Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the email address [email protected], along with a cover sheet including your name, telephone number, email address, and competing interests declaration (see below for guidance on what this declaration should look like). The editors require also a separate text of 150 words that presents the argument of your paper. The required format of submitted files is MS Word (.docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Please note that TEX and LaTex files as well as similar electronic documents in non-WORD format are not accepted. Anonymised PDF files may be submitted for the preliminary (evaluating) stage, but for the final stages either a Word or RTF file is necessary.

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 is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editors and any reviewers. We list a number of third-party services specialising in language editing and/or translation, and suggest that authors contact as appropriate: www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/language-services

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.

Submission of a paper is taken to imply that it has not been previously published and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of the paper, the author will be asked to sign a license to publish with Cambridge University Press (with certain rights reserved). There are no page charges.