Submissions

Author Guidelines

Qualifications for Authorship

AABNER recognizes authorship based on substantial intellectual contribution to the work. Authorship is not determined by academic rank, professional position, or institutional affiliation.

To qualify as an author, individuals must meet all of the following criteria:

1. Have made a significant contribution to the conception and design of the study, data acquisition, analysis, and/or interpretation;


2. Have participated in drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content;


3. Have approved the final version of the manuscript prior to submission and publication;


4. Agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions related to accuracy or integrity are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Individuals who contribute to the work but do not meet all authorship criteria should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section and must not be listed as authors. Acquiring grant funding is not sufficient for authorship.

AABNER does not permit guest, gift, or ghost authorship. In the case of posthumous authorship, Posthumous authorship can be acknowledged as such in dialogue with the heirs and ideally with one or more close colleagues of the author; the latter might be agreed to be acknowledged as editor(s).

Responsibilities of Authors

All authors listed on a manuscript submitted to AABNER share collective responsibility for the content of the publication.

Authors are responsible for:

1. Ensuring the manuscript is original and has not been published or submitted elsewhere;


2. Properly citing all sources and avoiding plagiarism or self-plagiarism;


3. Ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of data, analyses, and interpretations presented;


4. Complying with ethical standards applicable to the research (including approvals or informed consent, where relevant);


5. Disclosing any financial, personal, or institutional conflicts of interest that could influence the research or its interpretation;


6. Cooperating with the journal in the event of post-publication inquiries, corrections, or clarifications.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all listed authors meet the authorship criteria and that no qualified contributor has been omitted.

Author Contribution Disclosure

For manuscripts with two or more authors, AABNER requires transparency regarding each author’s contributions. Each multi-author manuscript must include an Author Contributions Statement clearly describing the specific role of each author in the research and manuscript preparation. This statement is published as part of the final article. The contribution statement must accurately reflect each author’s involvement and is subject to editorial review.

Style Guide

For grammar and style, the journal will follow the Chicago Manual of Style, author-date style. Single citations should appear in the text, multiple citations and discursive notes in footnotes. For abbreviations for biblical texts and Near Eastern texts, the SBL Handbook will be followed. For other Near Eastern abbrevia­tions, CDLI will be followed. For Classical abbreviations, the Oxford Handbook of Classics.

To make this more explicit:

1. Please, write your text in one language (and be consistent if you chose, e.g., American or British English, at least keep to one spelling); and, especially, if you are not a native speaker, but also native-speakers: please, have your text checked!). If the text is not in English, an English abstract should be added. An English text must have an abstract in another—preferably major—European language (preferably in German or French). Both abstracts must be short enough to fit onto one typeset page. 
2. If possible, use Times New Roman as your font. Use this font also to include Greek and (preferably only consonant) Hebrew characters; for other non-Latin characters, please, use transliteration!
3. Please, clearly mark:
a. (the level of) headings (use title-casing! I.e.: important words in the headings are capitalized);
b. paragraphs;
c. “quotations” have double quotation marks, punctuation belongs inside the quotes; quotations within quotations have single quotation marks; long quotations are typeset as a block;
d. insertion points for illustrations and/or tables.
e. Use footnotes (not end notes); not with full bibliographic information (but author-date). NB: single quotation in-text!
4. Your bibliography at the end should follow the Chicago manual of style (see: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html—tab ‘author-date’!); note the casing of English titles (not the German, French, or other titles beyond what grammar requires!). Page ranges use an en-dash (not a hyphen), so: 1–100.
5. Make sure that your images do not infringe copyright (generally we follow a fair use policy for academic publications) and provide your files (.tiff or .jpeg) with the following minimal quality:
colour 300dpi;
grey scale 600dpi;
black and white 1200dpi.
Thanks for your collaboration!

The editorial team