All manuscripts should be submitted online via our manuscript submission and tracking site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipm
This journal uses ScholarOne for online submission and peer review. ScholarOne is a “comprehensive workflow-management system for scholarly journals, books and conferences”. Further information on ScholarOne can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Editorial Office.
Full instructions for electronic submission are available directly from this site. Please ensure that you have followed the instructions on the preparation of your materials prior to submission. To facilitate rapid reviewing, communications for peer review will be electronic and authors will need to supply a current e-mail address when registering to use the system. Please submit your manuscript in Microsoft Word format and not in an un-editable format such as PDF.
Note: It is the author's responsibility to ensure that they have read the copyright form terms and conditions so that they are familiar with where and when they may post the various versions of their article.
Suggested Peer-Reviewers
Each submission must be accompanied by the names, professional titles, professional addresses and email addresses of four suggested peer-reviewers. Authors should select these suggested peer-reviewers to include individuals, in any part of the world, who are recognized experts in the area to which the submission refers, and whom the author believes would provide useful, objective peer-reviews of the manuscript. The editors will give consideration to sending the manuscript to some or all of these peer-reviewers, but are not under any obligation to do so. Authors should consider that the suggested reviewers will need to provide an objective unbiased peer review. Hence suggesting peer reviewers who work in the author's own academic faculty or department should be avoided.
Responding to reviewers comments for resubmission
When submitting a revised manuscript, authors need to respond to reviewers' and editor’s comments on the previous submission, point by point, to show that they have addressed any reviewer and editor concerns. Please also highlight in yellow the sections of your manuscript that have been changed in response to reviewers' and editor’s comments. Highlighting changes in yellow is preferable to using track changes. Please also remember to check your files carefully prior to upload to ensure there are no errors or discrepancies from earlier versions.
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.
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.