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Manuscript Expectations

Articles must be factual with some archaeological application.  We seek submissions from authors affiliated with government agencies, cultural resource management firms, museums, academic institutions, students, and avocational archaeologists equally.  Authors submitting manuscripts are requested to follow Society for American Archaeology (SAA) style (see Style Guide American Antiquity 48:429-442).  The most recent version of the SAA Style Guide can be found on the SAA website.

Content for these submissions can include results of small or interesting survey projects, data recovery results of small projects, reanalysis of archaeological collections, artifact or site visualizations, or other topics that might not warrant a full-length article. Other topics could be leveraging social or online media to bring archaeology and its interpretation into the 21st century.

II.A. Length:

For Research Notes, editors are interested in shorter-length focused manuscripts that lend themselves to an online format (color images and maps, web access and links, etc.). Generally, submissions should be no more than 2,500 words with no set limit on the number of figures and images.

II.B. Submission:

Manuscripts should be submitted in an electronic format, as Utah Archaeology cannot retype papers. Authors are strongly encouraged to send files as e-mail attachments to the editors, although manuscripts may also be submitted on a CD.  Microsoft Word (.DOC or DOCX) files are strongly encouraged.   All manuscripts are submitted for outside review.  Authors are sent reviewers' comments and a letter from the editor as to whether the manuscript is acceptable with revision, acceptable in current form, or rejected with a recommendation for substantial revision. The editors reserve the right to evaluate manuscripts for appropriate subject matter, quality, length, and compliance with the style guide, and will likely reject submissions which do not conform to the stipulated requirements.

 

 

II.C. Formatting:

Manuscripts must be typed on 8.5 by 11 inch paper with 1 inch margins in 12 point font and double spaced.  Submissions should contain appropriate headings and subheadings and have a brief abstract of 150 words or less.  Manuscripts should be paginated consecutively beginning with the title page.

II.D. Tables, Figures, and Illustrations:

Authors are responsible for submitting illustrations, photos, and tables of publishable quality, as Utah Archaeology will not be responsible for making them presentable and will only make minor adjustments.  Figures should be submitted electronically (one figure per file) and authors are responsible for providing a high resolution (minimum 300 dpi at printed size). Maximum size is 6.26 x 8.5 inches (or 1825 x 2550 pixels) file in either a .JPG, .TIFF, .PSD, or .PDF file format.  Please DO NOT paste figures or tables into word processing document files.  Tables should be submitted either as separate files (one per file) or combined into a single workbook or similar format with one table per worksheet.  Table formatting should follow the SAA style guide (see above).  For all photos, illustrations, and tables please include captions in a separate text file.  Please name all figure and table files with their corresponding association in the text (e.g. Figure 1 or Table 1) and use matching names in the caption text file.

For submission to Research Notes, the editor highly encourages full color photos, maps, and other figures given the ability to display color images in the online format.