Initial Manuscript Submission
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure that you carefully read and adhere to all the guidelines and instructions to authors provided on the "Preparing your materials" page. Manuscripts that do not conform to these guidelines will be returned.
Authors should submit manuscripts online via the Journal of British Studies Editorial Manager system athttps://www.editorialmanager.com/jbritstudies/default.aspx. You will need to create an account if you do not have one (see information about ORCID in the Submitting Your Materials tab on the website). If you are unsure if you have an account, or if you have forgotten your password, use the password help function provided. Please contact the editorial office at [email protected] if you have any further questions about the process.
Submitting Your Manuscript in Editorial Manager
The online submission software (Editorial Manager) will automatically create a single PDF document containing your main text and reduced-resolution versions of any figures and tables you have submitted. In addition to the main manuscript text, including tables and figures, you will be asked to provide the following items during the submission process:
- A title of not more than 30 words
- An abstract of not more than 200 words
- Name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information for the corresponding author(s)
- A statement regarding any conflicts of interest
To submit a new manuscript, go to https://www.editorialmanager.com/jbritstudies/default.aspx, choose “Submit New Manuscript” and then follow the on-screen instructions. You move between steps by clicking on the “Next” button on each screen or back to the previous screen by clicking on the “Previous” button. Please do not use the “Back” or “Forward” buttons on your browser, as the information you have entered will not be saved.
After the manuscript has been submitted, you will see a confirmation screen. If you do not see this, your manuscript has not been successfully submitted to the journal. If this is the case, please click the “Incomplete Submissions” link on the Author Main Menu where the paper will be awaiting your attention. When the editorial office has received your submission, you will receive an email confirmation.
Authors of accepted manuscripts should update any anonymized items. You will be asked to provide a few sentences indicating your affiliation and any acknowledgments. Note that the journal does not include any information on authors’ previous publications.
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.
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.