NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS

Praxis Archaeologica is the annual electronic journal published by the Portuguese Professional Association of Archaeologists dedicated to the discussion and diffusion of perspectives on the exercise of Archaeology as a professional activity. Therefore, its main function consists in the opening of a public space to debate all kind of issues considered by the archaeological community as relevant for the sustained development of Archaeology as a profession, such as the legal framework or the epistemological traits that govern the archaeological actions and the interpretation of recovered information.

The Editorial Board will not accept any paper whose main subject is the diffusion of archaeological interventions, either as unpublished data, or as a reassessment of artefacts, sites or interpretive models of historical nature. However, it is allowed the use of archaeological data as a means to support the argumentation, under the condition of being previously published data and their references are attached.

Two major sections form the basic structure of Praxis Archaeologica: a first section is made up of a series of papers under request, devoted to a specific issue, whereas the second section is open to all archaeologists who wish to contribute with their individual or collective papers, regarding the subjects outlined by the journal’s editorial policy.

The Editorial Board of Praxis Archaeologica reserves to itself the exclusive right to accept or refuse non-requested papers presented for publishing, on behalf of some fundamental criteria like the adjustment to the journal’s editorial policy, paper’s excellence and the observance of those rules that govern professional Ethics and Deontology. Refused papers will be returned to their authors.

Praxis Archaeologica accepts to publish papers in the following languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English. All papers presented to Praxis Archaeologica must be originals previously unpublished; however, the Editorial Board may accept non-original papers published in a language different from those stated above (e.g., French or German).

All papers must be written in Times New Roman 12 points, 1.5 spaces, no paragraphs and saved in a compatible text file (DOC, RTF or TXT). Their structure must observe the following rules:

Abstracts must not contain more than 200 words and keywords will consist of a maximum of 5 terms. As much as possible, the text organization should observe a sequential notation of the following kind:

The Editorial Board recommends a moderate use of notes; these, when present, will be placed after the references (on text processors with automatic insertion of notes, select the option “endnotes”). Any acknowledgement made by the authors will be the first note, marked with (*) just after the Title or the Subtitle. Other notes must follow the most common procedures of sequential numeric notation.

Bibliographic references and bibliographic lists should observe the following rules:

Tables must be presented in an independent file, preferably as a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet, although it is equally acceptable tables drawn in Microsoft® Word® text files.

Figures, such as diagrams, maps, etc., will be similarly presented as independent files (one file for each figure), in a TIFF file with 300 pixels per inch of minimum resolution and sizes adapted to their final publication (maximum of 230 mm long and 165 mm wide). Figures may be presented both black-and-white and colour. The Editorial Board will return to the authors for correction any figure that does not observe the conditions stated above.

Labels from tables and figures will follow a unique sequential notation (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) and should be saved as an independent text file. Tables and figures must be correctly identified, just as their position of insertion in the body text; if not so, the paper will be returned to the authors.

Papers presented to Praxis Archaeologica may be sent by e-mail when their size do not exceed 2 MB; larger papers should be saved to a CD or DVD and sent by ordinary mail to: