Submissions

Author Guidelines

The texts will be sent to the Journal Complutum (Department of Prehistory)
Faculty of Geography and History
Complutense University of Madrid
Ma-E-28040 Madrid
Phone and fax: 913 946014
email: gonzalor@ucm.es
jralvare@ghis.ucm.es

Shipping will be by email if possible or otherwise by post typescript typed in Times New Roman 12 and 1.5 line spacing spaces, accompanied identical electronic version format (without indents, tabs, spacing , etc..), for which we recommend protected CD-ROM for mailing, format type compatible word processor PC and MS-Word. The maximum length of a complete original, including the bibliography and figure captions, must not exceed 70,000 characters (including spaces).

Articles and reviews will be led by their title, full name / author / s, Institution to which they belong,  postal address, email and telephone number of the person who sent the proofs. At the beginning of the abstract text should, with a maximum length of 200 words, and between four and six keywords work, in English and Spanish. As a general rule, avoid entirely the footnotes page except the acknowledgments, all of which are listed at the end of the text published to facilitate the layout. For the sections and subsections of the text will be used Arabic numerals.

All illustrations and tables will be cited in the text,  identified with consecutive Arabic numerals . The number of illustrations will be the minimum necessary for the understanding of the article. Each image must be sent in a separate file in JPEG format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Figures sent color thus appear in the online edition of the journal . Illustrations and tables should have their official standing text that are listed separately at the end of the  paper . The line drawings will go on white, outlined clearly in dark ink , with appropriate explanatory texts and scales otherwise be returned to the author for correction. The texts included are made ​​to print and be of a size that allows a maximum reduction of 50 % . All figures are adjusted proportionally to the box size of the publication ( 210 x 150 mm ) or columns ( 230 x 71 ) , or to sizes of 1/3 , 1/2 or 2/3 of them.

Single words in another language will always be written in italics, in addition to the titles of published works and the abbreviations and Latin words (et al., Ibid., Id., I.e., below, above, op. Cit., Passim, sv , in situ, oppidum, etc).  Radiometric dates shall be accompanied by the statistical deviation, laboratory acronym, sample number and type of sample; calibrated C14 dates should refer the calibration program used.

References will be included in parentheses after the related text, mentioning the name or names of the / as author / s, year of publication and pages if necessary, for example: (Clarke 1978: 158-62), (Renfrew and Bahn 1991: 82-3), (Isaac et al. 1971). When the author's name has been mentioned immediately before the reference, indicate only the year of publication and pages, i.e., "in the opinion of Clarke (1978: 158-62)."

References will be attached at the end of the paper in alphabetical order, according to the model of the following examples:

Renfrew, C.; Bahn, P. (1993): Arqueología. Teorías, métodos y práctica. Akal, Madrid.

Brown, J.A. (ed.) (1971): Approaches to the social dimensions of mortuary practices. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, 25, Washington.

Gilman, A. (1993): Cambio cultural y contacto en la Prehistoria de la Europa mediterránea. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 50: 103-111.

Binford, L. R. (1971): Mortuary practices: their study and potential. En Brown 1971: 6-29. [ya que la obra colectiva editada por J.A. Brown está citada en la lista]

Beltrán, M. (1985): La circulación monetaria en la zona del Ebro Medio, durante la antigüedad. XVII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología, Zaragoza: 47-50.

Tilley, Ch. (1990a): Michel Foucault: Towards an Archaeology of Archaeology. Reading Material Culture. Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism (C. Tilley, ed.), Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 281-347.

Tilley, Ch. (1990b): Constituint una arqueologia social: un projecte modernista. El canvi cultural a la prehistòria (J. Anfruns, E. Llobet, eds.), Columna, Barcelona: 17-44.

Hodder, I. (1999): Archaeology and global infor­mation systems. Internet Archaeology, 6 (Department of Archaeology, University of York). [URL: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/ issue6/hodder_ toc.html]. [Actualizada el 08/03/1999]. Acceso el 12/03/1999.

Books, Journals or articles that have a doi number must be included in your quoting. Example: Last name, First name, year: Title, journal, volume, pages. http://dx.doi.org/xxxx.

PDF Proofs will be sent by e-mail to the author, who has fifteen days to make corrections. Significant variations or additions to the text are not allowed. In the case the proofs were not back on time, the editor may proofread replacing the author. Changes will be sent by back to the editor by email in a list indicating its location within the text, or even better, corrected in the full text in pdf format.