Guidelines for Contributors

• The article must be the author’s original work. It cannot have been accepted for publication in any other journal. • The article should not exceed 5,000 words. • The article must not contain material that discriminates against people because of their race, class, age, sexuality or disability. • Provide the text either by e-mail or on a CD. The CD must be accompanied by a printed copy of the article, double spaced on one side of the page. • Include your return postal or e-mail address and a contact phone number. • Authors are required to sign a document which meets the Association’s copyright requirements.


Submissions
Manuscripts should be original reports dealing with material for which the author possesses publication rights. Since the readers of the JFA include archaeologists and others whose specialties are varied, the use of jargon is to be avoided. Articles should not be sent simultaneously to the JFA and to another publication. Contributors should be aware that the JFA retains the copyright for materials appearing within its pages.
All manuscripts submitted to the JFA are reviewed by two or more scholars and the final decision on publication rests with the Editor. Manuscripts should be submitted in complete form and in JFA style; those submitted in a different style will be returned to the author for reformatting before being reviewed.
Some archaeologists in recent years have adopted the practice, common in the physical sciences, of listing as "au-225 thors" everyone who had some connection with the study. We discourage this practice and prefer that authorship be limited to those who, in fact, wrote the final manuscript, even when others have contributed to the research. In those instances where several hands have contributed parts of the text, authors should be especially conscious of the need to achieve a single, consistent narrative voice. Abrupt changes in style and tone from one section to another reduce the presentation to a pastiche and disrupt the reader's comprehension. Clarity and quality of presentation, including illustrations, are essential.

Manuscript Components
1. Four paper copies of the manuscript (including figures as printouts or originals) should be addressed to: Editor' Journal of Field Archaeology) Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Any digital version of the manuscript provided at this stage (see below) will be used to expedite the review process.
2. Manuscripts should not exceed ca. 40 double-spaced pages of text, 10 illustrations, and three tables. The text must be in a typeface no smaller than 12 points, printed on one side of the paper, and double-spaced throughout,from 3. The title page should have all lines flush left. The title should mention time period and region, be in upper and lower case letters, and not underlined. The name of the author (s) should appear under the title, with an institutional (not departmental) affiliation on the next line and the city, state, and country (if outside the United States) below on a separate line. Authors at the same institution should be grouped to avoid repeating the lines for institution and place. 4. A short abstract (one or two paragraphs) must identify the site or culture concerned, its time period and location' and summarize the thesis and conclusions of the article. The abstract must be capable of standing alone so may contain no text or figure references, no bibliographic citations, and no footnotes. If there must be a reference to another publication, the complete citation must appear in the abstract.
5. The author's biographical paragraph should include the following: name, fmal degree (year received, institution), current position, and principal research interests. End with a current mailing address and, optionally, email.
6. Narrative headings, subheadings, and sub-subheadings should be typed flush left. Use a pencil to mark, in the margins, ''N.' for headings, "B" for subheadings, and "c" for sub-subheadings. Bibliographic references and references to figures, tables, or footnotes should not appear in any level of heading. 7. Footnotes are discouraged. If they are necessary, they should be kept to a minimum and restricted to explications that cannot fit easily into the main body of the narrative. Footnotes may contain parenthetical citations to other published works, with the full bibliographic entries appearing in the bibliography. Footnotes should be numbered sequentially throughout the narrative text. Tables  (see below) have their own footnote style. 8. Quotations that will occupy more than three typeset lines should be block-indented on the left, but still typed double-spaced. 9. Reports for the "News and Short Contributions" section should be no more than 10 pages of submitted text. The manuscript should meet the same requirements as those for a main article except for a limit of three illustrations and a single table.

Electronic Submissions
To expedite the evaluation process, contributors may provide a digital version of their manuscript in addition to the original paper version. In any event the author should still provide four paper copies of the manuscript prepared according to the specifications in these "Guidelines." The digital version of the manuscript should be identical to the printouts, contain the full text, and have a file for each figure. Send the flies on CD or via email to jfa@bu.edu. Digital submissions will not be processed until the paper version is in hand.
The digital text should in Microsoft Word. Figures for review purposes should be provided as tif files at a resolution sufficient to retain the information in the illustration; 300 dpi for photographs and 600 dpi for line art is usually suitable. The names for the figure files should begin with the author's last name, e.g., Smith_Ol.tif, Smith_02.tif, Smith_03.ti~etc.

Stylistic Conventions
For queries about style and other aspects of manuscript preparation not covered below, contributors are encouraged to consult The Chicago Manual of Style) 15th edn., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, as well as published issues of the ]FA.
1. Dates before Christ (also "before the common era") should be written "B.C." following the year (e.g., 1250 B.C.). Dates after Christ ("after the common era") should be written ''A.D.'' preceding the year (e.g., A.D. 1066), but write "4th century A.D." For early prehistory, calendar years may also be indicated by "years ago" (e.g., 125,000 years ago) or "kya" for "thousands of years ago." Radiocarbon years should be indicated by using lower case "b.c.;' "a.d.;' or "b.p." (where "before present" means "before A.D. 1950"), but these conventions must be specified at the point where they first appear in the abstract and in the text: "1250 b.c. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years)" or "3200 b.p. (uncalibrated radiocarbon years before A.D. 1950)." When radiocarbon dates have been calibrated to calendar years, use "cal B.C.;' "cal A.D.;' or "cal B.P."where "present" refers to the present day.
2. Cardinal directions should be spelled out, but other directions should be abbreviated as NE,~N-S, etc.
3. Use abbreviations for dimensions, distances, weights, and measures but not with general statements such as "a few meters above the floodplain." Examples of abbreviations are: "2 m;' "0.5 m;' "3 cu m;' "90 masl;' "100 km;' "4 sq km;' "3 ha;' "200 g." If multiple dimensions are given, write "1.5 x 1 m." Write "D." for "diameter" in parentheses (D. 24 em). Do the same for "L.;' "W;' and ''Th.'' 4. Use numerals for dimensions; otherwise, in general, write out one through nine and use numerals for 10 and above. Written-out numbers and numerals usually should not be mixed in a sentence, particularly when referring to the same class of items; "the 5-postmold house was east of the 20-postmold house" is fine. Numerals must never begin a sentence.
5. Italicize the first appearance of a foreign word or words and at that time provide a translation or definition. Do not italicize "in situ;' "e.g.;' "vs.;' "i.e.;' or "et al." References and Citations 1. The bibliography must contain an entry for each work cited in the text and only works cited in the text are to appear in the bibliography.
2. A reference within the text tal(es the form of a parenthetical citation. For example, "(Simmons and Rollefson 1984: 389-390)" or "Watson, LeBlanc, and Redman (1984 )."All quotations must have specific page citations.
3. The use of "et al." is restricted to text citations of works for which there are more than three authors. All authors must be listed in the bibliographic entry.
4. An example of a text reference to a figure or table in another published work is "(Smith 1993: fig. 3, table 4)." When referring to figures and tables in the present manuscript, use capitalized " Figure" and " Table" in the text and captions; in parentheses use " (FIG. 6)" and " (TABLE 3)." For figures with separate parts, use lower case letters in the text, and upper case letters when the reference is enclosed in parentheses. For example, " Figure lOa;' "(FIG. lOA)." 5. Do not use "ibid.;' "op. cit.;' "loc. cit.;' and "idem." 6. Do not cite unpublished works, especially papers presented at meetings, "manuscript in possession of the author;' "report on flie at ... ;' "work in preparation;' or URLs. If unpublished information is essential, cite it as a personal communication. Citation of unpublished (i.e., unavailable through University Microfilms) theses and dissertations is strongly discouraged.
7. A personal communication should be written: " (Daniel Deck, personal communication 1986)." There should be no bibliographic entry for a personal communication.
8. If a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the text citation is "(Smith in press)." The bibliographic entry should put "in press" where the year would normally appear and name the publisher. 9. References in the text to reprints of older works should be cited in this manner: " (Cobo 1964(Cobo [1653: 381)." 10. Full citations, including the names of all the authors, complete titles, and page numbers for articles or chapters, are to appear in a bibliography at the end of the text, alphabetized by the senior author's last name. Include publishers and place of publication for books and monographs.

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Authors' names should be given as they appear on the work being cited; avoid reducing first names to initials. The bibliography should be typed in the manner of the following examples, but double-spaced.   Figure" is used to refer to all line drawings, photographs, maps, charts, and graphs that accompany an article. Every illustration is to be given a figure number. Every figure must be referred to in the text, and initial references to them must be in numerical sequence ("1, 2, 3:' not "1, 3, 2").
2. Figure 1 should be a map locating the site or study area within its wider geographical context. The JFA has an international readership that needs to be kept in mind when designing Figure 1. Field reports should include at least one photograph that depicts the terrain and environment of the site or study area.
3. A simple graphic scale, when necessary, should appear in the image area of the figures; do not give scales such as "3x" or "1:50,000" in the captions. Should a figure showing artifacts lack a scale in the photograph, writing "The pot on the left is 21 cm tall" in the caption is fme. A photograph caption should include the direction of the view and any credit for the photographer. Credits for line drawings may be provided in the caption. No caption should be placed on the art itself Photographs of vertical views should indicate in the caption, e.g., "north is at the top?' The author should number each figure in a corner or on the back and, if appropriate, draw on the back an arrow indicating "up?' The caption for a figure with individually-lettered parts should be written like the following example: Each component in such a figure should be referred to in the text but, as with figures, these may be combined, e.g., " (FIG. 6e-F)?' 5. All drawings and photographs will be returned.