Submissions

Author Guidelines

Note that authors muwt have an academic affiliation or hold a PhD in one of the fields covered by Hieroglyphs.

General Guidelines

• Please submit your text as a Word file along with a .pdf control file.
• Please submit your figures independently in 300 DPI.
• Please provide an abstract and up to 7 keywords.
• Please try to use a maximum of three levels of headings (“1.”, “1.1.”, “1.1.1.”)

Style and Formating

• Please use only the styles available in the file “Hieroglyphs.dotm” and the fonts MinionPro_Hiero and Futura_Hiero that you can get upon request to the editors.
• The Hieroglyphs.dotm styles should not be modified. If anything is missing, one highlights the said-section in yellow and report the missing style to the editors.
• Do not change fonts. If additional fonts or characters are needed, add a note in the manuscript.
• No header, no footer.
• Indicate a hierarchy of first-, second-, and third-order headings using the appropriate styles, which will automatically number the headings (e.g., “1.”, “1.2.”, “1.2.3.”).
• No manual numbering.
• Please use block quotes for quotations that are longer than four lines and no quotation (style "Hiero_citation")
• No quotation marks around the text formatted as Hiero_citation.

Language

The language for contributions to Hieroglyphs is English. American or British English, but consistent within a paper. Non-native speakers should arrange to have their manuscripts copy-edited and proofread. If this is not possible, please contact the editors.

Remarks about copy-editing

• Place footnotes after punctuation sign.
• No small caps for proper names.
• Use en-dashes for inclusive references and temporal ranges (e.g., 188–189).
• Use em-dashes (without spaces) for parenthetical inserts (e.g., “Furthermore—and this has not yet received the attention it deserves— scribes and artists have […]”)
• Use quotation marks as “…” (not ‘…’); punctuation before the closing inverted comma (“…,”)
• Use BCE and CE for dates.
• Use fig. and pl. (no caps).
• No upercase for ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.).
• Names of cities: English name whenever possible (, use the more common one (München > Munich; Le Caire > Cairo).

Fonts

• For transcription of Egyptian, please use the Unicode standard (see here). You may download and install the dedicated keyboard for Mac (https://github.com/rosmord/mac_transliteration_keyboards/archive/master.zip) or Windows (https://files.qenherkhopeshef.org/jsesh/windows_transliteration_keyboards.zip).
• For transliteration or transcription of other scripts, use Unicode fonts whenever possible and sumit them along with your manuscript.
• For Egyptian hieroglyphs, please use the JSESH repertoire whenever possible and send the .gly file along with the manuscript. When a hieroglyphic shape is not available in JSESH, the image of the sign should be provided (picture or vector graphics) to the editors.

Images

• Please send figures, tables, and images as separate files (.tiff or .jpg) in 300 DPI.
• Please clear permissions.
• Please provide a list of captions including references and copyright for the image.
• Please indicate placement in the main text.

Bibliographic citations

• Please use the author-date form of reference with a colon: Author Date: ##–## (e.g., Champollion 1836: 72–73); use a comma for sequential references (e.g., Champollion 1836: 72–73, 89–101).
• Do not use Ibid., Op. cit., Id., Ead. or similar for references, but always the "Author Date: ##–##" system.
• Unabbreviated page numbers. E.g., 188–189.
• Citations can be placed in the main text or in the footnotes; they should be placed in the footnotes when interrupting the main text for too long.
• Both in the main text and in the footnotes, do not use parentheses around dates and pages.  Use everywhere “author 2017: ##–##”, even when the author is the subject of a clause or in genitive constructions, “author 2017: ##–## argues that...”, “as stressed by Champollion 1836: 72–73, determinatives are (...)” (not “as stressed by Champollion (1836: 72–73), determinatives are (...)”).
• When 2 authors, use '&' between authors. E.g., Houston & Stauder 2020.
• When 3 authors, use ',' between authors. E.g., Grotenhuis, J., Nederhof, M.-J., Polis, St. 2020.
• In the case of three or more authors, use “et al.”

Final references

• books, e.g.,

Sauneron, S. 1982. L’écriture figurative dans les textes d’Esna, Esna VIII. Cairo, Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale.

• edited books, e.g.:

Woods, C. (ed.). 2010. Visible Language. Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond, Oriental Insitute Museum Publications 32. Chicago, The Oriental Institute.

• articles in journals, e.g.:

Klotz, D. 2015. “Two Hymns to Isis from Philae Revisited (Žabkar, Hymns 1-2)”, Bulletin de La Société d’Égyptologie de Genève 30: 75–109.

• articles in edited books, e.g.:

Houston, S. 2012. “Maya Writing: Modified, Transformed.” In: The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change, ed. by Stephen Houston: 187–208. Santa Fe, School for Advanced Research Press.

• Internet resources: please provide link (without angle brackets <…>) and date of access.