Submission
Submission is exclusively via Editorial Manager. There are no charges for submission. Guidelines for submitting your manuscript can be found below. 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.
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.
Publication charges
PHCR&D is a fully Open Access journal. This means that accepted articles will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which permits use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This means that all articles in the journal will be freely available to view, download and share, ensuring that anyone can benefit from and build upon the work. An Article Processing Charge (APC) will be payable by authors or their funder on article acceptance. The APC for PHCR&D is £2,045/$3,255.
For more information about OA, see Cambridge University Press’s open access policies pages.
APC waiver policy
A full waiver of the APC will be granted automatically where the corresponding author is based in a Research4Life Group A country, and a 50% waiver will be granted where the corresponding author is based in a Research4Life Group B country.
The APC charge will be waived for certain commissioned articles and in rare cases when authors and their instituted can clearly demonstrate their inability to pay. To ensure availability of funding has no bearing on editorial decisions, the Editors of PHCR&D are never involved in correspondence with authors on payment of publication charges. All APC waiver requests must be submitted directly to the publisher prior to submission.
The decision whether to accept a paper for publication will rest solely with the Editors, and without reference to the funding situation of the authors. Please note: APC collection is managed by RightsLink, who will contact authors following acceptance of their paper.
Read and Publish deal authors
Information on Cambridge University Press Open Access Read & Publish deals (including details of which institutions are included in these Agreements) can be found here.
EFPC Members
Corresponding authors who are members of EFPC are entitled to a 25% discount on their APC. In order to confirm your eligibility, please email: [email protected] following with your manuscript number. They will confirm your entitlement to receive this discount directly with the editorial office. Please indicate in the submission system whether you will be looking to use this discount.
Article proofs
PDF proofs are sent to authors in order that they make sure that the paper has been correctly set up in type. Only changes to errors introduced by typesetting/copy-editing or typographical errors will be accepted.
Please refer to your proofing instructions within the PDF proof to check where your proof corrections must be returned.
A PDF offprint of the published article will be supplied to the corresponding author upon publication.
Copyright
The policy of Primary Health Care Research and Development is that authors (or in some cases their employers) retain copyright and grant Cambridge University Press a non-exclusive licence to publish their work. Authors must complete and return an author publishing agreement form as soon as their article has been accepted for publication; the journal is unable to publish the article without this. Please download the appropriate publishing agreement here.
The form also sets out the Creative Commons licence under which the article is made available to end users: a fundamental principle of open access is that content should not simply be accessible but should also be freely re-usable. Articles will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY) by default. This means that the article is freely available to read, copy and redistribute, and can also be adapted (users can “remix, transform, and build upon” the work) for any commercial or non-commercial purpose, as long as proper attribution is given. Authors can, in the publishing agreement form, choose a different kind of Creative Commons license (including those prohibiting non-commercial and derivative use) if they prefer.
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.
Digital preservation policy
Cambridge University Press publications are deposited in the following digital archives to guarantee long-term digital preservation:
- CLOCKSS (journals)
- Portico (journals and books).