Поволжская археология

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Manuscript Submission

Dear colleagues, please take note of the change in the paper submission procedure from 2019.

“Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya” is an international reviewed journal on archaeology and adjacent disciplines.

It is a quarterly journal coming out in Russian and English. All articles are reviewed and supplied with abstracts in English and Russian.

DEADLINES

Manuscripts shall be submitted by the following dates:

Vol.1 (March) – no later than December 1 of the current year
Vol.2 (June) – no later than March 1 of the current year
Vol.3 (September) – no later than June 1 of the current year
Vol.4 (December) – no later than September 1 of the current year

Any manuscripts submitted after the above dates may be published in the next volume of the current year (if the matter addressed in the article matches the topic of the next volume). The submission date is the date when the editor receives its final version, rather than a draft version.

In some exceptional cases, in agreement with the editors, the submission deadlines can be prolonged to the maximum of three weeks.

Please observe strictly the following editorial requirements and ethical principles in your submissions.

SUBMISSIONS CHECKLIST:

Please check that you submit the full set of documents along with your submissions:

1. Declaration&Submission From is mandatory for all authors and confirms your consent to requirements and conditions of publication in our journal. Please fill in the form here or requested by email to arch.pov@mail.ru. The editors shall not accept any submission without this accompanying Form;
2. Text in MS Word (see Text Conventions here);
3. References (see example references here);
4. Illustrations include: drawings, photos, tables/graphs with original files used to build them (see instructions on illustrations here).

SUBMISSIONS ARE INVITED IN THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION. 15-30 thousand characters (with spaces), including list of references, captions and abstracts. There must be no more than 8 illustrations or tables per article.
DISCUSSIONS. 5–15 thousand characters. An article note shall have maximum 5 illustrations.
CRITICS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. 15-20 thousand characters maximumand no more than 1 illustration. Bibliographies of individual researchers shall include just the main, most important works (20–25 maximum).
CHRONICLE. 15 thousand characters maximum and 2-3 illustration.

Guidelines and recommendations to the submissions are available here.