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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 author has an academic affiliation or hold a PhD in one of the fields covered by Hieroglyphs.
  • 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 or Microsoft Word document file format.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Unicode font; 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

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 Hieroglyphs.dotm and the fonts referenced by those styles. The files can be requested from hieroglyphs.journal@gmail.com
  • The Hieroglyphs.dotm styles should not be modified. If anything is missing, please highlight 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 consistently 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.

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 ‘…’); periods and commas 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 or the more common name (e.g., Munich, not München; Cairo, not Le Caire).

Fonts

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.
  • Please use 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 more than three 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 St. Houston: 187–208. Santa Fe, School for Advanced Research Press.

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

Hieroglyphs – Articles

Hieroglyphs publishes articles on the following, non-exclusive list of themes in Egyptology and in other hieroglyphic or related traditions:

  • the semiotics and linguistics of hieroglyphic writing systems
  • categorization and representation of knowledge in hieroglyphic signs
  • the repertoire of signs, and discussions of individual signs, their forms, visual and cultural referents, and “biographies” (diachronic aspects)
  • relations to iconography and visual/aesthetic culture; extended practices of hieroglyphic writing (enigmatic writing; visual poetry; etc.)
  • graphic ideologies of hieroglyphic writing: the power of hieroglyphs and issues of ontology; hieroglyphs in society; hieroglyphs and authority; hieroglyphs and materiality
  • the reception of hieroglyphs, ancient (including pseudo-hieroglyphs) and modern; history of research
  • in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphs, their relation to other varieties (hieratic, demotic): influences and hybrid registers
  • comparative approaches to any of the above aspects of hieroglyphic writing across diverse traditions
  • comparative studies of Egyptian hieroglyphs and other complex writing systems - between universals and the culturally specific.

Hieroglyphs – Extraordinary

We all keep encountering hieroglyphic idiosyncrasies across monuments, museums, and publications. The journal Hieroglyphs has a dedicated section “Hieroglyphs-Extraordinary,” which is intended as a platform for sharing and disseminating these individual findings.

Variation and idiosyncrasy are defining characteristics of hieroglyphic writing systems. Going far beyond general paleographic variation as seen in non-hieroglyphic types of writing systems, “this sign” mattered: crafted in a particular manner, at a specific time and place, showcasing someone’s scribal or painterly wit or virtuosity, and/or resonating with its textual surrounding or broader pictorial context.

The principal aim of the Hieroglyphs-Extraordinary (responsible editor Niv Allon) is to document significant instances of variation – in form as well as in aesthetic investment – and to collate data that is typically dispersed across disparate locations, including scholars’ personal archives and computers. Any hieroglyphs that remain incompletely understood, whether in form or function, can also contribute valuably to Hieroglyphs-Extraordinary.

In practical terms, the outcome will be published as a single page. Should you wish to provide a more detailed analysis of the hieroglyph in question, adduce more parallels, or present a more comprehensive argument, you may consider submitting it as an Essay (not peer-reviewed) or as a full-fledged contribution (peer-reviewed) to the journal Hieroglyphs.

The UNESCO Convention of 1970 serves as an essential point of reference for avoiding involvement with insufficiently documented antiquities. It is the policy of Hieroglyphs-Extraordinary that signs or inscriptions from unprovenanced objects (defined as objects lacking a defined archaeological findspot and/or documented history of legitimate ownership under the relevant antiquities laws) acquired by an individual or an institution after 1970 will not be incorporated. An exception may be made in cases where the editors determine that the item was previously published and its acquisition history is sufficiently documented.

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