Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

1. Originals must be submitted on A4 format with a maximum of 34-36 lines of 75 characters per page, in Microsoft Word 2003-2007 preferably, but also in 2010-2013. No originals will be accepted with greater density of characters per page. The text should be justified avoiding tabulations. The title of the article, author/s and format must be indicated in the label. Authors are encouraged to review texts to avoid errata and facilitate the correction of proofs to the Editorial Board, since just a single proof would be submitted to the authors.

2. The text, artwork, and data of the authors should be sent by email to luis.berrocal@uam.es . If the images are too heavy the “wetransfer” service could be used (https://www.wetransfer.com), or delivered by ordinary mail in a CD/DVD to the following address:

Luis Berrocal Rangel

Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología,

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ciudad

Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Carretera de

Colmenar km.15, 28049 – MADRID.

3. Papers could be written in the six main languages of Western Europe: Spanish, English, French, German, Portuguese and Italian. And they must be always accompanied by the title and abstract of the article in the same language used in the text, but also by another one in any of the other languages previously mentioned. Abstracts should consist of a maximum of 15 lines with 75 characters per line.

4. Articles must be also accompanied by six key words to summarize their aim, methodology, chronology and geography for any eventual computer search.

5. Papers must be a maximum of 20 pages of text in length, including the bibliography and five illustrations (drawings or photographs) if they fit in the CuPAUAM layout (24,5 x 16,5 cm) or a maximum of ten if they are smaller.

6. llustrations should be provided consecutively numbered, irrespective whether they are photographs, drawings, graphs or tables. Drawings must include a graphic scale adapted to the CuPAUAM layout (24,5 x 16,5 cm) – complete, half horizontal or a quarter -. Regarding the thickness of lines and density of shadows in the drawings the necessary percentages of reduction should be considered. Tables must be inserted in the text processor, on separate pages with adequate margins and correlatively numbered with the rest of the figures. Terms such as “table”, “Map” etc. would be avoided. Full colour illustrations are also welcome, since they would be published on line in pdf format, although the printed version will be always in grayscale.

7. Figures will be displayed in another page. All the captions should be written in Spanish and English, because they are published in both languages. If they belong to other publications the original source must be quoted. The authors are responsible of any eventual cession of the copyright of the illustrations.

8. The name and institutions of the authors should be provided in the heading under the title and before the abstract. At least one email address must be also displayed that will appear as the “corresponding author”. The submitter of the paper will also provide the same data in another page, together with the postal and electronic address, phone number, and the day of submission. In a footnote at the first page the authors will include their institutional or postal mail.

9. Both the traditional and the Harvard system of citing quotation, or even a mixed one, could be selected by the author, but always displaying a list of bibliographical references at the end of the paper (see below).

9.1. In short notes (a reference to a work) the name of this work should be displayed in normal characters –not capital letters-, followed by the year of edition, the page or pages and figure or figures, everything between commas. These quotes will appear in the text, between brackets, and not in the end or at the foot of the page.

9.2. Not bibliographical notes, or those including other information together with the surname, year and page/pages, must be displayed at the foot with the bibliographical references as in 9.1.

9.3. At the end of the article a list of the quoted bibliography must be provided, in alphabetical order by the surname of the authors, in lowercase letter excepting the first one. When several works of the same scholar and the same year are quoted they will be distinguished by lowercase letters (a, b, c, d, etc.) included in the references as in 9.1 and 9.2.

9.4. This bibliographical list must include all the complete D.O.I. references available. They will be displayed at the end of the article. To obtain them the authors could use the free application www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/.

9.5. The articles of journals will be quoted as follows: author, year, title enclosed in quotations marks, journal name in italics, number and pages.

9.6. When the references are chapters of collective books will be quoted as follows: author, year, title, name of the editor/s coordinator/s, title of the book, pages, place of publication.

9.7. The name of the authors must be displayed in lowercase letters in the bibliographical list (and also inside the text, see 9.1). The title of the books and articles underlined or in italics, and that of the articles of journals and books enclosed in quotation marks.

9.8. Complete titles of journals or series must be preferably displayed. If abbreviations are used CuPAUAM ones should be chosen for Spanish journals, and any other known international standard (L’Année Philogique, Archáologische Bibliographie, American Journal of Archaeology) for the foreign ones.

Examples of quotes:

9.1.1. (Abad, 1991: 185).

9.2.2. Recently Abad Casal (1991: 185) pointed out that …

9.3.3. García Bellido, A. (1949): Esculturas romanas de España y Portugal. Madrid.

9.4.4. Abad Casal, L. (1983): “Un conjunto de materiales de la Serreta de Alcoy”. Lucentum 2: 173-197.

9.5.5. Beltrán Lloris, M. (1987): “La España celtibérica: la segunda Edad del Hierro en el Valle del Ebro”. Historia General de España y América, 1.2. Ediciones Rialp. Madrid: 255-293.

9.6.6. Jiménez Ávila, J. y Guerra, A. (2012): “El Bronce final en Medellín: Estudio premilinar del corte Smro.”, in J. Jiménez Ávila (ed.): Sidereum Ana II. El río Guadiana en el Bronce Final. Anejos a Archivo Español de Arqueología 62. Badajoz: 65-110.

10. When several authors are quoted inside the text (Almagro Gorbea et al., 2015) or (Almagro Gorbea et alii, 2015), et al. or et al., should always be in italics.

11. Once the article has been sent and firstly accepted, the following documents must be submitted signed: 1. Originality Form, 2. Copyright cession, 3. Proposal of possible reviewers. These documents will be previously submitted to the address of the journal in PDF format.

12. The Editorial Board reserves the right to return the originals not corresponding with the scope of the Journal or not following these guidelines. The Editorial Board could also suggest, following the indications of the evaluation system, eventual modifications of the accepted originals.

Authors are obliged to present original data and results that were not copied, fabricated or falsified. Plagiarism, multiple or redundant publication and the falsification of data are serious misconducts against any ethical and scientific code. Originals yet presented to other publications or in process of acceptance would not be admitted neither, but papers that are continuation or extension of other previous ones would be accepted when they are synthetic outlines, as long as they are properly mentioned and quoted as it is the standard in the scientific community, and when it is clearly indicated which part has been yet published. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use and reproduce any not-own copyright material (data, images or ideas) their articles could contain.