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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Instructions for Authors (updated February 6, 2025)

Sections

Articles: Maximum length of 50,000 characters (with spaces). The maximum extensions referred to include spaces, as well as the summary, footnotes, and bibliography.

Reviews: The year of publication of reviewed material should not exceed 2 years from the submission date. Reviews are expected to be configured as critical texts that locate the work reviewed in a current trend, highlighting the different contributions and noting specific gaps. Reviews written in another language than the one published initially are especially welcome. This section does not require a summary or keywords.

Format considerations

• The body of the text should be clearly structured in sections with relevant subheadings.

• Terms in other languages (than the principal) must be in italics.

• The type of quotes to be used will be only the high quotation mark style (“, ”). If the quotation

originally contained a quotation mark system, the high quotation mark system (", ") should be

used.

• The name of foreign cities should be written in the body of the text as in the references,

according to the language of the text (e.g., Nueva York and not New York; Múnich and not

München; Berlín and not Berlin -in the case of Spanish-).

• Font and paragraph specifications: Times New Roman, Size: 12, Line spacing: 1.5

Abstract and keywords

Each article must be accompanied by an abstract in the language of the article (German, English, Spanish, or Portuguese) as well as a translation of that summary into English. The abstract should summarize the text's central arguments and should not exceed 500 characters, including spaces. It should be followed by a list of five keywords separated by commas (e.g.): “instructions, text, model, keyword, paragraph.”

All submissions should include a cover page containing the author's full name, e-mail address, ORCID number, and institutional affiliation.

Footnotes

Reduce the explanatory footnotes to the minimum necessary. A maximum of 10 footnotes per article (except those indicating archive documents to be cited) is allowed. Notes should be placed after the punctuation mark, and the respective notes will appear at the bottom of the page.

Archive documents should be quoted in the following order: File name, Section, Series, Sub-series, File number, and Folio number(s). When citing for the first time, all of the above should be accompanied by their respective abbreviations. Only the corresponding abbreviations and numbers should be included from the second time onwards. Examples: [First time] Archivo Regional de Cajamarca (ARC), Colonial (Colonial), Intendencia (Intendencia), Protector de Naturales (PN), Legajo (Leg) 01, f 3r.; [Second time] ARC, Colonial, Intendencia, PN, Leg 01, f 3r.

Images

If images (or graphs/charts) are attached, they must be referenced in the text (Figure 1). A relevant caption is also required. The image format for photos must be JPEG (*.jpg), and for drawings (black and white), it must be PNG (*.png). The minimum resolution required is 300 dpi, i.e., an image that, when printed, is 12.7 cm wide, must be 1,500 pixels wide (in the example of Figure 1, the corresponding height is 9,525 cm, equivalent to 1,125 pixels).

The captions at the bottom of each photo must have the following format:

Figure 1. Mate de hechicería y curanderismo (Photo: Joaquín J. A. Molina M., Huancayo, 2025).

Model of quotation in the body of the text

There are two ways to reference indirect quotations in the body of the article: the names of the authors and the year of publication in brackets (Anderson 1983) or by directly mentioning the names of the authors in the text and indicating only the year of publication in brackets, e.g. Forné et al. (2011) researched Cancuén ceramics.

A colon will be used after the year of publication to indicate the page number (Quispe-Agnoli 2016: 119). If more than two works are cited, they will be separated by a semicolon (Cunill 2018; Yannakakis 2008).

When the author considers it relevant, he may set the date of the first edition: (Acosta 1952 [1590]) and not (Acosta 1952). Any external text cited must be included in the bibliography.

Literal quotations must be placed in high quotes (“,”), and the source must be indicated. They may be within the same paragraph if they do not exceed five lines. Otherwise, they must be in a separate body and without initial indentation.

Bibliographical references

At the end of the article, a complete bibliography is required, including all the bibliographic citations referenced in the article (and no more than these). The entries will be ordered chronologically according to the surname, which must coincide with the wording used in the text.

The format of the references in the bibliography corresponds to the style of the Society for American

Archaeology. The data to be included vary according to the type of publication, but, in any case, information on the name of the author(s), title, and year of publication is required. See the bibliography below for some examples of the most recurrent types of publications, including monographs (Anderson 1983), reprints (Acosta 1952 [1590]), contributions to compilations or conference publications (Chase and Chase 1995), journal articles (Forné et al. 2011), doctoral theses (Kozelsky 2005), as well as online sources (Armijo 2024).

If the article has more than one reference from the same author, it will be listed in ascending chronological order, i.e., starting with the oldest.

Bibliography

Acosta, José de. 1952 [1590]. De Procuranda Indorum Salute. Ediciones España Misionera, Madrid.

Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.

Verso, London.

Gómez, Felipe. 2024. Heritage & Territoriality: el rol activo de los pueblos indígenas en la investigación del patrimonio. Amerigrafías (blog), December 15.

https://amerigrafias.hypotheses.org/11475, accessed February 6, 2025.

Chase, Arlen F. and D. Z. Chase. 1995. External Impetus, Internal Synthesis, and Standardization: E Group

Assemblages and the Crystallization of Classic Maya Society in the Southern Lowlands. In The

Emergence of Lowland Maya Civilization: The Transition from the Preclassic to Early Classic, edited by

Nikolai Grube, pp. 87–101. Verlag Anton Saurwein, Markt-Schwaben.

Forné, Mélanie, S. Alvarado, and P. Torres. 2011. Cronología cerámica en Cancuén: Historia de una ciudad del Clásico Tardío. Estudios de Cultura Maya 38: 11–39.

Kozelsky, Kristin Linda. 2005. Identifying Social Drama in the Maya Region, Fauna from the Lagartero

Basurero, Chiapas, Mexico. PhD dissertation, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

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