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 Style and Formatting
Quotation marks
Single quotation marks should be used except where there is a quotation within another.
E.g. ‘He cried out “one should only use double quotation marks within single quotation marks”, and stormed off.’
Unless the punctuation is an integral part of the quotation, it should be outside the quotation marks.
E.g. She looked up and asked ‘Like this?’ He nodded and replied ‘yes, that’s exactly right’.
Titles of articles should be in single quotation marks. Scare quotes should be in single quotation marks
Italics
The titles of books and journals should be in italics.
Foreign words and phrases should be in italics. E.g. ‘reductio ad absurdum’ and ‘a priori’.
Hyphens, en-rules, em-rules
En-rules should be used for parentheses, rather than em-rules.
E.g. ‘en-rules are – according to Hart’s rules – the most appropriate for London journals.’
NOT
‘en-rules are─according to Hart’s rules─the most appropriate for London journals.’
En-rules should be used to indicate ranges, rather than hyphens.
E.g. ‘136–234’
NOT
135-234
References
Citations should appear in-text, in the form ‘(Surname, year, p. n)’ where ‘n’ is the page number. (In the case where the citation refers to a range of pages, please use ‘pp.’ rather than ‘p.’).
Full references should follow the style of the below examples:
Mary Midgley, ‘Gene-juggling’, Philosophy, 54 (1979), 439–458.
Barbara Vetter, Potentiality. From Dispositions to Modality (New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2015).
Citations should be in-text where possible, and footnotes should not exclusively contain references, although can contain a number of references preceded by, for example, ‘For related work, see...’
Structure
Sub-sections should be headed with Arabic rather than Roman numerals.
Abstracts should appear at the start of articles, and should be between 100 and 200 words in length.
At the end of articles, the list of cited works should appear, formatted as above, under the heading ‘References’.
Following the list of references, the author’s biographical note will be inserted. This will include the author’s name, email address (unless otherwise stipulated by the author), and a couple of sentences
detailing research interests and recent publications. For example:
SVETLANA ANDREINI (sandreini@bies.ac.uk) is Professor of Philosophy at the British Institute of Ephemeral Studies. Her recent publications include The Disappearance of Nothingness (Arcana Press,
2011) and Death, My Friend (Moribunda, 2013).
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.
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.
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 Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
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 ScholarOne, 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 ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
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.