The Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) publishes reviews, original papers and notes concerning primatology, human paleontology, prehistory, biology and genetics of extinct and extant populations. Only papers in English can be considered for publication. Particular attention is paid to the significance of Anthropology as an interdisciplinary field of research.  All contributions are revised by the editorial board together with the panel of referees.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Invited Reviews

Periodically the editorial board invites a number of specialists to write a review on arguments of general interest to the anthropological audience. Apart from describing the state of the art, the authors may present critical comments and personal points of view. The distinctive feature of JASs Invited Reviews is in the attention the authors pay to the way in which other disciplines may help solve open problems as well as to the usefulness of notions, approaches and methodologies discussed in the paper for other fields of research. This may be done by including an ad hoc section Interdisciplinary implications or by incorporating the discussion in other sections. Furthermore, whenever possible, a list of selected web sites relevant to the argument treated should be presented in the section Info on the web.

The writing style and use of explanatory figures should make the contents accessible to a wide audience ranging from specialists to graduate and phD students. The length should not exceed 20,000 words (text,  abstract and references) with no more than 6 figures and 6 tables.  The authors are also encouraged to submit updates of particular importance of their work after publication of the review, which will be both put online and published in the subsequent volumes (see below).

Reports

The JASs welcomes original reports of scientific research or commentaries concerning all fields of evolutionary Anthropology. The length should not exceed 10,000 words (text,  abstract and references), with 4 figures and 4 tables.

Correspondence & Notes

This section is devoted to:

•   concise presentations of research work;

•   comments and clarifications concerning works previously presented in the JASs.

•   points of view on open problems for research, teaching and scientific policy of Anthropology.

All these contributions are neither subdivided in sections or require an abstract. Their maximum length is of 1500 words for the text, with no more than 2 figures or tables and 10 references.

JASs forum

Periodically the JASs editorial board chooses an interdisciplinary subject of topical interest and invites one or more specialists to write a commentary. We encourage colleagues to submit their comments on the forum and guarantee a quick refereeing by the Editorial Board. Please note that all contributions to the JASs forum will be put both online and published in the printed version. The  length should not exceed 1500 words of text (with no abstract) with no more than 5 references.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

The manuscript must be arranged in a single file as follows:

            title of the article;

·     names and surnames of the authors; e-mail address should be provided only for the corresponding author;

·     full address of all the authors (institution/s and address/es);

·     e-mail address of the corresponding author/s;

·     summary (no more than 300 words), to be arranged as a single paragraph;

·     4-6 keywords;

·     a short heading of no more than  40 characters including spaces;

·     text of the article, subdivided in paragraphs (bold) and, if necessary, subparagraphs (italics);

·     acknowledgements, in italics, including dedication and financial support;

·     references (see below for style);

·     tables;

·     figures;

·     legends to the figures.

Footnotes are not accepted.

References

The authors' surnames quoted in the text and reported in the references must be followed by the date of publication of their work:

… as mentioned by Smith (1997) ... and subsequently confirmed (Red, 1972; White & Wollox, 1979)
… revealed by DNA variation (Van Dyke et al., 2005).

Bibliographic references must be reported in alphabetic and chronological order. Should there be more quotations in a same year by a given author, they should be distinguished with "a", "b", etc. The following examples may be of some help, also with reference to the blank spaces, capital letters, punctuation, etc.:

Lieberman D.E., Pilbeam D.R. & Wood B.A. 1988. A probabilistic approach to the problem of sexual dimorphism in Homo habilis: a comparison of KNM-ER 1470 and KNM-ER 1813. J. Hum. Evol., 17: 503-511.

Bahuchet S. 1999. Aka Pygmies. In B. Richard & R. Daly (eds.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers, pp. 190-194. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Oxnard C.E. 1987. Fossils, teeth and sex: new perspectives on human evolution. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

For Journal title abbreviations, follow http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (database Journals). Titles not found in this database must be reported in the non-abbreviated form.

Citations of participations in Congresses (both podium and poster presentations) must be avoided.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures should begin with a capital letter in the text as "Figure n" and "Table n"; they should also be abbreviated in brackets as "Fig. n" and "Tab. n". Tables out of the text should be indicated by an alphabetical sequence.  

When compiling illustrations, the reduction to the printing format of the journal shall be taken in due consideration: after reduction, horizontal figures may be 6.6 cm (if published in  one column) or 13.2 cm wide, with a maximum height of  16 cm, whereas vertical figures may have a maximum width of 16 cm and a maximum height of 12 cm. The letters, numbers, and symbols must be easily readable once they have been adapted and reduced for printing. As a rule, photographs should always contain a metric scale reference.         

Online material

Figures and tables which exceed the above limits for each type of contribution, along with other types of material (e.g. audio and/or video files, demo, applets) may be put online if they provide a useful addition to the paper.

Costs and Reprints

There is no cost for publication. Fifty reprints free of charge will be sent to the corresponding author of each paper. The authors should contact isita@isita-org.com before final printing for additional reprints.