Submissions

Author Guidelines

Ethical Guidelines

The Journal of Pacific Archaeology (JPA) aims to maintain high ethical standards that include a number of expectations for both authors and the Journal editorial team. Please also refer to the editorial policies for the journal.

1. JPA expects all named authors of a manuscript to have contributed to the research. Variable author contributions will be reflected in the author order in a manner agreed by all authors.
2. JPA will facilitate data-sharing through publication of research data on the Journal website or through a data-repository (e.g., figshare, zenodo) of the authors’ choosing.
3. JPA expects submitted manuscripts to use data legally obtained (e.g., through permitting processes), including consent of traditional owners where applicable.
4. JPA expects authors to declare conflicts with the above expectations, and other conflicts of interest, to the editor assigned to their submission.
5. The JPA editorial team will address potential conflicts and complaints with authors via the Journal website email system, such that discussions are archived for author and editorial team viewing only. Final decisions on conflicts and complaints will rest with the Editor.
6. The JPA will revise these ethics standards as required.

Contribution Categories

The Journal of Pacific Archaeology invites contributions in the following categories:

Articles on theoretical, methodological or evidential topics: 4000-8000 words,  an abstract of 100-200 words, and 3-5 key words.

Research reports on particular projects, results or issues in research: 1500-3000 words,  an abstract of 50-100 words,  2-3 key words, and maximum of 20 references.

Notes reporting a single important matter, result or conclusion: 500-1000 words, no abstract or key words, and maximum of 5 references.

Letters to The Editor of up to 300 words.

Send books for review to: Mr Alex Jorgensen, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.

Languages

All contributions should be submitted in English, with parallel publishing within the article allowed in another language. Please contact the editor if you wish to select this option.

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted using this website (file size limit of 7mb applies). Manuscripts may be submitted as a single document with figures embedded so as not to disrupt the flow of the article. Upon acceptance of a manuscript the authors must format the article according to the JPA template as described below, failure to do this will result in a rejection of the submission.

THE JPA TEMPLATE CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE

Manuscripts should be saved as .doc or .docx files, and formatted at A4 size. Text should be 1.5 spaced, Times New Roman 12pt or equivalent. The first page should show: author name(s) and address(es) plus email address(es), noting author for correspondence, paper title and category (see above), and abstract and keywords. The article should use the post-text headings (i.e. Data Availability statement, Partnerships, Funding, Conflicts of Interest, Author Contributions) and sections outlined and described in the JPA template.

Manuscripts may be rejected at submission if the author guidelines are not followed. You must also complete the metadata on the submission portal (e.g., affiliation, address, keywords, references) for each author as these data are used to automatically populate the website. The corresponding author should keep any changes in metadata, including keywords and references, up to date during review and acceptance process, checking these along with the proofs of an accepted manuscript.

JPA Template

To continue to provide JPA as a Diamond Open-Access journal authors are required to format their paper according to this template. Text and figures can be copied and pasted in from their original manuscript. When copying material in please select the option to “Use Destination Theme”.

Authors are encouraged to use the template for their initial submission, but are not required to do so until the acceptance of the paper.

Figures

Figures should be embedded in the submission file and in the JPA template. They may also  need to be provided separately upon acceptance should the editors ask.

Submit raster or pixel based Figures as TIFF, PSD or High Quality JPEG files. Black and white line-art (1 bit) should be at least 600dpi at reproduction size. All other raster or pixel images (i.e. digital photographs, scanned artwork etc.) should be at least 200dpi if greyscale, and 300dpi if colour, at reproduction size.

Submit vector based illustrations as Adobe Illustrator (AI) or Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Journal Reference Style

All citations in the article must be in the references, and no references included which are not cited in-text. JPA broadly follows the Author-Date style of the Chicago manual of Style.

Wherever possible please include a digital object identifier (DOI), however for some older works this may not be possible.

Example of citations in-text

Analysis of the archaeological record (Anderson 1989, 1991: 768; Smith & Anderson 2007) has important implications for reconstruction of sociopolitical organisation (Walter et al. 2006).

Examples for References Cited list

Journal article

Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C.D. YEAR. Title of the article. Journal Name Volume, page range. DOI.

Chapter in edited book

Author 1, A.; Author 2, B. YEAR. Title of the chapter. In Book Title, Editor 1, A., Editor 2, B., Eds.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country pp. 154–196. DOI

Books, monographs, and reports in formally published series

Author 1, A.; Author 2, B. YEAR. Book Title, 3rd ed.; Publisher: Publisher Location, Country, pp. 154–196. DOI

Reports

Author 1, A.B. YYYY. Title of report. Name of Series. Publisher: Publisher Location. Stable link or DOI [IF stable link provide: accessed DD MM YYYY]

Archival material

Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C. YEAR. Title of Unpublished Work. Archive, Location, Identification number.

Newspapers - use author name when available; Anon. for un-named correspondents; otherwise title of publication.

Author 1, A.B. YEAR. TITLE. PUBLICATION NAME, DAY MONTH YEAR, p. #.

Personal communications

Author 1, A.B. (Affilitation, City, State, Country); Author 2, C. (Institute, City, State, Country). Personal communication, 2012.

Conference presentations

Author 1, A.B.; Author 2, C.D.; Author 3, E.F. Title of Presentation. In Proceedings of the Name of the Conference, Location of Conference, Country, Date of Conference (Day Month Year). DOI

Theses, dissertations etc

Author 1, A.B. YEAR Title of Thesis. Level of Thesis, Degree-Granting University, Location of University,

Websites

Title of Website/Resource. Available online: URL (accessed on Day Month Year).

Other matters of Style

Spelling: Spelling is according to The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

References: et al. should be as shown

Numbers in text: words up to nine, then numbers.

Quotations use single quotation marks, but double within quotations, and quotations over 40 words are indented. Ellipsis within a sentence uses three dots, four dots when the break resumes in a new sentence. Put interpolated matter in square brackets.

Reporting of radiocarbon dates: uncalibrated dates as 1100 ± 60 bp (95% standard error of the mean) with the laboratory code; calibrated dates as 600 calBP, AD 1350, or 1000 BC etc., with the laboratory code reported. Use of calibrated dates is strongly encouraged. Laboratory codes, isotopic data, standard deviations etc. can be reported in tables rather than with each date in the text, or a public source for these data given in the case of already published dates. Calibration programme used should be given as references.

Review of manuscripts

Manuscripts are peer-reviewed by at least two referees. Referee reports are normally made available to contributors. The Editor will usually make and advise a decision on publication within two months of receiving the manuscript. If a paper is accepted, the senior author may be asked to revise the text, tables and figures to meet all JPA standards for publication. A memorandum of agreement to publish, made between the contributor and the publisher, will also need to be completed.

Physical copies

Journal of Pacific Archaeology does not provide offprints or physical copies. The article will be published as a PDF from which copies can be printed.

Repositories

Authors may submit all versions of their articles to any repository they choose. The only restriction being the repository record must include a reference to the published source when available.