No. Our editorial guidelines require that manuscripts submitted to Cambridge must not be previously published, or be under simultaneous review for publication, in part or in whole within an academic journal, book or similar entity. However, sharing your preprint anywhere else shall not be viewed as prior publication.

Yes. Publishing content in a thesis or dissertation is not considered prior publication, and is permitted under this preprint policy.

Please refer to our Green Open Access policies for books, journals, and Elements linked below for full details of how you may share submitted or accepted manuscripts.

You may share your preprint under any licence you like. We recommend Creative Commons licences, in particular CC BY, for maximum openness and re-usability of research outputs.

The licence applied to your final published Version of Record does not affect how you may share your preprint. You may still share any pre-submission version of your manuscript under any licence, in accordance with this preprint policy.

Many preprint servers and online repositories will provide you with a DOI for your preprint, enabling it to be cited elsewhere. We recommend citing your preprint in your reference list, the same way you would cite other publications.