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.
Manuscript Preparation
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1. Articles should normally be between 4000 and 8000 words, and should be submitted together with an abstract of up to 200 words.
2. Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the paper only in double spacing throughout (including notes) with generous margins. Contributors are encouraged to provide a digital version of their papers. LaTeX sources are welcome.
3. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively through the manuscript.
4. Bibliographical references should be given in full at the first mention in the notes and a short title used thereafter (thus avoiding the use of ibid., id. and op. cit.)
Examples:
Al-Ḫwārizmī, Kitāb al-ǧabr wa-al-muqābala, ed. ‘Alī Muṣṭafā Mušarrafa and Muḥammad Mursī Aḥmad (Cairo, 1939).
John Beckmann, A history of inventions, discoveries and origins, 4th ed., trans. William Johnstone, 2 vol. (London, 1846), vol. I.
Paul Kraus, “Plotin chez les Arabes: Remarques sur un nouveau fragment de la paraphrase arabe des Ennéades”, Bulletin de l’Institut d’Égypte, 23 (1941), p. 263-95.
Otto Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy, 3 vol. (Berlin and New York, 1975).
Short titles:
Al-Ḫwārizmī, Kitāb al-ǧabr, p. 90.
Beckmann, A history of inventions, vol. I, p. 16-21.
Kraus, “Plotin chez les Arabes”, p. 265-8.
Neugebauer, Ancient mathematical astronomy, I, 17-18.
5. Contributors may use either French, British or American conventions for spelling and punctuation, but should ensure that conventions are used consistently throughout the paper.
6. Arabic script should be used only when essential. In general Arabic should be transliterated using the DIN 31635 standard. Letters hamza and ʿayn should be transliterated with half rings ʾ and ʿ (Unicode encoding U+02BE and U+02BF).
7. Maps and diagrams (figures) and tables should be submitted on separate pages. Figures may be submitted in rough draft initially. However, when a submission has been accepted for publication, authors are responsible for providing camera-ready versions. Figures (which may include photographs) and tables should each be numbered consecutively in arabic numerals. A separate, double-spaced list of figure captions should be provided.
8. Contributors should keep one copy of the typescript for correcting proofs. First proofs may be read by contributors provided that they can give the editors an address through which they can be reached without delay and can guarantee to return the corrected proofs to the designated editor, by airmail where necessary, within three days of receiving them. Corrections should normally be restricted to printer's errors.
9. Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
The policy of Arabic Sciences and Philosophy is that authors (or in some cases their employers) retain copyright and grant Cambridge University Press a licence to publish their work. In the case of gold open access articles this is a non-exclusive licence. 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 without this. Please download the appropriate publishing agreement here.
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Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not hold copyright and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
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”.
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 – delivered in partnership with American Journal Experts. 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.
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Authorship and contributorship
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