To submit an article to the journal Bibliothèque ouverte d’égyptologie, please send an email to boegyptologie@gmail.com attaching your anonymized article as a PDF along with the original editable version (.odt, .docx, etc.). In the body of your message, please indicate
- your full name and institutional affiliation (if applicable);
- an abstract in English between 450 and 1500 characters (including spaces), with a French translation if possible;
- 6 keywords in English with their French equivalents, if possible;
- any relevant statements (acknowledgements, funding sources, conflict of interest);
- the following declaration regarding copyright and permission to publish:
By submitting this article, I certify that I hold the necessary rights to all submitted content (text, images, etc.), and I authorise the associative publishing house Bibliothèque Ouverte des Mondes Anciens to publish this work in the journal Bibliothèque ouverte d’égyptologie, including in a printed annual volume made available for purchase without financial compensation to the author, in accordance with the editorial process described. I also guarantee that these materials do not infringe any copyright or third-party rights.
Formatting and publication timeline
We accept articles of up to 60,000 characters (including spaces and footnotes) in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages upon request. It is possible to include spreadsheets or 3D models as appendices, up to 50 GB, with prior approval.
Please avoid using automatic headings and prefer a simple structure.
For transliteration and transcription, contributors must use Unicode fonts compatible with CC BY 4.0 to ensure the long-term accessibility and reliability of articles. A practical tool is the Transliteration to Unicode Converter (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, PNM project). See also: Jones, C. E. (2024, April 10). Egyptological open access journals. AWOL – The Ancient World Online. Link.
All bibliographic conventions are accepted, provided they are correctly applied.
The estimated time between submission and publication is 4 months.
