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1 GUIDE TO THE ‘SC’ TEMPLATE (‘SC-PAPER-TITLE’
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3 First Author1, Second Author2 and Third Author*1 (‘SC-Paper-Authors’

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Affiliation of First Author and Third Author (‘SC-Paper-Affiliation’ style)
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Affiliation of Second Author

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Accepted: dd/mm/yyyy Corresponding author: Third Author (email@[Link])

7 1. ABSTRACT
8 The abstract must be between 200 and 300 words written in ‘SC-Abstract’ style.
9 Scientific Culture is a peer-reviewed, open access international scientific journal, an open
10 information vehicle of academic community with a global coverage and issues touching local
11 and regional interest; it is intended as a starting point for presenting research devoted in the
12 broad field of diachronical Cultural Heritage. The journal provides a broader coverage of
13 studying ancient cultures with natural sciences focused on specific topics of global interest.
14 Amongst the published themes emphasis is given to: Ancient cultures; hidden information in
15 art by symbolism; composition of artifacts; parallels in ancient and recent cultural issues; the
16 role of liberal arts to cultural background; cultural development and the question of
17 independent, autochthonous, interactive patterns; theoretical approaches: archetypal concept
18 and globalization effects; inter-, intra-settlement and environmental interactions on cultural
19 evolution; art and science, virtual culture, cognitive archaeology via positive sciences etc.

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21 KEYWORDS: Up to 8 comma-separated keywords or key phrases.
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25 1. INTRODUCTION
26 For consistency in producing your document you are advised to use this template and directly
27 insert your text in this document1.
28 It is advised that you keep in mind the following guidelines:
29 1. Keep the order of the document sections as provided in this template: Title, names,
30 affiliations, keywords, abstract, sections, acknowledgements, references.
31 2. Do not leave any spaces at the beginning of each paragraph. The template takes care of
32 paragraph spaces.
33 3. DO NOT replace large pieces of the template with parts of your paper (i.e. do not just
34 copy-paste the whole paper from your document at once). Type in the appropriate parts
35 and sections following font sizes and styles.
36 4. Headers/Footers: Type in the required data of first author’s surname and running title in
37 the header as guided by this template. This is required to occupy just one single line.
38 Keep footers unchanged (“SCIENTIFIC CULTURE, Vol. X, No. X, (20xx), pp. xx–xx”).
39 5. Received: dd/mm/yyyy: Set the date you submitted the paper.
40 6. For figures and tables see next chapter
41 7. Bullets and numbered text use the styles ‘SC-List (unnumbered)’ and ‘SC-List
42 (numbered)’ respectively
43 8. Hyphenation is active and automatic
44 9. Take care not to delete the section breaks before the Introduction and before the
45 References in order to keep the proper page format.
46 10. Do not leave extra paragraph spaces, except in the following cases:
47 a. One extra paragraph space is needed before each Figure.
48 b. One extra paragraph space is needed before and after each Table.
49 2. FIGURES AND TABLES
50 Figures should be centred in the column. Figure format is ‘SC-Figure’ whereas table format is
51 ‘SC-Table-Text’. The figure legend should be placed below the figure using the SC-Figure-
52 Caption style and can be automatically assigned by using the Insert > Caption option (either
53 from the tab-bar or from the menu), or the Insert > Reference > Caption in earlier versions of
54 MS Word. All figures should be referenced in the text (as shown in Figure 1). The automated
55 “cross-reference” system could be used, so that figure numbers are automatically tracked and
56 updated. See the following subsection for detailed info on how to use the automated captioning
57 system of MS Word. This also applies to tables.
58 Tables, just like figures should be captioned and styled with SC-Table-Caption as shown in
59 Table I. Table captions are placed above the table and centred. Tables must also be referenced
60 in the text, either manually or by using the ‘Cross-reference’ function of the word processing
61 software (just like in the case of figures). Tables should have one paragraph space before and
62 one after.
63 In cases that a figure or table should occupy the entire width of the page then proceed as
64 follows:
65 ● insert the figure/table and caption
66 ● select both figure/table and caption
67 ● click on ‘One column’ from the tab-bar (or use the menu Format > Columns > One)
68 MS Word should automatically insert a section break before and one after the selected text
69 and the figure/table and caption should be displayed in one column. See Figure 2 for an
70 example. The same would apply to a case of a table.
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Head 1 Head 2 Head 3 Head 4 Sum

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75 2.1. Auto cross-referencing figures/tables

76 When using MS Word for Windows:
77 1. Move the cursor in the position to insert the reference
78 2. Go to the ‘Insert’ tab and select (click) Cross-reference (link section) – in earlier versions
79 of MS Word this is Insert > Reference > Cross-reference.
80 3. Choose the type of referencing item, like the headings, the numbered items, figures, or
81 tables. To reference figures, select figures and change the “Insert reference to:” option to
82 “Only label and number”. Similar steps should be followed for the case of tables
83 4. Click Insert to complete the referencing and either close the dialog box or insert another
84 reference
85 When using MS Word for Mac OS:
86 1. Select Insert > Cross-reference from the menu
87 5. Execute the steps 3-4 defined for Windows
88 2.1.1. Sub-subsection level 3
89 Use SC-Heading-3 style for sub-subsections: Book Antiqua, 11, bold. Spacing should be 14
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93 Figure 2. This is the figure legend of a single column figure

94 [Link]. Sub-Sub-Subsection Level 4

95 Use SC-Heading-4 style for sub-sub-subsections: Book Antiqua, 11, underline. Spacing should
96 be 14 points before and 4 points after.
97 Do not use sub-sections deeper that level 4.
98 3. REFERENCES
99 References should be again in single column format and provided in alphabetical ordering
100 starting with the first author’s surname and all names capitalized. Use the SC-Reference style
101 for references, which corresponds to Book Antiqua 9pts, 0.75 hanging indentation. To use
102 references in the text use the following example (Bilda et al., 2003; Walker, 2012).

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104 Author Contributions: For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph
105 specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be
106 used “Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; methodology, X.X.; software, X.X.; validation, X.X., Y.Y.
107 and Z.Z.; formal analysis, X.X.; investigation, X.X.; resources, X.X.; data curation, X.X.; writing—
108 original draft preparation, X.X.; writing—review and editing, X.X.; visualization, X.X.;
109 supervision, X.X.; project administration, X.X.; funding acquisition, Y.Y. All authors have read
110 and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.” Please turn to the CRediT taxonomy
111 for the term explanation. Authorship must be limited to those who have contributed
112 substantially to the work reported.
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115 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
116 Sample text: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. This work
117 was partially supported by the 7 th Framework Programme “Project Name” funded by the EU
118 within the Reflective Societies Work Programme 2014-2010. The authors would especially like
119 to thank the personnel of the Research Centre for their support and technical cooperation.

120 2. REFERENCES
121 Binda, L., Saisi, A., Tiraboschi, C., Valle, S., Colla, C. and Forde, M. C. (2003) Application of sonic and
122 radar tests on the piers and walls of the Cathedral of Noto. Construction and Building Materials,
123 Vol. 17, 613–627.
124 Cosentino, P. and Martorana, R. (2001) The resistivity grid applied to wall structures: first results.
125 Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, European
126 Section, Birmingham, U.K.
127 Walker, A. (2012) The Emperor and the World: Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine
128 Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E. New York, Cambridge University Press.

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