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For legal and ethical conditions of the submission of manuscripts, as well as for the details of the reviewing and editing procedures, see the Publication Ethics section.

Contributors are invited to submit articles by e-mail (vdi-red@yandex.ru; texts in .doc or .docx format, images in .tiff or .jpg formats with a resolution of 300 dpi) and in PDF. Greek texts should be encoded in Unicode. Please do not post articles by registered mail.

The article size must not exceed 80,000 characters (40,000 characters for book reviews).

Each article must be accompanied by: a short summary (one paragraph); a keyword list (max. 10 words); the academic affiliation(s), postal and electronic addresses of the author(s).

All references must be given in continuously numbered footnotes as follows: Author and publication year without comma, page number, note number (n., Anm., etc.), figure number (fig., Abb., etc.), or table number (pl., Taf., etc.). NB! All last names of the authors should be given in Latin transliteration.

Example: Ivanov 1972а, 536, рис. 2; 1972б, 56–59; Salvatori 1995, 67–68, fig. 13, pl. 26.

Bibliography is given in the end in alphabetic order as follows:

Books:

Alexander, C. 1928: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jewelry. The Art of the Goldsmith in Classical Times. London–New York.

Collected volumes:

Thonemann, P. (ed.) 2013: Roman Phrygia: Culture and Society. Cambridge.

Journal articles:

Salvatori, S. 2000: Bactria and Margiana seals: a new assessment of their chronological position and a typological survey. East and West 50, 97–145.

Articles/chapters in books and collected volumes:

Bradley, G. 2014: The nature of Roman strategy in mid-Republican colonization and road building. In: J. Pelgrom, T.D. Stek (eds.), Roman Republican Colonization. New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History. Rome, 60–72.

NB. All titles in Cyrillic and other non-Latin scripts must be accompanied with Latin transliterations (guidelines for transliteration are given below; the names of the authors should be given in their most common transliterated form, not necessarily following the guidelines). The titles of books and journals should also be translated in English.

Gorelik, M.V. 1985: [Helmet from Dakhovskaya stanitsa]. Vestnik drevney istorii [Journal of Ancient History] 2, 94–96.

            Горелик, М.В. Шлем из станицы Даховской. ВДИ 2, 94–96.

Polin, S.V., Kubyshev, A.I. 1997: Skifskie kurgany Utlyukskogo mezhdurech'ya [Scythian kurgans of Utljuksky interfluve]. Kiev.

         Полин, С.В., Кубышев, А.И. Скифские курганы Утлюкского междуречья. Киев.

Abbreviations

Each article must be accompanied with the list of all abbreviations used in alphabetic order.

Articles that do not respect the guidelines will not be reviewed. 

The decision to publish or not is taken by the Editorial Board on the basis of reviewers’ opinions and communicated to authors. Manuscripts sent by mail are not returned to authors.

Ethical and Legal Conditions

Submission of an article for publication in the journal implies the following:

1. All authors are in agreement about the content of the manuscript and its submission to the journal.

2. The contents of the manuscript have been tacitly or explicitly approved by the responsible authorities where the research was carried out.

3. The manuscript has not been published previously, in part or in whole, except as an abstract, part of a published lecture or academic thesis.

4. The manuscript has not and will not be submitted to any other journal while still under consideration for this journal.

5. If the submission includes figures, tables, or large sections of text that have been published previously, the author has obtained written permission from the original copyright owner(s) to reproduce these items in the current manuscript in both the online and print publications of the journal. All copyrighted material has been properly credited in the manuscript.

Transtiteration guidelines

Russian

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д	d	л	l	у	u	ы	y
е	e	м	m	ф	f	ь	'
ё	ye	н	n	х	kh	э	e
ж	zh	о	o	ц	ts	ю	yu

 

Ukranian

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е	e	к	k	т	t	ь	'
є	je	л	l	у	u	ю	ju