Submissions

Author Guidelines

Important information:

- You must always submit two versions of the article: one full (file named "full version"), and another without the data concerning the authorship, in order to be sent to the reviewers (file named "blind version").

Original manuscript:

- Language – manuscripts can be written in Portuguese and variants. The specific Orthographic Agreement used (pre-1990 or 1990) should be indicated.

- In addition to Portuguese, manuscripts in Spanish, French, English and Italian will be accepted.

- Maximum of 15.000 words (document in Word format or equivalent, with the extensions .doc or .docx) written in Times New Roman font, size 12, single-spaced and paragraphs not indented. The number of words refers to the body of text, complete with figure captions, citations and bibliographical references.

- The top and bottom margins of the pages should be 2.5 cm; side margins should be 3 cm.

1. Structure.

- Article title (in the original language and in English)

- Authors – indication of author´s names and contact details - e-mail, orcid code and institutional affiliation;

- Abstract (max. 150 words) – in the original language and in English;

- Keywords (total of 5) - in the original language and in English;

- Reference to financial or logistical support/project should be included as a note.

- Acknowledgments may be included at the end of the text, before the bibliography.

2. Quotes:

- Text quotes must be indicated through the use of quotation marks, not italics, bold or underlined, except in cases where the original text already has some type of highlighting.

3. Use of italic:

- Italics should be used to highlight terms, phrases or foreignisms (like Latinisms), not bold or underlined. Italics should also be used for book titles, films, newspapers, journals, etc., but not for article titles, according to the bibliographical references conventions.

4. Illustrations: 

- Authors should indicate, in the text, the place for each illustration, which will appear after the text to which it refers.

- The manuscript can be illustrated with up to 15 figures.

- Figures must be delivered in .tiff or .jpg format, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. The file's original width shall not be less than 15 cm.

- The illustrations can be in color (landscapes and materials) or black and white (drawings of artifacts).

- Drawings, pictures, photographs and graphics should be numbered sequentially (fig. 1, fig. 2, ...), and referenced in the text accordingly.

- Figures of artifacts and structures must include an appropriate graphic scale.

- Figures must be delivered in separate files, clearly individualized, and numbered sequentially.

- In an independent Word file, the following information should be included for each image:

1. Name of the attached file;
2. Figure caption;
3. Author / Provenance (it should be mentioned especially if it is not by one of the authors of the article);

5. References:

- Ophiussa uses the following bibliographic citation system: author date: page (examples: Marques 1973: 24; Silva - Carvalho 2003: 356; Oliveira - Nunes - Santos 2014: 37; Rodrigues et al. 1990: 14).

- There should be no footnotes. Exceptionally, small additional information can be included at the end of the text (e.g. acknowledgments), numbered sequentially with exponent numbers.

- The bibliography should refer exclusively to works cited in the text.

- The titles of journals should not be abridged.

- When the authorship of the cited work is shared by up to three authors, all will be referenced in the body of the text.

- When more than three authors share the authorship of the cited work, the name of the first one will be followed by the expression [et al.] in the body of the text. In the bibliography, the names of all authors will be indicated.

- If the bibliographical references include several works of the same authors published in the same year, a letter should be added to the year of publication (2007a, 2007b, ...).

- Abbreviations may be used in the text, provided they are extended in the list of bibliographic references.

- Spanish authors should be referred to by the first surname. Example:

 BERROCAL RANGEL, L. (1994) – El altar prerromano del Castrejón de Capote: ensayo etno-arqueológico de un ritual céltico en el Suroeste peninsular. Madrid.

- Titles of articles and monographs should be separated from the respective sub-titles by two points, except if other punctuation marks were used. Example:

COSTA, F. A. P. (1865) – Da existência do homem em épocas remotas no valle do Tejo: notícia sobre os esqueletos humanos descobertos no Cabeço da Arruda. Lisboa.

- Scientific coordinators and editors may be referred to as authors in case they appear highlighted on the title page; adding to the name (ed.), or (eds.) in the case of more than one editor or coordinator. Example:

JIMÉNEZ ÁVILA, J. - ORTEGA BLANCO, J. (2008) – El poblamiento en llano del Guadiana Medio durante el período post-orientalizante. In JIMÉNEZ ÁVILA, J. (ed.) - Sidereum Ana I: el rio Guadiana en época post-orientalizante. Mérida (Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología, XLVI): 251-281.

- Examples:

1. Books:

GONÇALVES, V. S. (1989) - Megalitismo e metalurgia no Alto Algarve Oriental: uma aproximação integrada. Lisboa, 2 vols.

2. Book chapter:

FABIÃO, C. - CARVALHO, A. (1990) - Ânforas da Lusitânia: uma perspectiva. In ALARCÃO, A. - MAYET, F. (dir.) - As Ânforas Lusitanas. Tipologia, produção e comércio. Conimbriga/Paris: 37-63.

3. Book chapter with indication of editors or scientific coordinators:

VIEGAS, C. - ARRUDA, A. M. (2014) – A cerâmica de cozinha africana e as suas imitações em Monte Molião (Lagos, Portugal). In MORAIS, R. - FERNANDEZ, A. - SOUSA, M. J. (eds.) – As produções cerâmicas de imitação na Hispania. Porto (Col. Monografias Ex Officina Hispana, 2.): 249-260.

4. Journal articles:

CARDOSO, J. L. (1999-2000) – Georges Zbyszweski (1909-1999). Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras, 8: 9-20.

5. Journal articles with indication of volume and number:

VIANA, A. - FORMOSINHO, J. - FERREIRA, O. V. (1952) – Alguns objectos inéditos do Museu Regional de Lagos. Monte Molião. Revista de Guimarães, 62 (1-2): 133-142.

6. Presentation of Radiocarbon dates: 

- Ophiussa adopts, with some amendments, the rules contained in the proposal on radiocarbon dates approved at the 1º Congresso de Arqueologia (Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia (1995) Porto, 35 (2): 512):

- Conventional radiocarbon dates will be expressed in BP (Before Present) years; the subtraction of 1950 from the conventional date is strongly discouraged;

- The publication of absolute dates must be always accompanied by the laboratory reference;

All original dating, not referred to previously published work, should include the following elements:

- The program and the calibration curve used must always be mentioned and duly identified;

- In the text, in references to calibrated dates, it should be indicated if the interval corresponds to 1 or 2 sigma. Consistency in the choice is advised, and situations where this is not respected should be taken into account;

- Calibrated radiocarbon dates shall be accompanied by the symbols cal BC (Before Christ), cal AD (Anno Domini), cal BP (Before Present), cal BCE (Before Common Era) and/or cal CE (Common Era); internal consistency should be maintained for the chosen solution;

- In citing dates resulting from the application of other methods, the same elements required for the reference of radiocarbon dates (laboratory, date of the date, date obtained and margins of error) must be indicated, followed by the acronyms that usually identify the respective method (TL/U/Th, etc.).

- The reference to large chronological periods (example: 3^rd millennium, 4^th century, third quarter of the 2^ndcentury, etc.), which are not expressly reported to any specific date of radiocarbon, or those that perform the synthesis of dates obtained by different methods, may follow the traditional system BC (before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) or the optional BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era), without the expression "cal."; once more, we advise internal coherence for the chosen solution.

7. Numerals and units of measurement:

- A space must be left between the numerals and the units of measurement, which will always be reproduced in lowercase letters. Examples: 5,8 m; 13,2 cm; 150 km; 2,6 kg; 50 l.

- The respective sign must be used instead of the full name (e.g. 50% instead of 50 percent).

- Ordinal and cardinal numerals (when not followed by units of measurement) shall be written out from one to ten (inclusive), and by numerals from the next number onwards.

- In articles written in english, the reference to large chronological periods must appear in Arabic numerals (example: 3^rdmillennium, 4^th century, 3^rd quarter of the 2^nd century, etc.).

- Decades and years should be written in numerical form (ex: 1250 and not one thousand two hundred and fifty, 1980's and not 80's, or eighties). Century/centuries should be written without abbreviation (e.g. 13^th century and not 13^th cent.).

8. Proofs:

- Any alterations will use the features available in Word or Adobe Acrobat Pro, or similar, compatible programs.

- Substantial changes to the original text will not be allowed.

- Articles are subject to a single proof review.