Manuscript Submission

IRSH only accepts submissions through our ScholarOne Manuscripts portal. This secure online peer-review system facilitates real-time communication and access to manuscripts for editors, reviewers, and other editorial team members.

Go to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/irsh, and log in. If you have submitted or reviewed a manuscript for IRSH in the past, you may already have an account. If you need assistance submitting your manuscript or review report through the portal, contact the editorial office at [email protected].

Create an Account: First-time users need to create an account. Click the Create an Account button and fill in the information requested. By default, your e-mail address is your username. Please keep your account up to date when your contact information changes. Do not create duplicate accounts. If you have more than one account or need assistance editing your account, contact the editorial office at [email protected].

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:
1. Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you’ve authored.
2. 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.
3. Keeping track: Your ORCID record is an efficient 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. 

Start a Submission: Once logged in, click on "Author," then on "Start a New Submission", and follow the prompts and instructions on each of the seven steps of the submission form. Please note that you will be asked to submit two versions of your article, one anonymized version and one non- anonymized version.

Article type: In step 1 of the article submission process, please choose the article type ‘Research Article’ if you are submitting a research article, either stand-alone or as part of a Special Theme or Special Issue. Choose ‘Review Essay’ if your article is a review essay, and Survey if you are submitting a survey article.   

Submitting an article as part of a collection: If you are submitting a commissioned article which is to be part of a collection, such as a Special Theme, a Special Issue, a Review Dossier, or a Suggestions and Debates, please select the collection title from the relevant scroll-down menu. If not, please select “N/A”.

At the end of the submission process (step 7) double-check for accuracy, and then click on the "Submit" button. You will then receive a manuscript number and an e-mail verifying that your manuscript has been uploaded successfully. Keep track of the status of your manuscript by logging on to ScholarOne Manuscripts; the status will be displayed in the Author Center.

Submission of an article is taken to imply that it has not been published previously and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors are also asked to provide brief details of any book they are in the process of publishing which includes all or part of a submitted article.

Copyright licence: When submitting an article through ScholarOne, contributors will be asked to complete a form licensing the copyright (on certain conditions) to Cambridge University Press.

If you want to opt for Open Access publication, please complete the gold open access version of the CLF. A link to more information about Open Access, and about waivers and discounts, will be presented during the article submission process.

The copyright licence form (CLF) helps to ensure maximum protection against unauthorized use, and also assists in the effective handling of requests to reproduce contributions. As contributors you retain the right to reproduce the paper, or an adapted version of it, in any volume of which you are editor or author. Permission will automatically be given to the publisher of such a volume, subject to normal acknowledgements. For further information see the instructions on the copyright form.

Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material for which they do not hold the copyright (including illustrations) and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in the typescript. In quoting from copyrighted material, contributors should keep in mind that the rule of thumb for “fair use” limits direct quotation to a maximum of 200 words.

Digital files: The files uploaded in ScholarOne should be saved either in a recent version of MSWord for Windows, in an MS Word compatible format, or as a PDF file. In case of doubt, please contact the editorial staff at: [email protected].

Length of contributions: Articles should preferably not exceed 10,000 words, including notes.