Launched in January 2001, the SAA Archaeological Record is
issued five times a year, and is now available in "dynamic
edition" format on the SAA website. It is a four-color magazine
encompassing SAA business, commentary, news, regular columns, job
listings, opinions, forums, and articles. The magazine is not a
peer-reviewed publication and does not currently have an editorial
board. Each Editor volunteers to serve a three-year term and is selected
by the SAA Board from among the SAA membership. The Managing Editor is a
member of the SAA staff. The SAA Archaeological Record replaced the SAA Bulletin,
which was published from 1993 to 2000. The SAA Publications Committee
approved these guidelines in April 2012 at the Annual Meeting in
Memphis, Tennessee.
Submissions may be sent to the Editor:
Todd Ahlman
[email protected]
Texas State University
Center for Archaeological Studies
601 University Drive, Trinity 120
San Marcos, TX 78666 USA
Submission Deadlines and Details
The SAA Archaeological Record publishes articles and
forums of interest to the organization’s diverse membership and is the
SAA’s primary way of proactively reaching all of its members with
organizational news and business. Authors wishing to publish in the SAA Archaeological Record
should consider the appeal of their topic to the SAA’s professional,
avocational, and student membership, and are encouraged to contact the
Editor regarding potential articles, forums, and ideas for publication.
Submissions and inquiries should be sent to the current Editor. Contact
information for the current Editor may be found inside the front page of
each issue of the magazine and on the SAA website. Electronic copies of
manuscripts are preferred. Manuscripts should be sent as Microsoft Word
documents.
Deadlines for time-sensitive materials including Letters to the Editor,
Obituaries, and pieces for “News and Notes” and the Calendar are as
follows: November 1 (January), January 1 (March), March 1 (May), July 1 (September), and September 1 (November).
News and Notes and Calendar items are published on a space-available basis.
The Editor does not solicit obituaries for publication, but memorials of
colleagues are welcomed as submissions to the magazine. Individuals
wishing to write a memorial piece should contact the Editor as soon as
they are able.
Book reviews are published in SAA journals and are not a feature of the SAA Archaeological Record.
The above deadlines do not apply to authors wishing to publish an
article in or organize a forum for the magazine. Generally, articles are
published in the order the Editor accepts them; however, the Editor
reserves the right to publish accepted materials in a manner that
enhances content and accommodates time-sensitive material from the SAA
and its members. Most articles are published within a year of their
acceptance.
Forums may be proposed at any time and should include an abstract as
well as a list of potential contributors. The Editor will evaluate the
proposal, and if accepted the forum will be scheduled for publication in
a specific issue of the magazine. The Editor will issue a deadline for
forum participants. Most forums are published within a year of their
acceptance. It is the responsibility of the forum organizer/guest editor
to communicate relevant policies and procedures to contributors, to
collect the manuscripts from contributors and provide them to the
Editor, and to review the manuscripts to be sure authors have followed
the guidelines and style guide for the magazine prior to submitting them
to the Editor.
Advertising and placement ads should be sent to the manager, Membership
and Marketing ([email protected]).
Submission Lengths and Style Guide
Items for News and Notes and the Calendar should be between 50 and 150
words. Longer pieces and pieces with artwork cannot be accepted.
Obituaries should be kept to 650 words including selected bibliographies. Bibliographies will generally be published online only. A single photograph may accompany memorial pieces.
Article lengths vary, and authors are encouraged to contact the editor
to negotiate an appropriate word count for their articles. Most articles
are kept to fewer than 2,500 words, although occasionally items up to
4,500 words are accepted for publication. Longer articles generally are
subjected to longer wait times for publication.
Because the SAA Archaeological Record is a magazine and not a
peer-reviewed journal, authors are strongly encouraged to keep
bibliographic citations to a minimum and to focus their content
accordingly. If an extended bibliography is required, a selected
bibliography may be published in the magazine and an author’s contact
information furnished for those wishing to acquire a full list of
citations.
The magazine does not publish abstracts, keywords, or summaries with articles, and these items do not need to be submitted.
Photographs and Images
High-quality color images are encouraged with each submission to the SAA Archaeological Record.
The number of images is subject to approval by the Editor, but as a
general rule between 3 and 5 images is considered ideal for the magazine
format.
All photographs, images, and other figures submitted must be at least
300 dpi in resolution at 7 inches wide (4 megapixels). Written
permission must be obtained from the copyright holder (usually the
photographer), and also from each individual depicted in a recognizable
fashion in the image. For further questions about copyright permissions,
please contact the Managing Editor at [email protected]
Single images for the cover are welcome from all SAA members, whether or
not they are authors in the magazine. Magazine images must also have at
least a 300 dpi resolution when the image is expanded to a 9” × 12”
size (2700 × 3600 pixels, or 9 megapixels).