HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology - Instructions to authors
Download as PDF1. Aims and scope of HOMO
HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology is a full open access (CC-BY-NC or CC-BY licenses) peer-reviewed international journal committed to the publication of research results in biological anthropology and related fields. These related fields include, for example: anatomy, archaeology, genetics, odontology, ecology, demography, palaeontology, palaeopathology, forensics, child growth, evolutionary medicine, health sciences and behavioral sciences.
HOMO accepts original articles and reviews in English.
All submissions are peer reviewed.
HOMO fully complies with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Where required by their funder, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. Europe PMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence for release not earlier than the date of first online publication.
2. HOMO is listed in
Abstracts in Anthropology, Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature,, * Biological Abstracts, * BIOSIS , * Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, * PubMed, * MEDLine, * Research Alert , * Social Science Citation Index, * Scopus, * Social SciSearch
3. Chief Editors
Friedrich W. Rösing
Dept. of Anthropology, Universität Ulm, Rittergasse 15, 89143, Blaubeuren, Germany
Frank J. Rühli
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,University of Zurich, Building 42, Floor G, Room 70, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
frank.ruehli@iem.uzh.ch
Albert Zink
Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, Drususallee 1/Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
albert.zink@eurac.edu
Special Issue Editor
Renata Henneberg, Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Unit, Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia
renata.henneberg@adelaide.edu.au
Associate Editor
Andrea Cucina, Autonomous University of Yucatán, Merida, Mexico
Kara Holloway, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
4. Online Access
HOMO is available online through www.schweizerbart.de. It is part of the CrossRefService which allows direct access to referenced papers (published in other journals) which are available online. Conversely, papers in other journals are now able to link to papers published in HOMO by placing direct links.
5. Open Access
Papers published in HOMO apers are published under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license (CC-BY upon request), which allows free distribution, but prohibits commercial exploitation. Authors retain the copyright of their papers. For details and Open access fees please click the menu button Open Access Fee (APC) or contact the publishers.
6. Submission of manuscript
Please submit manuscripts intended for publication in HOMO via the electronic Manuscript Management System (MMS) on ms.schweizerbart.de/submit/anthranz/
(see "Submit manuscript online"; during the submission process choose the Section ´HOMO´). First time users please register as author, then follow the submission process.
Submission of a manuscript to the electronic Manuscript Management System for publication in HOMO is considered binding assurance that this work has not been and will not be published or submitted elsewhere in this form and length.
7. Manuscript preparation
The manuscripts must be prepared by a word processor (if possible Word for Windows). Text should be single line spaced. Please activate line numbering: File/pagesetup/page layout: Show line numbers, Line numbering: Continuous/Begin with line 1.
Block letters, hard returns at the end of the lines within a paragraph and manual word hyphenation have to be avoided.
Manuscript structure
Title page contains:- Title
- Complete names of the author/s and authors' institute locations
- Full address and email address of the corresponding author
- Number of figures and tables
- Summary
- Keywords
The manuscript must be marked up according to the rules of HOMO. Bold-face for titles and headings. Systematic names of genus and species have to be italicised, not families and higher categories. Underlining should be avoided.
Figures
Colour figures: are published free of charge (no color fee).
Numbering and layout: All figures appearing in the text have to be numbered consecutively and the file name has to be labelled in with first author’s name and figure number, respectively. Figures should be added as separate files (accepted data formats see below). All details of the figures must be clearly readable when reduced to the printing area of HOMO.
Resolution of figure files and data formats: Figures must have at least 600 dpi (better 1200 dpi) when producing line drawings, photographs a minimum of 300 dpi at publishing size. Please embed the fonts.
Data formats: Accepted formats are tif, eps, and pdf; for photos jpg or tif.
Figure captions: A detailed and complete caption of each figure has to be added at the end of the manuscript.
Tables
Tables have to be numbered consecutively and should be placed with their headings on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. For measurements and weight indications please use metric units only.
Literature references
The list of references (in alphabetic order) should only contain sources made reference to in the text, tables, figures, i.e. all sources cited in the text must appear in the references list at the end of the paper, and all entries in the references list must be cited in the text. In citations with 2 authors, use “&” (e.g. Bellow & Andrews 2006); in citations with more than 2 authors use the abbreviation “et al.” in the text (but not in the list of references!). Citations are to be separated by a semicolon. Websites can be given in the text and they must be accessible when the article is published. A website alone is not sufficient for a full entry in the “References”, but a website may be added to a book, article or paper cited there. References to submitted articles have to be updated with the final author proof or will otherwise be deleted in the final published version. doi numbers and PMID (if available) will be inserted automatically by the publisher production team.
Examples for literature references (APA 6th ed. style):
Bello, S., & Andrews, P. (2006). The intrinsic pattern of preservation of human skeletal and its influence on interpretation of funerary behaviors. In R. Gowland & C. Knüsel (Eds.), Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains (pp. 1–13). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Cunningham, F. G., & Williams, J. W. (2001). Williams Obstetrics (21st ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Richards, M. P. (2002). A brief review of the archaeological evidence for Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 56, 1270–1278. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601646
Rock, W. P., Sabieha, A. M., & Evans, R. I. W. (2006). A cephalometric comparison of skulls from the fourteenth, sixteenth and twentieth centuries. British Dental Journal, 200(1), 33–37. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4813122
8. Proof reading
The corresponding author will receive a pdf of the proof via email. This proof has to be checked and the corrections have to be returned via email to the publishers due to the given dead line. In cases where the author is prevented from making corrections, he/she should appoint a representative to check the proofs. Only typesetting errors or small technical changes are allowed to be made; otherwise the authors will be charged for additional costs. If the corrections are not returned in time, the paper will be published without author's corrections.
9. PrePub (preprint publication)
Manuscripts ready to be published (i.e. accepted by the editors, composed, the proofs checked by the authors and author's corrections included) will be made available online prior to print publication, as soon as the APC has been received by the publisher. All papers published in HOMO have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assigned and may be cited. This service gives the opportunity to have articles available well in advance of their actual publication date.
As soon as a paper has been published PrePub and in its final version, the paper will also be listed in PubMed.
10. Reprints
The corresponding author will receive the final pdf of the paper free of charge for unlimited distribution to interested parties.
Paper reprints are available at cost price. Please contact the publishers when you submit your the final corrections.
11. Declaration
Studies published in HOMO must be performed according to the formal statement on proper treatments of human subjects:
Any submitted paper has to follow the safeguarding principles of Good Scientific Practice. Research involving Human and Animal Subjects must have been approved by the author’s institutional review board. Authors must include in the Methods section a brief statement identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee approving the experiments. For experiments involving human subjects, authors must also include a statement confirming that informed consent was obtained from all subjects. All experiments involving human subjects must have been conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki.
The manuscript must correspond to high scientific standards which are clearly quoted at form No. 67.60 (see https://www.dfg.de) The author/s is/are asked to expressly confirm that her/his/their contribution was written according to these rules.
Publisher's address:
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December 2023