Submission Guidelines
Hypatia welcomes original papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. The Hypatia mission statement emphasizes a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and accessibility. We cannot consider manuscripts that are published, in press, or submitted elsewhere.
Before you submit a paper for review, please see the manuscript preparation guidelines for formatting and style directions.
Citational Practices
As part of our aspiration to foster a more inclusive, fairer, and more capacious philosophical and feminist intellectual life, we consider an author’s citational practices in our review and assessment of essays submitted to Hypatia for publication. We encourage authors to adopt an expansive view of what constitutes “the relevant literature” on a particular theme. It is not enough, in other words, to cite the standard-bearers of a particular position, without regard to traditions of critique or opposition to those views, or without regard to other positions that provide alternatives to dominant views. When discussing problems related to those who occupy marginalized social positions of any kind, it is never appropriate to take those subjects as mere objects of study, without regard for knowledge, perspectives, or practices that emerge from those so located. They should be treated as interlocutors in, rather than objects of, an inquiry.
General Guidelines
Articles
“Articles” in Hypatia are essays of 10,000 words or less, which are judged by reviewers to make a contribution to feminist philosophy. Articles must have a philosophical dimension that contributes to feminist thinking and/or practice (though they need not be written by philosophers or those formally trained in philosophy). To be suitable for publication in Hypatia, articles must be well-researched, well-written, and observe the citational practices described above. Articles are subject to anonymous peer review.
Musings
"Musings" in Hypatia are often more personal, less rooted in particular bodies of literature, and more concerned with current issues, than full-fledged academic articles. They are typically shorter than articles. Nevertheless, they are held to a high standard in relation to the quality of the thinking and writing. They are meant to catalyze philosophical reflection on important issues in feminist philosophy, and are subject to anonymous peer review.
For more information about Musings, contact the editorial office: [email protected].
Feminism in Translation
The editorial team at Hypatia has initiated a “Feminism in Translation” feature. It is clear that while works written in English that gain some traction with a significant audience are often translated in other languages, it is much less common for translations to go the other way. This means that those who work primarily in English (or for whom English is the language of communication across geographic regions) remain unaware of significant developments in feminist theory that take place in other languages. Very important developments in feminist thought, and the thinkers who are doing that work, may be unknown in language-contexts other than their own. Alternative genealogies of the work and its reception history may also be unknown, especially if they emerge from or develop counterhegemonic perspectives
If you are interested in contributing to the “Feminism in Translation” feature, please submit your translation proposal and translation manuscript through ScholarOne. Translation manuscripts for review as articles should be 7,000 to 10,000 words long, excluding endnotes and references. The translator of the manuscripts should be anonymized for the peer-review process.
Below is a checklist for translators to consider before submitting:
- I have secured, or been reasonably assured that I will secure, by time of publication, permission from the publisher of the original language text for Hypatia/Cambridge University Press to publish my English translation.
- I have secured, or been reasonably assured that I will secure, by time of publication, permission from the living author of the text, or the non-living author’s estate where relevant, for Hypatia/Cambridge University Press to publish my English language translation.
- I have included a short introduction to the essay which provides context for English language readers and describes the importance and impact of the essay in its home language. In this brief introduction, I have described specific translation challenges and the solutions I have chosen, my translation strategy (if appropriate), and any terms I have chosen to leave in the original language with an explanation of the term and the reason for not translating it.
- Citations used in the original text have been provided in English, using recognized English translations of those texts, and explanatory notes indicate which English language version of the cited text has been used.
- The most difficult to translate passages are provided in the original language in a footnote, with an explanation of the translation difficulty and the translator’s choices, in order to preserve the nuances or ambiguities in the original text.
- Technical terms, including philosophical terms, that have a history in the source language or have been translated from previous languages into the source language, have been rendered in their standard or accepted English versions, or an explanation has been provided for why the standard or accepted English translation of the term has not been used. (For example: Simone de Beauvoir uses the term “réalité humaine” in Le Deuxième Sexe, an accepted French translation for the German term Dasein, which has been translated into English as “existence,” or “Being-in-the-world”. It would be completely inappropriate to translate this term into English as “human reality” thus obscuring the philosophical history and meaning of the term.)
- Before you submit the final version of your translation (after review and acceptance): Where possible, and where desired by the living author of this text, I have secured the author’s approval of the finished translation.
Special Issues, Clusters, and Symposia
Hypatia has a long history of publishing ground-breaking thematic special issues; we typically schedule one or two of these each year and welcome proposals for special issues. We also periodically publish smaller scale thematic clusters and symposia:
- Guidelines for proposing special issues, clusters, and symposia
- Examples of successful special issue proposals
Manuscripts submitted to Hypatia should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, nor should they have been published elsewhere. You are welcome, however, to post your manuscript online in the form in which it has been submitted. For details please check:
- Hypatia editorial office website: Rights and Permissions
- Cambridge: Journal Permissions and Reprints
Online Supporting Information
Cambridge hosts an online repository of “supporting information” linked to Hypatia articles. Supporting information can include virtually anything that an author thinks would be a valuable supplement to an article, review essay, or Musing that has been accepted for publication in Hypatia. We encourage authors to include supplementary material that might enhance the pedagogical uses of an article. The range of formats that can be supported includes PowerPoint presentations, graphics, text, links, audio podcasts, and video clips.
Consider creating a virtual gallery with illustrations we could not ordinarily include in the print edition of Hypatia or providing notes and background material to which you would like readers to have access for published articles. Supporting information must be submitted in final form at the same time that your manuscript is uploaded to Cambridge for production.
- For questions about deadlines and the submission process for supporting material, please contact the Managing Editor: [email protected]
- For Cambridge's guidelines for preparing supporting material, please see their information here.
Illustrations, Images, and Graphics
If an Hypatia manuscript includes figures, artwork, or graphics of any kind, these images must be high resolution and uploaded at time of submission. Authors must have permission to use any images submitted. Please note that images will appear in color when viewed online through Cambridge's Core system (and in PDF form), but they will appear in black and white in the print publication. Authors may choose to pay a fee to print images in color, and color images may also be hosted by Cambridge Core as supporting material (see above), with a link inserted into the text of the author’s published article.
- For advice about illustrations, contact the Managing Editor: [email protected]
- Cambridge's Artwork Guidelines can be found here
Copyrighted material
If your article contains any material in which you do not own copyright, including figures, charts, tables, photographs or excerpts of text, please see the seeking permission to use copyrighted material page for instruction.
Publishing ethics
Please refer to the publishing ethics page while preparing your materials for submission to ensure you comply with the relevant policies.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We encourage 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 can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
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.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.
In particular, any use of an AI tool:
- to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s)
- to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
- to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript
- must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission
Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.