How to Submit
This journal uses Editorial Manager - https://www.editorialmanager.com/jrep - for online submission and peer review. Editorial Manager is the “leading, cloud-based manuscript submission and peer-review tracking system for scholarly journals, reference works, books and other publications”. Further information on Editorial Manager can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Editorial Office at [email protected].
Transferring a previously reviewed manuscript to the JREP (Transfer-In Process)
When a paper is rejected by another journal with reviews, if the journal has a transfer-out process, we will accept the transfer of the anonymous manuscript and identified reviews to the JREP to assist in our review process. We will accept reviews only from journals that allow the transfer of reviews from JREP and where manuscripts are reviewed anonymously by external reviewers.
To initiate such a transfer, an author should proceed as follows:
- The author completes a normal new submission to the JREP. In the note to editor box in the submission system, the author should explain that they are requesting a transfer of reviews from another journal and specify that journal. The paper must have been rejected fewer than 4 weeks ago by the other journal.
- The author is encouraged to submit a cover letter detailing any changes they have made, or would propose to make, if the manuscript were to be reviewed at JREP.
- Simultaneously, the author requests that their manuscript and reviews be transferred to the JREP by having them sent by the other journal to [email protected]. All reviews must be sent. The author should inform the transferring journal of their manuscript ID at the JREP to help us in linking the old reviews to the new submission.
- If reviewer identities are not included in this initial correspondence from the other journal, upon receipt of this email, the JREP managing editor will request the reviewer identities.
- This information, with any attachments, will be forwarded to assigned editor.
- The reviews and any cover letter will be consulted in making a desk rejection decision. As with any other submission, a paper can be desk rejected or sent out for review. If a paper is sent out for review, a prior reviewer may be consulted again if the editor believes it would be helpful, particularly if a manuscript has been revised since initial submission. The editor is under no obligation to rely on these external reviews or to ask for additional comments from any prior reviewers.
- As with any other submission, a decision on a manuscript is final.
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.
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.
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.