How to Submit
This journal uses ScholarOne - https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpublicpolicy - 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 at [email protected].
Anonymising your manuscript
Remember to check that your manuscript is suitability anonymised before you submit it. Guidance on how to anonymise your manuscript can be found here.
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.
Preparing a Manuscript for Submission Using ScholarOne
You must set up a user account with ScholarOne before you can submit a manuscript. To set up a user account, please enter your information at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jpublicpolicy.
Once you create an account, you can log in with the username and password you created. On your Dashboard, you can submit a new manuscript and see a list of all manuscripts in progress.
When submitting a new manuscript, you will go through six steps:
- Type, title and abstract
- Attributes
- Author(s) and institution(s)
- Details and comments
- File upload
- Review and submit
In step #1, you must select your manuscript type:
- Original Article
- Review
- Field Essay
Most authors should choose "Original Article." We rarely publish Review articles, and we categorize articles as Field Essays on a case-by-case basis.
Once you have selected your manuscript type, please input your manuscript title, running head and abstract. Please note that your abstract should also be copied and pasted onto the first page of your anonymized manuscript ("Main Document – Anonymous"), as specified under Submitting your materials. You must indicate whether or not you are submitting the manuscript on your own or on someone else’s behalf.
Once you have selected your manuscript type, please input your manuscript title, running head and abstract. Please note that your abstract should also be copied and pasted onto the first page of your anonymized manuscript ("Main Document – Anonymous"), as specified under Submitting your materials. You must indicate whether or not you are submitting the manuscript on your own or on someone else’s behalf.
To increase the number of citations your published manuscript receives, consider using words in your title and abstract that are optimized for search engines. For more information on how to do this, visit: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/seo.asp.
Upon clicking “Save and Continue,” you will move to step #2, which will prompt you to enter at least four but no more than six keywords.
In step #3, you will be asked to input the contact information for yourself and all co-authors. Please only list authors who have made a substantial contribution to the concept and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data and who were involved in drafting or revising the manuscript for important intellectual content and publication; all others should be listed in your Acknowledgements.
In step #4, you will have the opportunity to cut and paste or upload a cover letter. Although cover letters are not required, submitting authors commonly use them to briefly summarize the significance of their manuscript to the field and relevance to JPP. At this step, you must indicate whether your manuscript has previously been submitted to JPP. Additionally, you must list the number of figures, tables and words in your manuscript.
Note: Because ScholarOne sets a timer on all processes and lacks an auto-save function, we strongly advise you to save any text in a Word document and then copy and paste into the appropriate field when you are ready to submit. Otherwise, you may lose your work.
In step #5, you will have the opportunity to upload the files associated with your manuscript. At a minimum, this should include two files: 1) Title Page and 2) Main Document – Anonymous. You may upload any supplementary information files you wish, but if you would like reviewers to have access to this information during the review of your manuscript, please instead include this information at the end of your Main Document – Anonymous with under the heading “Supplementary Materials (Not for Publication)”. Please review Submitting your materials for more information on formatting.
LaTeX submissions only need to include the PDF version of their manuscript for the review process. But, if your manuscript is accepted for publication, please note that you will need to attach a zipped folder of all files so that your manuscript can be edited by our production staff.
In step #6, you will review your PDF proof and then submit your manuscript. You should receive an email shortly thereafter confirming your submission.
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.
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.