Submissions
Submitting a Manuscript
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2026 CLARa3 and Radiocarbon & Diet submissions
Please submit your manuscript by October 1, 2026, to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rdc
In 2027 non-OA publication fees are waived. OA publication fees may be covered by Read and Publish agreements.
Please mention the conference in your cover letter. Conference papers will be published in a regular issue of Radiocarbon and online at Cambridge Core, flagged for inclusion in a special collection. See author's instructions at the bottom of this page.
2026 14C and Archaeology conference submissions
Please submit your manuscript by October 1, 2026, to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rdc
In 2027 non-OA publication fees are waived. OA publication fees may be covered by Read and Publish agreements.
Please mention the conference in your cover letter. Conference papers will be published in a regular issue of Radiocarbon and online at Cambridge Core, flagged for inclusion in a special collection. See author's instructions at the bottom of this page.
2025 Krakow Radiocarbon Conference
Submissions to the 25th International Radiocarbon Conference proceedings must be accepted for publication by October 31, 2026, to be included in the proceedings issue. Later articles can be published in a regular issue of Radiocarbon. See below for author's instructions. Submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rdc
Waived OA fees?
Use our online tool to find out if you are eligible for an Open Access waiver or discount
Open Access waivers and discounts are available if your institution has an Open Access publishing agreement with Cambridge, such as a Read and Publish agreement.
Author's Instructions: applicable to all submissions
SUBMISSIONS
To submit your manuscript, please visit us at ManuscriptCentral.
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rdc
APC & OPEN ACCESS
- Your institution has an Open Access publishing agreement with Cambridge, such as a Read and Publish agreement
MANUSCRIPT LENGTH & AUTHOR CHARGES
Important: If you need to submit a page-charge waiver, please restrict your entire manuscript word count to 4500 words and figure count to 4 figures. The journal is self-funding and regrettably cannot afford to publish long articles for free. However, excess tables, figures, and appendices can be published as online-only supplemental materials at no charge.
Papers published as part of a conference proceedings will receive free page charges for non-OA publication (Green OA). Full OA (Gold OA) can be paid by the authors or via a Read and Publish agreement. Color figures are USD 320 plus applicable VAT. We cannot publish color figures for free in the print version, but they are always free in the online version.
FORMATTING YOUR MANUSCRIPT
We prefer submissions in Word or rich text format (RTF). LaTeX files can also be accepted. Please add line numbers to your manuscript.
Radiocarbon now follows the Cambridge University Press Standard Template Style:
| Template | Article Title | Head level 1 | Head level 2 | Head level 3 | Head level 4 |
| All Radiocarbon articles | Sentence case | Sentence case and bold | Sentence case and bold italic | Sentence case and italic | Italic followed by full point and run on text |
Please use the proper characters for en-dashes (–) and minus symbols (–); do not use a hyphen in number ranges or to indicate a negative number.
REFERENCE STYLE
In mid-2024 Radiocarbon switched to CambridgeA Reference Style for new submissions:
In-text citations:
- Cite references in the text by author last name, followed by publication date, with no punctuation between the author name and the publication date: (Arden et al. 2000; Khan and Singh 2024; Xi et al. 1999).
- For works with three or more authors, cite the first author’s name followed by “et al.”
- Order references alphabetically within strings by author, and chronologically when citing works by the same author.
- Use semicolons to separate works by different authors and commas to separate works by the same author: (Xi et al. 1999, 2007; Zhou 2000).
Reference list example:
Chétima M (2019) You are where you build: Hierarchy, inequality, and equalitarianism in Mandara highland architecture. African Studies Review 62(3), 40–64. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.45.
Dalton-Carriger J (2016) New Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century Protohistoric Period in East Tennessee: Redefining the Period through Glass Trade Bead and Ceramic Analyses. PhD dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Eckersley R (2011) Representing nature. In Alonso S, Keane J and Merkel W (eds), The Future of Representative Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 236–257.
Kenny DA, Kashy DA and Cook WL (2006) Dyadic Data Analysis. New York: Guilford Press, 81–90.
Please see the following link for details and more examples: