Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission guidelines

Contributions submitted to Trabajos de Egiptología – Papers on Ancient Egypt must follow the guidelines specified in the following paragraphs.

Manuscripts may be written in English, French or German. They should include an abstract and a brief list of key-words written in the same language of the article.

Illustrations will be reproduced in black and white in the printed edition and in colour in the digital version. They must be labelled. Photographs and line drawings must have enough quality for their publication (minimum 300 ppp). It is the responsibility of the author to obtain all copyright permissions. The Editorial Board is not responsible for the consequences of failing to meet this requirement.

For the style of references, notes, abbreviations and bibliography, the formats suggested by the journal must be followed (see the TdE Style Guidelines in the next section).

The authors should submit their manuscripts through this OJS application, including their complete contact details: academic position, institution, and e-mail address. Authors will receive, as soon as possible, an email acknowledging the reception of their manuscripts.

Style guidelines

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Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word compatible format. The author should use Word file formats and a 12-points Times New Roman font; manuscripts should be typed with single-line spacing and left-justified. Use the indentation default for Word and do not add extra spaces between paragraphs (unless before and after the subsections of the article).
Please keep all formatting of your text to a minimum, except for those changes necessary regarding the use of Transliteration, Greek and Coptic fonts. Note that small capitals should not be used in the manuscript, except in the bibliography.
Introductory paragraphs should not be set under the heading “Introduction”. Do not number the Conclusions’ section either. For more than three levels of subheadings, the following format should be used: 1.2.1.a), 1.2.1.b), 1.2.1.c).
The use of hyphens and quotation marks (“x”, « x », „x”) should follow the conventions of the language in which the article is written.

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Use footnotes for the text (rather than in-text or parenthetical citations) and provide the full corresponding bibliographic references in a Bibliography at the end of your article. Number all footnotes consecutively, beginning with 1, and use the default mode Word (superscript); footnotes must be placed after any punctuation mark (they will precede punctuation marks in contributions written in Spanish or French). The text of the footnotes must be set in 10-point Times New Roman type, simple-spaced and left-justified.
The following formatting must be always used for footnotes: author date: page(s). “Ibidem” or “op. cit.” may not be used. Look at the examples:

1 Parkinson 1997: 16–17.
2 Bonhême and Forgeau 1995: 45.
3 Belmonte, Shaltout and Fekri 2005: pl. 3.
4 Goyon et alii 2004: 65. [In case of more than three authors, all authors should be cited within the Bibliography]

If several works are cited in a footnote, the order should be from the earliest to the latest reference, separating them by semicolons: Parkinson 1999; Ryholt 2000; Hagen 2010.

If several works of the same author are cited, do not repeat the name and separate the years by commas: Parkinson 1997, 2000, 2017; Vernus 2019; Parkinson 2020.

If the footnote refers to the whole article, indicate only author and year, without pages (these are cited in the bibliography). If it refers to a specific part of the article, indicate the page(s).

If the original edition is not used, indicate the edition as a superscript next to the date.

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Bibliographical references must be listed alphabetically at the end of the article. If there are several works by the same author(s), do not include the author(s) name in every bibliographic entry and sort the titles from the oldest to the latest one. Use lower case letters (a, b, c…), to distinguish the same-year entries of an author: 2013a; 2013b; etc.
Place of publication should be written in its original language; if several places are listed, separate them with comas, for instance: London, New York.
In articles published in English, all the words of the title, except prepositions and articles, are written with initial capital letter.

The following formatting should be used for the bibliographic entries:

· Book:

Bonhème, Marie-Ange; Forgeau, Annie 1988: Pharaon. Les secrets du pouvoir. Paris.

If the book corresponds to a re-edition, the edition used by the author should be cited at the end and between parentheses:

Gardiner, Alan 1957: Egyptian Grammar. Being an Introduc­tion to the Study of Hieroglyphs. Oxford (3rd rev. ed.).

If the book is part of a series, the series name should be added in italics and within parentheses after the book’s title; for the series number use Roman numerals. The abbreviations common to academic Egyptology will be used in the titles of the collections: for example, those of LÄ:
Labrousse, Audran; Lauer, Jean-Philippe; Leclant, Jean 1977: Le temple haut du complexe funéraire du roi Ounas (BibEtud 73). Le Caire.

If the book comprises several volumes, the number of the volume is mentioned at the end:
Osing, Jürgen; Rosati, Gloria 1998: Papiri geroglifici e ieratici da Tebtynis. Firenze. 2 vols.

If the edition used corresponds to the translation of a book/article, the publication date in the original language should be indicated between square brackets:

Hornung, Erik 1999 [1997]: The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife. Ithaca, London.

· Chapter in a multi-authored book (with editor):

Bard, Kathryn 1992: “Origins of Egyptian Writing”, in: Renée Friedman and Barbara Adams (eds.): The Followers of Horus. Studies dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman, Oxford: 297–306.

Chaves Tristán, Francisca; Bandera, M.ª Luisa de la 1984: “Avance sobre el yacimiento arqueológico de Montemolín (Marchena, Sevilla)”, in: T.F.C. Blagg, R.F. Jones and S.J. Keay (eds.): Papers in Iberian Archaeology (BAR International Series 193), Oxford: 141–157.

· If the multi-authored book is divided into several volumes:
Roth, Ann Macy 2002: “The Usurpation of Hem-Re: an Old Kingdom ‘Sex-change Operation’”, in: Mamdouh Eldamaty and May Trad (eds.): Egyptian Museum Collections around the World, Cairo: vol. 2, 1011–1023.

· Journal article:

Abbreviations common to academic Egyptology will be used in journal titles: for example, those of LÄ.
Säve-Soderbergh, Torgny 1949: “Buhen Stela of the Second Intermediate Period”, JEA 35: 54–61.

If the journal divides its numbers into several issues, these will be indicated after a slash, leaving spaces before and after it:
Whitcomb, Donald 1996: “Quseir Al-Qadim and the location of Myos Hormos”, Topoi 6 / 2: 747–772.

· Doctoral dissertation:

Tooley, Angela 1989: Middle Kingdom Burial Customs. A Study of Wooden Models and Related Materials. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Liverpool.

· Encyclopaedia entry:

Griffiths, J. Gwyn 1982: s.v. “Osiris”, in: W. Helck and W. Westendorf (eds.): LÄ, Wiesbaden: vol. IV, 623–633.

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Use quotation marks for direct quotations. If the quote exceeds 4 lines, the quote should be included as an independent text, without quotation marks and using Times New Roman, font size 11.

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Centuries and ancient Egyptian dynasties are always spelled out; while dynasties are capitalized, centuries are not, e.g. “Sixth Dynasty” and “tenth century BC/BCE”.

Unicode and Non-Roman Fonts

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For Hieroglyphic texts use one of the following programs: Visualglyph© or JSesh©. Signs not included in these should be submitted as a separate artwork/file in addition to the “in text” placement.

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Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian texts should be provided using the CCER font, available from: https://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/aegy_anoa/utilities/font_transliteration/view.
Transliteration of Semitic and other languages should be supplied along with the manuscript.

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Hieratic and Demotic passages should be submitted as a separate artwork/file in addition to the “in text” placement.

Figures and tables

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Images and tables should be provided as separate, electronic files in jpg or .tiff formats. Photographs and line drawings should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. All illustrations and tables must be referred to in the main body of the text, with such phrases as (fig. 1) or (table 1).

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Tables should be sent in Word files..

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Captions should be provided as a separate .doc file and contain a short description of the image or table. This description should be headed by such phrases as “Figure 1.” or “Table 1.”.

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It is the author’s responsibility to obtain all copyright permissions. The Editorial Board is not responsible for the consequences of failing to meet this requirement. The source or author of the figures, photographs and tables must be indicated. Many museums are currently demanding that the name of the photographer should be also included.