Поволжская археология

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Guidelines and recommendations on submissions

Dear colleagues, your publications will be processed quicker if your submission meets the following requirements and accompanied with full set of required documents.

If you have any questions, before submitting your paper please contact our Technical Department at arch.pov@mail.ru.

• Abstract and Keywords (how to write)
• Text Conventions:
  • Manuscript file format
  • Article characters limits
  • Abbreviations
    
  • Footnotes
    
  • Numbers
    
  • Chronology and Dating
• Illustrations
• Tables
• References in the bibliography and in the text

ABSTRACTS AND KEYWORDS

Abstract an keywords must be included in the Declaration & Submission Form.

Abstract (how to write)

An abstract is a source of information on the main content and findings exposed in the publication; it makes reading the full text redundant, should the reader have no primary interest in it; it is used by information systems to search for documents and information.

An abstract shall be:

• authentic, comprehensive (reflecting the main content and findings exposed in your paper), well structured;
• concise (150 — 200 words or 800 — 1500 characters with spaces);
• written in proper English.

Your abstract shall contain the following aspects of your work:

• subject, topic and aim of your paper (these should be mentioned, unless fully exposed in the title of the paper);
• research methods (you should define them if they are a novelty and are interesting in view of your paper);
• findings (main results, your conclusions, genuine discoveries);
• you may supply your conclusions with recommendations, assessments, proposals, hypotheses, as described in your paper).

You should avoid when writing your abstract:

• any phrase that duplicates the title of your paper;
• common wordings, redundant introductory phrases (for instance, the author of the article considers...), complex grammar constructions;
• commonly known arguments;
• information of historiographic nature, unless these make the main content of the paper, titles of earlier published papers.

Keywords (how to write)

Keywords shall disclose the following aspects of your submission: region, chronology, subjects, special terminology.

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TEXT CONVENTIONS

Manuscript file formats

Contributions shall be accepted in *.doc and *.rtf formats.

Please, do not use Caps Lock in headlines and highlighted text.

Do not embed figures in the text

The word (characters) limits of submission : The journal accepts papers of 15-40 thousand characters (with spaces), including abstracts and keywords in Russian and English, references, figure captions and information about the authors. There must be no more than 10 illustrations or tables per paper. here.

Abbreviations

• All abbreviations should end in a full-stop (.), e.g., fig. (number).
• You may use common abbreviations like etc., e.g. in your text. Should you use some abbreviations specifically for the purposes of this article or for a restricted number of topics, you should provide their full explanation. You should add this information to the list of abbreviations used in your article, which should as well be included in p.I.5 of the Declaration&Submission Form.
• Measurements should be abbreviated, follow the number with a space and without a full-stop (e.g. 100 km, 56 m, 10 g).
• Degrees should be written as 24 m².
• Radiocarbon dating shall be written as ¹⁴C

Footnotes

Footnotes are only added to the text of the paper in the form of references to grants and state assignments.

Numbers

• In decimal values (either in tables or in text), please use a comma as a separating character, without a space after it. A full-stop or a comma without a space after it are not admissible.
• Numbers smaller than 9999 shall be written without a separating character (a space separating thousands), any number above 10 000 shall be written with a space. A full-stop or a comma used as a separating character is not admissible (e.g. 3583; 15 679; 2 700 000).
• All values and measurements mentioned in your article shall be written in conformity with the International System of Units (SI). Exception is for quotations from historic texts containing measurements of length, volume and weight.

Chronology and Dating

• Stratum plus accepts abbreviations BC and AD.
• Dates shall be written this way: 01.02.2013, rather than 1 February 2013.
• When you mention chronological intervals, sequences etc., please indicate the lowest and then the upmost date, i.e. 40 000-30 000 years ago instead of 30 000-40 000 years ago, or within 40 000-30 000 years ago, etc.
• Centuries are spelled in Roman figures, while years — in Arabic figures.
• Acronyms used for climatic stratigraphic scale (oxygen or marine) shall be used in their Latin spelling — OIS (oxygen isotope stages), MIS (marine isotope stages).

Radiocarbon dating (common requirements)

• When you use a non-original dating, you must indicate the source (both in tables and in the text).
• When you use it in the text of your article, you should clearly indicate whether you indicate the age in radiocarbon years or calibrated. The best is to use either standard radiocarbon or calibrated values in the same article. If you use both, then please specify every time which of the values you have used.
• If you used the dating received through accelerator mass spectrometry, the method used shall be marked in the text (or table) as AMS¹⁴ С.
• You should specify the material tested to produce the age value. For instance, plant detritus, plant macrofossils, gyttja, peat, wood, bone collagen (if possible, indicate the common name of the species), charcoal, hearth fill, organic content of ceramics, carbon, etc.

Non-calibrated dating

• If you used a non-calibrated radiocarbon age value, please put "¹⁴С years ago" (i.e. radiocarbon years ago, calculated in relation to 1950, which is equivalent to English BP) or "¹⁴years BC" after the dating code.
• Radiocarbon dates shall be used in conformity with the following standard: [measured age value] ± [standard deviation] (lab code, sample number) [units of time].
• Use of a special sign "±" is mandatory, no other signs shall be acceptable. Sign "±" shall be separated by a space on both sides, i.e. your text shall look like this: [age value] space "±" space [value of deviation]. For instance: …plant macrofossils from horizon 8 have given AMS ¹⁴ C 32 070 ± 210'BP* (Beta-309153)…

Calibrated dating