ISSN 1851-0027
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ISSN 0326-7911
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Instructions to authors

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

“COMECHINGONIA, Revista de Arqueología” is a periodical publication, with sixmonthly periodicity, aimed to publish original researches in archaeology. It pursues to show numerous aspects of contemporary scientific production in this field. In this respect, there will be included strictly regional topics from Argentina or neighboring countries, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions  and specific sub disciplines innovations (zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, geoarchaeology, bioarchaelogy, etc.).
 
Conditions
·The contribution author will be the only person in communication with editorial board. In the case of more than a single authorship only one of them should be selected for that activity.
· Authors will accept the manuscript revision by two peer specialists, external to their place of work, who will make necessary suggestions for the publication. If the decision about publishing the manuscript is not accorded by both reviewers, the definitive one will be taken by a third.
·Authors could suggest up to two researchers to prevent them to review the manuscripts.
·Editorial board is responsible for last decisions about manuscripts.
·Authors are responsible for article content, veracity and originality as well as legal rights of publishing any copyright protected material, for what they should ask written permission an present it with manuscripts originals.
·In case of being necessary, Editorial Board could ask authors an economical collaboration to complete de edition, which will be made by the acquisition of the correspondent issue of Comechingonia.
·In case that accepted manuscripts exceeded the available space for the publication, Editorial Board remains the right of publishing some of them in the next issue, with previous acceptance of the authors to be put in a waiting list
·Once being sent, authors compromise not to present it to other publication media, except for the cases included in the last point and previously agreed with the Editorial Board.

·Comechingonia accepts the following contribution types: articles, notes, bibliographic reviews and dossiers.
·In all modalities, manuscript has to be written in a Word file, in A4 page within a 13 x 18,5 cm box (top and bottom margins of 5,5 cm and right an left margins of 4cm). Font type will be Book Antiqua 10 in single space, without justification nor indentation, without bold nor underscore. Sentences and words to be stressed will be on italics as well as scientific names and other languages words. Paragraph will be detached by a blank line.

·Articles, which present original outcomes of scientific researches or theoretical and methodological reflections, cannot exceed twenty (20) pages following the general instructions and including all the sections detailed bellow:

• Title (bold, capital, justified to the left).
• Authors (normal, justified to the right).
• Authors affiliation: Institution, address, e-mail, etc. (normal, justified to the rigth).
• Abstract in Spanish and English, up to 200 words.
• Keywords in Spanish and English, up to 4 words.
• Text (Normal, without justification).
• Subtitles (bold for main ones and normal for secondary ones, both justified to the left).
• Acknowledgments.
• Endnotes.
• Tables and Figures (each one included within the text in the accurate place and in a separate 300 dpi JPG file, not exceeding the box size) with the corresponding epigraph.
• Referenced Bibliography.

·Notes, which present short and original outcomes of scientific researches, cannot exceed six (6) pages following the general instructions and including all the sections detailed bellow:

• Title (bold, capital, justified to the left).
• Authors (normal, justified to the right).
• Authors affiliation: Institution, address, e-mail, etc. (normal, justified to the rigth).
• Text (Normal, without justification).
• Subtitles (bold for main ones and normal for secondary ones, both justified to the left).
• Acknowledgments.
• Endnotes.
• Tables and Figures (each one included within the text in the accurate place and in a separate 300 dpi JPG file, not exceeding the box size) with the corresponding epigraph.
• Referenced Bibliography.

·Bibliographic reviews, wich analize recently published archaeology books, cannot exceed four (4) pages following the general instructions and, including all the sections detailed bellow:

• Reviewed book title, year, autor, editorial and city of edition and ISBN number (bold, capital and justified to the left).
• Author (normal, justified to the right).
• Authors affiliation: Institution, address, e-mail, etc. (normal, justified to the rigth).
• Text (Normal, without justification).
• Referenced Bibliography.

·Dossiers include a group of at least three articles entailed by a common topic and have to be preceded by an introduction by the dossier coordinators. Manuscripts included in a Dossier cannot exceed thirty (30) pages following the general instructions and including all the sections detailed bellow:

• Title (bold, capital, justified to the left).
• Authors (normal, justified to the right).
• Authors affiliation: Institution, address, e-mail, etc. (normal, justified to the rigth).
• Abstract in Spanish and English, up to 200 words.
• Keywords in Spanish and English, up to 4 words.
• Text (Normal, without justification).
• Subtitles (bold for main ones and normal for secondary ones, both justified to the left).
• Acknowledgments.
• Endnotes.
• Tables and Figures (each one included within the text in the accurate place and in a separate 300 dpi JPG file, not exceeding the box size) with the corresponding epigraph.
• Referenced Bibliography.

·Referenced Bibliography, in all manuscript modalities, will follow the next norms:

Within text

In all cases enumeration of cited pages goes after the year of edition and proceeded by “:”.

a) One author: (Binford 1981) or Binford (1981)
b) Two authors: (Anderson y Gillam 2000) or Anderson y Gillam (2000)
c) Three or more authors: (Hayden et al. 1996) or Hayden et al. (1996)
d) Two or more references of the same author: (Nelson 1991, 1997) or Nelson (1991, 1997)
e) Without specific author: (UNESCO 1972) or UNESCO (1972)
f) First source documentary materials: (Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Córdoba, Escribanía 1, Legajo 3, Expediente 1).
g) Use of old editions: Ameghino (1918: 122 [1880])

In the bottom of the text

a) Book, one author:
Coe, M. D.
1987 The Maya. Thames y Hudson, London y New York.
b) Book, more than one author:
Michael, H.N. y E.K. Ralph
1971 Dating techniques for the archaeologist. Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Massachussetts.
c) Paper in a Journal:
Schiffer, M.B.
1972 Archaeological context and sistemic context. American Antiquity 37: 156-165.
d) Part of a book:
Ascher, R.
1968 Archaeological perspectives. New perspectives in Archaeology (ed. por S.R. Binford y L.R. Binford), pp. 5-32. Aldine, Chicago.
e) Not published works:
Kent, J.D.
1982 The domestication and exploitation of south american camelids: methods of analysis and their application to circum-lacustrine archaeological sites in Bolvia and Perú. Ph.D. dissertation. Washington University, St. Louis.

·  Textual quotations have to go between quotation marks and, in case of being longer than five lines they have to be detached by a blank line on the top and the bottom
· Radiometric datings and years have to be expressed on years BP (AP, in Spanish), followed by the realistic error (+-), and the Lab code (between brackets). Dated materials should be detailed (wood, charcoal, etc.). In the case of calibrated dates, they have to be preceded by Cal. A.C. (B.C, in Spanish) or Cal. d.C. (A.D., in Spanish).
·  Endnotes go in the end of the text.
·  Figures will be printed on grey scale, but could be sent on full colors, to be included in the electronic version of the papers, which will be published in academic indexes.

Manuscripts should be sent in electronic version to revistacomechingonia@gmail.com or by post-mail to the Comité Editorial de Comechingonia. Revista de Arqueología, to the following address: Miguel C. del Corro 308 (5000), ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina.