript. Tables and graphs may be
produced in Microsoft WinWord and ExcelTM with font sizes equal to or exceeding 9-pitch. Each table may not exceed 190 x 270 mm in size
and each should be printed on a separate sheet.
References
Books and Monographs:
authors' names and initials, full title of book, place of publication, publisher, date of publication and total number of pages.
Journal articles: authors' names and initials, full title of article and journal, date of publication, volume number, issue number and
page numbers.
Please note that for Russian and Eastern European books and journal articles, authors' names, titles of articles and
journals should be given in the original language in Latin transliteration.
Examples:
Reference to a book or monograph:
Kohl Ph. 2007
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 296 p.
Reference to a journal
article:
Varine H. de 1985
Editorial: The word and beyond.
Museum, vol. 148, No. 4: 184-185.
Citation in Text
Text citations should list the author's last name, date of publication and page numbers,
e.g. (Oliver, 1982, 301). Full bibliographic references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper.
Submission checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior
to sending it to the journal's Editor for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure
that the following items are present:
One Author designated as corresponding Author:
• E-mail address
• Full
postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded
• Keywords
• All figure
captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked"
and "grammar-checked"
• References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference
list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources
(including the Web)
• Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge)
and in print or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only color on the
Web is required, black and white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
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Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to
a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium
for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The
correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Please
list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments
(including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post. Please
use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant
changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do
everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections
are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be
guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response
is received.
Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided
with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published
article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
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