Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Preparation of the manuscript

The manuscript must present the following sections in order: (I) Information on the first pages; (II) Main text with its corresponding sections; (III) Acknowledgments; (IV) Declaration of conflict of interest; (V) Literature cited. The submission of the following files (VI) Tables with their headings; (VII) Captions of the figures; (VIII) Figures; (IX) Supplementary material; and (X) Multimedia content, should be done separately.

(I) The information on the first pages of the file must present the following order and content:

Title in Spanish, Portuguese, and English: It must be in capital letters, in bold, and aligned to the left

Full name and institutional affiliations of the authors: below include the list of all the authors, indicating the full name and adding consecutive numbers that indicate the institutional affiliation which is then detailed below including city, province, and zip code. Add the ORCID of each author, updated and publicly accessible. Indicate the contact information of the corresponding author with an asterisk.

Example:

Henrik B. Lindskoug1,2, Claudia Amuedo1, Claudina V. González1*

1) Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba – CONICET. Anthropology Museum. Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. National University of Cordoba. Argentina.

2) “María Saleme de Burnichon” Research Center. Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. National University of Cordoba. Argentina.

ORCID Hernrik. B. Lindskoug: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4003-1173

ORCID Claudia Amuedo: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4003-1173

ORCID Claudina V. González: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3693-6471

*Correspondence to: Claudina V. González. Museum of Anthropology, Av. Hipólito Yrigoyen 174, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina. E-mail: cgonzalez@ffyh.unc.edu.ar

Number of pages of the text: including literature cited, number of figures, and number of tables

Abbreviated title: must not exceed 48 characters and spaces

Source of funding: indicate the funding agency or institution and the project code, if any. If you do not have financing, the following phrase must be included: “There was no financing for this work.”

Roles and contributions of authors: The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and in what way. Contributions from anyone who does not meet the authorship criteria should be included, with the contributor's permission, in the Acknowledgments section (for example, to acknowledge contributions from individuals who provided technical help, writing assistance, acquired funding, or a department head who provided general support). Before submitting the article, all authors must agree on the order in which their names will appear in the manuscript. The RAAB asks authors to use the CRediT taxonomy (Contributing Role Taxonomy) according to which the authors of a work can have 14 different roles:

Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation of general research objectives.

Data curation: Management activities to produce metadata, and organize research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.

Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize data.

Acquisition of financing: Acquisition of financial support for the project that gives rise to this publication.

Research: Conducting a research process, specifically conducting experiments or collecting data/evidence.

Methodology: Development or design of methodology; model creation.

Project administration: Management responsibility, coordination of research planning and execution.

Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools.

Software: Programming, software development; computer program design; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; Testing existing code components.

Supervision: Supervisory and leadership responsibility for the planning and execution of the research activity, including external mentoring to the core team.

Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replication/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research products.

Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work, specifically visualization/presentation of data.

Writing – Preparation of the original draft: Creation and/or initial presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – Review and editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the work, specifically critical review, comment, or revision – including the stages before or after publication.

An example of an author contribution statement using CRediT:

Kerys Jones: Conceptualization (director); writing – original draft (main); formal analysis (director); writing – review and editing (same). Eliseo Roberto: Software (leader); writing – review and editing (same). Hebei Wang: Methodology (director); writing – review and editing (same). Jinnie Wu: Conceptualization (support); Writing – original draft (supporting); Writing – review and editing (same). Pierro Asara: review and editing (same).

Summary in Spanish, Portuguese, and English: the summary must have a maximum of 250 words, in which the objectives, research design, main results, and conclusions are presented. Do not include subtitles or bibliographic citations.

Keywords in Spanish, Portuguese, and English: they are the descriptors of the content of the manuscript. Write a minimum of three and no more than five. Terms used in the title should not be repeated. Words must be lowercase (except for proper names) and separated by a semicolon (e.g., KEYWORDS: birth weight; Holy Cross; secular variation).

(II) Main text: It is recommended, where appropriate, to divide the text into the following parts: The first section begins directly with the text without the word “Introduction” as the title, MATERIALS and METHODS (together or in separate sections), RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, and LITERATURE CITED. Main headings should be in capital letters, centered, and bold. Secondary titles should be in lowercase, centered, and in bold. If there are titles of lower hierarchy, they should be in italics and at the beginning of the first line of the paragraph. Do not start sentences with abbreviations.

The general format of the manuscript, including the literature cited, should be presented double-spaced with all margins 2.5 cm. Pages must be numbered consecutively starting on the title page. Times New Roman font size 11 pt should be used. Use indentations at the beginning of each paragraph. Do not rightly justify any text. Do not indent with the space bar. Use the space bar only to separate words. The word “Figure” is not abbreviated in the text, except when it appears in parentheses, e.g., (Fig. 1); (Figs. 1 and 2); (Figs. 4-6); (Figs. 3a, b).

In-text citations are placed in the specific place in our writing where reference is made to another work. There are 2 formats, parenthetical and narrative. In the parenthetical citation, both the author and the date of publication appear, separated by a comma, in parentheses. In the narrative citation, the author appears as part of the text, and the date is indicated in parentheses, immediately after the author's name. When there are 3 or more authors, the last name of the first author is used, followed by "et al." When there is more than one citation, alphabetical order is followed to order them. Examples: (Fernández, 2020), (Fernández and González, 2020) (Fernández et al., 2020) (Fernández and González, 2020; Rodriguez et al., 2019). For corporate or institutional authors with acronyms, the full name and abbreviation are used in the first citation (World Health Organization [WHO], 2016), and only the abbreviation in subsequent citations (WHO, 2016).

Numbers, units, abbreviations: Write the name of the numbers when starting a sentence. Numbers indicating time, measurements, or weight must be written in Arabic numerals if they are followed by abbreviations indicating the unit of time, measurement, or weight. There must be a space between the number and the abbreviation and the latter does not have a period, e.g., 30 min, 10 mm, 28 ha, 50 kg, 2 ml, 500 AP. Measurements of distance, area, volume, and weight must be expressed in the decimal metric system. Liters are not abbreviated to avoid confusion with the Arabic numeral "1". Decimal figures in the text should be punctuated in the same way as in tables. In the case of texts in English, using a comma to separate thousands and a period to separate decimals, e.g., 12.6%, 5,000 years BP, and in the case of texts in Spanish, using commas to separate decimals and points for thousands, e.g., 12 .6%; 5,000 years BP. The following should be italicized: words written in a language different from that of the manuscript, e.g., versus; including the scientific names of genera, species, and varieties expressed in Latin, e.g., Homo sapiens; Spondylus sp.; genetic symbols, e.g., NR3C1, and also the letters used as statistical symbols or algebraic variables. The Latin abbreviations, e.g., cf., etc., i.e., vs. They should not be italicized. Exact p values should be indicated using 2 or 3 decimal places (e.g., p = .006, p = .03). Values less than .001 should indicate p < .001.

Links to multimedia content: The RAAB allows the incorporation of links to explanatory or exemplary videos, which are hosted on websites. Links must be added by the authors to the body of the main text.

(III) Acknowledgments: they must be placed after the main text.

(IV) Conflict of interest: the authors must add a sentence clarifying that none of them maintains a commitment to funding sources or institutions that influence the information presented and is understood as a conflict of interest.

(V) Literature cited: when constructing citations and references of the article, the latest version of APA must be followed. In the LITERATURE CITED section, the indentation must be French and the works are ordered alphabetically, by the last name of the first author. The names of the magazines should not be abbreviated. Whenever the DOI of a citation exists, it must be included because the RAAB is associated with CrossRef. The DOI must be indicated as the full URL of the web page. Examples:

Article published in Journal

Slice, D. E. (2007). Geometric morphometrics. Annual Review of Anthropology, 36(1), 261–281. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120613

Book

Bookstein, F. L. (1991). Morphometric tools for landmark data: geometry and biology. Cambridge University Press.

Chapter of the book

Hefner, J. T., Pilloud, M. A., Buikstra, J. E. & Vogelsberg, C. C. M. (2016). A Brief History of Biological Distance Analysis. In M. A. Pilloud y J. T. Hefner (Eds.), Biological Distance Analysis. Forensic and Bioarchaeological Perspectives (pp. 1-22). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801966-5.00001-9

Conference Proceedings

Motti, J. M. B., Rodenak, B., Bailliet, G. & Bravi, C. M. (2009, del October 20 to 23). Tipificación de haplogrupos mitocondriales mediante multiplex PCR-AFLP. Novenas jornadas Nacionales de Antropología Biológica, Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

Unpublished thesis

Amuedo, C. (2010). The death of children and its fabric of materiality: Practices, representations, and categories built in the tombs of infants in vessels Late Period (900-1470 AD) Northern Calchaquí Valley [Tesis de Licenciatura inédita]. Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. https://repositorio.filo.uba.ar/handle/filodigital/924

Data set

Marivaux, L., Negri, F. R. and Ribeiro, A. M. 2023. 3D model related to the publication: An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys [dataset]. MorphoMuseum, e188. https://doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.188

When there are more than 20 authors, the first 19 and the last one should be included:

Raghavan, M., Steinrücken, M., Harris, K., Schiffels, S., Rasmussen, S., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Valdiosera, C., Ávila-Arcos, M. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Eriksson, A., Moltke, I., Metspalu, M., Homburger, J. R., Wall, J., Cornejo, O. E., Moreno-Mayar, J. V., Korneliussen, T. S., Pierre, T., … y Willerslev, E. (2015). Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans. Science, 349(6250), aab3884. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab3884

(VI) Tables: For their preparation, we recommend using an Excel or similar processor and they must be sent in Excel format. All tables must be cited in the text and numbered consecutively (Arabic numerals, for example: Table 1). Table titles must be placed in the line above them, they must be complete, brief, without abbreviations, left-aligned, and without a full stop. Use Times New Roman font - Size 11 (e.g.: TABLE 1. Sociodemographic indicators by region and for the entire province). For its content, the same font and size must be used. Abbreviations, even if they are specified in the text, must be clarified in the epigraph or as a footnote to the tables.

(VII) Figure Captions: Figure captions must be sent on a separate sheet, they must be complete, brief, without abbreviations, and aligned to the left. Use Times New Roman font - Size 11 (e.g., FIGURE 1. Spatial autocorrelation analysis). Use capital letters to separate smaller figures when a composite figure is presented (e.g., FIGURE 1. Morphometric analysis. A) Landmarks and semilandmarks of contours (green) and semilandmarks of surfaces (black) digitized on the facial skeleton. B) Craniofacial cavities segmented: maxillary sinus (green), frontal sinus (blue), orbital capsule (yellow).

(VIII) Figures: figures must be sent in separate files, in EPS, TIFF, or JPG format (with a minimum quality of 300 dpi). Their size should preferably be 42 cm on each side. All must be cited in the text, numbered in correlative order, following the sequence of the text and with Arabic numbering (e.g., Figure 1; or abbreviated when it is in parentheses, (Fig. 1). To prepare the text of the figures, requests the use of “Palo dry” fonts (e.g., Arial, Helvetica, Calibri, among others) in size 14, without word breakage, avoiding the use of “serif” fonts (e.g., Times New Roman). The same font must be used. type of alignment (center, right, left) within the same figure. Perimeter frames should not be placed. It is recommended to create figures in vector programs (e.g., Inkscape or similar). Figures must be sent in the size that the author considers for reproduction.

Proposal of images for the cover of the volume: The RAAB editorial team encourages the authors to propose one of the figures of the work, or else, an additional figure or photograph, but related to the study carried out, for evaluation as an image of the volume where the work will be published. It must follow the standards for the figures specified in the previous item. An internal vote will be carried out among members of the RAAB editorial team to select an image to illustrate the volume in which this and other works are published.

(IX) Supplementary material: The RAAB allows the publication of text, tables, and figures, as supplementary material, which is organized in two types of files: Supplementary Tables (A) and Supplementary Information (B).

(A) The Supplementary Tables are published unified in a single Excel file, where each tab will be used for each Supplementary Table when there is more than one. Supplementary Tables should be cited in the text in order of appearance as “Supplementary Table S1”, “Supplementary Table S2”, and so on. The order of the tables/tabs will follow the order of mention of the supplementary tables in the main text. The Supplementary Table number must appear in each Excel tab (e.g., TABLE S1). Each Supplementary Table must have a title that will be located in the first row of each Excel sheet (e.g., TABLE S1: Eigenvalue, percentage of variance, and cumulative variance in each Principal Component (PC) obtained in the inter-methods analysis).

(B) Both the text and additional figures must be grouped into a Word file, which is then published as a PDF with the name “Supplementary Information”. The text should be placed first, and then all the supplementary figures. The order of the content (text and supplementary figures) will follow the same order of mention as in the main text. The content may be divided into sections (Section S1, Section S2, etc.) separated by secondary headings. Said word file must be cited as Supplementary Information when it only contains text in a single section. When the content is divided into sections and/or includes supplementary figures, they should be cited as follows: for example, “Supplementary Information, Section S1”, “Supplementary Information, Figure S1”.

(X) Multimedia content: the RAAB allows the incorporation of videos and audio that are explanatory or exemplary of some aspect of the article. Multimedia content will be subject to peer review. These files must be sent through the platform and must be cited in the main text or supplementary material. File size should not exceed 200 MB. The maximum duration is 3 minutes. The video file format is MP4, MPG, while the audio format should be MP3. These files must include a brief description of the multimedia content. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to obtain the informed consent of the people who appear in it.

IMPORTANT: it is requested that in addition to the files in Word, Excel, etc., the authors send a compiled version of ALL the article in PDF format.

2. Manuscript review process

All papers submitted for publication go through the following peer-review process:

1. Reception of the manuscript: the first step in this process is the reception of the authors' contributions. The responsible editors check that it conforms to the thematic profile of the RAAB, follows the guidelines for authors presented here, and that none of its parts present plagiarism. This journal uses the iThenticate Crosscheck program to evaluate that there are no similar texts already published.
2. Appointment of the associate editor: the responsible editors appoint an associate editor related to the topic of the work in charge of managing the evaluation of the article.
3. Peer-Review: the associate editor selects two expert reviewers in the thematic area to which the work corresponds, at least one of them assigned to a foreign institution. The associate editor must send an email asking potential reviewers if they agree to review the work. Potential reviewers must respond within 7 days. If the proposed reviewers answer affirmatively, the complete manuscript and evaluation form are sent to them. If the associate editor deems it necessary, she may call for additional reviewers. Reviewers have a maximum time of 3 weeks to complete the review of the manuscript, which must be sent to the associate editor/her opinion on the quality of the work under evaluation. The review process is by default single-blind, unless the authors request anonymity and the process becomes a double-blind review. The RAAB editorial team recommends double-blind reviews. The review process may consist of one, two, or three rounds, as the associate editor deems appropriate.
4. First instance of decision: the associate editor sends the reviewers' evaluations and his/her evaluations to the authors. There may be up to two more rounds of review.
5. Final decision: based on the evaluations, the associate editors make a final decision regarding the manuscript, which will be informed to the corresponding author of the work. The possible decisions on the manuscript are: Accepted, Accepted with minor revisions, Accepted with major revisions, or Rejected. All decisions, as well as the completeness of the editorial process flow, are supervised by the responsible editors.
6. Preparation of the galley proof: the assistant editors, together with the designer, prepare the galley proofs of the works, which are sent to the authors to confirm that all the information is correct.
7. Publlishing: Once the job is ready, it will be assigned a number and immediately posted on the RAAB page.

8. Dissemination: once published, the work will be made known through the journal's dissemination channels.

3. Ethical considerations

Research project in which the work is framed: when applicable, the authors must explain in the manuscript whether the project from which the work arises passed through an ethics committee, and whether it involves studies with living people, human or animal remains.

Studies with living people: the authors must certify that in carrying out their work they have respected the letter and spirit of the Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association (Finland, 1964) and its successive amendments of 1975, 1983, 1989, 1996, and 2000. People's data must be anonymized and it must be stated that they have their informed consent to carry out the study. If pertinent, it must have the evaluation and approval of a bioethics committee.

Studies with human remains: the authors must declare that the procedures developed with human remains follow local laws and international ethical recommendations. In addition, record that, if some local communities or families claim to have some connection with the remains under study, they have given consent to carry out the study.

Studies with animals: if applicable, state that the observation, handling, and/or experimentation procedures carried out with animals are following local laws and international ethical recommendations regarding the protection and treatment of animals during experiments.

4. Types of manuscripts published by the RAAB