European Review
Editorial Policy
Each issue of European Review includes a wide range of articles and features of immediate interest to an intellectual readership worldwide. The journal aims to stimulate and develop thoughtful debate with contributions from distinguished writers in academic, professional and public life. European Review continues to be a stimulating forum for the exchange of ideas and information.
Submissions
The standard size of articles is 4,000-6,000 words unless otherwise agreed with the Editor-in-Chief.
Submissions should be in Word. Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not hold copyright. Before you submit your typescript, please check it carefully for factual accuracy and stylistic consistency, as correction at a later stage is expensive and can delay progress. Special care should be taken in checking quotations and bibliographical references for accuracy, especially spelling, accents, page and line numbers.
Copyright
The policy of European Review is that authors (or in some cases their employers) retain copyright and grant Academia Europaea a license to publish their work. In the case of gold open access articles this is a non-exclusive license. 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. For full details see the publishing agreement page.
For open access articles, the form also sets out the Creative Commons license 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.
Manuscripts preparation
Contributors should submit 1 copy of manuscripts to the editor in Word format – this should include all artwork. Final figures can be submitted as eps or tif files, or jpeg files if the content does not contain a lot of tonal material. The publisher reserves the right to typeset material by conventional means if author’s files prove unsatisfactory.
ERW uses a double-anonymous referee system. To facilitate this, you will need to provide a title page including author affiliation, a short autobiography and contact information, competing interest statements, an abstract (no more than 250 words), and a separate anonymous manuscript file that does not contain any information identifying the author. Self-references to unpublished materials that would reveal the author should be removed, although self-references to published materials may be included when removal would itself be more revealing of identity.
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 editor and any reviewers. We list a number of third-party services specializing in language editing and / or translation, and suggest that authors contact as appropriate.
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 Core published journal.
Layout of manuscript
Manuscript files should be double-spaced and use size 12 font. Papers should be subdivided into sections and, if necessary, subsections. Mathematical symbols may be hand-written or typed. Greek letters and unusual signs should be identified separately in the margin. Distinction should be made between letter o and zero, between letter I and number 1 and prime. All abbreviations should be preceded the first time they appear by the full name. Boldface, spacing, and italics for emphasis are to be avoided; the latter are to be used, though, for words taken over from other languages and not integrated in the language of the text.
Footnotes are not acceptable, endnotes should be substituted but should be separate from references. They should be indicated in the text by superior lower case letters. Block quotes should be indented, using the same font as the rest of the manuscript.
Illustrations
For important detailed information on the submission of images and figures please refer to the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide. Relevant illustrations are welcomed. Colour illustrations will be used in the online version and will appear in black and white in print unless arrangements are made with the production editor, in which case there is a charge of £200 per figure. It is the author’s responsibility to provide us with full details about the picture source and to obtain from publishers or other relevant individuals permission to reproduce material. Mark the number in the text margin where you hope each illustration may appear (e.g. Fig. 1 near here). Supply a separate numbered list of captions, double-spaced, with the provenance of the illustration and any required acknowledgement. Artwork should be named according to the convention ERWSmith1.eps where the number is the figure number. Tables, graphs, maps and line drawings should all be provided on separate sheets.
References
Each time a reference is made to a document or source, author surname and year (and page number where appropriate) should appear in parentheses. No need to include ed. or eds. If the text is already in parentheses, put a semicolon before the reference to avoid having brackets within brackets if possible:
It is said that this is easy (Smith 1990: 31–32)
(it is said that this is easy; Smith 1990: 31–32)
If the author name is mentioned in the text, the reference should appear in a logical position after the author name:
Smith’s study (1990: 31) shows that this is easy
Journal references:
Author AC (2018) article title in sentence case. Journal Title in Full Italics 11, 100-109, https://doi.org/10.017/jfm.201...
Author BD Article title in sentence case. Journal Title in Full in Italics published online 16 January 2017, https://doi.org/10.017/jfm.201...
Book references:
Author EN and Author HC (2018) Book Title in Initial Caps in Italics, 2nd Edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Author EN (ed.) (2018) Book Title in Initial Caps in Italic, 2nd Edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Author DB, Author HE and Author FN (2018) Chapter title in sentence case in roman. In Author G and Author H (eds), Book Title in Initial Caps in Italics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 123-156.
Baubérot J (2013) Histoire de la Laïcité en France [History of Laicity in France], 6th edn. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France
Online Sources:
Genn H (2012b) Why the Privatisation of Civil Justice is a Rule of Law Issue, 36th F.A. Mann Lecture, Lincoln’s Inn, 19 November 2012. Available at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/jud... (accessed 6 November 2017).
World Conference on Education for All (1990) World Declaration on Education for All: Meeting Basic Learning Needs. Paris: UNESCO. Available at http://www.unesco.org/educatio... (accessed 4 July 2017).
World Health Organization (WHO) (2011) World Report on Disability. Geneva: WHO. Available at http://www.who.int/disabilitie... (accessed 4 July 2017).
For many articles submitted to the publication, it may be more useful to provide a short bibliography under heading ‘Further Reading’.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
English language editing services
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 step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
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.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
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.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.
In particular, any use of an AI tool:
- to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s)
- to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
- to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript
- must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission
Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.