Submission Guidelines for Pennsylvania Archaeologist

      Pennsylvania Archaeologist welcomes manuscript submissions for publication.  Topics should    ideally be related to Pennsylvania archaeology and may include site reports, regional studies, artifact studies, artifact descriptions/photos, etc.  Position papers, rebuttals, or editorials will not be accepted for publication without prior permission from the Editor.  News items and announcements should not be submitted to Pennsylvania Archaeologist, but are appropriate for the SPA newsletter (see inside front cover for newsletter submission information).  All submissions to Pennsylvania Archaeologist should be sent to the Editor and submitted in accordance with the following guidelines:

  1. Please submit one copy of the manuscript, including photos and illustrations, on paper to the Editor.  The manuscript should be single-spaced with black type, 10 point Times New Roman font; two spaces after each sentence.
  2. In addition to the paper copy, a computer file of the text (Microsoft Word files preferred)
    should be included with the submission.  An electronic submission is not essential if this is a hardship, but is strongly encouraged.  If possible, tables used in the manuscript should be submitted in a separate Microsoft Excel file.
  3. Manuscripts should not exceed 25 pages in length (single-spaced), including illustrations,
    tables, photographs, and references, unless special permission is granted in advance by the Editor.
  4. Electronic images for photographs and illustrations are preferred and should be submitted on CD at 300 dpi resolution or higher and at 100% size.  Photocopies of all electronic images should also be submitted, with desired captions written on the back of the photo/illustration. If electronic images are unavailable, clean, black and white, camera-ready, hard-copy images are acceptable for submitted photographs and illustrations.  Color photographs or images can be submitted, but will be published in black and white.
  5. Reference citation format follows American Antiquity style (see www.saa.org or any issue from Pennsylvania Archaeologist Volume 69 or beyond). Please check your work!  The cleaner the manuscript, the quicker it can be published.  Ideally, the paper should be peer reviewed prior to submission.  In addition, the Editor may select one or more peer reviewers.
  6. Submitted manuscripts should be exclusive to Pennsylvania Archaeologist (i.e., not submitted to other journals for publication).
  7. Approval of submissions for publication is at the sole discretion of the Editor.
  8. If the submission is approved for publication, the author will be required to assign all
    copyrights related to the submission to The Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, Inc. prior to publication.
  9. Submitted materials will not be returned to the author, regardless of whether or not the
    submission is approved for publication.  Consequently, the author should retain a copy of all submitted materials.
  10. All materials should be submitted to the Editor at the following address: Bill Tippins, 1090 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Feel free to contact the Editor at wtippins@verizon.net or 412-784-8818.

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