Authorship

-For contributions, authors will not be charged in any form.

-Make sure that every author listed on a paper should have made a significant contribution to the work (e.g. research design, data acquisition or interpretation, etc). Avoid adding someone who has not been involved in the work to the list of authors or leaving out someone who has been involved in the work from the list of authors.

-Inform journals of retraction or correction in case of data issues or redundant publication.

-Reference all material in the text clearly and thoroughly.

-Declare any relevant interests (e.g. any funding and the role of the funder) to the journal.

-Submit a paper to just one journal at a time, and withdraw your paper if you decide to send it to another journal.

Peer review

-All papers to be published should go through the process of peer reviews to ensure the integrity of the scholarly records.

-The peer-review type we adopt is double-blind peer review, under which the reviewers don’t know the authors of the papers and the authors don’t know the reviews either.

-Peer reviewers should only agree to review manuscripts for which they have the subject expertise necessary for conducting a proper assessment and which they can assess in a timely manner. Peer reviewers should provide journals with their personal and professional information which is accurate and a true representation of their expertise as a reference for journals when looking for suitable reviewers.

-Peer reviewers should be objective and constructive in their reviews and avoid provocative or derogatory comments.

-Peer reviewers should declare all potential conflicting interests or seek advice form the journal if they are not sure whether something is involved in a relevant interest.

-Peer reviewers should respect the confidentiality of peer review and not reveal any details of a manuscript or its review before the publishing, and not use information acquired during the process for their own or any other person/organization’s advantage.

Journal editors

-Journal editors should be able to recognize papers with possible misconducts and prevent them from being published.

-In any case, journal editors should not encourage misconducts or allow them to happen deliberately.

-Journal editors have duty to act properly if they suspect misconduct or if an allegation of misconduct is brought to them.

-Journal editors should provide guidance about retraction or correction of papers.

-Journal editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Copyrights

-A paper is to be published on the journal after peer review and correction and the copyright is transferred to the editorial office of the journal according to the relevant laws or regulations. The full text, figures, tables, abstract or other parts affiliated to the paper can be copied or transmitted by the editorial office throughout the world. The editorial office may copy, publish or transmit the work in the form of hard or electronic copy as well as other forms which might appear in the future. The editorial office may translate, adapt and compile the work or use parts of it to derivate other works. The rights mentioned above may be shared fully or partly with the third party.

Website

-Readers can access the contents of the journal via the website of the editorial office: http://www.wwbhkgkx.net/wwbhen/ch/index.aspx. registration, browsing and downloading are for free.

Archive

-When the hard copies of the journal is not published anymore, electronic copies can be downloaded for free from the website of the editorial office: http://www.wwbhkgkx.net/wwbhen/ch/index.aspx. Electronic copies can also be found on the website of cooperative database, such as CNKI, Wanfang Data and CQVIP, etc, but readers may be charged.

Ownership/Management

-The journal is sponsored by Shanghai Museum and administered by Shanghai Municipal Administration of Cultural and Tourism (Shanghai Municipal Administration of Radio and Television, Shanghai Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage)

Aims and scope

Sciences of Conservation and Archaeology is the only domestically- and overseas-published formal academic journal in the field of cultural relic science of China at present as well as the research reports of Shanghai Museum Conservation Center. Focused on social benefits and featuring museological science and technologies, the journal mainly reports the relevant research and application achievements; combining innovation and practicability and emphasizing improvement and popularization, the journal also reflects domestic and overseas progress and trends, introduces new technologies, new methods and new experiences of science and technology applied in conservation and archaeology. Since its launch, the journal has played an active role in the aspects of extensive technological communications, accelerating promotions and applications of cultural relic scientific researches and propelling scientific conservation of cultural relics of China, and also gained some influence in China and the world.

Readers and authors include but are not limited to scientific and technical personnel in the field of cultural relics and archaeology, conservators and restorers, technicians and researchers of traditional craftsmanship, archaeologists, college teachers and students and research management personnel.