Submissions
All manuscripts must be submitted online at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/zygote
Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and it is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
When providing suggested reviewers, please note that it is the corresponding author’s responsibility to notify us of any conflicts of interest such as whether any suggested reviewer has been a co-author on a paper(s) in the last 5 years.
There is no formal restriction on length; however, Original Articles and Reviews of less than 15000 words are likely to appear sooner than longer ones. Short Communications should not exceed 1500 words and News and Views Commentaries should not exceed 500 words.
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.