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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Submitted manuscripts should be exclusive to Pennsylvania
Archaeologist (i.e., not submitted to other journals for publication).
- Approval of submissions for publication is at the sole
discretion of the Editor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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