Basic criteria

• Compliance with the Code of Ethics . Authors who submit originals to the journal must subscribe to international ethical code of authors for the realization of responsible scientific publications. In the event that any of the circumstances envisaged in said code occurs, and indicated in the "About" section, the authors must make it appear in the "Comments for the editor" field of the submission.
  To comply with international standards of good research practices, in cases where the research carried out includes research with human beings and/or their personal data such as observational, psychological or behavioral research in humans, participation of students pending evaluate by any of the researchers in the project, use of personal or similar data, the researchers must have the favorable certification of good practice issued by the Research Ethics Committee of the institution in which the study was carried out.
• Originality of the article . All submitted materials must be original (not published - not in another language - or in the process of being reviewed in other journals), and written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. For these purposes, work previously published in conference proceedings or dissemination platforms will not be considered unpublished and will be rejected. In the case of originals that derive from academic works as doctoral theses, the authors must indicate this circumstance, for their evaluation, in the field of "Comments for the editor" of the submission process.
• Participation of the authors . All authors who signed the article must have made a substantive participation in the development of the research according to the criteria established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) considering that:

  Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data; o the creation of new software used at work; or that you have written the work or made a substantial review. In addition, you have approved the submission of the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author's contribution to the study). Also that you agree to be personally responsible for the contributions themselves and those of the authors and ensure that issues related to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work, including in which the author was not personally involved, were properly investigated, resolved and the resolution was documented in the literature.

  Consequently, the authorship will correspond to one or more of the roles defined by the CRediT of CASRAI project.
  The signature order will follow the model of the SDC approach (Sequence Determines Credit), so that the first author is the one who has made the most relevant contributions to the investigation, and the rest appear successively on the right indicating decreasing contributions.
• Time between posts . The same author, regardless of the place he occupies in their relationship, may not publish more than one article in the same volume or in the next. Texts received in periods less than these two years will not be sent for review.
• Language and translation.. The article must be writte in one of the following accepted languages: Spanish, English or Portuguese.
  In the event that the article submitted in Spanish or Portuguese is accepted for publication, once the final revision of the original text in the submitted language has been made, the authors must submit a version translated into English. To guarantee the quality of the translation, according to the standards required in the international sphere, it must be signed by a translator or company that has ISO 17100 norm or homologous recognition.
  Although Journal Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala does not carry out or manage the translation, the following is a list of translation companies that have such certification in case they help authors: AGESTRAD , Tridiom , Start , Aje , Trágora.
  The authors will have 15 days to deliver the translation.
• Authors information . All authors must complete their profile in all the three languages of the journal, including:
• Current affiliation information (linked to the place where the research was conducted) following the scheme: Full name of the institution (Acronym), for example: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
• ORCID Identifier , following the complete URL scheme, for example: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1102-3144
• Bibliographic summary of about 100 words, following the recommended scheme: Full affiliation [position, name of the group (if applicable), or department (if applicable), center or institute (full name and acronym , if it exists), the institution it depends on, postal address, city, and country. Contact email]. Main research line / s. Remarkable reference of projects and publications.
  When you belong to an institution, the mail consigned in profile should be the one in it.
• Article metadata . All metadata of the article must be completed in the corresponding section of the submission, in the three languages ​​(Spanish, English and Portuguese) following the indications established in the publication rules. It is very important that during the shipping phase this information is completed correctly, since otherwise, the item will be returned and a new shipment must be made.
  In the event that the research is funded by a support agency or a private entity, it is mandatory to state the complete reference (Project title, Funding entity / s, Program or call, Reference) within the metadata section " Support agencies ". Also, in the case of an investigation funded by an EU project that has a ProjectID OpenAIRE or is part of the initiative Funding Data of Crossref, the reference must be included in the metadata section enabled for this purpose with the agency search engine that integrates the updated information in Funder Registry . In the event that the research has been self-funded, this section of metadata should indicate "self-funded."

Article submission

Since 2015, Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala has been using the OJS editorial management platform. If you wish to submit a paper, you must do so through this system: Sumissions.

Pre-submission checks

Before starting, it is important that you verify that your submission complies scrupulously with all the requirements requested by the journal, and that you have prepared all the files (a single main document and, if applicable, attached files) that you want to remit. You can view the pre-submission checklist at the top of this page.

Remember that the main document should NOT include the names of the authors. To do this, all the metadata of the document that allows to recognize the authorship will also be deleted. This data will be entered later during the shipping process, in step 2 of the submission.

Tutorial submission

Submission of articles

You need to register and identify yourself in order to submit articles online and to check the status. Only will be accepted submission through this system.

If you already have a username and password for Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala, go to Identification. If not, go to register to register.

Step 1. Start the submission

In the user menu, go to the "Submission" tab. In this screen you can start sending or review any other that you have sent previously.

Click on the "New Submission" button to load the shipping screen. Here you will see a menu with five tabs.

In the first tab (1. Start) you should:

• Accept the license agreement for publication of the journal. Check the box I agree to abide by the terms of the copyright statement.
• Select the language in which your original is sent (Indonesian or English)
• Select the Article section to your submission refers for evaluation.
• Check the submission checklist to confirm that the submitted work complies with all the requirements requested by the journal. You should check the different confirmation boxes.
• Accept the privacy policy of Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala
• Complete in the field "Comments for the editor" (Cover Letter) the reasons why the work aspires to be included in the journal and its interest for the scientific community. In this same field, if you want to challenge a researcher as an evaluator of your work, you can indicate it (you should not justify the reason).
• Save and continue

Step 2. Upload and submit the main file and the complementary files

In this second step you must select the file containing the main document, upload it to the system and send it.

Follow these steps:

1. Select the item Text type from the Item component drop-down list. and upload the file with the main document.
2. Check in the 2.Metadatas tab that the title of the file is the one you want. Otherwise, you can edit it at this time.
3. Repeat the process to upload additional files. Select from the Item Component drop-down box the corresponding type (illustration, table, research instrument, research materials, results, transcriptions, data analysis, data set, other), and upload the file.
4. In case you are uploading a revision of a previously uploaded file, you can indicate it to replace it with the new upload.
5. Finish to continue.

In the case of the main file, it is very important to verify that the file is in one of the permitted formats (.doc, .docx or .odt). Also, make sure that the document does not contain any information that can recognize the authorship of the document.

Step 3. Introduction of metadata

In step 3 of the submission, they must include the following information corresponding to the metadata of the article. You must complete these, obligatorily, in Indonesian and English.

To do this, each field is unfolded: one space for the content in Spanish and the other for the content in English. An icon of the world ball indicates the state of each field (in gray: there is no content yet, in red: there is content in only one language, in green: there is content in both languages)

• Article title. It should be clear, concise and accurate, so that its reading allows understanding the scope of the content. It will not exceed, in any case, the 80 characters (with spaces included)
• Prefix. If the title begins with an article or any other element that should not be considered in alphabetical ordering, include it in this field.
• Subtitle. Although the use of subtitles is not recommended, in case it is necessary to incorporate one that specifies or concretes the title, it should not exceed 60 characters.
• Publishers may propose title changes based on the quality criteria of the journal.
• Abstract. In this field the abstract will be included, which should represent, in a structured way, the main idea and the most relevant significance of each one of its parts: objectives and scope of the research, methodology used, results and discussion. This will use a clear, concise language with short phrases. The maximum length of the abstract will be 250 words.
• List of authors and collaborators. In this section will appear the author who is doing the sending. In the case of a work with several authors and / or collaborators, you must include them by clicking on the text "Add collaborator". For each of them you must complete a form with the following fields (all mandatory):
  • Name and surmane 
  • Contact E-Mail
  • Country
  • User details: treatment (Dr. Ph.D., etc.), professional page URL or CV, ORCID identifier
  • Professional affiliation: position (department, country entity). For example: Full Professor (Department of Communication, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
  • Biographical summary. The academic situation of the authors should be indicated, and include the reference s the last two works published by the author. It will not exceed 350 characters.
  • Role of the collaborator. Indicate if you are an author or translator
  • Finally, it should indicate if the author should receive the editorial correspondence, and if he wants to appear as an author in the journal listings.
• Indexing information. The following information must be provided for the correct indexing of the article.
  • Coverage. First, point out the coverage of your work. Indicate whether your research has a local, regional, national or international scope. If applicable, supplement this information with the place or scope of your research. For example: "national, Spain". Also indicate if the work fits into a particular time frame. For example: "2005-2010" or "90's". Shipping type. Choose the type of shipment. Usually it will be "text" although it could be "image" or other multimedia files including "software" and "interactive".
  • Type o submission. Choose the type of submission. Usually it will be "text" although it could be "image" or other multimedia files including "software" and "interactive".
  • Source. In the event that this work is derived, continues or is related to previous research done by you or another research team, you may enter a URL or description of the resource.
  • Methodology and research techniques. Indicate the methodology used in the study (qualitative, quantitative, mixed, experimental, ethnographic ..., and the main techniques used
  • Academic discipline (s) to which the consignment is attached.
  • Keyword. Enter 6 keywords following the guidelines for authors on this page.
  • Supporting agencies. You should complete this field if the results presented in your work come from a funded project. In that case, follow the instructions.
  • Bibliographic references. Enter the list of bibliographic references you have included in the corresponding section of the original. Check that they conform to the standards of the journal and that the information is exactly the same as in the document. This is critical in the review process. Separate each reference from the next with a line break.

Step 4. Confirm the submission

In this last screen the proposal is sent. In case you want to review the information and documents incorporated, you can navigate through the shipping tabs to check it.

When you have made the check, you must complete the shipment. Once this is done, the system will confirm that it has been correctly sent and will receive an email with it in the email address with which it has been registered in the system. In the event that the confirmation email does not reach you, check if you are consulting the email that you registered with, or check the spam folder.

From this moment you can check the status of your shipment by accessing with your user the tab "Proposals"

Resource

• Article Template . This template was created for you as an author, to follow the Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala's style. The template document that you will download and use below is made with the size and font type, and the actual layout. so all you have to do is copy and paste it from your original text into this document.
  download article template
• Author Guidelines . All submitted materials must be original (not published - not in another language - or in the process of being reviewed in other journals), and written in Spanish, English or Portuguese. For these purposes, work previously published in conference proceedings or dissemination platforms will not be considered unpublished and will be rejected. In the case of originals that derive from academic works as doctoral theses, the authors must indicate this circumstance, for their evaluation, in the field of "Comments for the editor" of the submission process.
• Participation of the authors . All authors who signed the article must have made a substantive participation in the development of the research according to the criteria established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) considering that:

  Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data; o the creation of new software used at work; or that you have written the work or made a substantial review. In addition, you have approved the submission of the submitted version (and any substantially modified version that involves the author's contribution to the study). Also that you agree to be personally responsible for the contributions themselves and those of the authors and ensure that issues related to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work, including in which the author was not personally involved, were properly investigated, resolved and the resolution was documented in the literature.

  Consequently, the authorship will correspond to one or more of the roles defined by the CRediT of CASRAI project.
  The signature order will follow the model of the SDC approach (Sequence Determines Credit), so that the first author is the one who has made the most relevant contributions to the investigation, and the rest appear successively on the right indicating decreasing contributions.
• Time between posts . The same author, regardless of the place he occupies in their relationship, may not publish more than one article in the same volume or in the next. Texts received in periods less than these two years will not be sent for review.
• Language and translation.. The article must be writte in one of the following accepted languages: Spanish, English or Portuguese.
  In the event that the article submitted in Spanish or Portuguese is accepted for publication, once the final revision of the original text in the submitted language has been made, the authors must submit a version translated into English. To guarantee the quality of the translation, according to the standards required in the international sphere, it must be signed by a translator or company that has ISO 17100 norm or homologous recognition.
  Although Journal Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala does not carry out or manage the translation, the following is a list of translation companies that have such certification in case they help authors: AGESTRAD , Tridiom , Start , Aje , Trágora.
  The authors will have 15 days to deliver the translation.
• Authors information . All authors must complete their profile in all the three languages of the journal, including:
• Current affiliation information (linked to the place where the research was conducted) following the scheme: Full name of the institution (Acronym), for example: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
• ORCID Identifier , following the complete URL scheme, for example: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1102-3144
• Bibliographic summary of about 100 words, following the recommended scheme: Full affiliation [position, name of the group (if applicable), or department (if applicable), center or institute (full name and acronym , if it exists), the institution it depends on, postal address, city, and country. Contact email]. Main research line / s. Remarkable reference of projects and publications.
  When you belong to an institution, the mail consigned in profile should be the one in it.
• Article metadata . All metadata of the article must be completed in the corresponding section of the submission, in the three languages ​​(Spanish, English and Portuguese) following the indications established in the publication rules. It is very important that during the shipping phase this information is completed correctly, since otherwise, the item will be returned and a new shipment must be made.
  In the event that the research is funded by a support agency or a private entity, it is mandatory to state the complete reference (Project title, Funding entity / s, Program or call, Reference) within the metadata section " Support agencies ". Also, in the case of an investigation funded by an EU project that has a ProjectID OpenAIRE or is part of the initiative Funding Data of Crossref, the reference must be included in the metadata section enabled for this purpose with the agency search engine that integrates the updated information in Funder Registry . In the event that the research has been self-funded, this section of metadata should indicate "self-funded."