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Author Guidelines

The title page should give the title, name(s) and e-mail address(es) of the author(s) and name(s) of institution(s). An abstract up to 100 words should precede the text and up to five key words should be given after the abstract. Please follow the style in a recent issue. References in the typescript should be indicated by giving the author's name and the year of publication (with page references -- where necessary) in italics. The titles of books and edited books should also be in italics. For example:

(Zvelebil 1998.414-416), (Harris 1996.4-6, Table 1.1), (Richards and Macaulay 2000.145) or (Perles 2001.109; Thissen on-line).

Articles range from 3,000 to as much as 15,000 words.

The references should be listed in full at the end of the article in alphabetical order and in the following form:

Zvelebil M. 1998. Genetic and cultural diversity of Europe: a comment on Cavalli-Sforza. Journal of Anthropological research 54: 411-417.

Harris D. R. 1996. Introduction: themes and concepts in the study of early agriculture. In D. R. Harrris (ed.), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia. University College London (UCL) Press. London: 1-9.

Richards M., Macaulay V. 2000. Genetic Data and the Colonization of Europe: Genealogies and Founders. In C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds.), Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population prehistory of Europe. McDonald Institute Monographs. Cambridge: 139-151.

Perles C. 2001. The early Neolithic in Greece. The first farming communities in Europe. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

Thissen et al. on-line http://www.chez.com/canew/cadata.htm.

For books, include full name of authors (or editors, if an editor's name is the name by which a reader would find the book); complete title and subtitle; city of publication; publisher; and date. Include page numbers for journal articles.

Scanned - JPG or TIF formatted illustrations - are welcome as well as original photographs and slides. Tables and graphs or any illustration should be saved and provided in original file formats you used to create them - CorelDraw, Illustrator, Freehand etc., and submitt/upload  as separate file(s). Figure captions should be listed on separate sheet.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • The text stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and mark the places for all illustrations, figures, tables and graphs, etc. within the text at the appropriate points. Attach them all at the end. They all need to be uploaded separately as additional files in high resolution.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • Where available, https://doi.org/ or DOI references have been provided.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in journal Documenta Praehistorica by University of Ljubljana Press (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of the publisher.
  2. Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
  3. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  5. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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