Author Guidelines

Editorial Policy

Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental (RIHAO) is the scholarly journal of the Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental “Dr. Abraham Rosenvasser” (Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies), Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. It will consider for publication manuscripts related to the history of Ancient Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean societies from the Paleolithic through the Roman-Hellenistic period. Other manuscripts offering theoretical or interdisciplinary approaches will also be considered. RIHAO is published once a year and includes articles, brief communications and book reviews in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, or Italian. Deadline for submissions: May 31st.

Instructions for Contributors

1. Authors should submit articles, brief communications and book reviews by e-mail or our website (in OpenOffice or Word for Windows). The maximum length for articles should be 10,000 words (including footnotes, appendixes and bibliography), page size A4, Times New Roman 12 font, spaced 1,5. It should include the title, an abstract in English (maximum 200 words) and four keywords in Spanish and English. The maximum length for brief communications and book reviews should be 4000 words.
2. The following information should be included below the title: author's name(s) and surname, institutional affiliation, working place, and e-mail address.
3. Papers submitted to RIHAO are sent to one or two referees external to the Editorial Board, in accordance with the double-blind peer review system. They evaluate the importance of the topic, the quality and clarity of the writing and the methodology of the author(s). They recommend whether the paper be accepted, rejected or accepted with modifications. In the latter case, the acceptance of a manuscript will be conditional until the necessary revisions have been made, and the Editorial Board considers the paper ready for publication. Book reviews are evaluated by the Editorial Board.
4. A digital copy of RIHAO will be sent to each contributor of his/her article.
5. Quotations and bibliographical references should follow the author-date (and, if applicable, pages) system. When the author is named in the text, the year and pages should be placed in parentheses; e.g., Redford (1986: 15). When the reference is simple, the last name, year and pages should be put in parentheses; e.g., (Redford, 1986: 15).
6. Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page, and bibliographical references (if any) should follow the system used in the main text. If the footnote number is next to a punctuation mark (period, comma, semicolon), it should be placed after the sign.
7. The author should include at the end of the article a list of bibliographical references with all the works quoted in the article with the following information:

- Author(s) of the work, by last name(s) and initials. When more than one work by an author is included, entries should be arranged chronologically; for more than one entry by an author in a single year, arrange them alphabetically and modify the year citation with a, b, c, etc., as needed.

- Date of the current edition and (if applicable) the first one, this last between square brackets. E.g. Frankfort, H. (1976 [1948]).

- Title of the work. Do not use quotation marks or italics for titles of articles and chapters of books. Titles of books in italics.

- Chapters in collective works, symposia, etc.: include editor or editors after the title of the chapter and before the title of the book.

- Series or collection information between brackets, including number of volume, after the title of the book.

- Journal title in italics and volume number. Write the complete journal title, do not use abbreviations.

- First and last page numbers of articles in journals or chapters in books.

- Publication information, including city, state –if necessary– and publisher.

- References to publications on websites should include the full link and access date.

Examples:

» Redford, D. B. (1992). Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

» Te Velde, H. (1977). Seth, God of Confusion. A Study of his Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion (Probleme der Ägyptologie 6). Leiden: E. J. Brill.

» Friedman, R. (1996). The ceremonial centre at Hierakonpolis: locality Hk29a, in: Spencer, A. J. (ed.), Aspects of Early Egypt. London: British Museum Press, 16-35.

» Cervelló Autuori, J. (2003). Narmer, Menes and the Seals from Abydos, in: Hawass, Z. and Pinch Brock, L. (eds.), Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists. Cairo, 2000, vol. 2: History, Religion. Cairo-New York: American University in Cairo Press, 168-175.

» Hallo, W. (1962). New Viewpoints on Cuneiform Literature, in: Israel Exploration Journal 12: 13-26.

» Loprieno, A. (2012). Slavery and Servitude, in: Frood, E. and Wendrich, W. (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. Los Angeles: UCLA. Online: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mx2073f. [Access date: 20-2-2018].

» Hierakonpolis Expedition. (n.d.). HK6: the Elite Predynastic and Early Dynastic cemetery, in: Hierakonpolis-online. Online: http://www.hierakonpolis-online.org/index.php/explore-the-predynastic-cemeteries/hk6-elite-cemetery. [Access date: 20-2-2018].

Addresses for submissions (papers, brief communications and book reviews)

E-mail: rihao.ns@gmail.com

Web page: Submissions