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SLA encourages submissions from scholars working in the following regions and languages therein during the period 150-750 CE:

• Africa, Anatolia, Arabia, the Baltic, the British Isles, Central and Western Asia, China, Europe, India, the Mediterranean, Persia, Scandinavia

SLA welcomes contributions that explore the following fields and topics:

• Archaeology, Cultural Geography (including Cartography), Economics, Gender and Sexuality, History (including Cultural History), History of the Arts (including Architecture, Art, and Music), Law, Literature and Rhetoric, Material Culture (including Codicology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Papyrology), Historical Demography, Philology, Philosophy, Religion, Science (including Medicine and Technology), Theology

Authors are asked to review Studies in Late Antiquity’s author guidelines (PDF) prior to submission.

SLA also welcomes proposals for special issues. Please see the journal's special issue proposal guidelines for more information.

Manuscripts should be submitted directly through the journal's Scholastica site at https://sla.scholasticahq.com. Please note that all authors whose papers are accepted for publication are required to sign an Author Agreement.

The Studies in Late Antiquity Statement on Publication Ethics is available here (PDF).

Please direct any editorial inquiries, including special issue proposals, to Ra'anan Boustan via email at [email protected] and Kristina Sessa via email at [email protected].

When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, the editors do a cursory review of it to confirm that it would be appropriate for the journal. The editors (and reviewers) use the following criteria to assess manuscripts:

• apt use of primary source materials for the study of Late Antiquity, including examination of texts in their original language
• suitable application of relevant methods or theories, which might be drawn from across the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, etc.
• original contribution to scholarship in the field of Late Antiquity
• clarity of the argumentation and quality of the writing

If a manuscript does not make apt use of primary source materials for the study of Late Antiquity, apply suitable methods or theories to those materials, engage with and contribute to the relevant scholarly literature in the field, and present its argument with clarity and in well-written prose, then the editors will either reject the manuscript at the outset or request initial revisions of the author.

All standard research articles, including those in special issues, undergo a full double-blind external peer review process. All book reviews, exhibition reviews, viewpoint essays, and mentorship projects go through internal editorial review.

Once an article manuscript passes the initial editorial review, it is then sent to at least two peer reviewers, either members of the journal’s editorial board or reviewers who will serve in an ad-hoc capacity. Reviewers are asked to use the same aforementioned criteria to evaluate manuscripts. They are also asked to provide constructive comments for the author. Reviewers can recommend accepting the manuscript with major or minor revisions; rejecting the manuscript; or requesting that the author revise and resubmit the manuscript.

In this last case, authors may also be required to resubmit their manuscript for a second peer review process following revisions. This second process is designed to determine whether the author has revised the manuscript sufficiently and in accordance with the journal’s recommendations.