Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal »Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung« publishes contributions to the archaeology and cultural history of Greece from prehistory to Late Antiquity. To submit contributions online or to check the current status of a submitted contribution, you must be registered and logged in.

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Please follow the guidelines for publications of the German Archaeological Institute. Citation norms and instructions for the formal preparation and submission of manuscripts can be found on the DAI homepage. The preparation of guidelines in English are in progress. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically via iDAI.publications to the First Director of the Athens Department of the German Archaeological Institute no later than December 31 for the volume of the following year.

We kindly ask you to submit manuscripts for publication only via our online publication portal (https://publications.dainst.org/journals/). To do this, you must register as an author. Please submit your text and images electronically. The subsequent evaluation and revision process then takes place exclusively via this portal. As an author, you can track the current status of the evaluation and editing of your submitted article online at any time.

Before submitting

Before submitting a contribution, the following points must be carefully checked, otherwise the DAI will be obliged to reject the contribution for formal reasons or return it to the author for revision:

• Have the research activities been approved by the relevant antiquities authorities?
• Have the rights of use been obtained for all photos, drawings, in particular reproductions, aerial photographs, etc.? We ask you to refrain from using Google maps and to use open source alternatives, which can be used without copyright concerns. Detailed information and further links on this topic can be found here.
• Please ensure that reproduction permissions obtained apply to both print and online publication. Any differing terms of use for the online format should be communicated to the editorial office.
• Permission to publish a previously published image for which the rights holder has not yet been deceased for 70 years, as well as previously unpublished images, must be obtained from the rights holder of the image and, if applicable, from the museums or repositories in which the original is kept.
• Permission to publish image material from the photographic archive of the DAI Athens must be obtained through it.
• If there is a requirement for the form of image attribution (credit line), this should be provided verbatim.

The German Archaeological Institute recommends that all authors use ORCID, the establishment of which in Germany is funded by the DFG. In addition to the unique identification of authors, the use of ORCID offers various additional advantages. You can find more information here.

Manuscript preparation

Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the publication guidelines and abbreviation lists of the German Archaeological Institute (https://www.dainst.org/forschung/publikationen/publizieren/zitierstil-abkuerzungen). For publications of the Athens department, there is an expanded list of additional abbreviations which can be found here.

All the necessary guidelines for preparing the text and the footnote apparatus can be found here. The guidelines explain all the formatting and citation rules to be observed and illustrate each with examples.

Publications in DAI journals and monographs are generally based on the footnote system. For the »Athenische Mitteilungen«, we ask you to use only the author-year system in the manuscript. The abbreviation lists contain all accepted abbreviations for journals, series, encyclopaedias, and frequently cited works.

Please note the following points:

• Contributions must be submitted in one of the usual languages of the »Athenische Mitteilungen« (German, English, Greek).
• Text without special formatting (bold, underlined, different font sizes),
• If the cited publication is available in digital form, please provide the corresponding link or DOI.
• Arrange the technical parts of the article in the following order: Summary (max. 150 words) and 3-5 keywords at the beginning of the article; place abbreviations, figure credits, author's address and place of origin of the text at the end.
• The text must specify exactly where illustrations are to be placed, e.g. like this: #place figure xy here# - please indicate if several figures belong together
• In the figure credits, each figure must be listed individually in one line; combined entries for figures with the same figure credits are not possible.
• Do not use footnotes in headings; if possible, refrain from using figure references in headings.
• Summaries and keywords in one or more of the following languages: German, English, Greek.
• For all other technical information, please refer to the checklist displayed at the beginning of the submission process.

Guidelines for the preparation of figure templates

The following applies to digitally submitted artwork intended for printing:

• For grayscale or color images, only the loss-free TIFF (*.tif) or EPS (*.eps) formats are to be used (i.e. no JPG format).
• Electronically created vectorized drawings (Illustrator, AutoCAD etc., not to be confused with bitmap formats, see below) should be submitted as high-resolution exported images (*.tif or *.pdf). Please note that the line width in relation to the final print size must not be less than 2.5 pt. In addition, the images should be submitted in the standard original formats (*.eps, *.ai, *.dwg).
• Black and white images should be created in grayscale mode, color images in CMYK mode.
• The minimum resolution for greyscale and colour images is 400 dpi, for bitmap formats (*.bmp, often used for non-vectorized black and white line drawings) 1600dpi. These resolutions apply to the final print size.
• In addition, we require all illustrations compiled in a single file (PowerPoint, PDF, Word or similar) for the review process. These are for overview purposes only and do not need to be scaled/formatted.

Details on the preparation of figures and layout can be found here (English in preparation).

Manuscript submission

Go to the website of the publication portal iDAI.publications, where you will find a reference to the journal »Athenische Mitteilungen«. Upon first use, please register with your personal data, a username, an email address, and a password. Please remember to register not only as a »reader« but also as an »author«. To do this, check the corresponding box under »Register as« during registration. After registration, you can log in and submit the manuscript.

If you have any questions regarding manuscript preparation or submission, please contact: redaktion.athen@dainst.de