Journal of Cuneiform Studies
Instructions for Contributors
The Journal of Cuneiform Studies (ISSN 0022-0256) is published annually by the American Schools of Oriental Research, 656 Beacon Street, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215-2010 on behalf of the Baghdad School.
Annual subscription rates are $45 for individuals ($25 for students) and $70 for institutions. Non-US subscribers should add an additional $10 for postage. Payments should be sent to ASOR Member/Subscriber Services, 656 Beacon St., 5th floor, Boston MA 02215-2010. Tel: toll-free 888-847-8753 or 617-358-4376; Fax: 617-353-6575; e-mail: asorpubs@bu.edu. VISA/Mastercard orders can be phoned in or submitted online at https://www.bu.edu/asor/jcssubform.html
All communications to the editors, manuscripts, and books for review should be addressed to Piotr Michalowski, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan, 4111 Thayer Building, 202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 (e-mail: piotrm@umich.edu; fax: 734-936-2679[o]). Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form. Complete submissions include a pdf file, an application file (MSWord or WordPerfect for PC or Mac) and all fonts used. Submission may be made on a disk or sent as an attachment to an email to the editor. For the transliteration of cuneiform characters, please use the system established in Rykle Borger, Assyrisch-babylonische Zeichenliste. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and should be printed at the end of the manuscript. Italics should be marked by underlining. Standard abbreviations should follow the usage of Orientalia and AHw; any other abbreviations should be explained in the first footnote. Authors may use the social sciences format of the Chicago Manual of Style for notations (a reference list must accompany this style of notation), or they may choose the following footnote format:
1. Book
P. Q. Author, The Book I Wrote, Series Information (Place: Publisher, Year), 109-10.
2. Article
P. Q. Author, "The Article I Wrote," JCS 42 (1990) 223-26.
3. Collected Papers
P. Q. Author, "The Paper I Wrote," in The Symposium to Which I Contributed, eds. J. P. Doe and Q. E. Dee (Place: Publisher, Year), 12.
Full citations must should be provided, even for well-known works. The use of "ibid." and "op. cit." is discouraged. Instead, for subsequent references, a short form is preferred. The use of "f." and "ff." when citing page or line numbers should be avoided. Please note the distinction between "see" (used for supporting point) and "cf." (confer, used for a contrasting or complementary point).
Manuscripts may be written in English, German, or French. Authors will receive twenty-five offprints of their articles gratis.
The responsibility for the views expressed rests with the individual author(s).
The receipt of review copies of books will be acknowledged in the Journal. Books for review should be sent to the ASOR Publications Office, Suite 330, 825 Houston Mill Raod, Atlanta, GA 30329. The editors reserve the right to select those books that in their opinion call for a critical review in the Journal.
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