Submitting your Materials
The ALJ is published in English, but submissions in other languages such as French, Spanish, Italian or German may be accepted, provided that a suitable translation for publication can be arranged. This would be discussed with the Editor or the Associate Editors, as applicable, in all cases.
Article contributions should be 2,000 to 2,500 words and submitted in a .doc file format (or an .odt format) with accompanying image and/or table files (see section on illustrations for accepted file formats), as an email attachment or through a file sharing service to the Editor or the Deputy Editor or Guest Editor, as applicable. Review contributions should be 1,000 words and submitted to the Reviews Editor (specific guidance for reviews is in section three of this document; the general guidelines should also be observed). All submissions should include the author’s full postal address, telephone number and email address.
Contributors who wish to be notified of editorial changes in their submissions before publication or who wish to make further changes themselves, must request notification when submitting their article or review or contact the appropriate editor before their submission deadline. Otherwise, all editorial decisions are at the discretion of the editors, although any major changes will be discussed with the writer before copy editing.
The Editors’ contact information can be found on the editorial board page here.
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.