JOURNAL OF MOSAIC RESEARCH

Guidelines for Authors - 2008

THE SUBJECT

The JMR ( Journal of Mosaic Research) is an international journal on mosaics, annually published by the Uludağ University Mosaic Research Centre. Its remit covers manuscripts about floor, wall and ceiling mosaics.  The aim of this journal is to serve as a forum for scientific studies with critical analysis, interpretation and synthesis of mosaics and related subjects.

Contributions should be sent to the Editor:

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Şahin

Uludağ Üniversitesi

Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi

Arkeoloji Bölümü

16059 – Görükle / Bursa

TÜRKİYE

EDITORIAL POLICIES

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are in charge of the scientific content and other editorial matters relating to the journal. The JMR is intended to be read by archaeologists, classicists, historians, epigraphers, scientists, heritage management specialists, restorers, conservators and others concerned with mosaics found around the world. In addition to analyses of archaeological data from excavations, surveys, and laboratory research, the JMR publishes technical and methodological studies of general significance and reviews articles that appeal to a wide professional readership. The JMR also publishes book reviews, brief articles, etc.

Articles should not be sent simultaneously to the JMR and to another publication. JMR does not accept translations of articles that have already been published elsewhere. Contributors should be aware that the JMR retains the copyright for materials appearing within its pages.

ABSTRACT AND KEYWORDS

The manuscripts can be written in English, German or French. Two short abstracts (in English and Turkish) must identify the site or culture concerned, its time period and location, and summarize the thesis and conclusions of the article. The abstract must be capable of standing alone and so may contain no text or figure references, no bibliographic citations, and no footnotes. If there must be a reference to another publication, the complete citation must appear in the abstract.

Six key words must be provided under the line of the abstract. Keywords should be given in both languages (English and Turkish) if the article was not written in English.  All papers will be subject to a refereeing process, and may be discussed at meetings of Editorial Board. Detailed comments from referees are normally forwarded to the author, anonymously, by the Editor and if necessary, the authors may be invited to revise their manuscripts.

WRITING STANDARTS

The manuscripts should be typed on one side of their pages in double spacing. The title page of the paper should contain the title, the author(s) name, the keywords, an abstract and the author(s) address(es) in a footnote. Manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages of text and 15 pages of illustrations and tables in the research articles. The text must be in a 12-point typeface of the Times font family and double-spaced throughout, from the first line of the title through to the last line of the figure captions. Margins on both sides and at the top and bottom of each page should measure at least 3 cm.

Footnotes must be at the bottom of the page. They have to be written single-spaced and 10 points in font family Times.

The digital text should be in a format that can be processed in Microsoft Word. Figures for review purposes should be provided as tiff files at a resolution sufficient to retain the information in the illustration: 300 dpi for photographs and 600 dpi for line art is usually suitable. The names for the figure files should begin with the author’s last name, e.g., Akurgal_01.tiff, Akurgal_02.tiff, Akurgal_03.tiff, etc.

The texts should be sent in a CD with a printed copy of the original text.

Dates before Christ (also ''before the common era'') should be written as ''B.C.'' following the actual year (e.g., 255 B.C.). Historical dates after Christ (in the Common Era) should be written with ''A.D.'' preceding the year (e.g., A.D. 1071); alternatively write ''7th century A.D.''

Use abbreviations for dimensions, distances, weights, and measures but not with general statements such as "a few meters above the floodplain." Examples of abbreviations are "7 m", "0.3 m", "5 cu m", "and 70 m asl “,” 300 km “,” 8 sq km “,” 1 sq m, 500 g". If multiple dimensions are given, write "15 × 30 m." Write "D" for "diameter" in parentheses (D. 24 cm). Do the same for "L", "W" etc.

References and Citations

The bibliography must contain an entry for each work cited in the text and only works cited in the text are to appear in the bibliography.

A reference within the text takes the form of a parenthetical citation. For example, "(Dunbabin 2002: 181-183)". All quotations must have specific page citations.

The use of "et al." is restricted to text citations of works for which there are more than three authors. Otherwise, all authors must be listed in the bibliographic entry "(Akurgal et al. 1984: 80)".

An example of a text reference to a figure or table in another published work is "(Akurgal 1996: fig. 5, table 7)." When referring to figures and tables in the present manuscript, use "Figure" and "Table" in the text and captions; in parentheses use "(Fig. 3)" and "(Table 1)." For figures with separate parts, use lower case letters in the text and upper case letters when the reference is enclosed in parentheses. For example, "Figure 7a" "(Fig. 10A)."

If a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the text citation is "(Jobst in press)." The bibliographic entry should put "in press" where the year would normally appear and name the publisher.

References in the text to reprints of older works should be cited in this manner: "(Vitruvius 1964 [27 B.C.]: 381)."

Full citations, including the names of all of the authors, complete titles, and page numbers for articles or chapters, are to appear in a bibliography at the end of the text, alphabetized by the first author’s last name. Include publishers and place of publication for books and monographs. Authors' names should be given as they appear on the work being cited; avoid reducing first names to initials. The bibliography should be typed as in the following examples, but not double-spaced.

Figures and Tables

Figures

1. The word "Figure" is used to refer to all line drawings, photographs, maps, charts, and graphs that accompany an article. Every illustration is to be given a figure number. Every figure must be referred to in the text, and initial references to them must be in numerical sequence ("1, 2, 3," not "1, 3, 2").

2. If a map is necessary, Figure 1 should be a map locating the site or study area within its wider geographical context. The JMR has an international readership that needs to be kept in mind when designing Figure 1. Field reports should include at least one photograph that depicts the terrain and environment of the site or study area.

3. A simple graphic scale, when necessary, should appear in the image area of the figures; do not give scales such as "3×" or "1:50.000" in the captions. Should a figure showing artifacts lack a scale in the photograph, writing "The pot on the left is 21 cm tall" in the caption is fine.

4. The list of captions should be typed in upper and lower case letters, double-spaced, all lines justified left, and the word "Figure" should be the first word in each caption. For example,

Figure 1. Map of the Weicker site and environs. Inset shows the location of the site in NW Mexico. Map by Patricia Parker.

Each component in such a figure should be referred to in the text but, as with figures, these may be combined, e.g., "(Fig. 6c-f)."

5. All drawings and photographs will be returned.

Figure Production

1. Photographs and line drawings must be of high quality or they will not be published.

2. For conventional photographs on film, prints made from the negatives should be provided, especially in the case of slides. Please do not submit slides or digitized versions of conventional photographs. Digital photographs should be taken at high resolution and saved in tiff-format. The JMR does not accept jpeg-files which is a file format designed for monitor display, not for print. Upon acceptance of the article for publication, digital photographs should be provided as a tiff or as a Photoshop application file, at 300 dpi.

3. Hand-drawn (pen and ink) line art prepared to professional standards is welcome and the original art should be provided. Please do not provide scans of line art; the pre-press requirements of our printer are rather stringent.

Line drawings prepared digitally must use a vector application such as Illustrator or Freehand, and not a bitmap program such as Photoshop or Surfer. Upon acceptance of your article, submit both the application file (unflattened, Illustrator or Freehand) and an unflattened eps file with all font information embedded. Our experience with pdf-files prepared by contributors has been disappointing and we suggest avoiding that file format. Lettering on line art should be of a size to allow reasonable reduction; the JMR reproduces letters no smaller than 1,5 mm in reduction.

Tables

1. Tabular material is time-consuming to typeset, so authors should make certain that tables are essential for their argument. Every table must be referred to in the text, in numerical sequence. Chronological charts, unless they are very simple, seldom work well as tables and should be prepared as figures with a vector application.

2. Tables are to be numbered separately from the figures. Table captions should be typed double-spaced, flush left, in upper and lower case letters, and appear at the top of the table.

3. All table columns must have headings with the first letter capitalized.

4. Footnotes in tables should avoid the use of numerals or letters as superscript. Instead, use the following sequence: asterisk, dagger, double-dagger, section mark, two asterisks, two daggers, etc.

5. When designing tables, authors should organize the rows and columns in ways that help the reader understand the data.

Book Reviews

Review Preparation

Reviews in the JMR should be max. 1500 words and are expected to be critical and analytical in order to place the book under review in context. Book reviews, normally solicited by the Editor, do not require all of the details of manuscript preparation involved for a research report. The manuscript for a book review should be double-spaced throughout. Any references should follow the system given below. Footnotes and illustrations should not be used.

Format

1. Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced throughout (from the first word to the last). Do not use single space or space and a half. The margins on both sides, top, and bottom should measure at least 2,5 cm. All manuscript copy, including references, is to be typed in upper and lower case letters. The use of all capitals is inappropriate.

2. Books being reviewed should be cited in the manner of the examples given below, followed by the reviewer’s name and full mailing address.

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World,

Katherine M.D. Dunbabin, 357 pages, 318 figures, 8 tables, 3 plates, 10 appendices, bibliography, index. Cambridge University Press, 2002. $40.50 paper. ISBN0-521-00230-3.

Offprint Policy

The JMR does not provide offprints. JMR sends two printed copies of the journal and the article in pdf-format at no charge to each author.