Submitting your Manuscript
Manuscripts must be submitted online through Antarctic Science’s submission website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cup/antsci.
All submitted papers must be in English, double-spaced with a left-hand margin with all pages numbered. Authors whose first language is not English should seek editorial help from English-speaking associates, or professional services, before submitting their manuscript. Spelling must conform to that of the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. 'z' rather than 's' spellings).
Manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter stating the manuscript has been read and approved by all authors and is an original publication. The corresponding (submitting) author is solely responsible for communicating with the journal and with managing communication between co-authors. Before submission, the corresponding author ensures that all authors are included in the author list, its order has been agreed by all authors, and that all authors are aware that the paper was submitted.
At submission, the corresponding author must include written permission from the authors of the work concerned for mention of any unpublished material included in the manuscript, for example others' data, in press manuscripts, personal communications or work in preparation. The corresponding author also must clearly identify at submission any material within the manuscript that has previously been published elsewhere by other authors (for example, figures) and provide written permission from those authors and/or publishers, as appropriate, for the re-use of such material. The dates of receipt and acceptance of the paper will be published.
A running header of up to 50 characters should be given.
Text must be produced on an IBM-compatible PC system as a Word, WordPerfect or Rich Text File (rtf). Please contact the Editorial Office if you wish to use another package. Please note that currently we do not accept LaTeX files. Mac files are also not acceptable.
The Peer Review Process
This journal uses a single-anonymous peer review model. This means that the identity of the authors is known to the peer reviewers, but the identity of the peer reviewers is not known to the authors.
Contributors must suggest up to six suitable reviewers, who may be used at the Editors’ discretion. Do not suggest reviewers from the same department or ones with whom you have any financial or supervisory links.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.
Open Access Publishing
From 1st October 2024 all articles accepted for publication in Antarctic Science will be published open access. For more information, please see our open access FAQs. Please refer to the Fees and Pricing and Open Access Options pages for more information on publishing open access.
Author Language Services
Cambridge recommends that authors have their manuscripts checked by an English language native speaker before submission; this will ensure that submissions are judged at peer review exclusively on academic merit. We list a number of third-party services specialising in language editing and / or translation here and suggest that authors contact as appropriate. Use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.