Book reviews, normally solicited by the Book Review Editor, will not, of course, require all of the details of manuscript preparation involved for a research report. The manuscript for a book review should be double-spaced throughout. Any references should follow the system given below. Footnotes and illustrations should not be used.
2. Books being reviewed should be cited in the manner of the examples given below, followed by the reviewer's name and full mailing address.
Migrations in Prehistory: Inferring Population Movement from Cultural Remains
IRVING ROUSE. 202 pages, 30 figures, bibliography, index. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. $20.00 clothbound. ISBN 0-300-03612-4.
Reviewed by John Doe, Department of Archaeology, Deck University, Archer City, TX 76351.
Population Growth and Social Complexity: An Examination of Settlement and Environment in the Central Maya Lowlands
ANABEL FORD, editor. Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers 35. 201 pages, 28 figures, 37 tables, 19 plates, 4 appendices, bibliography, index. Tempe: Arizona State University, 1986. $12.50 paper. ISBN 0-9611932-5-5.
Reviewed by Patsy Parker, Pre-Columbian Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20007.
3. Quotations from the book under review require page citations and should be given in square brackets (e.g., "The author states 'The excavation is complete' [p. 18].") There is usually no need to provide the author's last name within the brackets, and the year of publication will not be provided. The square brackets signify that the source of the quotation is the book under review.
The first time the name of an author of a work under review is mentioned, please provide the name as it appears on the title page of table of contents of the work. For instance, "Daniel Deck's chapter is especially interesting." Subsequent mentions of the same individual should use only the last name, unless there is the possibility of confusion ("The chapter by Rufus Smith takes a different view from the one by Rebecca Smith.").
The goal is for any author of the book under review who is named be afforded their full name. The authors of other works that are being cited will, of course, have their full names provided in the bibliography. We want to avoid awkward passages such as "The chapters by Deck, Smith, Grosvenor, and Kolchak are grouped together." Under such circumstances, the reader of the review may have no convenient way of determining the full name of a contributor to the work under review.
2. The Journal uses the scientific format for bibliographic citations (e.g., "Smith 1960: 124--125"), with full references appearing in alphabetical order at the end of the article. The use of "et al." is restricted to text citations of works for which there are more than three authors; the full citation should include the names of all authors. First names of authors and editors should be used if they appear on the title page of the original publication. Bibliographic citations should be accurate and complete with respect to the following: titles and subtitles; full spellings of periodicals; dates; names of publihers and places of publication for books; full page numbers for papers in periodicals or collected works ("ff." is not adequate); and that all works cited in the review (and only those cited in the review) appear in the bibliography.
| Simmons, Alan H., and Gary O. Rollefson | |||||||||
| 1984 | "Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan): Interim Report on the First Two Seasons, 1982--1983," Journal of Field Archaeology 11: 387--395. | ||||||||
| Watson, Patty Jo, Steven A. LeBlanc, and Charles L. Redman | |||||||||
| 1984 | Archeological Explanation: The Scientific Mthod in Archeology. New York: Columbia University Press. | ||||||||
| Earle, T. K. | |||||||||
| 1973 | "Control Hierarchies in the Traditional Irrigation Economy of Halelea District, Kaua'i, Hawaii," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. | ||||||||
| Reitz, Elizabeth Jean | |||||||||
| 1979 | Spanish and British Subsistence Strategies at St. Augustine, Florida, and Frederica, Georgia, between 1563--1783. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms. | ||||||||
| Granger, Joseph E., Jr. | |||||||||
| 1978 | Meadowood Phase Settlement Pattern in the Niagara Frontier Region of Western New York State. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan 65. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. | ||||||||
| Brain, Jeffrey P. | |||||||||
| 1978 | "Late Prehistoric Settlement Patterning in the Yazoo Basin and Natchez Bluffs Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley," in Bruce D. Smith, ed., Mississippi Settlement Patterns. New York: Academic Press, 331--368. | ||||||||
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| Belli, Paolo | |||||||||
| 1987 | "Costruzioni circolari di Creta," in Miriam S. Balmuth, ed., Studies in Sardinian Archaeology III: Nuraghic Sardinia and the Mycenaean World. BAR International Series 387. Oxford: B.A.R., 129--134. | ||||||||
| Vitruvius | |||||||||
| De architectura (The Ten Books of Architecture). M. H. Morgan, trans. New York: Dover 1960. | |||||||||
| Cobo, Bernabe | |||||||||
| 1964 | Historia del Nuevo Mundo. (Originally published 1653.) Biblioteca del Autores Españoles, vols. 91, 92. Madrid: Ediciones Atlas. | ||||||||
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