Publications
IAU Proceedings
The proceedings of Oxford XIII / IAUS 399 will be published in the IAU Proceedings Series by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in February 2026.
IAU regulations about publishing proceedings are very strict. It is essential that all papers ARE submitted by 15 August 2025 for review, amendments, editing, and typesetting. Contributions submitted after this date will not be included in the proceedings.
The Proceedings of an IAU Symposium should provide a comprehensive overview of the field, rather than a collection of short papers that provide snapshots. Thus, the IAU encourages the Editor(s) to publish primarily review and invited papers of typically 10-20 pages each that summarize the main developments in the subfield over the past decade and list outstanding questions. An optional Discussion can be added. Review and invited speakers should be informed at the time of invitation of these publication requirements. If space allows, a (selected) number of contributed papers of typically 4-6 pages each can be included as well. The total should not exceed 600 printed pages.
The Press will paginate the papers appropriately, following a running order provided by the Editor. Editors are free, of course, to use (parts of) pages for illustrative photographs and other art work representative of their IAU meeting.
Posters should not be included in the published Proceedings (for space reasons or otherwise) but they can be provided as 'supplementary information' in electronic format only, of typically 2 pages each. The same holds for any contributed papers that are not selected to be included in the printed version. As such they will be posted alongside the review/invited oral presentations on the Press website. In this case the Editors must provide a 'poster index' for the printed volume that lists the titles and authors of all the posters (no page numbers), accompanied by a note stating that the posters are available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/IAU.
The posters online will be associated with this 'index' file so that they are easily found.
Editors should note that there is no requirement for each article to begin on a right-hand page. The Press will, however, start new sections on a right-hand page when appropriate.
The deadline for paper submissions is 15 August 2025.
All papers must be submitted using MS Word or the LateX typesetting language.
For those who are struggling with LateX, please email us!
The previous IAU Symposium proceedings for an Oxford meeting were for IAUS 278: "Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures", which took place in Lima, Peru in 2011 (edited by Clive Ruggles).
Journal of Astronomy in Culture
Papers that are worthy of publication but do not clearly fit within the scope of the symposium theme are invited for publication in the Journal of Astronomy in Culture. Those presenting posters and videos are welcome to provide full papers for publication in the journal.