4.2 Organizing the report for publication
Publications of archaeological reports can have various formats:
- Articles in journals - for specialists or the interested public
- Monographs - of one or several sites by period and/or topic
- Well-illustrated books for the interested public
- Summary accounts (of an archive or publication) in gazettes
- Abstracts for digital data services such as the British Archaeological Bibliography (UCL London)
- Publishing as a member of an organisation such as European Association of Archaeologists (EAA),
in their journal and digitally http://www.e-a-a.org
- OASIS http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/oasis/
- Internet publications: in form of articles in Internet Archaeology at Council of British
Archaeology (CBA) http://intarch.as.uk/journal/,
- Entire archives and reports through the Archaeological Data Service
(ADS)
First a strategy has to be worked out as to which of these formats are appropriate for your
publication. For a lengthy report or monograph you need to decide on a chapter layout, how the
archaeological facts should be presented. There are two basic varieties:
- The integrated text for structural, finds and sample evidence, either based on chronological
phases or finds catalogues.
- Separate chapters for structural phases and specialist data, each with their appendices if
necessary, while the main author draws together the results in a synthesis.