Submissions

Author Guidelines

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Works submitted to Res Antiquitatis. Journal of Ancient History must be relevant to the journal’s general field of research and purposes.

Res Antiquitatis only accepts proposals for original articles, which have not been previously published or are under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Res Antiquitatis is also available to publish short notes’ studies (e.g., archaeological reports) and reviews.

Documents

Authors must submit the following documents:

• Author Declaration and Consent to Publish (download here);
• Copies of all authorizations and licenses required for reproduction, publication and dissemination in open access (rights to use images or other material from third parties, etc.).

Languagues

The journal’s editorial language is English. However, Res Antiquitatis accepts papers in German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.

Word limits and formatting

All manuscripts proposed should not exceed a maximum of 10.000 words (ca. 25 pages). For editorial reasons, however, papers surpassing that limit can be accepted by the Editors. Text formatting must be kept to a minimum in manuscript files. Preferably, basic formatting rules should be the following:

Font Times New Roman | Font size 12 | Spacing 1,5 points

Abstracts and keywords

All articles must be accompanied with an abstract (max. 150 words) in English, describing it summarily. It is also required from the authors to provide, along with the abstract, no more than 5 keywords that suitably synthesize the article’s scope. A Portuguese translation of both the abstract and the keywords will be provided by the Editors.

Citation and reference styles

Source citations should be given in footnotes using the “Author-Date” system of the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition). Hence, all works submitted must contain a full reference list with the bibliographical apparatus used by the authors. Here is a basic example:

Citation notes

• Lalouette 1991, 40
• Wheatley 2002, 10-12
• Baines 1991

Corresponding entries in reference list

• Lalouette, Claire. 1991. Pharaons. Au royaume d’Égypte. Le temps des rois-dieux. Paris: Fayard.
• Wheatley, Pat. 2002. “Antigonus Monophthalmus in Babylonia, 310-308 B. C.”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 61 (1): 39-47.
• Baines, John. 1991. “Society, Morality, and Religious Practice.” In Religion in ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths and Personal Practice, ed. Byron E. Shafer, 123-200. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Abbreviations

Because of the journal’s wide scientific field of studies, authors can use those abbreviations most common, conventional and recognizable in their own areas of research. However, the meaning of all abbreviations must be conveyed.

Special Fonts

• In cases where articles contain special fonts or special diacritics (e.g. Sanskrit, Hebrew, Aramaic, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphic, etc.) the authors must provide, along with the text file, its respective font files.
• The editors assume their right not to publish articles presenting special fonts not technically adequate for further printing.

Images and other graphics

• Images should be sent, preferably, in separate files (e.g. JPEG, BMP, TIFF) along with the manuscript file. They must have enough quality in order to guarantee a good printing.
• The Editors assume their right to ask for better images when they don’t conform to high quality and resolution standards.
• Tables made in MS Word can be included in the text body. However, the Editors may adequate them to fit better the page layout (size, columns, cells, etc.) without harming or altering the data and information therein.

Copyright of images

• It is required to the authors to be assured of having all permissions necessary to publish images, such as photographs or illustrations.
• The respect of copyright laws for reproducing pictorial material in all manuscripts is the sole responsibility of the authors, and must be attested by documentary evidence.
• A copyright notice shall be included in the credits.

Contacts, affiliation, ORCID iD and information

• All authors must provide an e-mail contact for all necessary further communication. When not independent scholars, authors should also indicate their affiliation to an institution (University, Foundation, R&D institution, etc.).
• An ORCID iD is required for publication.

Submission of manuscripts

• Submissions should be made by e-mail, as an attachment in MS Word format, to: resantiquitatisjournal@fcsh.unl.pt.
• The Editors remind that the deadlines established in the call for papers for their reception should be respected.