Aims & Scope
Nationalities Papers is the place to turn for cutting edge multidisciplinary work on nationalism, migration, diasporas, and ethnic conflict. We publish high-quality peer-reviewed articles from historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars from other fields. Our traditional geographical emphasis has been on Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, but we now publish research from around the globe. As the journal of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), our mission is to bring together scholars worldwide working on nationalism and ethnicity and to feature the best theoretical, empirical, and analytical work in the field. We strongly encourage submissions from women, members of minority and underrepresented groups, and people with disabilities.
For those interested in submitting a Special Issue proposal click here.
Article Types Accepted
- Article*
- Review Article*
- State of the Field*
- Analysis of Current Events*
- Tribute
- Book Review (solicited)
- Book Symposium*
- Film Review
- Special Issue Article*
* These article types may be eligible for APC waivers or discounts under one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access.
Research Notes
In addition to regular articles, Nationalities Papers also accept and publish Research Notes. Research Notes are shorter than regular articles (5,000 words) and should either engage in a theoretical debate, advance a new theoretical argument, discuss new sources of data or empirical material, or discuss a methodological approach or approach to fieldwork. Either of these approaches should engage with – and contribute to – the study of nationalities, broadly defined. As a few examples, a Research Note may share preliminary findings regarding the study of nationalities, or present a theoretical or methodological intervention to studying nationalities. General guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript, as well as the process of peer reviewing, apply for Research Notes.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
Preparing your article for submission
Submissions must be composed of the below elements in order to be considered for publication. These items should be included as separate, editable files.
- Title Page. Title pages must include the information listed here [sample]
- Anonymized manuscript, complete with abstract, keywords, and reference list. Please do not send a manuscript that includes potentially identifying author details.
- Appendices (optional)
- Tables (optional)
- Figures (optional)
Preparing your revision for resubmission
Most articles we publish undergo at least one round of revisions, often several. Authors must include the following items with their resubmission:
- A revised copy of their anonymized manuscript, with the changes highlighted. This should be submitted as a separate, editable file.
- A revised title page, as well as revised figures, tables, and Licence to Publish Agreement if necessary. These should be submitted as separate files.
- A detailed, anonymized response to the reviewers’ comments, explaining whether and how they were addressed. This is submitted in a text box on ScholarOne. Please do not send a separate file.
- A cover letter to the editors with any additional information. This is submitted in a text box on ScholarOne. Please do not send a separate file.
Style Guide
For more information on submissions and specifics regarding the journal’s style, see the journal’s current style guide linked here. Accepted articles and their respective components - including reference lists - must conform to journal style before they can be copyedited and typeset by the publisher. For questions of style not answered in the guide, please refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, or contact the editorial office.
Preparing materials for blind peer review
Instructions for blinding your manuscript prior to peer review can be found here.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Ethics and transparency policy requirements
Please review our ethics policies prior to submission.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
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.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.