Submissions
Please submit articles electronically using the ScholarOne Manuscripts submission site, for which you can find the link below: Submit An Article. ScholarOne is a “comprehensive workflow-management system for scholarly journals, books and conferences”. Further information on ScholarOne 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 ScholarOne, 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 ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
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.
Electronic submission: Papers may be submitted electronically as files attached to an email or by using the online Article Submission form available on the website (www.jlo.co.uk). There is also a template that can be downloaded from the website that indicates how the ideal article should be laid out. All submitted material must be in a Microsoft Word compatible format or review will be impossible and the article will be returned. Tables, pictures and photographs for review may be added to electronically submitted articles but, as with paper submission,must not be embedded within the text. The total size of the file should not exceed 6MB. To facilitate uploading, illustrations should be sent for review in a low-resolution (72 dpi) format inserted into a Microsoft Word document. If the article is subsequently accepted, photographs and prints will normally be required to be sent by surface mail prior to publication, although high resolution files (TIFF format: minimum resolution 300 dpi) may also be considered.
Covering Letter: No manuscript will be published unless accompanied by a covering letter. This must normally accompany the paper at the time of submission. For electronic submissions, a scanned copy of the letter, submitted as a separate file, will be allowed.
All the authors must sign the letter to indicate that they have read and approved the paper. Such a letter should indicate the part they have played in data collection, analysis or in the writing of the paper. The principal investigator should also indicate that he/she is prepared to take responsibility for the integrity of the content of the manuscript and the letter should outline any potential or actual competing interests: where none have occurred this should also be clearly stated. Competing interests include affiliation with organisations described in the manuscript and include grant monies, honoraria, fees or gifts as well as indirect financial support where equipment or drugs have been supplied. All authors should read the journal Transparency and Openness Guidelines and include a statement covering this in the letter.
Proofs of accepted articles will be sent to authors and should be corrected and returned within 5 working days. No extra material should be added to the manuscript at this stage. Offprints may be ordered using the accompanying form. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. The exception will be manuscripts containing coloured illustrations which will be returned, if requested, by SurfaceMail.
Media PDFs: If you are submitting a manuscript that includes video or audio, this will be simultaneously published online on the Cambridge platform in two formats:
1) As regular PDF / HTML versions (with the video/audio being made available as Supplementary Material and represented as a still image in the article), and
2) As a 'Media PDF' version, which will allow the reader to view the video/audio within the PDF.
The article will also be published in print once it is assigned to an issue.
When submitting your paper, please insert a high resolution 'still' of the video that best represents the content of the video in the manuscript. This will then be used for the version of the article that will appear in print, and additionally for the regular (i.e. non-Media) PDF version which will be hosted online. The accompanying caption should follow the format of:
"Fig.1 (taken from Supplementary Video 1): <Caption for still>"
Directions for inserting the video, and an alternative caption, should also be provided immediately following, e.g.:
"<Video 001.mpg to replace Fig. 1>"
"<Video 1: <Caption for video>"
This version will be used for the Media PDF version.
For audio, the direction should be added immediately after the word or figure that will contain the clickable link to the audio.
The video/audio file should be uploaded in addition to the manuscript file using the 'video/audio' file designation option on ScholarOne, and should have the same naming convention as the corresponding Fig. in the manuscript. This file will then be inserted into the placeholder (in place of the ‘still’) for the Media PDF version.
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.