How to submit

Send your submissions to nspencer@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Please send your submission to us by email as a word document.

Please include full contact details so we can contact you with queries about your article. Please also supply an email address which will be published with the article, so readers can contact the author(s).

It is your responsibility to check files are intact and not corrupted or infected with viruses.

The reviewing process

We will review your paper and give a verdict within one month.

To maintain a speedy process, we will try to review papers internally within the department or the British Museum. Where the necessary expertise cannot be found in house, a suitable reviewer will be found outside the Museum. This may mean that it takes a little longer to obtain the verdict.

There are three possible verdicts:

Accept as is, perhaps with minor changes to English
Accept with minor changes such as the addition of certain references
Reject, where more substantive changes are needed. We may suggest you resubmit

If your paper is accepted, you will have to make the changes outlined in the verdict and we will inform you of the likely publication date.

Format of documents

Although it will be published online, please do not send your document as a PDF or in html and please keep formatting to a minimum. If any content needs to be arranged in a specific format, such as a complex table or chart, please send a paper copy of how it should appear to BMSAES, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

Please note the following guidelines:

Diacritics

Please use the so-called Manuel de Codage system. This system is explained in J. Buurman, N. Grimal, M. Hainsworth, D. van de Plas, Manuel de codage des textes hieroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie sur ordinateur (Informatique et Egyptologie 2, Paris 1985, and subsequent updates).

Hieroglyphs

Use only if absolutely necessary, and include a paper copy with the Gardiner sign list numbers and the arrangement of the signs, or else autograph the text and it will be used as an image.

Format of references

References should appear in footnotes, in an abbreviated format, with the full reference appearing in the bibliography at the end of the article. You must compile the bibliography yourself.

Articles in journals:

Smoláriková, K., ‘Recent identification of Greek imports from Kom Firin’, JEA 92 (2006), 263–7. [Cite in footnote as Smoláriková, JEA 92: 265].

Articles in edited volumes:

Kuper, R., ‘Routes and Roots in Egypt’s Western Desert. The Early Holocene Resettlement of the Eastern Sahara’, in Friedman, R. (ed.), Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert, London: The British Museum Press, 2002, 1–12. [Cite in footnote as Kuper in Friedman, Gifts of the Desert, 7].

Books:

Welsby, D. A., The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims along the Middle Nile. London: The British Museum, 2002. [Cite in footnotes as Welsby, Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia, 34].

Series:

Demarée, R. J. The Bankes late Ramesside Papyri. British Museum Research Publication 155. London: The British Museum, 2005. [Cite in footnote as Demarée, Bankes late Ramesside Papyri, 15].

References to electronic publications should follow the same broad format, giving the conventional reference and the URL. For some guidance, see, for example, pages on the site of Internet Archaeology or the Modern Language Association.

Lengthy discursive footnotes should be avoided and the data either incorporated in the body of the article or given as an appendix.

Use of images

You may submit line, greyscale or colour images to accompany your article. For computer-generated images, please send a copy of the original file, clearly specifying the format (e.g. JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop) and the program used (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator etc). A printout of the image will be helpful to ensure its final appearance is correct. Please send reasonably high-resolution images, as they can then be adapted for both web and print purposes.

To save sending us original drawings, photographs, or slides/transparencies, it would help if you could scan them yourselves. However, if you are not able to do this, we will scan them for you.

You may include as many illustrations as you want, but please ensure they are all highly relevant to your article.

Abstract and key words

Please provide an abstract of up to 150 words of the article. This will be what readers will first see of the article; it will also be included in the Annual Egyptological Bibliography. Please provide a list of keywords for use in future indexes.

We may modify abstracts and keywords if necessary. All queries should be addressed to Neal Spencer, email nspencer@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Corrections

Once a paper has been published, to maintain academic integrity no changes can be made to the original file. We will, however, be happy to publish corrections or additions.

Looted material

We will not publish an article about material which may be considered as looted.

Copyright

It is your responsibility to ensure that you have all the necessary permissions to publish material submitted to BMSAES. In particular, please check that these permissions include online publication. We are unable to obtain copyright on your behalf.

Format of the published paper

Papers will be made available as PDF files, as this format allows greater control over text formatting, and files will print as they appear on screen. PDF files can be viewed with Adobe Reader. You can download the latest free version of Adobe Reader from http://www.adobe.com/.

If your article contains images, we will produce two versions, a high resolution print version and a low resolution version suitable for web. You can include hyperlinks within PDF files.