Please read our (wide-ranging) editorial policy first before submitting a proposal. Content is accepted based on quality but we also consider potential to use the medium.
Why publish in IA?
Here are just a few reasons why we think publishing in Internet Archaeology might be good for you and your research.
Submitting a Proposal
Submit your article proposal (we also consider proposals for themed issues) by email to editor@intarch.ac.uk.
Please do not send a draft of your article unless it has been explicitly requested by the Editor.
The Editor will assess the proposal and the submitted details may also be circulated to the Editorial Advisory committee for further comment.
You will receive a response from the Editor within 10 working days (but usually much quicker than that).
Your proposal (in 4 sections) should contain the following information.
About you
Your Name
Your Email Address
Address or Institutional affiliation
Relevant and/or recent publications by the principle author(s)
About the content
Title of Proposal
Proposal summary
Outline and structure (contents outline, suggested sections etc.)
Estimated extent / word length
Target readership
Keywords (maximum of 10)
Projected draft submission date
Reasons for publishing in Internet Archaeology
Technical details
Number of images (include range of file formats e.g. GIF, JPEG, TIF, PNG)
Other elements and formats for inclusion e.g. video, VR, panoramas, animations, GIS, database (please refer to the ADS preferred data formats list)
Any other technical requirements e.g. clickable maps, 'zoomable' images (such features are what IA can add to your article and we do not expect you to submit these as working examples. Please add any other ideas about how you envisage the article here)
Related digital archive?
Where you have primary research data or a larger related dataset that complements the IA submission,
then IA strongly advises that you deposit this with a digital archive e.g. the Archaeology
Data Service as a separate collection (fully curated, archived and
publically available). Your IA article can link to such resources at
collection or individual record level as required. Linking to related
data holdings will enhance your article and the integration of resources
provides a benefit to the user not possible in most other publications.
Open access option
Have you secured or are you able to apply for funds to enable Open Access for your article?
It is journal policy that when IA's article development costs are covered, that content
will be made OA and so will benefit from the increased discourse, visibility, and impact that such
enhanced access brings. There's no fixed OA fee as articles can really vary in size and in what they contain (as well as technical requirements),
but a cost can be worked out from a fully formed proposal so the more detail you can provide, the better.
OA fees may come via a research grant, a departmental research award, or via institutional block grant for APCs
(Author Processing Charges). If you are at a very early stage and applying for research funding, then the OA charge could be
included in your application for funding.
If you have no access to funding, then this is not an obstacle to a publication in IA. Our current policy is that your article would be subject to our usual low cost subscription.
However the decision to publish an article in Internet Archaeology is wholly independent of payment or ability to pay, and is based solely on the quality of the proposal.
After initial acceptance, it is worth thinking about your article structure and how to use the linking benefits of the medium.
As you write, try to think beyond a linear text with supplementary images. A web document doesn't necessarily have a beginning,
middle and end. It might help to think in visual terms about the final structure e.g. writing hierarchically means important detail can be included `lower down' in the article
(after all, depth and the building up of layers and meaning are concepts that every archaeologist
is familiar with!). Perhaps a summary or series of summary sections may be helpful.
Alternatively consider a 'wheel', with a central core [main argument] and spokes [supporting data]
radiating outwards. It may also help to draw or 'storyboard' your article to aid the planning of sections.
Submission of First Draft
The editorial workflow will be smoothest if you submit your text files in a common word processing program format (e.g. MS Word).
HTML is also accepted. If using HTML, please inform the editor beforehand and use minimal formatting (no CSS), validating to HTML 5 or XHTML 1 (strict). Files may be sent by email (editor@intarch.ac.uk) or a file collection/drop-off facility can be arranged for larger submissions.
As you create your files...
Ensure you use the Harvard referencing system.
It is not IA housestyle to use footnotes so please incorporate any footnotes into the text or consider creating a new section for more substantial 'asides'.
Ensure your ALL your filenames are in lower case and that they contain NO spaces
Ensure that your images and other files are consistently, meaningfully named and can be easily identified (e.g. figure3.jpg, interview2.mpg). Figures should be
numbered sequentially (Figure 1, Figure 2 etc.) as opposed to by section (Figure 2.1, Figure 2.2). Note that it is not IA housestyle to distinguish
between figures, maps and plates. All are simply Figures and should also be listed in a Table of Figures in the order in which they appear in the text
Ensure that all bibliographic references, images and tables are actually cited in your text.
Abstract, including Title, Author(s) and affiliations, list of keywords and email address(es)
Table of contents
List of figures including full attribution for all images and any other elements that are not your copyright. Figures should be listed and numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.
Every figure should have a clear, distinct caption.
List of tables. Ensure all tables are referenced in the text.
Article text (either as a single file or as a series of files). Where it is not obvious, you may insert cues in [square brackets] indicating where you would like links to other files/elements to be inserted.
Bibliography. Include DOIs where possible. See examples.
Acknowledgements, including preferred wording for any funding support you have received.
Image files. GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF all acceptable formats.
Other files e.g. data, GIS, video, audio etc. Please contact the editor prior to submission for specific guidance regarding multimedia. IA adheres to the ADS guidelines on preferred formats for archaeological data. You may be asked to supply additional files and information (metadata) beyond what appears in the actual published article. This is to help preserve the content into the future.
Post-publication Access (when an article is not Open Access)
The author access details you will use as your article develops continue to be active after publication. These details
become the journal's way of providing you with 'off-prints'.
The only condition we place is that these details should be used reasonably i.e.
it is reasonable to pass the details to individuals on request or to selected
individuals as you would a paper off-print, but they are not for re-posting on a public website or circulated via email lists etc. Internet Archaeology reserves the right
to re-issue different details should unusual activity using such details (in the web logs) be detected.
Authors can contact the editor at any time to request a reminder or to re-set their access details.
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