How to Submit
This journal uses Editorial Manager - www.editorialmanager.com/it/ - for online submission and peer review. Editorial Manager is the “leading, cloud-based manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system for scholarly journals, reference works, books and other publications”. Further information on Editorial Manager can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Managing Editor at [email protected].
How to Submit - Specific Procedures
1. During the online submission process at www.editorialmanager.com/it/ you will be invited to submit a list of scholars who would be appropriate reviewers of your manuscript. Do not include on this list anyone who has already commented on your paper or an earlier version of it. Likewise, exclude any of your current or recent collaborators, institutional colleagues, mentors, students, or close friends. You may also "oppose" potential reviewers by name but should provide specific reasons why they may be inappropriate. The Editors will refer to these lists in selecting reviewers, though there can be no guarantee that this will influence final reviewer selections.
2. You will also be required to upload a minimum of two separate files: a) an "anonymous" digital file of your paper; this file should not include any information that identifies the authors, or any other collaborators in the work (including anyone responsible for creating tables or figures, if they are also an author/collaborator); and, do not thank colleagues in notes or elsewhere in the body of the paper or mention institution names, web page addresses, or other potentially identifying information.; b) a separate title page that includes the full manuscript title, plus names and contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, e-mail address) for all credited authors in the order their names should appear, each authors’ academic rank and institutional affiliation, and a competing interests declaration. You may also include any acknowledgements or other author notes about the development of the paper (e.g., previous presentations of the research) as part of this separate title page. In the case of multiple authors, indicate which should receive correspondence. In addition, you may choose to include a cover letter.
3. Please review all pages to make sure the file contains all tables, figures, appendices, and references cited in the manuscript.
4. To insure anonymity throughout the review process, if it is important to the development of the paper that your previous publications be cited, please do this in a way that does not make the authorship of the submitted paper obvious. This is usually most easily accomplished by referring to yourself and any co-authors in the third person and including normal references to the work cited in the list of references. Your prior publications should be included in the reference section in their normal alphabetical location. Assuming that in-text references to your previous work are in the third person, you should not include redacted self citations and references (i.e., do not delete the names of your manuscript’s authors). If you are unsure as to the best use of these or any other procedures in rendering manuscripts anonymous, please refer to our central guidance on how to anonymise your manuscript or contact the editorial offices of IT prior to submission.
Manuscripts that are judged to be lacking anonymity will be returned, potentially delaying the review processes.
Publishing Statements and Declarations
Before you submit, please ensure that you have included the following at the back of your manuscript, each under a separate heading (see Preparing your materials for more information on each one):
- Funding declaration
- Competing interests declaration
- Data availability statement (optional)
- Ethical statement (optional)
Supplementary Material
Guidance on how to prepare and submit supplementary material can be found here.
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 Editorial Manager, 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 Editorial Manager account, or by supplying it during submission.
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.
Sharing Data and Other Materials
We encourage all authors to consider making the evidence that supports their research findings, including quantitative data and qualitative materials, available to others in the interests of research transparency and reproducibility. For more information, see our central guidance on choosing a repository.
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.