Submission checklist
Thank you for deciding to submit your paper to International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA.

Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact ijsa@syllabapress.com

1. Email addresses: Do you have a list of the email addresses for all the co-authors of the manuscript? You will need to provide these so that we can inform the co-authors when the manuscript has been received and when it is published.

2. Instructions for Authors: Have you read the detailed Manuscript Preparation for International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA.

3. Covering letter and peer reviewers: Have you prepared a covering letter for your submission, explaining why we should publish your manuscript and elaborating on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors, and declaring any potential competing interests? This should be provided using the 'cover letter' section of the submission process. And do you have the contact details (including email addresses) of at least two potential peer reviewers for your paper,which you will need at the same time? These should be experts in your field of study, who will be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript's quality. Any peer reviewers you suggest should not have recently published with any of the authors of your manuscript and should not be members of the same research institution. They should not be one of the Editorial advisers for the journal, unless they work precisely in your field.

4. Manuscript files: Do you have all the files for the manuscript in an acceptable format?

Main manuscript
Formats: MS Word (Version 2.0 and above), PDF, RTF (rich text format), DVI, TEX.
Tables less than 2 pages (about 90 rows) should be included at the end of the manuscript. Longer tables should be submitted, and referred to in the text, as additional files.

Figure files
Formats: EPS, PDF (for line drawings), PNG, TIFF (for photographs and screen dumps), JPEG (for photographs and screen dumps), BMP, DOC, PPT.
Must be separate files, not embedded in the main manuscript.

Additional files
May be any standard type of file, eg. movies, datasets, large tables etc.
Files must be named with the three letter file extension appropriate to the file type (eg .pdf, .xls, .txt)
Additional material files should include necessary material that cannot be included in the PDF version of the published article, such as large datasets or movies. Tables should ordinarily be included in the manuscript file, unless they are exceptionally large (more than 2 manuscript pages or 90 rows). The main manuscript should include a short description of any additional files and software necessary to view them.

Please refer to the Guidelines for Artwork for further information about suitable file types.

5. Article-processing charges: In year 2009 an article processing charge is free for articles accepted for publication in International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA.

IMPORTANT NOTE Some article processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors who lack funds. To apply for a waiver or discount, please request one during the submission process. A decision on the waiver will normally be made within two working days. Submission of the article to the journal can be completed once the payment method has been agreed. Any applicable article processing charge must be paid prior to publication.

6. Are you one of the authors of this article?: If not, you cannot submit the article on behalf of the authors. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.

7. Conditions of submission and Syllaba Press Copyright and License Agreement: Do you confirm that all the authors of the manuscript have read and agreed to its content , that readily reproducible materials described in the manuscript will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes , and that you have ethical approval for any human or animal experimentation (for more information see our Manuscript Preparation)? Do you confirm that the manuscript is original, has not already been published in a journal and is not currently under consideration by another journal? By clicking the button below, you are confirming these points and agreeing to these and all other terms of the Copyright and License Agreement, which we suggest you read.

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