Manuscript Submission
All manuscripts should be submitted via our on-line system, Editorial Manager, at www.editorialmanager.com/ber New users will need to register first.
Please note that the journal uses software to screen papers where there is reason to believe that material may not be original. By submitting your paper you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your paper may have to undergo during the peer review and production processes.
Peer Review
Communications for peer review will be by email as far as possible. All contributions will be reviewed by at least two referees to ensure both accuracy and relevance. The referees' reports will provide a basis on whether we accept a paper, and revision may be required before final acceptance.
Authors are invited to suggest the names and contact details (including e-mail addresses) of at least two, and up to four, potential referees for their paper when submitting their manuscript, and are asked to provide keywords indicating the content of the manuscript. When submitting, please also give a brief description (no more than 50 words) of why the manuscript is an important contribution to entomology research.
Publication Copyright
Before beginning work on the production of any accepted manuscript, Cambridge requires a signed ‘licence to publish’ (copyright) agreement. The process for creating, signing and submitting these agreements is now managed entirely online, which means that there is no need to print, scan, email, or mail anything. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication in the journal, the corresponding author will receive an email inviting them to complete an Information Request Form (IRF) via our digital contract management platform, Ironclad. The information submitted via this form (including information on copyright holder, open access status, etc.) will determine the terms and conditions under which the article will be published, and will be used to generate the licence to publish agreement. The corresponding author will be guided through the process to signature and submission.
For more information on author publishing agreements, see here.
For open access articles, the form also sets out the Creative Commons licence 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.
Proofs
Authors will receive a PDF file of page proofs by email, and will be asked to return corrected proofs within 72 hours.
Offprints
The author (or main author) of an accepted paper will receive a free PDF of their paper. Paper offprints are available for a fee and should be ordered at proof stage.
Reprints
For all reprint pricing details, please contact special_sales@cambridge.org
ORCID
We require all corresponding 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 will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on Editorial Manager, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your Editorial Manager account, or by supplying it during submission.
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.
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.