One of the principal difficulties concerning archaeological authorship is that it can take such a variety of forms. Chapter 3 examined this subject in terms of the intended readership, and Chapter 5 considered the process of writing in general terms. Now it is necessary to look more closely at how the demands of archaeological writing can vary depending on the type of publication and to consider some of the specific problems that can be encountered in writing for different outlets. In practice, many archaeologists will tend to concentrate on writing for particular types of publication, most commonly for academic journals. Some, however, will range more widely and will write research monographs, scholarly syntheses, textbooks or other works. There will even be those who will spend more time editing the writing of other archaeologists than doing their own. Although satirized by Paul Bahn as a ‘crafty way to get your name on the front of a book’ (Bahn 1989: 36), such editing also makes important contributions to archaeological publication and has its own difficulties. However, in this chapter attention will be focussed on those forms of writing that most archaeologists might tackle at one time or another: the excavation monograph, the journal paper, the general synthesis and the so-called popular book.