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		The European Journal of Archaeology (EJA) is published three times a year in April, August and December. Members receive all three journals for the year of subscription as part of the membership package, regardless of the time of subscription.  . . Aims and Scope  The EJA (published from 1993 to 1997 as the Journal of European Archaeology, vols 1-5) seeks to promote open debate amongst archaeologists committed to a new idea of Europe in which there is more communication across national frontiers and more interest in interpretation.

The journal accepts not only new empirical data and new interpretations of the past but also encourages debate about the role archaeology plays in society, how it should be organized in a changing Europe, and the ethics of archaeological practice. All periods are covered; papers, review articles, interviews and short 'debate' pieces are all sought.
 

European Journal of Archaeology ONLINE
 
 

INDEX		The list of articles with abstracts (where applicable) and reviews published in the first five issues of the then Journal of European Archaeology 1-5, (1993-1997). Full texts are available to EAA members in the members’ only section.
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European Journal of Archaeology BLOG

by Troels Myrup Kristensen and Cornelius Holtorf
 

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Notes for Authors

Submission of mss: authors should retain one copy of their manuscript and send three identical copies, each fully numbered and typed in double spacing throughout, on one side only of white A4 or US standard size paper, in addition to a word-processed file on CD or by email attachment, to the general editor, Alan Saville, Archaeology Department, National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, Scotland, UK [e-mail: a.saville@nms.ac.uk]. 

Covering letter: please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal. 

Format of mss: Each manuscript should contain: 

(i) title page with full title and subtitle (if any). For the purposes of blind refereeing, full name of each author with current affiliation and full address/phone/fax/email details plus short biographical note should be supplied on a separate sheet. The address supplied will be used to send proofs  -- if you plan to be away from your usual address during the six months after submitting your article, please supply alternative contact details. 

(ii) abstract of 100-150 words in English, French or German. If French or German is your native tongue, please provide the abstract in that language, even if the paper is in English. The abstract comes at the start of the paper and summarizes the contents. Please also provide an abstract in your native language. 

(iii) 5-10 key words. 

(iv) main text and word count -- suggested target is about 8000 words. Text to be clearly organized, with a clear hierarchy of three levels of headings and subheadings and quotations above 40 words displayed, indented, in the text. 

(v) end notes, if necessary, should be signalled by superscript numbers in the main text and listed at the end of the text before the references. 

(vi) acknowledgements should be included as a separate section at the end of the article, before the notes and references. 

(vii) references should follow the Harvard or scientific convention. Bibliographic references in the text should contain within parentheses the author's surname or some conventional shortening of the title of the work if no immediate author or editor is listed (note that this should correspond to the bibliographic entry in the references at the end of the paper) and date of publication and page references, such as (Childe 1954:117) or (Radiocarbon Handbook 1988:iv). Multiple references by the same author should be separated with a comma, e.g. (Nadelkopf 1888, 1893) and dates should be separated from pages with a full colon (e.g. Tête d'épingle 1901:22). Multiple references by different authors should be listed alphabetically in the text, not chronologically, and should be separated by semi-colons (e.g. Bright 2005; Fellows 2006; Soloman 1996). References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper with book or journal titles italicized or underlined, including place of publication and publisher, issue and page numbers. Examples: 

FISHER, G., 1988. Sociopolitical organization in early Anglo-Saxon England. In M. Littlechick (ed.), England in the Old Days: 128-144. Oxford: British Archaeological Publications (British Series 329). 

SILVER, M., 1985. Economic Structure of the Ancient Near East. London/Sydney: Croom Helm. 

TROTTER, M. and G.C. GLESER, 1952. Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 10:463-514. 

WILLIAMS, J., ed., 1997. Money: A History. London: British Museum Press. 

Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing) on a CD as TIFF or EPS files (all fonts embedded) with a minimum resolution of 600dpi. They should be reproducible to within a maximum final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as TIFF or EPS files or as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet. 

Tables: tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables. AUTHORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING PERMISSIONS FROM COPYRIGHT HOLDERS for reproducing through any medium of communication any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.

Style: use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she. Capitalize sparingly. Never capitalize archaeological features, e.g. pit B and not Pit B. Capitalize magnetic directions only when part of a recognized name, such as South America, otherwise, e.g. northern England. Capitalize archaeological periods, such as Neolithic, whether as noun or adjective. Chemical elements should be spelt out in textual passages, but given in their abbreviated form, e.g. Au, Pb, in statistical paragraphs, tables and figures. Ratios should be presented thus: 1:10 or silver:gold.

Dates: give dates as date, month, year: e.g. 4 July 1776. Use 1960s (not sixties) without an apostrophe and spell out the number of centuries or millennia: e.g. fourth century AD or third millennium BC. Invert the order of date and AD when using specific numbers, e.g. AD 980. There are no commas in thousands of years old, but there are in tens of thousands of years old: e.g. 4500 BC and 12,000 BP. Uncalibrated radiocarbon years follow the international convention (mean value ± standard deviation BP, using the 5568-year half-life; always give the laboratory code number), Calibrated dates should be given as date ranges cal BC and cal AD, together with the probability level (1 sigma or 2 sigma); specify which calibration curve is being used.

Spellings: UK or US spellings may be used but always use '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).

Punctuation: use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD) 

Disks: on acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to supply a CD with the final version of the text, figures and tables.

Copyright: before publication authors are requested to assign copyright to the European Association of Archaeologists and Sage Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be published preferably at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.

Proofs and offprints: authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to the General Editor. After publication authors will be given controlled access to a pdf of their article and will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which it appears. 

Books for review and manuscripts of reviews should be sent to: 

Cornelius Holtorf 
Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia 
Lunds universitet 
Box 117 
221 00 Lund 
Sweden 

Tel: +46-46-222 3189 
Cornelius.Holtorf@ark.lu.se
 
 

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY ARTICLE REVIEW - 
POLICY AND PRACTICE

1. It is part of general editorial policy that all articles submitted for publication to the European Journal of Archaeology go through the peer-review process. This process acts as a quality control mechanism both for the journal and for the author(s); we believe it is a vital safeguard for the health of the Journal.

2. There is no question that the General Editor’s word alone is final on any paper. There is a three-stage process of collective peer review for all articles:

(a) initial consideration by the General Editor; 
(b) circulation for comments to all members of the Editorial Board; and
(c) circulation to two more specialist referees who remain anonymous throughout the process.

3. The General Editor examines the article for general suitability, balance of contents and obvious points which require attention. If there are no major problems, the General Editor passes the article on to the second and third stages. If there are questions which the author(s) need(s) to address immediately, the article is returned with comments, with a suggestion that a second draft is produced for peer review. If the article is, for any reason, in danger of immediate rejection, the article is passed onto the second stage only for confirmation of such a course of action by the Editorial Board. 

4. Members of the Editorial Board are sent relevant articles by email and are invited to send in e-mail comments, within two weeks of receipt. If the Board member is a specialist in the subject matter of the paper, detailed comments are invited; if not, only general comments are requested. These comments are assembled and used by the General Editor to form an overall response to the paper.

5. Following comments from the Editorial Board, the article is distributed to two specialist peer-reviewers, usually one from each of the period(s) / regions(s) / theme(s) in question. Referees are asked to provide comments on a standard form within three weeks of receipt. Insofar as the specialists have deeper and more detailed knowledge than most members of the Editorial Board for the paper in question, their comments are treated with greater weight than other comments. These comments are used, in conjunction with Editorial Board comments, to provide the General Editor with a definitive picture of the quality of the article.

6. On the basis of his/her initial response and all other comments, the General Editor communicates to the author the collective decision on whether to publish as it stands / to publish if significant changes can be implemented / to reject the paper. 
 

ALAN SAVILLE April 2007 
 
 

PUBLICATION IN EJA

If you are interested in publication of your presentation at the EAA conference in the European Journal of Archaeology (EJA), please fill out this form and return it together with the text of your contribution (or its abstract) either to the EAA Secretariat, or send it together with three identical copies of your contribution plus an electronic version to the General Editor of the EJA (address at the bottom of this form). Your proposal will be considered by the EJA Editorial Board and you will be notified about the result. 
 

Publication in EJA (DOC)