Journal of Navigation Online Submission System
Authors must submit using the online submission and peer review system, ScholarOneManuscripts. If visiting the site for the first time, users must create a new account by clicking on ‘register here’. Once logged in, authors should click on the ‘Corresponding Author Centre’, from which point a new manuscript can be submitted, with step-by-step instructions provided. Once your submission is completed you will receive an email confirmation. Further information on ScholarOne can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Editorial Office.
Author pre-submission checklist
The following checklist may be helpful:
- Have you told readers, at the outset, what they might gain by reading your paper?
- Have you used clear, concise, correct English vocabulary, punctuation and grammar?
- Have you made the aim of your work clear?
- Have you explained the significance of your contribution?
- Have you set your work in the appropriate context by giving sufficient background(including relevant references) to your work?
- Have you addressed the questions of novelty, practicality and usefulness?
- Have you identified future developments that may result from your work?
- Have you structured your paper in a clear and logical fashion?
- Are your Figures and Tables appropriate, legible and clearly labelled.
The following sample structure may also be useful:
- 1 - Abstract
- 2 - Keywords
- 3 - Introduction - Provide a brief context to the readers, address the problem, identify existing solutions & their limitations (review of state-of-the-art), inform what is hoped to be achieved by your research.
- 4 - Methods - Describe how the problem was studied, include detailed information on methods used (provide sufficient detail to allow your work to be reproduced), refer to previously published solutions, but do not describe them in detail.
- 5 - Results - Be clear and easy to understand, highlight the main findings, underline unexpected findings, visualize the results (include illustrations and figures).
- 6 - Discussion (this section can be combined with Results if needed) - Analyse what the results mean, make the discussion correspond to the results, compare results published by others with your own.
- 7 - Conclusions - Provide a reader with a justification for your work, explain how you advance the present state of knowledge, identify limitations of the presented research, mention envisaged future research on the topic.
Keywords
Authors should not enter keywords on the manuscript, as these must be chosen by the author during the online submission process and will then be added during the production process.
Supplementary Material
Relevant material which is not suitable for inclusion in the main article body, such as movies or numerical simulations/animations, can be uploaded as part of the initial submission. Each individual file must be accompanied by a separate caption and a suitable title (which can be provided in a Word file), such as ‘Movie 1’, and large files should be archived as a .zip or .tar file before uploading. Each individual supplementary file should be no more than 10MB. Upon publication these materials will then be hosted online alongside the final published article. Likewise, should there be detailed mathematical relations, tables or figures which are likely to be useful only to a few specialists, these can also be published online as supplementary material. Note that supplementary material is published ‘as is’, with no further production performed. For further support, please see our supplementary material preparation instructions.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
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.
Review process
This journal uses a single-blind peer review model. This means that the identity of the authors is known to the peer reviewers, but the identity of the peer reviewers is not known to the authors. For further details please refer to the Peer Review Information Pages
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.