Author Guidelines
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Article submission guidelines
- General Provisions
The scholarly journal “Reports of the Laboratory of Ancient Technologies” is a scientific periodical magazine (published 4 times a year), continues and develops a series of annual publications devoted to the study of the history of Baikal Siberia. There are several included articles of the researchers of different institutions of Russia and also articles of our foreign colleagues.
Themes of this number cover the different aspects of archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and historical research.
The edition is intended to archaeologists, ethnologists, historians and everybody who have an interest to Antiquity. The publication is abstracted and reviewed.
ISSN 2415-8739
The Journal was founded in 2003
Founder: Irkutsk National Research Technical University
Journal’s headings are as follows:
- archaeology
- ethnology
- history
- review
- personalia (memorial notes about a colleague)
- Manuscript Structure
The article (review) should consist of 20000–40000 symbols including spaces. The heading “Review” accepts articles with a volume of 6000-9000 symbols.
The manuscript should have the following order.
2.1. UDC code should be placed in the left upper corner.
2.2. The title, which includes: the title of the article (should be informative and, if possible, brief). The first word of the title of the article, as a rule, is given with a capital letter, the rest of the words - with a lowercase letter (except for their own names, common abbreviations, etc.). There is no full stop at the end of the title of the article. The title should be typed in bold, centered.
2.3. Names, patronymics and surnames of authors: they are arranged in one interval below the title, they are typed in bold letters, aligned to the left. If there are several authors, then after the first author's name a comma is put and the first, patronymic and surname of the second author are written, etc.
2.4. The organization and its address: are located under the author's surname, typed in capital letters, aligned to the left, after the organization's name should be a comma. Below the name of the organization is given the address of the organization (country, index, city, street, building number).
located under the author's surname, the first word is typed with a capital letter, aligned to the left, after the organization's name should be a comma. Next, the address of the organization is indicated (city, country).
If the authors are from different organizations, then the corresponding Arabic numerals (superscript) are placed after their names. The same numbers are placed before the name and address of the organizations in which these authors work.
2.5. Abstract should be informative and consist of 200–2500 words, include 9–12 key words or word combinations.
2.6. Acknowledgments. After the keywords, words of gratitude are given to organizations (institutions), supervisors and other persons who assisted in the preparation of the article, information about grants, funding for the preparation and publication of the article, projects, research works, within the framework of or as a result of which the article was published.
2.7. The English translation of the title of the article, the names and initials of the authors, the name and address of the organization, annotations, key words should be made in the same way as in Russian.
Titles, abstracts and key words translated into English cannot contain any transliterations from Russian except for transliterations of personal names, untranslatable names of devices and any other objects.
2.8. Section “Список источников (List of sources)”. It is issued in accordance with GOST R 7.0.5. For example,
a journal article:
Ветров В.М., Шергин Д.Е., Тетенькин А.В. Стоянка-могильник Старый Витим II в Муйско-Куандинской котловине (Республика Бурятия) // Известия Лаборатории древних технологий. 2019. Т. 15. № 4. С. 9–34.;
article in a scientific collection:
Лапшина З.С. Личины петроглифов Амуро-Уссурийского комплекса: структура рисунка и художественный образ // Наскальное искусство в современном обществе. К 290-летию научного открытия Томской писаницы : материалы. Международной научной конференции 22–26 августа 2011 г. Кемерово. Кемерово : Кузбассвузиздат, 2011a. Т. 2. С. 64–68.;
monograph:
Сидоров А.П. Неолит Забайкалья. Улан-Удэ : Изд-во Забайкальского гос. ун-та, 2006. 315 с.
2.9. Section «References» is compiled in Harvard Style in the order of the list of sources, for this the names of the authors of the work in Russian must be transliterated according to BSI (https://translit.net/ru/bsi/), all other data must be translated into English. Works in other languages: if the language is based on Latin - the record is copied without changes; works in Arabic, Chinese, Mongolian, Greek and other languages - the record is translated into English. The language of the work is indicated everywhere in brackets.
2.10. Information about authors should be placed at the end of the article as follow:
Information about the author
Name N. Family name,
Academic degree, academic title, position,
Organization,
Postal address (building, street, city, postal-index, country),
e-mail address,
ORCID of the author (if any).
2.11. Section ”Criteria of authorship”. After the surname and initials of the author, his personal contribution to the writing of the article is briefly described (idea, collection of material, processing of material, writing of the article, scientific editing of the text, etc.). Possible formulations: “All authors made an equivalent contribution to the preparation of the publication”; “V.S. Kozlov carried out research work, based on the results obtained, he generalized and prepared the manuscript for publication.”
2.12. Section “Conflict of interest”. It should be stated that: “The authors state that there is no conflict of interest”.
2.13. If there are figures in the article, their captions are shown at the end of the article.
- Manuscript Format Guidelines
Page and paragraph settings: all margins 2 cm, portrait layout, tab 2 cm.
Text settings: MS Word editor, regular font, size 12 points, typeface Times New Roman, line spacing one and a half, justified alignment. Please avoid using more than one word space.
Abbreviations of terms and names should be minimized and carried out in accordance with GOST 7.12-93.
Numbers should be typewritten in tables.
All tables should be in MS Word (Table - Add Table). Tables should be numbered, titled and referred to in the text (Table 1). Place tables into the body of the text after their first mention in the most suitable way.
Bibliographic references in the text should be modeled after: (surname, year of publication, page number) in parentheses. For example: (Ivanov, 2002. P. 12. Fig. 14; Petrov, 2014). After the surname, the year of publication is separated by a comma; A link to a page, a drawing, etc., through a dot with a capital letter.
References to archival materials should be located in the text and contain a full description of the source in parentheses. For example: (GAIO, F. P-102s, Op. 5. D. 37. L. 89 vol.).
- Artwork and Illustrations
Figures (illustrations, diagrams, schemes) are numbered, titled and referred to in the text: (Fig. 1). Place graphs, pictures and diagrams into the body of the text after their first mention in the most suitable way.
Figures should be submitted as separate files: illustrations - with at a resolution at least 300 dpi - as *.JPEG, *.TIFF.
The editors reserve the right to reject articles that do not meet the specified requirements.
