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Prepare your manuscript for Offa's Dyke Journal.

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Article types

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Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Submissions should also include a list of up to five keywords, an abstract of c.
  • The abstract should not include references or refer to illustrations within the article itself.

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.
  • Where there is doubt about the widespread use of an abbreviation, it should be spelled out in the first citation.
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  • Date derived from dendrochronological determination should give the error margin and laboratory reference number.
  • Only works cited should be listed in the bibliography.
  • Citation of more than two authors should be in the form Everson et al. all authors to be listed in the bibliography.
  • In the bibliography, Mc and Mac should both be treated as if they are Mac.
  • All copy (including quotations, appendices, lists, bibliographies and captions) must be submitted via email to the Editors as Word documents (not pdfs), double line- spaced, left-aligned, and allowing wide margins.
  • Radiocarbon dates should always be cited together with their laboratory reference number and should be presented in the following format using the INTCAL98 calibration published in the journal Radiocarbon 40 (1998), or the OxCal calibration published in Radiocarbon 37 (1995), and should state the probability level used.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour).
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  • Scan mixed line and tone illustrations at 600 dpi. (JPEGS are acceptable if saved to maximum quality.) Submit the image in the size it is intended to appear.
  • A list of captions for figures and tables should be included.
  • Granting permissions for image reproduction should be acknowledged in the relevant captions as well as in the Acknowledgements.
  • Illustrators and photographers should be acknowledged in relevant illustration captions as well as in the Acknowledgements.
  • The captions should include any necessary copyright information.
  • Photographs and line illustrations should be submitted in high-resolution digital format.
  • Tables should normally be submitted as a separate file and as a word document rather than in Excel or other formats.
  • Multiple spaces or combinations of tabs and spaces merely increases the work which must take place before the table can be set in type.
  • Tables must be separately numbered.

Funding statement

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

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Statistical reporting

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

Preprints and prior publication

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Other submission requirements

  • Both line drawings and photographs will be numbered in a single sequence within each paper and should be given a number in the text, thus (Fig. 9).
  • Ordinals are spelled out (second, not 2nd) and in any case should never appear in upper case.
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  • The numeral in measurements should always be separated by a space from the type of unit, for example, 3 km.
  • In quotations from other authors using only Imperial units, metric equivalents should be inserted in square brackets, for example [1.38 m x 0.53 m].
  • Measurements should be given in the form 1.5 m by 0.9 m not 1.50 m by 0.90 m, but for exact measurements as 1.0 m.
  • The font size should be 12 point.
  • Where the location of a place is not well known, it should be accompanied by the modern administrative county, pre-1974 county if different and, if appropriate, the parish name when first used.
  • All numbers, up to and including one hundred, and round numbers of hundreds, thousands and millions should be spelled out, unless they are measurements: fifty-eight monks, 58 mm, five hundred books, 515 books.
  • Give centuries and millennia as, for example: 5th century BC, 2nd century AD etc. For specific years, the letters BC should follow the date, preceded by a space (e.g., 490 BC); the letters AD should precede the date, also with a space between the two (e.g., AD 499).
  • Review: Prospective authors should be aware that original papers published in the Offa's Dyke Journal are subject to rigorous peer review by multiple referees.
  • Authors should confirm in writing that their papers will receive a grant at the time of submission and provide the name and address of the relevant inspector.
  • Please note where approximately images should appear.
  • The beginning of each paragraph should be demarcated by an extra line space.
  • Those not found there should usually be considered foreign.
  • Names which have been lost (no longer in current usage), or for which an archaic form is used, should be italicized.
  • For example, Verulamium and Hamwic should be italicized.
  • Anglicized forms of foreign names should be used where common (Rheims rather than Reims, Vienna rather than Wien, Cardiff rather than Caerdyff).
  • Otherwise, current foreign forms should be adopted.
  • Compass directions should normally not be abbreviated, unless the repetition of directions makes the text unwieldy.
  • Dates should appear in the following form: 5 November 2003.
  • Note that published volume numbers of journals and series should never be given using roman numerals.
  • Round sums of money should be spelled out: e.g. five hundred dollars.
  • For other sums, pre-decimal British currency should be expressed in the following form £3 13s.
  • The use of the slash should not be used for alternatives, except in the instance shown above.
  • Professionals and amateur archaeologists should be acknowledged for their critical observations and comments on drafts of manuscripts.
  • Research stemming from projects receiving a grant should acknowledge the awarding body(ies).
  • Principal local volunteers and key staff should be named.
  • Page numbers of articles etc. should refer to the whole of the article, not just the passage of interest.
  • NOTE: You must include the date accessed due to the ephemeral nature of websites.
  • This should be taken into account when preparing line drawings and when recommending reductions.
  • Authors should indicate their approximate position in the text.
  • Typescripts should be very carefully checked before they are forwarded to the Editors.
  • All pages must be numbered.
  • Use of capital letters.
  • In cases where measurements have been made in Imperial units or where the use of Imperial dimensions greatly facilitates comparison with previous literature, they may be used in the text, but metric equivalents should be given in brackets immediately following, e.g. 4 ft 6½ in. by 1 ft 9 in. (1.38 m x 0.53 m).
  • Lists of individuals, organisations and institutions should be acknowledged in alphabetical order unless there is a substantive difference in the qualitative and quantity of their contribution.
  • Individuals and institutions that shared unpublished data or access to artefacts, art, materials, buildings, monuments and/or landscapes for research to be conducted should be acknowledged.
  • St should be listed as if spelled Saint.
  • Note: Ibid. must not be used.
  • Ensure that scales (either metric or dual standard) and north points are included where required and that everything which appears on the drawing (trench numbers, room numbers, and so on) relates clearly and consistently to what is said in the text.
  • In no circumstances should images be supplied for publications embedded in text documents or other secondary files, such as PDF documents, word-processor files (e.g. Word), spreadsheets (e.g. Excel), Powerpoint presentations, databases (e.g. Access), or desktop-publisher files (e.g. PageMaker, Publisher, QuarkXpress).
  • In all such cases the image pre-exists the final file in a graphic form and it is in that form, or a TIFF or JPG derived directly from that form, that it should be submitted.
  • Decimal British and foreign currency should be expressed in the following forms.
  • The following points should serve as a guide: Lists of individuals, organisations and institutions should be separated.
  • Unpublished reports and theses should appear in the following form and should normally be included among the published works.
  • Contractions do not have a full stop, e.g. Dr, Mr, illus (when a plural).
  • The Editors cannot undertake to obtain published photographs, etc. on their behalf.
  • He will discuss it with the printer and let you know if any adjustment needs to be made.

Submission forms and permissions

  • Where questions of copyright are involved, contributors must obtain the necessary permission well in advance of publication.
  • Permissions should be acquired for a full global and electronic reproduction.
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  • The Institute will normally grant permission to authors, or their executors, for a contribution to be reprinted in whole or in part elsewhere after it has appeared in the Journal, but permission must be sought in writing to the Editors.
  • All images that do not belong to the author must have copyright cleared on them for both print and electronic publication and this is the responsibility of the individual authors.

Manuscript structure

  • Sparse footnotes can be included but Endnotes should not be included.
  • Papers must be accompanied by a scheme indicating the divisions of the text and the relative importance of the various headings, sub-headings, etc.
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  • Endnotes cannot be used.

Language and text style

  • Use single quotation marks throughout, with double marks for a quotation within a quotation (e.g., "text text 'text' text text").
  • Any quotations within a displayed quotation should carry single marks.
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  • Abbreviations should be given in italics if the full word would also have appeared in italics – SPQR, VCH Sussex [book].
  • abbreviations using the lower case should always appear with stops to avoid ambiguity: c. pl., pp., e.g. (except measurements, see below).
  • abbreviations and contractions can often be avoided and i.e. and e.g. should not be used whenever they may be conveniently omitted.
  • Note that many record repositories have a standard abbreviation -such as the BL for British Library- and this should be used in preference to any other.
  • Expressions and words which are normally printed in italics in the Journal include: Grubenhaus (plural Grubenhäuser); Terminus post quem and Terminus ante quem (where possible they should be avoided as they can be confusing).
  • Letter: A clear distinction needs to be made between: abbreviations: the final letter of an abbreviation is different from the final letter of the full word.

Title page and author information

  • Literary works should be separately listed before other published works and cited using the author and short title.
  • Institutions closely associated with the research should be acknowledged (universities, museums, etc) if they are not mentioned as an affiliation or address of the author or elsewhere in the text.

Authorship and originality

  • All contributors to the article should be acknowledged as authors, but occasionally it might be more appropriate to list additional supportive individuals in the acknowledgements where authorship is not warranted.

Blinded manuscript

  • Referees (both those named and anonymous) should be acknowledged if they have been a substantive impact on the content of the article.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Tables must be provided in a separate file from the main text.
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