Description of the Journal
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Instructions to authors

It is a peer-reviewed journal. It publishes papers that extend our understanding of the humankind in all its aspects. It concentrates on topics which need syntheses of multidisciplinary data from different specialities of Biological and Cultural Anthropology. It has a distinguished international editorial board that maintains high scientific standards.

It is a print and electronic journal, freely open access online in www.ata.org.tn . It publishes annually papers following several formats:

Original Synthetic Articles presenting grand syntheses of analyzed data from biological anthropology specialties and those linked up from cultural anthropology specialties or vice versa. Syntheses must be original and provide new important conclusions, new theories or new methods and / or lead to resolutions to old questions or to convincing critic and review of questionable considerations (presented in about 26 to 35 pages of manuscript double-spaced).

Original Synthetic Reports presenting new experimental and / or theoretical results on interesting anthropological subjects. Theses results must be analysed then discussed within a synthesis including possible related data from other anthropological specialities (presented in about 13 to 24 pages).

Original Discovery Reports are papers, which provide only the first data of important discoveries in Biological Anthropology and in all aspects of basic Human Biology or in Medical Anthropology as discoveries expanded from popular traditional medicine. Thus, authors could publish all detailed results in a second original article or in a patent (do not exceed 8 pages).

Review Synthetic Articles or Review Synthetic Reports reflect current interests on all aspects of Biological Anthropology and related aspects of Cultural Anthropology (articles presented in about 26 to 35 pages, while reports in about 10 to 20 pages).

Critical Short Reports, in which modern anthropologists can bring out general ambiguities and classic or new questionable considerations in any anthropological subject. They can also criticize data and conclusions provided by recent original paper (presented in about 4 to 12 pages).

Thought Short Reports, concern only interesting anthropological subjects particularly in cultural specialities (presented in about 4 to 12 pages).

Each manuscript should be accompanied by a covering letter, signed by the corresponding author, which states the following:

• The manuscript has been seen and approved by all authors.
• It is not under active consideration for publication, has not been accepted for publication, nor has it been published, in full or in part (except in abstract form).
• When the manuscript is accepted (with or without rectifications) authors commit to continue with the process of publication steps.
• The authors should declare that there is no conflict of interest relating to their submitted studies.
• When studies concern human subjects, authors should indicate that they have respected the ethical standards.
• E. mail of all authors must be given

The manuscript must be double-spaced; top, bottom and both side margins should be about 3cm. It should consist of the following subdivisions:

- The title page must contain: the title of the manuscript, name(s) (first name, and name) of the author(s), corresponding addresses (name(s) of the institutions(s), the laboratory, the university, the region and the country with the postal code) and the electronic address of each author. The corresponding author could present his CV in only 5-7 lines and detailed address with telephone number.

- In a second page the abstract should count 200-250 words and have in the case of original papers, a structural form :background and aim, material (or subjects) and methods, results and conclusions. Key words and running title (maximum 50 characters) must be indicated.

- The text, in the case of original paper, should be divided into sections: Introduction, Material (or Subjects) and Methods, Results and Discussion followed by Acknowledgement, References, Tables, Figures legends and Figures (Hard copies of certain figures may be needed once an article is accepted for publication). The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. The literature list must be arranged alphabetically in the following style:

Chaabani H., 2002. GM polymophism and the evolutionary history of modern humans.
Ann Génét 45:197-206.
In the case of references with many authors, at least the first five authors must be indicated.

Submission: manuscripts should be sent by E. Mail to Pr H. CHAABANI hassenchaabani@gmail.com or by postal mail (a hard copy and a copy in CD) at: Laboratory of Human Genetics, Faculty of Pharmacy of Monastir, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia.

Each manuscript must be reviewed by at least two Associate Editors or Referees of the Editorial Board and outside reviewers. Acceptance is based on the quality of the work particularly on its accuracy, originality and suitability for a broad international readership.

Each annual issue appears online with open access to the full text of articles and with print availability.