Submissions should be made electronically through LARR’s manuscript submission system. A guide for authors on electronic submission is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese: click the “help” button on the submission page or see Author Support. Please follow the guidelines below, and contact the editorial office if you have any questions.
Submission preparation checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- Confirm that the manuscript has been submitted solely to this journal and is not published, in press, or submitted elsewhere.
- Confirm that your manuscript has been prepared according to the Instructions for authors.
- Confirm that you have prepared an anonymous main document without author names, acknowledgements, or identifiable self-citation to allow blinded review. Where possible, please remove identifying information from document properties for your uploaded files.
- Confirm that you have included a competing interests declaration within your submission that relates to all authors that have contributed to your submission. This declaration is subject to editorial review and may be published within your final article.
- Confirm that any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
- Confirm that all authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper and satisfy the authorship guidelines.
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.
Copyright Information
Articles will be published under a creative commons attribution (CC BY) licence as standard, but authors may elect to publish under the following alternative licences:
- CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike License)
- CC-BY-NC (Creative Commons Non-Commercial License)
- CC-BY-ND (Creative Commons No-Derivatives License)
- CC-BY-NC-SA (Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-alike)
- CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives License)
For information on what each licence allows, please visit this page.
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.