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Responsibilities of the Editor and Executive Editorial Board of ES

The editor and the executive editorial board of ES are responsible for

• deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published. In making these decisions, they are guided by the policies of the journal and by legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism;
• providing guidance to guest editors, authors and reviewers on everything that is expected of them and also a description of peer review processes;
• providing new editorial board members with guidelines on everything that is expected of them and keeping existing members updated on new policies and developments;
• evaluating manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic and intellectual merit, without regard to the author(s)’ race, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin, religious belief, citizenship, political orientation or social class;
• ensuring a fair and unbiased double-blind peer review of the manuscripts and that all information related to them is kept confidential. They also ensure that both authors’ and peer reviewers’ identities are protected;
• ensuring that appropriate reviewers are selected;
• developing and maintaining a database of suitable reviewers and updating it on the basis of reviewer performance;
• ensuring that unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript are not used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author;
• taking reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints are presented concerning a submitted or published manuscript;
• publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies whenever needed.

Guest Editors’ Responsibilities

Guest editors are responsible for

• defining the subject matter and role of every article in a thematic issue;
• providing clear guidelines to authors regarding the topic and boundaries of their contributions and the overall design of the issue;
• ensuring, in collaboration with the executive editorial board, that appropriate reviewers are selected for all the articles (whether they have been commissioned or submitted as a result of a call for papers);
• establishing a timeline for draft paper submission, peer review, revision and final paper submission with the executive editorial board, and ensuring that all deadlines are met;
• writing the Introduction to the issue.

Authors’ Responsibilities

• Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the manuscript. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable;
• Authors should not submit the same manuscript simultaneously to more than one publication at a time. This constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable;
• Authors must ensure that they have written original works and that any work or words of others authors, contributors or sources have been appropriately credited and referenced;
• Authors submitting their works to ES for publication as original articles confirm that the submitted works represent their own contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works without clearly citing the source. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work;
• Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable;
• Authors must ensure that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere;
• Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project should be acknowledged or listed as contributors;
• The corresponding author with the journal should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that there is a full consensus of all co-authors in approving the final version of the paper and its submission for publication;
• Authors should disclose financial or other conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support should be disclosed;
• When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editors and cooperate with them to retract or correct the manuscript.

Reviewers’ Responsibilities

• Peer review assists the editor and executive editorial board of ES in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communication with the author, may also assist the author in improving the manuscript;
• Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its timely review will be impossible should immediately notify the editor so that alternative reviewers can be contacted;
• Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents;
• Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage;
• Reviewers must report to the editor of ES if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author’s part;
• Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper;
• Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on content without regard to the authors’ race, age, gender, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, religious belief, citizenship, political orientation or social class;
• Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Publisher’s Responsibilities

As publisher of ES

• provides practical support to the editor and executive editorial board of ES;
• ensures the autonomy of editorial decisions;
• protects intellectual property and copyright;
• ensures that good practice is maintained to the standards defined above.

Requirements for layout of articles:

Materials are accepted electronically (MS WORD), sent to the e-mail address of the editor. The name of the file with text, tables and illustrations consists of the author's surname, the title and the constituent parts of the article (text, pic., Tab.). The printout is obligatory. The formatting of the text: A-4 sheet size (210 by 297 mm), upper, lower, right margins - 20 mm, left margin - 30 mm, size of the character (key) - 14, interchanging interval - 1,5, font - Verdana.

In the upper left corner, the UDC index, below in the center the author, the title of the article are given.

Information about the author is given in the link on the first page of the article. The following data should also be indicated: surname, name, name of patronymic, scientific degree, rank, place of work, work address, e-mail address. Submitted annotation in the Ukrainian language (2-3 sentences), summary of the topic, which the article is dedicated to, keywords (up to 8 words). The text must meet the requirements set out above. The article size should not exceed one note sheet (40,000 characters with spaces). The references in the text are invariably given by a semi-code in parentheses, for example (Son, Sheiko 2016, p.79), without a comma before the year. Literature in the original language is given after the text and is given according to the old model, the names of the authors are highlighted in italics. ATTENTION! It is necessary to specify the publishing house, and in the compilations, the name of the editor. We remind that literature should consist only of sources that have a link in the text.

Son N.O. Sheiko I.M. Metal lamps from Olbia and Tire // Archeology - 2016 - No. 4. - p. 79-87. The following information should be submitted: a summary in Russian and English languages, in volume of 0.5 pages. The requirements are the following: the title of the article, the author, the author's data (the same as in the beginning of the article), the text of the resume, the key words. All items are given in two languages.

ATTENTION! After the summary under the heading References, the same list of literature used in the article is provided, but already in Latin transliteration. All sources published in Cyrillic should be transliterated, or a translation should be submitted if it was published. It is necessary to use official transliteration, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on January 27, 2010 (in this case, the Russian letter "Э" translates as "E", and the letter "Ы" to "Y", the letters "Ь, Ъ" are not written; you can check on page www. slovnyk/services/translit.php). Literature in the list is in alphabetical order.

In References, additional information about the source is separated by a comma: the title of the journal or compilation is highlighted in italics, after a comma, the year, the issue, the number of pages. For monographs: author, title, full stop, city, publishing house, year. It is not allowed to use the dash in the list of literature or //, /.

Requirements for design drawings:

All types of illustrations in the text are indicated with: Fig. (Рис.)

The numbering of illustrative materials should be sequential without spaces and repetitions. Illustrations, in particular, drawings on tables, should be related to the text. If there are positions in the picture, then the number indicating the position is highlighted in italics (Fig. 1, 24). The same applies to tables.

On the back of the illustrations the author's name, the title of the article, the figure number in Arabic numerals is given. If the illustrations have conventional symbols - the "legend", they all need to be decoded in the text under the picture.

The drawings submitted in an electronic version must be in TIFF or JPEG format, minimum 300 dpi. Drawings printed from the electronic version must be dated with the corresponding files.

Table materials for the article should be submitted in a format that corresponds to the technical capabilities of the printing press. They should not exceed 40% of the total article size.

We ask authors to adhere strictly to the established rules of material layout.