Information for Contributors
Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has not been published, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its submission has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. Articles and any other material published in Archaeologia Polona represent the opinions of the author(s) and should not be construed to reflect the opinions of the Editor and the Publisher.
The title page should contain: the article title, author’s name, author’s affiliation and a short running title of less than 50 characters. An abstract is to be provided, preferably no longer than 150 words, and accompanied by a list of 4-5 key words.
References
References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper and referred to in the text by the author’s surname, date of publication and page number, e.g. (Shennan 1991:29). Where there are four or more authors, only the first author's name is given in the text, followed by el al. Minimum numbers for pages and dates should be used, e.g. 35-7, 123-35, 135-8; 1991-2. Footnotes should be avoided.
In order to save editorial time, please use the following template for the list of references to articles submitted to Archaeologia Polona.
Journal articles
Author's surname [,] Initial(s) [.] date [.] Title (without internal capital lettering) [.] Journal Title (in italics) volume number (arabic) [:] pages [.] For example:
Shennan, S,]. 1991. Some current issues in the archaeological identification of
past peoples. Archaeologia Polona 29:2937.
Schild, R. 1995. Polish archaeology in transition. Antiquity 67:146-50.
Single-author/editor books
Surname [,] Initia1(s) [.] date [.] Title (in italics, without internal capital lettering) [.] place of publication (English version of placename). For example:
Abramowicz, A. 1991. Historia archeologii polskiej XIX i XX wiek. Warsaw.
Hodder, I. (ed.) 1991. Archaeological theory in Europe. The last three decades. London.
Multiple author/editor books
As above, but order of initials and surname of second and subsequent authors is reversed, no punctuation between last surname and date. For example:
Boyd, R. and P. Richardson 1985. Culture and the evolutionary process. Chicago.
Hodder, I. and C. Orton 1976. Spatial analysis in archaeology. Cambridge.
Contribution to a book
Author's surname [,] Initial(s) [.] (order of initials and surname of any second and subsequent authors is reversed, no punctuation last surname and date) date [.] Title (without internal capital lettering) [. In ] Title of book (in italics) [,] Initial [.] Editor's surname [(ed.),] pages [.] Place of publication (English version). (In the case of joint cditorship: Initial [.] Surname [, /and] Initial [.] Surname [(eds),] - (note use of full stop in ed. and eds). For example:
Stoneking, M. and R.L. Cann 1989. African origin of human mitochondrial
DNA. In The human revolution, P. Mellars and C. Stringer A (eds), 17-30.
Edinburgh.
Klejn, L. 1995. Prehistory and archaeology. In Whither archaeology, M. Kuna
and N. Venclovà (eds), 36-42. Praha.
In the case of subsequent works by the same author in the list of references, the name is replaced by a [-] followed by the date of publication.
