Before submitting a manuscript, contributors should ensure that they carefully read and adhere to the style guidelines described in the ‘Rules for Contributors’. A revised version of the rules, first drawn up by the late T. W. Moody in 1944, can be found here.
In addition to the main text, each article submission should include:
- An abstract of not more than 200 words.
- A title that should not ideally exceed 20 words.
- Up to five keywords describing the content of the article.
- Figure and table captions and place markers, positioned appropriately within the body text and indicating whether they should appear as portrait or landscape.
- Arabic numbered footnotes, also double spaced.
A separate cover sheet should be provided which should include:
- Contact details for the corresponding author, including email, postal address and telephone number. The academic affiliations of all authors should also be provided.
- Any acknowledgements, whether personal or in reference to funding, that the contributors would wish to appear in the final published article.
Please refrain from using ALL CAPS.
Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format contributors should consult the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide. If, together with an accepted article, a usable colour figures is submitted, these figures will appear in colour online but in black and white in print. A charge applies for the reproduction of colour in print. For colour printing that has been specifically requested, authors will receive information regarding the costs from Cambridge University Press after receipt of the accepted article.
Datasets and supplemental files
All authors of quantitative empirical articles are encouraged to make the data available for data replication purposes. Irish Historical Studies can host such data on the journal's website, and authors wishing to avail themselves of this facility should supply all files electronically once an article has been accepted for publication.
Other types of supplemental material including, but not limited to, images, videos, audio and slideshows can be hosted on the Irish Historical Studies website.
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 is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers. Cambridge University Press lists a number of third-party services specialising in language editing and/or translation on the Cambridge Journals Language Services page, that authors may 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 published journal.
Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. A copy of the paperwork granting permission will be required should an article be accepted. Any permissions fees must be paid for by the author. For an example of a permissions request form please see the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.