If you have a specific question about the production process, please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected].
Guidelines for conditionally accepted articles
After conditional acceptance, authors must provide the following items:
- An Adobe PDF version of the complete manuscript including the following components: title page, abstract, text (with embedded tables and figures), funding, acknowledgements, data availability statement, conflicts of interest, figure legend, references. Note the references should include the complete PA Dataverse citation.
- Manuscript source files (Microsoft Word or LaTeX). LaTeX users may combine all files into a zipped file.
- Separate individual figure and table files.
- Supplementary file for online-only publication.
- Signed copyright licensing form.
Authors using LaTeX should remember to supply all non-standard inputs required to produce a Postscript file. Authors should use standard fonts and try to avoid non-standard LaTeX packages. Special care should be taken with the setting of the math, including such things as bolding vectors and matrices. LaTeX users will find the amssymb and bm packages of use.
Microsoft Word users must take special care to ensure that the mathematical notation conforms to standard.
Funding open access
Multiple funding routes are available for Gold Open Access articles. Please see this journal's open access options for details.
Production
Once an article has been accepted, the process of copyediting, proofing, typesetting and publishing the article will begin. Authors will be asked to ensure all final files are submitted to ScholarOne before the article can be sent to Cambridge University Press for production.
Your point of contact with Cambridge University Press will be the content manager of the journal. For more information about how production works at Cambridge University Press, please see our information on publishing an accepted paper, which explains how an article goes from accepted manuscript to fully published. There may be small differences between journals with this process. You can also check our Journal Production FAQs.
Licence to publish
Once your article has been accepted, but before it can proceed into production, we need a signed licence to publish form. Further information about this may be found here.
FirstView
This journal uses the FirstView system to publish articles online, ahead of issue assignment. For more details please see our FAQs.
Articles published online under the FirstView model are considered published, and have a DOI which can be used for citation. No further revisions can be made after FirstView publication of an article. Articles will later be assigned to an appropriate issue by the journal's Editor. Articles may appear in a different order in issues to the order they were published under FirstView.
Corrections
Changes cannot be made to articles once published either in FirstView or as part of an issue. Any changes must be made via the standard process of issuing a correction notice. Please contact the Editorial Office and Content Manager for the journal if any error has been identified. The final decision on whether a correction notice should be published will be taken by the Publisher in consultation with the Editorial Team. For more information please refer to our FAQs.
Access to your article
Once your article has been published, authors will receive a code which will provide perpetual access in both HTML and PDF formats.