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Article types

Review
Original Article
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Letter
Systematic Review
Lectio
Book Review

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • A typical paper for this journal should be between 1,000 and 10,000 words, inclusive of: Abstract.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.

Keywords

  • Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be between 1,000 and 10,000 words, inclusive of: References.
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  • Spell out 'million' or 'billion', numbers that begin sentences, and those used in a general sense in the narrative, e.g. 'many hundreds of artefacts' If a sentence contains a list of numbers in the tens of thousands and single thousands then the thousand should uses a comma to be consistent, i.e.,: ‘In different amounts of 7,000, 12,000 and 125,000.’ Approximate words ‘hundred’, ‘thousand’, ‘million’, ‘billion’ etc.
  • Ordinals must always be written in words ‘first’, ‘second’ etc., except in titles: (6 th Earl of Devonshire) % not percent Roman Numerals should be confined to: – ordinals for kings (large caps) – Grades or fracture or sprain (etc.) book volumes/Acts in a play etc. (small caps) e.g.
  • Grade II NB ‘Grade’ has an initial cap even mid-sentence – certain non-English references to centuries (small caps except Cyrillic script – large caps) – cited preliminary pages (lower case) Dates and time Dates should be given in the form: Friday, 28 January 1912 1914–18 the 1930s 3 rd century 1 st Millennium BC Information Classification: General Date spans before the Christian era should be given in full: 264–241 BC The use of CE and BCE, as well as BC and AD, is allowed.
  • The 24 hour clock should not be used, i.e.: 5:30am 5:30pm Radiocarbon dates Radiocarbon determinations should be cited in full, with laboratory reference, age determination in 14C years BP (Before Present, i.e. AD 1950), and 1-sigma (68.2%) measurement error estimate (e.g. OxA-1083, 4370 ± 90 BP).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Adjectives should not be capitalized unless derived from a name e.g.
  • but in the text a prefix should not be capitalised: post-Darwinian, non-Christian, neo-Aristotelian etc.
  • Abbreviations As restricted as possible; full form should be given at first point of citation e.g.
  • Abbreviations should end with a full-stop, but contractions should not (eg ed.; but edn, Dr,); Levant does not use a full-stop after (eds) in bibliographies.
  • should be written in words e.g. ‘a thousand’, ‘five hundred’ etc.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • Email address should be lower case.
  • References should follow the ‘modified Harvard' convention, as in this volume, and should be listed in alphabetical order (with journal titles in full) at the end of the paper.
  • email: doronbon@post.bgu.ac.il © Council for British Research in the Levant 2016 DOI 10.1080/00758914.2015.1105480 Received dates Present in journal?
  • e.g. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel; 2 Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, Norfolk, UK Doron Boness (corresponding author) Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.
  • Alps, Alpine; Bible, Biblical; Satan, Satanic (unless with reference to Satan himself); Chomsky, Chomskyan; Christ, Christian; Plato, Platonic Capitalize: Place names, persons, nationalities, days of the week, months, titles of laws, plans, wars, treaties, legal cases, institutions/organizations, unique events and periods (the Flood, the Iron Age, the Enlightenment, World War II, the Last Judgement), referred to book sections (Chapter 9), specific areas (the North, South America), political concepts (the West), titles (Earl of Northumberland, the 6th Earl), with application to an individual (The Archbishop said.) or when immediately followed by a name (Bishop Wilberforce), nicknames (the Iron Duke, Alfred the Great, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets), movements (the Romantic school of thought, but a Valentine’s romantic thought; the Conservative party has a conservative dress sense).
  • Lowercase: Compass points (unless they are abbreviated), northern, southern, eastern, western (except in proper nouns e.g.
  • Northern Ireland), anglophone, francophone, arabic numerals, roman type (but Arabic culture), movements prefixed with neo where the movement wouldn’t normally be capitalized (neo-colonialist, neo-classical) In the case of a hyphenated compound in a title capitalise both parts: Non-Christian, Seventeenth-Century Music etc.
  • The United Nations (UN) has lots of votes.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • Figures Cited as Fig. 1 Caption: Figure 1 The rest should be flush left.
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Double sets of parentheses are acceptable, e.g., (Figure 5 (a)), but only use square brackets in the text in the following circumstances: – To include an author’s comment within a quote, e.g. [sic] – For mathematical expressions and equations within the text Non-English words In general non-English words should be italicised (except in the In general non-English words should be italicised (except in the case of non-alphabetized languages) and all diacritics should be retained).
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Money £12; £12.65; 65p; €12.65; $12.65; US$, NZ$; 95 Fr; 250 Kr; DM 8; Measurements Note the spacing: P = 0.35 and P = 0.69 (< 5%) ‘P’ value should be italicised and capitalised ‘n’ for no. of patients in a study, etc., is italicised.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
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  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • No ORCID (if provided by author(s)) (ORCID logos will also appear after the author names at the top of the article.) Author Name (italics) followed by ORCID marker; hyperlinked ORCID URL (roman) Separate line for each author, e.g.: Footnotes Indicator in text.1 [number appears after punctuation] Spelling preferences UK spelling –ize should be used throughout.
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  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • where there is an Anglicized spelling of a non- English word, use it unless the original spelling is significant to the meaning of the text.
  • Information Classification: General Taylor & Francis Style Sheet Levant (YLEV) The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant Style sheet Article title and author details The title page should include: • A full article title with all information in the title that will aid electronic retrieval of the article.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 200 words).
  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
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  • Square metres should be displayed as sq m, so 4 sq m Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius.
  • Numbered lists Numbered list: Follow same text formatting rules as Bullets points, Numbers should be followed by full point. Information Classification: General Cited in text as (1), (2), etc In text: (1), (2) Otherwise: 1.
  • Style for units should be spaced after numeral i.e. 1 mm; 138/80 mmHg Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram or litre) or their decimal multiples.
  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Use full names as supplied, but no titles (Prof, Dr. etc), use full point after initials.
  • When ellipses appear at the start or end of quoted text they should also be surrounded by square brackets.
  • Times should be displayed using numbers separated by a colon and followed by am or ‘pm’.
  • Calibrated dates should always cite the specific calibration curve, and the name and version number of the computer program used to obtain the estimate.
  • Scientific measurements should be given in SI units, except for blood pressure, which should be expressed in mm Hg.
  • Raw numbers should be given alongside percentages, and as supporting data for P values.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Include source and other info here.
  • Omissions from a quote should be denoted by ellipsis in squared brackets. [.] If there is an omission in a block quote of poetry [.] should appear, flushed left on its own line).
  • Displayed quote ends with full point. (Ref, 1999, p.
  • follows) Run on the source, full point before, none after: Extract text extract text Extract text extract text Extract text. (Smith, 2002: (22) Squared brackets to show an author qualifying a missing subject/object etc.
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.
  • in a quote etc.
  • Place: Publisher.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Reviews) Title Initial caps: flush left. {Proper nouns should be Caps Authors Alice Other1, Jane Smith1,2 and John Morris3 Affiliation Given as footnote to bottom left of first column of first page.
  • Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
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  • Title of article (recto) One author: Surname Title of article Two authors: Surname and Surname Title of article Three or more authors: Surname et al.
  • Title of article Article type Main Caps Above Main Title (e.g.
  • Israelite Dor Information Classification: General Ayelet Gilboa, Ilan Sharon and Elizabeth Bloch-Smith Running heads (verso) One author: Surname Title of article Two authors: Surname and Surname Title of article Three or more authors: Surname et al.

Language and text style

  • Words ending in é/ée retain the accent but again if their use in English has become commonplace, they should not appear in italics font, i.e: cliché, exposé, émigré, fiancé, fiancée, pâté, protégé, résumé Dashes Spaced em --- dash Right-hand (hyphen) 1939–194 (en dash) Bullet points Only use number or roman numeral lists if manuscripts specifically require it, for all else use bullets.
  • Please use British (-ise) spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
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  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Quotations should be in single quotation marks, double within single, and the closing quotation mark should precede the punctuation Use initial caps with restraint.
  • Where borrowed words or expressions have largely been accepted in English the diacritics should be removed and the word should not be put into italics e.g.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Common abbreviations, such as BC, AD, PhD, UK, should not be punctuated. Information Classification: General Contractions (including plurals) have no full point e.g. Mr, Dr, Mme, Jr, St, vols etc. except no. (for numero).
  • Other abbreviations should be followed by a full point e.g.: M. (Monsieur), Prof., p., pp., sc., viz., vol. Where there is more than one word in the abbreviation a full point should follow each initial e.g. a.m., e.g., i.e., n.p., q.e.d.
  • The following words must adopt the –ise spelling: advertise analyse comprise devise franchise advise compromise enterprise improvise apprise demise excise incise chastise Information Classification: General despise exercise revise supervise surmise surprise televise Punctuation No Oxford comma.
  • aide-mémoire, à la mode, déjà vu, Führer, en leitmotif, lycée, señor, tête-à-tête etc.
  • German nouns lose their initial caps e.g.
  • chateau, creche, crepe (but crêpe Suzette), ad hoc, debacle, debris, decor, denouement, detente, echelon, elite, fete, hotel, junta, kayak, matinee, naive, per se, precis, premiere, raison d’etre, regime, role, seance, soiree etc.

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/“Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Manuscript structure

  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Supplementary material

  • Funding details supplied in the Acknowledgements paragraph should be moved to new Funding heading. Supplemental data (A)Heading Goes after Funding Text smaller Supplemental data for this article can be accessed here. [link to data] Biographical notes on contributors Present in journal?

Statistical reporting

  • A 'calendar age' is an absolute date, while a 'calibrated date' is an estimate based on statistical probability, and is therefore properly expressed as one or more ranges of calendar years, accompanied by the appropriate confidence level; contributors should be aware that the normal expectation is that dates will be expressed at 2 standard deviations (2s).
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Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 10,000 words
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

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