The following instructions for the Antiquity online submission site are organised in question-and-answer format. You can read through the questions in order, or click on any of these questions to jump directly to the answer. When you're ready to continue, go back to the home page.
Please note: these instructions do not replace the official Antiquity Instructions for Authors. Please refer to these instructions for overall guidelines on submitting a paper and supplying publication-quality images.
Getting started
Entering a submission
Getting help
If you have never submitted to Antiquity electronically before, you must first register for an account. To register, you will fill out a profile form telling us who you are and how to contact you. The information you supply here will also be filled in for you when you begin submitting a paper. You can change any of this information at any time in the future by clicking the "Update my registration information" link on the submission home page.
You will need to choose a username and password. Try to pick a password that you will not forget but that is not easy to guess. Combinations of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers and punctuation marks are best (passwords are case-sensitive: capital letters must be entered as capitals, and so on). You can also change your password in the future, and if you ever forget your username and/or password, you can request a reminder via email by clicking on the link provided on the submission home page.
Finally, please be sure you enter an email address that you can use to handle Antiquity business. All correspondence regarding your submissions will be sent to the address you enter, so use an email account that you check frequently, and take special care to enter the address correctly.
Back to contents
If you have registered, and you are ready to submit a paper, you can click on the "Start a new submission or resubmit" link on the home page to start the submission process. To submit your manuscript, you will fill out four screens of information, including submitting the file or files comprising your submission; the process is reasonably self-explanatory, and detailed help is provided along the way.
Before you begin submitting, you should have the following items ready: IMPORTANT: do not include the cover letter in the body of the manuscript!
They should be entered in the online form using the spaces provided.
A resubmission is a manuscript that has previously been submitted to Antiquity, reviewed and declined but the Editor has indicated that he would consider a resubmission. Resubmitted manuscripts are submitted exactly like new submissions, except that you will need to enter the ANT manuscript number that was assigned to the previous version. This number is of the form ANT2010/0001. If the previous version was also submitted electronically, the manuscript information is also filled in for you so you do not need to retype it (although you can make changes).
Please note that the submission must be resubmitted in full. Include all figures, even if they have not changed from the original submission.
Please do not use the "Start a New submission or Resubmit" option if you are submitting revisions to a provisionally accepted paper. You will have been notified by email as to how to proceed.
Wherever possible you are required to submit the text, tables and figures as a single Adobe Acrobat PDF file. For more information on the Adobe Acrobat application program go to Adobe's web site.
You may also submit supplemental data. See below for details.
If your paper is accepted, you will be asked to provide separate high-resolution, publication-quality graphics, in TIFF or EPS format, for print and online publication. It is therefore best for the initial submission to create any graphics using applications that are capable of preparing acceptable TIFF or EPS formats.
To create a PDF file, you will need the commercial product Adobe Acrobat (not to be confused with the free Acrobat Reader product, which only allows you to read PDF files). The software can be purchased at most computer stores or directly from Adobe, and includes detailed instructions on producing PDFs.
5 easy steps for submitting a PDF:
If you cannot submit your manuscript as a PDF file, you may submit separate text and graphics files online. Our preferred format is Microsoft Word. If you are unable to provide this format please contact the Editorial Office (assistant@antiquity.ac.uk) for advice. You may format text however you need to but do not embed figures in the text.
We will accept only graphics provided in the following formats: TIFF, EPS, GIF, JPEG, BMP, Excel, PowerPoint and CorelDraw.
For graphics, we cannot accept graphics created by certain application programs such as Microsoft Office (Word, Access), Corel Perfect Office (WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Presentations), Lotus SmartSuite (Freelance Graphics, 1-2-3, Approach, WordPro) and SigmaPlot. These programs are not intended for high resolution imaging necessary for publication. Also note that files should not be compressed: do not use WinZip, Stuffit, or any similar compression programs.
The Microsoft Word and graphics files you provide will be converted into a PDF file by the Antiquity Editorial Office.
When you are resubmitting a paper, respond to specific comments from previous reviews in the covering letter. Do not include this information in the body of your manuscript.
Currently we can accept movies (QT, MOV, AVI, SWF, MPEG, WMV), animated gif files, MS Word tables, MS Excel spreadsheets or further figures as supplemental data. These data will be reviewed as a part of the normal manuscript review process and will be judged by the same criteria.
Your manuscript will go directly into our tracking system for consideration by the Editor.
You will find detailed help links throughout the submission process, and you can use any of these links without stopping the submission. In case you are having more serious problems, you will also find a link on every page allowing you to send feedback directly to the Editorial Office staff. If you send a problem report from this page, we will make every effort to respond as soon as possible.