1. General: The Editors will welcome contributions from all parts of the World. All authors must sign the "Transfer of Copyright" agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY & ARCHAEOMETRY to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, but does not relinquish the author's proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprint, photographic reproductions, microform or any other reproductions of similar nature and translations, and includes the right to adapt the article for use in conjunction with computer systems and programs, including reproduction of publication in machine-readable form and incorporation in retrieval systems. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any figures for which copyright exists. Authors may use photos and figures of their own work published in MAA without prior consent of the editor.

2. Papers submitted for publication will be refereed and assessed on the basis of the aims of the Journal as stated in "About MAA". They are subject to a minimum of two external peer reviews.

3. Manuscripts must be written in English, and should be checked by a native speaker for spelling and grammar if possible. Extended abstracts in Greek on each contribution will be provided. The type of articles fall within the following categories:

i. Research Papers are considered presentations of fully documented and interpreted significant findings (no more than 20 double-spaced -12 point- pages, including tables, figures, which should be kept to a minimum).

ii. Research Notes are considered presentations of preliminary but significant findings of work in progress for which full documentation is not yet available; or presentations of significant findings or brief studies (max of 12 pages).

iii. Technical papers are contributions that describe and interpret the results of original investigations (max of 12 pages).

iv. State-of-the-Art Reviews on specific subject areas and Presentations of Excavation Reports containing archaeometric issues, are published periodically. Those who wish to submit such articles should contact the Editors before preparing the manuscript (max of 30 pages).

v. A Discussion should focus on the published paper introducing new material that is required to clearly establish the writer's point (max of 4 pages).

4. Manuscript Submission and Review: Manuscripts sent to the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (MAA) are acknowledged immediately and, if their scope and quality seem appropriate, forwarded to at least two referees for peer review. Papers are normally published in order of the acceptance in final form, without preference for particular regions, periods, or topics.
Submission of an article can ONLY be made via electronic procedure: send an e-mail to MAA (maa_journal@rhodes.aegean.gr) and choose the Editor-in-Chief or an Editor for the handling of your article. Submission should be accompanied with a cover letter confirming that the manuscript has not been published in part or in full elsewhere and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

5. Manuscript Format: Manuscript must be typewritten, double-spaced, with a font size of 12 points and wide margins on one side of A4 (see issues online as uploaded pdf). All pages must be numbered. A cover page should be included, with the authors names and their affiliations. The corresponding author should be identified (include a fax number and e-mail address). Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors.

All manuscripts should be carefully edited to eliminate redundancy. All abbreviated terms should be explained on first occurrence.

Manuscripts should begin with an Abstract of up to 200 words that contains concise factual information on objectives, methods, results, and conclusions. Opinions, obscure terms, and jargon should be avoided. Key Word Index should follow, including a maximum of 6 Keywords. Avoid words that are referred in title. The body of the text should begin with a statement of the objectives of the work. It should include citations of published related work and sections on Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions of the study. An Acknowledgement section may follow the Conclusions.

6. References: A list of the cited references in alphabetical order started by the surname of the first author must be included at the end of the manuscript, and each reference includes the names of all contributing authors. In the text refer to the author name without initials and the year of publication. If the same author(s) is cited in more than one publication in the same year, lower case letter (a, b, c...) are appended to the year in the first and succeeding citations. For three or more authors use the first author followed by 'et al.', in the text. Footnotes at the end of each page and/or at the reference list are not allowed. 

References should be given as in the following examples, for books, articles in journals, papers in contributed volume or proceedings of conferences and reports:

 Only written papers that have been published in the literature should be referenced. If necessary to reference an unpublished work, follow the next example:

 For online citations (web sites) date of access should be included.

7. Tables, Photos and Figures: Tabular or graphical data should be adequately discussed in the text. In particular, similar data should not be presented in both figures and tables. List of tables and figure captions should be listed separately on a single sheet.

Tables are to be concise and contain only the information essential to the text. Columns containing few entries or full columns of data that vary only slightly should be avoided. Judicious use of table footnotes can greatly simplify the presentation.

Graphs should be used to support correlations or illustrate points made in the text, not merely to present data. Legends identifying curves should be contained within the graphs, not in the captions. Graphs and line drawings should be drawn carefully and must be large enough for clarity. All graphs and figures should be of sufficient quality (300dpi) to ensure that they are legible when reduced to a column width of 75 mm (3 in.). Dot matrix or impact computer printouts using fabric ribbons or tracings are unacceptable.

Submission of photographs should be limited to those essential to an adequate understanding of the text. When necessary, photographs should be sharp, glossy, black-and-white prints identified on the back with a felt-tip pen.

Figures, photos and tables should be incorporated into the main body of the text.

8. Units: All data in the text, figures and tables must be reported in metric notation and International System of Units (SI) nomenclature. Conversion of any non-metric data will be requested from the author before publication. Use negative indices rather than / and leave space between symbols, e.g. ms-1 not ms-1 or m/s. English units may follow the metric quantities in parentheses.

9. Equations: Equations and formulas should be numbered separately and sequentially throughout the text. All variables and special symbols, such as Greek letters, must be clearly identified and explained, including units when appropriate.

10. Nomenclature should conform to that most frequently used in the archaeological sciences field concerned.

11. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding for checking. Corrections to the proofs must be restricted to printer's errors. Any substantial alterations other than these may be charged to the author. Authors are particularly requested to return their corrected proofs as quickly as possible in order to facilitate rapid publication. Please note that authors are urged to check their proofs carefully before return, since late corrections cannot be guaranteed for inclusion in the printed journal. Re-prints and copies of the issue (at a specially reduced rate) can be ordered on the form. The corresponding author will receive a .pdf file of his/her paper and a free copy of the journal.

12.Swift publication & Pre-Publication. Normally the processing time for each paper is within 3 months at the latest. Rapid publication is made only after author's request to have a swift peer review processing within 15 days. In this case upon acceptance and proof read the pdf of the paper is showed as Early View to the web site prior to publication in the immediate next issue at the author's expense due to increased page numbers of the issue (see 14 below).

13. The original manuscript and diagrams will be discarded 1 month after publication, unless the Publisher is requested to return original materials to the author.

14. Publication Costs. Publication of an article is free of charges. Two cases for -optional fees- charges are considered: i) when photos/diagrams in color have to appear also at printed volume(s) with a cost of 100 euros per coloured page and 2) for rapid publications of accepted and finalized articles with fees amounting in 300 euros per article. For those interested in one of the above cases please contact directly to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. I. Liritzis (liritzis[at]rhodes.aegean.gr).

15. Copyright Notice
The journal publishes original papers which should comprise previously unpublished data, interpretation or syntheses concerning all aspects of science and technology for mediterranean archaeology and archaeometry. The editors will not consider manuscripts which are under consideration by other publishers. It is assumed that once you have submitted an article to this journal, it will not be sent to other publishers until a decision about inclusion has been made.