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.
Preparing your Manuscript
Articles of a length between 5000-6000 words are preferred, and those in excess of 8000 words will not be considered. This word limit includes footnotes.
If you request colour figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.
Submission of an article is taken to imply that it has not previously been published in English, and is not being considered for publication by another journal or as part of a book.
Authors of articles published in the journal sign a license to publish with Cambridge University Press (with certain rights reserved) and, on acceptance of a paper for publication, should download and submit the proper form to enable the editing and publication process to get under way. Please visit Open Access Publishing at Cambridge Core for information on our open access policies, compliance with major finding bodies, and guidelines on depositing your manuscript in an institutional repository.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not hold copyright and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
Text preparation
Contributors are asked to supply an abstract of their article or short study, not exceeding 150 words in length, and a list of up to six keywords (to facilitate online searches).
Fonts: Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac words, which should only be used sparingly, need not be transliterated. Unicode fonts should be used, and Hebrew and Aramaic words should be left unpointed.
Quotations of five or more typewritten lines in any language will be printed as a separate paragraph and without opening and closing quotation marks. Such quotations should be double spaced in the typescript. For shorter quotations within the main body of the text, single quotation marks should be used, and double quotation marks for quotation within a quotation. Punctuation should follow the closing quotation marks except where whole sentences are quoted.
Within verbatim quotations all spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations of the original publication should be reproduced exactly, even if they differ from the style of this journal. Should the quotation contain an error, this should be indicated by [sic]. Authors should indicate clearly where italics have been added to quoted material.
Biblical references should follow the format, Gen 2.4-8; Matt 13.16, 18, 21; 1 Cor 4.11-5.3. Authors should use the following abbreviations of the biblical books:
| Gen | 1-2 Chron | Jer | Zech | Matt | 1-2 Thess |
| Exod | Ezra | Lam | Mal | Mark | 1-2 Tim |
| Lev | Neh | Ezek | 1-2 Esdras | Luke | Titus |
| Num | Esther | Dan | Tob | John | Phlm |
| Deut | Job | Hos | Jdt | Acts | Heb |
| Josh | Ps(s) | Joel | Wis | Rom | Jas |
| Judg | Prov | Amos | Ecclus | Gal | 1-2 Pet |
| Ruth | Eccles | Obad | 1-2 Cor | Eph | 1-3 John |
| 1-2 Sam | Cant | Zeph | Bar | Phil | Jude |
| 1-2 Kings | Isa | Hag | 1-2 Macc | Col | Rev |
Other formatting features: Articles should be formatted with footnotes (not endnotes), and the footnotes should be fully justified. Long expository footnotes should be avoided. Footnotes should follow University of Chicago formatting, but with the use of p. or pp. (e.g., pp. 247-8).
Section headings and openings should be aligned with the left-hand margin. Sections should be indicated by titles only, without numbers.
Capitalisation should be kept to a minimum, and in particular should not be used in pronouns referring to God.
Foreign words and phrases should be italicised.
Proofs
First proofs of articles (but not of reviews) will be sent to authors by email as PDF files for correction, and must be returned within three days of receipt. Corrections should be confined to typographical errors. Other corrections may be made only with the concurrence of the editor. The publisher reserves the right to charge authors for correction of non-typographical errors.
Offprints
Offprints will not be supplied but may be ordered from the publisher at proof stage. Authors will receive a PDF file of their contribution upon publication.
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.