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PEER REVIEW PROCESS
OPEN ACCESS AND SELF-ARCHIVING POLICIES
CODE OF ETHICS

ach article must be submitted in both Word and PDF version. The text must be typed in Times New Roman. Figures, plates, and tables must be provided as separate files. In the PDF version, authors must indicate where they wish figures and tables to appear in the article. The text must be preceded by a summary. Acknowledgements, if any, should be placed at the end of the text, before the bibliographical references. After the bibliographical references, the full names of the authors, their affiliations and their e-mail addresses should be added, together with five keywords relevant to the article.

As a rule, SMEA NS publishes articles in English, but exceptionally articles in Italian, French, Spanish and German are also accepted. Authors who do not write in their own language are strongly recommended to have their articles checked by a native speaker before submitting them to the editorial board.

• Texts should be submitted by 31 December of the current year.

The summary of the article, of no more than 300 words, must be in Times New Roman, 11 pt.

The title of the article must be in capitals, Times New Roman, 14 pt.
Second-level headings must be in capitals, Times New Roman, 12 pt.
Third-level headings must be standard, Times New Roman, 12 pt.
Bibliography, catalogues, and acknowledgements must be in Times New Roman, 11 pt.
Footnotes must be in Times New Roman, 10 pt.

• Please, avoid footnotes as much as possible.

Preferably, bibliographical references should be cited within the text using the ‘Harvard’ style (author’s name, publication date, page, illustration). E.g.:

• Mountjoy 1997, 122, figs. 7.41, 42; Mountjoy, Mommsen 2006, 117.

Please, note that:

Two or more publications by the same author in the same year must be distinguished using ‘a’, ‘b’, etc. (e.g., 2004a; 2004b).

A semicolon must be used to separate years of publication by the same author (Mountjoy 1997; 2008) and to separate citations by different authors (Mountjoy 1997; Kanta 1980).

When citing works with more than three authors, the form Mountjoy et al. 1978 may be used, but the names of all authors must be given in the relevant entry in the bibliography at the end of the article.

Apart from those commonly used (ca., e.g., cf., et al., etc., n., nn., no., nos., fig., figg., figs., tav., tavv., pl., pls., ed., eds., vol., voll., vols., pers. comm.), abbreviations should be avoided as much as possible; abbreviations such as ibid., id., loc. cit., op. cit., should also be avoided.

Foreign words and short quotations should be italicised. Likewise, ancient words and technical terms should be italicised according to the usages of the individual disciplines.

Modern Greek personal names and place names cited in the text must be transliterated. Authors should pay attention in using the same transliterating system within the article. If in doubt, the following system should be followed:

For transliterating diphthongs and consonant combinations the following system might be used:

Quotation marks should be double “…”.
Dates in the text must be written in words (sixth century BC).
Numbers from one to nine should be written in words; numerals are used for 10 and higher.

All works cited must be listed at the end of the article in alphabetical order by author and, within this, in chronological order of publication under the heading “References” (Times New Roman, 11 pt).

• The list of bibliographical references must only include the works cited in the text.

Works with two or more authors must contain surnames separated by a comma. E.g.:

• Courtois J.-C., Webb J.M. 1987, Les cylindres-sceaux d’Enkomi (Fouilles française 1957-1970), Paris.

Abbreviations of periodicals and series must follow the American Journal of Archaeology (104, 2000, 3-24) and Orientalia (82, 2013, 1-4). In the case of periodicals or series not included in the above-mentioned journals, the titles should not be abbreviated.

Titles of works must be given in the original language and script (Greek, Cyrillic, etc.) or in an alphabet with diacritics and special letters as e.g. in Turkish. Authors’ names must be transcribed in Latin characters.

For the use of capital letters in titles, the spelling rules of the individual languages must be followed. In Italian titles, please keep the use of capital letters to a minimum.

Special abbreviations of ancient works, corpora, reference works, etc., used in the text must be listed before the bibliographical references under the heading “Abbreviations” (Times New Roman, 11 pt).

Some example of bibliographical references:

Russell J.M. 1997, From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpieces at Canford School, New York.

Reade J. 1972, The Neo-Assyrian Court and Army: Evidence from the Sculptures, Iraq 34, 87-112.

Bohrer F.N. 1994, The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum, in Sherman D.J., Rogoff I. (eds), Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, Minneapolis, 197-222.

Bailey D.M., Hockey M. 2001, ‘New’ Objects from British Museum Tomb 73 at Curium, in Tatton-Brown V. (ed.), Cyprus in the 19th Century AD. Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Papers of the 22nd British Museum Classical Colloquium, December 1998, Oxford, 109-133.

Efstratiou N., Karetsou A., Banou E.S., Margomenou D. 2004, The Neolithic settlement of Knossos: new light on an old picture, in Cadogan G., Hatzaki E., Vassilakis A. (eds), Knossos: Palace, City, State (BSA Studies 12), Athens, 39-49.

Tzonou-Herbst I. 2002, A Contextual Analysis of Mycenaean Terracotta Figurines, Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati.

Stockhammer P.W. 2008, Kontinuität und Wandel — Die Keramik der Nachpalastzeit aus der Unterstadt von Tiryns (Heidelberg), https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8612/. Access date: 12 April 2025.

Images will be printed in grayscale (colour images must be negotiated).

All images must be supplied with a resolution of 300 dpi in TIFF format, together with captions, which must be short and contain all necessary information.

• Please don’t send images in JPG, GIF or Powerpoint files.

When images are printed in group, authors must supply one figure with individual components labelled (a), (b), etc. within the figure itself (e.g. Fig. 1a-b). The same system must be used for figures and tables.

The full list of captions must be sent as a separate file.

All images must be cited within the article with capital case initial letter (e.g., Fig.1, Table 1).

SMEA protects its interests and those of authors. For this reason, authors must sign a form of consent when correcting the first draft of the article.

Authors have sole responsibility for obtaining permission of images used in the article (both published and unpublished) as well as for images taken from the web.

The authors will receive a pdf version of their article via e-mail.

• Authors are requested not to announce on the web that their articles are forthcoming in SMEA NS before they have received official notification that their manuscripts have been accepted for publication.

o be considered for publication in Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie (SMEA NS), manuscripts must present a substantial and original contribution to advancing knowledge and understanding in fields relevant to the journal. All submissions undergo an initial evaluation by the Editorial Board and, when appropriate, by the Advisory Board, to ensure they fall within the journal’s scope and meet its fundamental quality standards. Only manuscripts that successfully pass this stage are forwarded for external peer review, typically conducted by two independent reviewers.

The journal employs a double-blind peer review process. Reviewers are chosen for their expertise, academic reputation, and scholarly contributions in the relevant field, and may include both established scholars and, when appropriate, promising early-career researchers.

Reviewers are invited to provide their evaluations using a standardized review form. This form is designed to ensure consistency and fairness in the review process, and requests explicit assessments on the following aspects:

• clarity, coherence, and structure of the manuscript;
• conceptual and methodological rigor;
• originality and innovativeness of the research;
• relevance and potential impact within the field;
• adequacy, accuracy, and completeness of the references;
• quality of language, figures, and tables.

In addition to the structured evaluation, reviewers are encouraged to provide a general comment and detailed, constructive feedback aimed at improving the manuscript. Authors may receive anonymized reviewer comments to guide them in revising their work.

The peer review process is conducted in accordance with internationally recognized ethical standards. Reviewers are expected to provide impartial and objective assessments, to treat manuscripts as confidential documents, and to disclose any potential conflicts of interest. The Editorial Board ensures that all decisions are made with fairness, transparency, and integrity, in line with the best practices of scholarly publishing. For further details, see the Journal’s Code of Ethics.

he copyright of all publications in Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie (SMEA NS) and its supplements belongs to CNR – Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale. Authors are not permitted to disseminate their articles online – including posting in institutional repositories (self-archiving), open-access repositories, or platforms such as Academia.edu or ResearchGate – until one year after publication. When sharing digital or printed offprints, authors must ensure that recipients also comply with these rules.

tudi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie (SMEA NS) is committed to upholding the highest standards of research integrity and publication ethics. This journal adheres to the ethical guidelines elaborated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including the COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. It also aligns with the principles of integrity, responsibility, fairness, correctness, diligence, dignity and equity as set out in the CNR “Linee Guida per l’integrità nella ricerca”. Furthermore, the journal complies with the criteria established by ANVUR for Class A journals, ensuring scientific excellence, transparency in editorial processes, rigorous peer review, and accurate documentation of research outputs in accordance with Italian national evaluation standards. For further details, see the Journal’s Code of Ethics.