Author Guidelines
Submissions are welcome from scholars in any discipline. Text style follows the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-Date System.
CyberOrient publishes peer-reviewed Articles (5000-8000 words), Comments (2000-4000 words) and Book reviews (750+ words). For Articles, please format your submission as follows:
- Cover page with your name, affiliation, corresponding address, and article title. In case of multiple authors, state who is the corresponding author.
- The corresponding address must be short (max. 118 characters) and use the following format: Gary R. Bunt, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7ED, UK. E-mail: g.bunt@uwtsd.ac.uk. The corresponding address will be public; use your institutional address and email.
- Second page with article title, abstract (150-200 words) and four to six key words. Do not put your name on this page or on the pages of the following text.
- Article with references at the end, following the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style, Author-Date System. Again, the article has to be anonymized, with all references to your own work changed e.g. to Author (2024).
Comments and Book reviews will be reviewed by the editors. You may suggest book which you would like to review, but the final decision is up to the editors.
Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles
This journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines. This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly.
Declaration on the Use of AI
All submissions to CyberOrient must adhere to the Wiley’s AI policy. In the Declaration on the Use of AI, placed after Acknowledgements, authors must describe if and how they used AI to develop any portion of the manuscript. The authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by the AI and for correctly referencing all used sources. AI must not be used to create, alter, or manipulate original research data and results (unless such a research is the aim of the article). AI and other tools that are used to improve spelling, grammar, and general editing are not included in the scope of these disclosure guidelines.
How to Submit
Please submit all materials electronically as attachments. Text should be in Word format, photographs and illustrations should be submitted also separatedly in a high resolution. Send your submission to Vít Šisler, Editor-in-Chief, at vit.sisler@ff.cuni.cz, and Anders Ackfeldt, Associate Editor, at anders.ackfeldt@sri.org.tr. You should receive confirmation of your submission by email within a few days.
Peer-review Process
Submitted manuscripts are subjected to initial checks to assess their suitability for review (e.g. completeness and relevance). After that, the manuscript proceeds to the reviewers. The double-blind peer review is applied, which means that the reviewers of the paper will not be able to know the identity of the authors, and the authors will not be able to know the identity of the reviewers. The reviewers are independent of the authors, i.e. typically not affiliated with the same institution. The reviewers comment on the quality of the work, as well as on its originality and importance. The turn-around time for the peer review process is typically two months.
Permissions and Copyright
The author is responsible for obtaining written permission to use photographs and illustrations not in the public domain. All illustrations should indicate the source and should have captions. Copyright will be held by the American Anthropological Association, Charles University and Lund University.
Full Text Availability
Upon publication, full texts of all articles will be available free of charge on the CyberOrient website, as well as in the paid, subscription-based database AnthroSource.