PASA Online Submission System
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts for online submission and peer review.If visiting the site for the first time, users must create a new account by clicking on ‘register here’. Once logged in, authors should click on the ‘Corresponding Author Centre’, from which point a new manuscript can be submitted, with step-by-step instructions provided. Once your submission is completed you will receive an email confirmation. Further information on ScholarOne can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Editorial Office.
Alternatively, authors can use the template in the online collaborative authoring tool, Overleaf. The ‘Submit’ button in Overleaf takes authors smoothly through to the ScholarOne Manuscripts system. Further information on Overleaf can be found in the preparing your materials page.
There is no submission fee or page charges.
Manuscripts may be uploaded into ScholarOne in any of four ways:
1. Uploading a single PDF and compressed source files
a. Upload the main PDF using the 'Single Anonymous' or 'Double Anonymous' file designation.
b. Upload the manuscript source files as a single ZIP or TAR file, selecting the file designation of “Compressed Source Files."
2. Uploading a main document and graphics files
a. Upload the main TEX or DOC file first as your “Main Document.”
b. Upload each file related to the main document. Select "TeX/LaTex Suppl Files" if the main document is a TEX file. Select “Figure" or “Table" if the main document is a DOC file.
c. Ensure you have uploaded a PDF version, selecting the file designation of 'Single Anonymous' or 'Double Anonymous'. Please note PDF files produced directly from pdfTeX can be problematic, see below.
3. Retrieving a manuscript from arXiv
a. Enter the E-Print number in the box provided and hit submit.
4. Use the PASA template in the collaborative authoring tool Overleaf.
At the end of the process you will be able to submit to the journal's ScholarOne Manuscripts system. Please note only single anonymous submissions can be submitted using Overleaf.
Files should be kept as small as possible at this stage – files larger than 10 MB are not supported and should not be uploaded without prior approval. Authors may need to reduce the quality of their figures to meet this file size requirement; if the paper is accepted then higher quality figures may be reincorporated at the production stage.
Authors may also upload supplementary material which they wish to make available to the editor and referee but is not intended for publication, such as additional data tables or figures. This should be designated as 'Supplementary Material (for review)'. This will be automatically added to the PDF generated by the system.
For authors using LaTeX Template: ScholarOne does not reliably compile LaTeX files, so please compile a PDF version before uploading. PDF files generated with pdfTeX/pdfLaTeX sometimes fail on the ScholarOne Manuscripts system. Solutions that have worked include adding \pdfminorversion=5 to the preamble of your LaTeX file, \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} and \usepackage{aecompl} to the preamble of your LaTeX file, or alternatively by converting to a PS file before uploading. Please check the PDF generated by the system before submitting. Alternatively, use the PASA template in Overleaf, which generates a clean, compiled PDF file at the end of the process and submits it (with LaTeX source files in a supplementary zip folder) into the ScholarOne Manuscripts system.
Dual Anonymous Review: The journal offers the option to have your paper reviewed in a dual anonymous manner, i.e., reviewers will not be able to see the authors' names. If you wish to have your paper reviewed in this way, please submit your manuscript under the file designation 'Double Anonymous' without any author details or acknowledgements. A separate file should then be uploaded, designated as Title Page. The Title Page will not form part of the system PDF, but will be made available to editors and to production, should your manuscript be accepted for publication. The Title Page includes: article title; authors' names, titles and highest academic qualification, and emails; authors' affiliated institutions; and any acknowledgments, financial disclosure information, author notes, and/or other text that could identify the authors to reviewers.
To find the status of any manuscript that you've submitted through ScholarOne Manuscripts, visit the journal's site, log in, select 'Author Center', look at the step-wise list under My Manuscripts, and click on the items until you find your manuscript's description and status.
For further information about ScholarOne Manuscripts, please visit their author help page.
Keywords
Authors should not enter keywords on the manuscript, as these must be chosen by the author during the online submission process and will then be added during the production process. Authors will be asked to select keywords from a list.
Data Availability
Code, catalogs or datasets associated with an article may be archived in the PASA datastore. Data curation is free to authors. The published paper and the dataset will be reciprocally linked. Datasets are freely available to all readers.
Please indicate on article submission that there is a dataset associated with the paper. Approval for storing the dataset is at the discretion of the Editors. Do not submit the dataset though the article submission process.
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.
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.
Review Style and Process
PASA authors may elect a single or dual anonymous review process, where reviewers may or may not see the author names and affiliations. Differences in the submission process are outlined at the base of this page.
The fitness of a manuscript for publication is based on
- Significance/relevance to scope of the journal
- Conceptual framework (connections to relevant constructs in literature)
- Methods (if manuscript is an empirical study)
- Appropriateness to questions
- Adequate description of methods (including data collection and analysis)
- Rigorous and appropriate methods
- Findings/conclusions are literature or data-based
- Overall contribution to the field
- Writing style/composition/clarity
The Review Process
Manuscripts initially are assigned to and screened by the Editor in Chief, then screened in conjunction with at a member of the Editorial Board. If these above criteria are met, manuscripts are subjected to peer-review. The Board member considers the reviewer's comments, independently evaluates the manuscript, and makes an editorial recommendation to the Editor in Chief to reject, request a revision with the stipulation of further peer review, request a revision subject to review by the editors, or accept as is. Authors receive copies of (anonymous) referee's comments. Referees may be informed of the final disposition of the article. Although feedback will usually be provided to authors, the Editors reserve the right to reject a manuscript for publication without providing a rationale for the decision. Final decisions regarding acceptance of a manuscript will be made by the Editor in Chief.
Corresponding Author Responsibilities
This journal uses a contributor agreement that allows for just one author (the Corresponding Author) to sign on behalf of all authors. Please identify the Corresponding Author for your work when submitting your manuscript for review.
Upon submission, corresponding authors will be presented with a list of authors they have previously collaborated with. Corresponding authors can select from that list to add co-authors to their work, which bypasses the need to add in author details again.
The Corresponding Author will be responsible for the following:
- ensuring that all authors are identified on the contributor agreement, and notifying the editorial office of any changes to the authorship;
- securing written permission (via letter or email) from each co-author to sign the contributor agreement on the co-author's behalf;
- completing the copyright or licence to publish forms on behalf of all co-authors.
Although very rare, should a co-author have included content in his or her portion of the article that infringes the copyright of another or is otherwise in violation of any other warranty listed in the agreement, you will be the sole author indemnifying the publisher and the editor of the journal against such violation. Please contact the Editorial Office if you have any questions.