Submission
All authors who would like to submit contributions for publication in Polar Record should submit their manuscript and a covering letter using the online manuscript submission system at the following address:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pol
Pre-submission enquiries, any further requests for information, and enquiries regarding Special Issues should be sent to the Editorial Office of the journal at [email protected].
Submission implies that a similar manuscript has not been published nor is currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The covering letter accompanying the submission should include the address, telephone number, email address and fax number for the corresponding author, with the complete addresses of all co-authors, grouped by institution where possible. Potential contributors who might wish for advice concerning publication in Polar Record are welcome to contact the Editors at any time.
Open Access
Authors in Polar Record
Authors choosing the Open Access option are required to complete the Open Access Licence to Publish form. More information about Open Access in Polar Record, including the current Article Processing Charge, can be found on our website.
Author Language Services
Cambridge recommends that authors have their manuscripts checked by an English language native speaker before submission; this will ensure that submissions are judged at peer review exclusively on academic merit. We list a number of third-party services specialising in language editing and / or translation, and suggest that authors contact as appropriate. Use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense
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.
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.