INITIAL SUBMISSION FOR CONSIDERATION

Articles for consideration for publication in PBSR should be sent to the editorial contact electronically. Please ensure that details of your identity are communicated separately, and that on the article itself and any supporting documents (such as the illustrations) your name, institutional affiliation, competing interest statement or any other indication of your identity is not given. You should also ensure that your name does not appear under the ‘Properties’ of electronic documents that you submit.

All articles must be original, and must not be under consideration for publication, or in press, elsewhere. By submitting a paper to the Editors you are indicating that this is the case.

There is no strict upper word limit for papers, although the average paper is in the region of 9,000–10,000 words (including references and notes). We will consider longer papers, but a case should be made to the Editors that the paper’s scope and/or significance justifies the extra space.

PBSR will not normally publish interim reports on archaeological fieldwork in the main section of the journal, although it will consider specialized reports on specific finds and on methodological approaches where the article meets the relevant criteria of quality and definitiveness.

Submissions are normally accepted in English or Italian. Authors planning to submit in any other language should discuss this with the Editors in advance. 

Contributions to PBSR are subject to double-anonymised peer review by at least two specialist readers (your name will not be indicated to the specialist readers, and you will not be told their names).

Initial submissions should be sent electronically to the Editors as an e-mail attachment (.doc or .docx, but not a PDF). Articles should be double-spaced, with good margins. It would be helpful, at this initial stage, to send the Editors a 100–200 word summary of the article. At the point of initial submission, any figures should be supplied (at an appropriate resolution) as part of the same document as the text or as at most one separate document. Submissions need not at this stage be fully formatted to PBSR house style, but if the article is accepted it will then need to be formatted using the guidelines on this page. Authors must make clear to the Editors at this stage if it is essential that any illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed volume.

All authors must include a competing interest declaration in the main body of their email. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors. 

Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”. 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK REPORTS The BSR will publish in the Archaeological Reports section of PBSR short, interim, reports for all projects that are either run by the BSR singly or in collaboration with a partner, or where the BSR has requested the concession from the Superintendency on behalf of a third party. These reports will be subject to peer review by selected members of the BSR’s Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters. Archaeological Reports should be written so as to be clear and accessible to all readers of PBSR. They should be no more than 1,500 words (including any bibliographical references and acknowledgements) plus one illustration. You may, if you think it beneficial for the report, include an additional illustration (although with a reduction in the word count of 500 words for a full page figure). Usually the illustration(s) will be reproduced in black and white in the printed volume, although colour can be used online. Reports should include the following information: the comune, provincia and regione in which the site is located in the title; the overall research aims of the project; the work undertaken in the season; and brief details of specific discoveries. The report should not include details such as context numbers, but rather should aim to provide a clear statement of the results and conclude with a brief indication of the general relevance of the work. Contributions should also follow the guidelines for house style set out below. You should give the names, academic affiliations and addresses (postal and e-mail) of all authors; but indicate clearly which author will be the main contact. Captions must be supplied for the illustration(s), including any necessary credit line (and, if relevant, the permit to use the illustration). Reports for this section only should be sent to the Archaeology Officer, no later than 16 May. They should be sent electronically to s.kay@bsrome.it.

FINAL SUBMISSION

Contributors must submit the final version of the paper as an e-mail attachment. Please note, however, that any files over 10 MB (or a single e-mail with files totalling more than this) cannot be received as attachments and should be sent through a third party (for example, Dropbox, Hightail or WeTransfer). Where any non-Roman letters or any particular symbols are used, a PDF with the font embedded should be provided.

SUMMARY AND AUTHOR DETAILS

When submitting the final version of the article, contributors should include a brief summary of their paper (in about 100–200 words). They should also give their title (for example, Prof., Dr, Dott.), full postal and e-mail addresses as they would wish them to appear in the article.

PERMISSION TO PUBLISH

Authors are responsible for obtaining, and paying for, all necessary permissions for the reproduction of illustrative material and for any long or particular textual quotes. In seeking permission, electronic rights must be requested alongside print. You should obtain world rights in the English language. Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit publisher. The print-run is approximately 760 hard copies, as well as publication as an online journal. A copy of the permit must be sent to the Editors when the final version of the article is submitted.

‘OFFPRINTS’

The first-named author will be provided with a final PDF file of the paper. This PDF should not be published online or distributed.

TIMETABLE

Information about the timetable involved for each volume can be obtained from the Editors.