Manuscript Submission
Antiquity uses a secure and confidential online submission and peer-review system, which also enables you to track the progress of your manuscript. Please contact the Editorial Office if you encounter any difficulties using our online system.
To submit a manuscript, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aqy.
Download the Antiquity submission guidelines here.
Full instructions for contributors may be found at https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/submit-paper.
Antiquity operates a double-blind peer review policy. Submissions should be anonymized and stripped of identifying information. Guidance on anonymising your manuscript may be found here.
Submission declarations
As part of the submission process, authors will be required to confirm that the substance of the content presented has not been published previously and is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors should declare all relevant financial interests and sources of research funding that could be perceived to compromise the integrity of their article; appropriate acknowledgement of relevant agencies and authorities should also be included. Please disclose any relevant information in your covering letter, as well as reviewing our separate ethical guidelines that can be found here.
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.