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Prepare your manuscript for Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

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Article types

Review
Editorial
Book Review
Letter
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
Lectio

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 150 words.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Review: Quotes from the book(s) under review must be accompanied by the relevant page reference set out within parenthesis directly after the quote ('(584)').
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  • Use the acronym for all subsequent references, except where it occurs at the start of a sentence.
  • All important bibliographic information, including number of pages and ISBN, must be provided in the format set out below.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.
  • A typical article will not exceed 11,000 words, including references and footnotes.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
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  • All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2).
  • In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
  • Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
  • Figures must be saved separate to text.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Please do not embed figures in the paper file.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Letter: To accompany their manuscript, authors should include a very short cover letter outlining how their contribution is a good fit for this journal specifically.
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  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Title page and author information

  • Book Review: Authors of articles, essays and book reviews must include, separately, a curriculum vitae statement of 70 words (which should include highest academic degree and university from which it was obtained, current affiliation / place of employment and title, previous relevant employment and relevant recent publications).
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • The affiliations of all named co-authors should be the affiliation where the research was conducted.
  • One author should be identified as the corresponding author with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal and the online article).

Article structure and word limits

  • Review: Book reviews should not exceed 800 words for a review of one book and 1,500 words for a review of two books.
  • Abstracts of 150 words are required for all papers submitted.
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  • Two-word names of numbers less than one hundred are hyphenated (the number 34 should be written 'thirty-four', and 134 should be written 'one hundred and thirty-four').
  • The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Review: Manuscript Submissions All submissions should be made online at the Cambridge Review of International Affairs ScholarOne Manuscripts site.
  • Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre.
  • LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because ScholarOne Manuscripts is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly.
  • You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
  • Please include a Disclosure statement to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research.
  • Accordingly, the first word and any proper nouns within the title should be capitalized.
  • Where words are used in a general sense, lower case rather than capitals should be used.
  • Use the following date formats: 1 June 2004 (date, month, year).
  • In the text, whole numbers up to and including ten should be written out in full.
  • Subsequent paragraphs should then be indented.
  • Hyphens should be used where two or more words are used adjectivally ('part-time course').
  • Multiple words used as nouns should not be hyphenated, unless they contain a noun and present participle combination ('six months'; 'decision-making').
  • If the definite article is part a title or name, the definite article must be italicised (' The Times ').
  • Lists should be introduced by a colon, followed by a single space.
  • If using 'etc' at the end of a list, it should be preceded by a comma and concluded with a single full stop.
  • Ellipsis (a series of three points), with a space on each side, should be inserted into a quote to indicate the omission of material from the original quote.
  • A single space should separate each sentence.
  • Review / Book Review: Book Review Guidelines Book reviews should assume that the reader has not read the book(s) under review and offer a very brief summary of the same.
  • Review: The review should position the book within the relevant field of literature, as well as give a few points of information on the author's background.
  • Review / Book Review: The book review should not be an excuse for presenting the reviewer's own views on a theme.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Review / Editorial: Contributions to the Cambridge Review of International Affairs must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.
  • New users should first create an account.
  • Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
  • Do not use a serial (Oxford) comma, unless necessary to avoid ambiguity ('apples, oranges and pears' [no serial comma]; 'It begins with the question of which classes of effects to consider, of how to rank the concerned individual and collective goods, and of how to evaluate the trade-off between the uncertainty of known or unknown dangers and the certainty of known benefits of an innovation.' [insert serial comma]).
  • The ellipses should follow a blank space.
  • Use British rather than American spellings ('per cent' not 'percent'; 'practice' (noun), 'practise' (verb) not 'practice' (both as noun and verb)), save where the word is part of a title, a proper name, or a quote.
  • Do not leave a space before or after the em dash, the en dash or the hyphen, except where the lack of space would cause confusion ('5 March - 3 June' not '5 March-3 June'), or where it is a hanging hyphen ('nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature').
  • Letter: Do not hyphenate words with this prefix ('transnational') unless the second part of the word is spelt with a capital letter ('trans-Atlantic').
  • The First Amendment provides that 'Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.' US Constitution Amendment I.
  • (b) Do not place an ellipsis at the beginning of a quote to indicate the omission of material.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Language and text style

  • Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
  • Do not use full points in abbreviations, initials of names, or acronyms (ie Dr not Dr.; TJ Smith not T.J).
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  • Do not use full points in abbreviations, initials of names, or acronyms ('Dr' not 'Dr.'; 'TJ Smith' not 'T.J).
  • Single quotation marks should be used, unless for a quote within a quote, in which case double quotation marks should be employed for the inner quote.
  • Commas, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks should be contained within or follow after quotation marks depending on whether they belong to the quote: if so, they go inside the quotation marks; if not, outside.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
  • Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; main text; acknowledgments; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).

Manuscript structure

  • Sentence-style capitalization should be used when noting the title of a work or when adding headings to a manuscript.
  • When used, there should be a maximum of two levels of heading.
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  • Top-level headings should be bolded and sub-headings within a section should be italicized.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • A heading or subheading, together with the first paragraph following it, should be flush left (with no indent).

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 150 words
Paper: 11,000 words
Declarations: Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

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