Transactions

The Society publishes a journal - the Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society - containing articles of local history and archaeology. It is issued free to members, usually biennially.

An Index to the Transactions has been prepared up to the latest Volume (available on request); this is alphabetical by author. The 'Edit, Find' facility in Word allows you to search for places or topics.

The Society holds back numbers of the Transactions for sale and reference (please contact the treasurer-see Contacts), and copies are held in Sheffield Local Studies Library, Sheffield Archives and Sheffield University Library.  

The editor is always interested in hearing from people who might have articles to be considered for publication.   You can find guidelines for contributors below.

For further information contact the Managing Editor:

Telephone: 0114 2309442

or email : editor@hunterarchaeologicalsociety.org.uk


Notes for Contributors

The Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society welcomes articles which are relevant to the archaeology of South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire.  Contributors need not be members of the Society.

Articles should be submitted at the earliest opportunity, preferably after consultation with the Editor.  Substantive articles should be kept to approximately 6000 words but the Editor also welcomes shorter contributions where the subject matter is inappropriate for an article of greater length. An abstract of no more than 200 words should be included at the beginning of the text.

Contributors are asked to send their text as a Word document. Pdf proofs will be returned to contributors for proofreading, after which only the most important insertions or alterations to text may be made at this stage and their acceptance will then be at the Editor’s discretion. Authors are asked to observe the following:

 

Text:

Spellings as included in the Oxford English Dictionary should be used.  Hyphens are required where two words are used adjectivally: e.g. ‘iron-smelting industry’ (but ‘iron smelting’ as a phrase). Compass points may be abbreviated to NW, etc. unless commencing a sentence when they should be written in full with hyphens (e.g. ‘North-west’).  Contractions, such as ‘Yorks’ instead of ‘Yorkshire’, should be avoided.  Italics should be used for titles of books, periodicals, specialised technical terms and quotations in a foreign language.

 

Quotations:

Quotations should be in single inverted commas and quotations within quotations in double inverted commas. Omissions from quotations may be indicated by three full stops; additions to quotations should be enclosed in square brackets.  Quotations will need a reference (with the page number), immediately thereafter.

 

Numbers and Dates:

Words rather than figures should be used in the text at the start of a sentence.  Numbers 1–10 should be written in words; numbers from 11 onwards should be in figures; but such as ‘17 sherds’, ‘4 m’ or ‘100 hectares’ is acceptable elsewhere in the text.  Percentages should be written as ‘40 per cent’ (not ‘40%’).  If an article contains reference to disused measures or coinage authors may wish to add the modern equivalent, e.g. ‘£4 15s 0d, (£4.75)’ but this should be used sparingly to avoid disruption of the text.  Dates should be written as ‘14 May 1640’ not ‘14/5/1640’.

 

References:

The Transactions uses the Harvard system of referencing with a bibliography at the end of the article where author surnames are listed alphabetically.  For example, the in text referencing style would appear as ‘Gray (1988, 49)’ where a particular page(s) is referred to, or (Davey 2000) where the whole book/article is to be referenced.

 

Footnotes should not be used and the use of endnotes should be resisted (where absolutely necessary, they should be numbered consecutively in the text and listed by number at the end of the text).  All bibliographical references should be given in the Harvard style; for example:

 

Books:

Rahtz, P. 1974 Rescue Archaeology. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

 

Journal Articles:

Cramp, R.J. 1969 ‘Excavations at the Saxon Monastic Site of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Co. Durham: an Interim Report’ in Medieval Archaeology. 13 (1969): pp 21-66.

Internet references:

Pastscape 2017 http//www.pastcape.org.uk. Historic England. Accessed April 2018.

 

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements to individuals and institutions should be placed in a paragraph at the end of the article, particularly where copyright permission for the use of documents or illustrations is required.

 

Illustrations:

Contributors are responsible for supplying all illustrations they wish to use.  If copyright is involved, contributors must obtain the necessary permission and be responsible for payment of any reproduction fees.  The Editor may request written confirmation of right for its use and acknowledgement of the copyright-holder should be provided.  Authors should note that page references to an illustration within the text cannot be determined until final typesetting.

 

Line drawings:

The printing area is 17 x 24 cm, including margins, which should be kept in mind for full-page illustrations. Drawings must be digitised, preferably in jpeg format of at least 400 dpi. The Editor retains the right to seek the author’s permission for revisions to illustrations where necessary.

 

Captions:

A caption list must accompany drawings. Text, drawings and caption list must have a note of the figure numbers.

 

Photographs:

Again, digital images in jpeg format (c. 600dpi) should be submitted separately from the text, but a suggested location in the text should be included (e.g. ‘Figure 1 here’).  If physical photographs are to be used (e.g. archive material) these should be scanned and submitted digitally.


Copyright:

All contributions to the Transactions are copyright, both to the Society and authors. Authors must agree to them being made freely available on a digital platform.