Authors should consult the preparing your materials page and submit articles through the DCE ScholarOne site, but a quick checklist is provided for convenience below.
DCE Author checklist
1. Prepare an article file, using DCE LaTeX, Overleaf or Word templates if helpful (not required). We ask authors of LaTeX submissions to upload the article file as a PDF with the source files uploaded in a zip folder.
2. Consider whether replication data, code and other materials can be made available in-line with the research transparency policy. Note that the journal uses Open Data and Materials badges to promote open practices.
3. Ensure that the article file contains: an impact statement (beneath the abstract; 120 words on the significance of the findings expressed for a wider audience); and competing interest, funding and data availability statements (for examples, see here).
4. Note that many authors have open access publishing costs covered through Transformative agreements that Cambridge has formed with institutions worldwide. It is the corresponding author's institution that is pertinent to these agreements. Authors without these agreements - and without funding to pay an article processing charge (APC) - are supported thanks to the Lloyd's Register Foundation.
5. Submit your article through the DCE ScholarOne site, contacting dce@cambridge.org with any questions.
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.
Preprint deposit during submission
When you submit your manuscript in Scholar One, you will be presented with the option to simultaneously submit a preprint to Cambridge Open Engage, Cambridge University Press’s early and open research platform. Posting a preprint enables faster dissemination of your work ahead of peer review. Preprints are citeable and accrue view and download metrics, allowing your research to gather attention ahead of formal publication.
If you and your co-authors opt in to this service during the submission process, your manuscript will be automatically deposited on Cambridge Open Engage, and made openly available in perpetuity. If your work goes on to be published in the journal, or elsewhere, we will add the link to the version of record to your preprint page so that readers are able to find the peer-reviewed version. You will also be able to log in to Cambridge Open Engage to claim your preprint, upload new versions, and see view and download metrics.
Please note:
- Preprints submitted to Cambridge Open Engage are subject to the Cambridge Open Engage Terms of Submission and Terms of Use.
- We will post the preprint using the exact manuscript and metadata that you submit the journal, so please make sure you are happy to share this version of the manuscript publicly, and have the rights to share any copyrighted material held within it before opting in.
- You must have all co-authors' permission to post a preprint.
- Preprints are not removed from Cambridge Open Engage except in very rare circumstances.
To participate, simply opt in during the ScholarOne submission process.