SHEDET publishes articles only in English. Authors should submit the manuscript that have been carefully proof read and polished. Authors are required to read carefully and follow the instructions for authors to SHEDET. Acceptance or rejection notification will be sent to all authors through e-mail.
The submitted article is the final version. Manuscript should be submitted exactly according to the instructions for authors to SHEDET.
Maximum number of illustrations, maps, plates and figures is 12 per paper.
Submit your manuscript electronically.
If you have problems or difficulties to upload your files electronically, please contact the editorial board at: ?? Send your Manuscript as a pdf blind file (without the author’s data) to ???for further peer review process.
Important Dates
SHEDET is an annually journal, its print issue is published each December since 2014.
The deadline is May 31st for publication in December of the same calendar year.
Fayoum University Contributions
Authors from Fayoum University expected to not exceed 25% percent per issue. Contributions over this percent will be delayed to the next issue considering the agreement of their authors. Priority depends on the submission date of the final article.
SHEDET can publish a special issue any time of the year.
Please note that Review Papers/Articles are also acceptable.
Once a paper is accepted, authors are assumed to cede copyrights of the paper over to SHEDET. Once paper is accepted it will be published online even before the schedule of issue date.
Submit your paper along with signed COPYRIGHT FORM, while submitting paper to SHEDET.
The Copyright Transfer Form submitted with us will become void in case paper is not accepted in our Journal.
Note: In case manuscript accepted and Copyright Form and Payment received your paper will be published ONLINE even before release date of Issue.
Instruction for Authors for Manuscript for the Annual Peer-Reviewed Journal Issued by the Faculty of Archaeology – Fayoum University (SHEDET)
ABSTRACT
This section should summarize the content of the paper and should detail the problems, experimental approach, major findings and conclusion in one paragraph. Avoid abbreviation, diagram and references in the abstract. It should be single-spaced and Try to keep the abstract below 150 words and should not exceed 200 words for full papers. Please make sure that the margins and layout explained below is followed as this will help us to maintain uniformity in the final print version of the journal. Both form and content of the paper has to be as per these guidelines else your paper will not be published even though its content has been accepted.
KEYWORDS
Provide about 4-6 keywords that can identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. They must be placed at the end of the abstract
INTRODUCTION
SHEDET publishes articles only in English in all main fields of Archaeology. Restoration papers must be divided into various sections starting with 'Introduction' and ending with 'Conclusions'.
Text of paper should be divided into - Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgement, References, or suitable headings in Egyptology, Greek-Roman, Byzantine, Coptic and Islamic archaeology, and related theoretically oriented papers and reviews.
The text must be presented into one column with figures and Tables in their proper place.
The table heading may have 12 bold font titles. The graph/figure may have 12 pt bold font titles with good resolution.
The table/figure heading must be in the text form and should not form part of the image.
The manuscript should include a brief introduction stating the purpose of the investigation and relating the manuscript to similar previous research.
Only information essential to the arguments should be presented.
The paper must be in final form since we will publish it directly. Paper should be exactly in this format.
The manuscript should be prepared in English using “MS Word” with A4page. “Times New Roman” font should be used. The font size should be of 12pt but main subheadings may be of 14pt.
The research article can be up to 5000 words excluding references and abstract.
For proper referring and fast publication, all manuscript should be grammatically correct.
TEXT FORMATTING
The submitted article shall contain no tab or style-sheet. When necessary, the text shall be set in italic. Notes shall be put at the bottom of the page and automatically numbered from 1 to n. The basic structure of the submitted article shall be defined by unnumbered headings. Each table or illustration shall be provided in a high resolution in its proper place within the article. Illustration and table legends shall include the source, unless the element is published for the first time, the author (photographer, designer etc.), if any, and his/her affiliation
Major headings are to be in a bold font of 14pt uppercase letters without underline as above.
Subheadings: Subheadings should be as here “Subheadings:”.
They should start at the left-hand margin on a separate line, followed by a colon “ : ” without space.
Text continues directly after the subheading in the same line. The beginning of this paragraph shows a sub-subheading.
Article’s Title: The title should be centered across the top of the first page and should have a distinctive font of 18 points Times New Roman. It should be in a bold font and in lower case with initial capitals.
Authors’ Names and Addresses: The authors’ names and addresses should be centered below the title.
The name(s) should be 12 points bold Times New Roman, and the affiliation(s) is the same but 11 points.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
In the footnotes, bibliographical references should be 10 points Times New Roman and shall refer to the REFERENCES provided at the end of the article. They shall contain the author’s last name and a short version of the article/volume’s title.
E.g.: Aslanapa, Turkish Art; Ameen, “Travelers' Works As An Important Source”; Grossmann “MadinetMadi”
REFERENCES
Should be 11 points Times New Roman at the end of the article shall be drafted according to as the following:
Monograph: Aslanapa (Oktay), Turkish Art and Architecture, London - New York 1971.
Collective work: Hawass (Zahi) ed., Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo 2000. 3 vols., Cairo: American University Press, 2003.
Book, proceedings: Maxwell (Ingval), “Stone cleaning: For better or worse? An overview”, in Webster R. G. M. (ed.), Stone Cleaning and the Nature, Soiling and Decay Mechanisms of Stone, Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Edinburgh, UK, 14–16 April 1992, London, (Donhead Publishing, 1992), 3–49.
Article: Ameen (Ahmed), “Travelers' Works As An Important Source In Studying Archaeology In Light Of The Hadji ‘Ali Mosque Of Athens,”SHEDET 2 (2015), Fayoum, 6-22.
Chapter or article in a collective book: Grossmann (Peter), “MadinetMadi”, in The Coptic Encyclopedia V, New York 1991, 1497-149.
TRANSLITERATION
SHEDET adopts the list of Transliteration of Arabic and Persian Characters published in: EncyclopaediaIslamica(“System of Transliteration of Arabic and Persian Characters”,in: EncyclopaediaIslamica, Editors-in-Chief: WilferdMadelung and, FarhadDaftary. Consulted online on 18 March 2017; First published online: 2013; First print edition: ISBN: 9789004246911, 20131209), published by Brill.
Kindly download the list from the mentioned link or from here.
CONCLUSIONS
Manuscript should have relevant brief conclusion and should reflect the importance and future scope.
ARABIC ABSTRACT
Manuscript should end with an Arabic abstract summarizing the content of the paper. Editorial board will provide the Arabic abstract for those who do not know Arabic.