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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript is original, unpublished, and is not currently under consideration for publication in another journal or collective work, and corresponds to one of the categories accepted by the journal (research article, short communication, or book review).
  • The text is written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese and has been prepared in a format compatible with OpenOffice or Microsoft Word, and is submitted exclusively through the journal’s official online platform.
  • The length, title, structure of the text, general format, line spacing, and use of images and tables comply with the journal’s editorial guidelines and house style; images and tables must be submitted as separate files, numbered, and with their placement indicated in the text.
  • Author details (name, affiliation, city, country, email address, and ORCID iD, where applicable) are correctly provided in the platform metadata and do not appear in the manuscript or in footnotes.
  • The manuscript includes the required abstracts and keywords, in the languages and formats specified by the journal.
  • The manuscript has been properly anonymised to ensure double-blind peer review, removing any references that may identify the author, both in the body of the text and in the file properties.
  • Where ancient languages are used, the journal’s required academic standards of transliteration have been applied consistently.
  • Citations, references, and footnotes are used consistently in accordance with the Chicago author–date–page system; footnotes are used exclusively for supplementary comments, and the final bibliography includes only the works cited in the text, correctly ordered.

Author Guidelines

Anatolé. Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo welcomes original and unpublished contributions related to Ancient Near Eastern studies and related disciplines.

The journal operates on a continuous submission basis; manuscripts may therefore be submitted at any time of the year through its online platform. All submissions are incorporated into the editorial workflow in the order in which they are received and are subject to the established evaluation process.

The journal is published biannually, with issues appearing on 30 June and 30 December. To ensure the proper completion of peer review, copy-editing, and production processes, editorial deadlines are set at 31 March for the June issue and 30 September for the December issue. Manuscripts that do not complete the editorial process within these timeframes will be considered for the subsequent issue.

Detailed author guidelines regarding manuscript structure, organisation, and formal presentation criteria are available in the journal’s official template, the use of which is mandatory for the preparation and submission of manuscripts. The journal also provides a specific template for book reviews, which is likewise mandatory for this type of contribution.

These templates specify the editorial style guidelines applicable to articles in Spanish, including typographical, orthographic, and bibliographic conventions. Strict compliance with these standards is a prerequisite for the admission of manuscripts to the evaluation process.

In order to ensure double-blind peer review, authors must remove from the manuscript all information that may allow their identification, including in the text, references, and notes, as well as in the file properties (document metadata).

Author guidelines and style requirements for articles in English and Portuguese are available in the corresponding language versions of the journal’s website, where specific instructions adapted to each publication language are provided.

Research articles and contributions included in thematic dossiers are subject to external peer review, whereas book reviews, interviews, and dossier introductions are evaluated directly by the Editorial Board. The peer review process has an estimated duration of eight to twelve weeks from the formal receipt of the manuscript.

The final decision regarding acceptance, rejection, or the request for revisions rests with the Editor-in-Chief, in accordance with the reviewers’ reports and the journal’s editorial policies.

Articles

The Articles section of Anatolé. Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo is devoted to the publication of original and unpublished academic research that makes a substantive contribution to the study of the Ancient Near East.

Manuscripts must present a clearly defined research problem, explicit theoretical and methodological grounding, a rigorous and critical use of primary sources and/or specialised bibliography, coherent and well-structured argumentation, and an original contribution to the field.

This section welcomes contributions in areas such as Egyptology, Assyriology and Mesopotamian studies, archaeology, history, philology and textual studies, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the ancient Near Eastern world.

All submitted manuscripts undergo an evaluation process that includes a preliminary editorial screening and external peer review under a double-blind system. Acceptance of submissions depends exclusively on the outcome of this process.

Reviews

The Reviews section of Anatolé. Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo is devoted to the publication of critical academic assessments of recent works relevant to the study of the Ancient Near East.

Reviews aim to contribute to scholarly debate, disseminate significant bibliographical developments, and provide the specialist community with a well-founded evaluation of books of disciplinary relevance.

Submissions must present a substantiated critical analysis, situate the work within its historiographical and disciplinary context, and clearly identify its main contributions, strengths, and possible limitations.

Reviews may be commissioned by the Editorial Board or submitted as unsolicited proposals by interested authors. In all cases, the relevance of the work under review and the quality of the text will be assessed by the Editorial Board.

This section does not involve external peer review. Contributions are evaluated directly by the Editorial Board, taking into account their academic relevance, the quality of the critical analysis, clarity of argumentation, and alignment with the journal’s aims.

Dossiers

La sección Dossiers de la revista Anatolé. Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo está destinada a la publicación de conjuntos temáticos de artículos académicos centrados en un problema, corpus, enfoque o campo específico relacionado con el estudio del Próximo Oriente Antiguo.

Los dossiers buscan fomentar el diálogo especializado, visibilizar líneas de investigación emergentes y ofrecer panoramas críticos sobre temas de relevancia académica.

Los dossiers pueden originarse mediante invitación del Comité Editorial, convocatorias públicas difundidas por la revista o propuestas externas presentadas por investigadores o equipos académicos. Las propuestas deben incluir un título, un texto de presentación que exponga la justificación académica, los objetivos y la coherencia temática del conjunto, así como un listado provisional de contribuciones.

La pertinencia académica, originalidad y viabilidad editorial de las propuestas serán evaluadas por el Comité Editorial, que podrá solicitar la opinión consultiva del Consejo Científico Asesor.

Todos los artículos incluidos en un dossier son sometidos al mismo proceso de evaluación que los artículos de la sección regular, incluyendo revisión editorial preliminar y evaluación por pares externos bajo modalidad de doble ciego. La aceptación de un dossier no implica la aceptación automática de los artículos que lo integran.

Para su publicación como unidad, el dossier deberá contar con un número suficiente de artículos aceptados tras evaluación por pares, garantizando coherencia temática, calidad académica y pertinencia para la línea editorial de la revista. En caso contrario, los artículos aprobados podrán ser publicados de manera independiente en la sección Artículos.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in Anatolé. Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.

Articles are published under a Creative Commons licence, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the authorship and the original source of publication are properly acknowledged.

Authors may enter into additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their work (for example, depositing it in institutional repositories or publishing it in books), provided that its initial publication in this journal is clearly indicated.

Self-archiving of published works in institutional or personal repositories is permitted and encouraged, contributing to the dissemination of scholarly knowledge.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by the journal and will not be made available to third parties or used for any other purpose.

Anatolé. Estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo ensures the confidential handling of the personal data of authors, reviewers, and readers, which will be used solely within the framework of the editorial process and academic communication.

Personal data may be used for submission management, peer review processes, editorial communication, and the dissemination of journal content, always in accordance with the principles of security, integrity, and confidentiality.