All submissions should be made online at the CNS Spectrums Scholar One Manuscripts website. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Center. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on here.
Along with the author(s)’ list of incorporated revisions and responses to the peer reviewer(s)’ comments, all revised drafts must include highlighted and/or tracked changes.
Please include a cover letter with your submission.
Original Research manuscripts should be compiled in the following order:
- Title Page
- Structured Abstract (Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion; no more than 250 words)
- Key Words
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Financial Support
- Competing Interests
- References
- Appendices (as appropriate)
- Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages)
- Figure caption(s) (as a list)
Reviews and Perspectives should be compiled in the following order:
- Title Page
- Unstructured Abstract (for Reviews, including short reviews, and Perspectives); no more than 250 words
- Key Words
- Introduction
- Body
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Financial Support
- Competing Interests
- References
- Appendices (as appropriate)
- Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages)
- Figure caption(s) (as a list)
Competing interests: Authors must include a Competing interests declaration (formerly titled 'Disclosures' or ‘Conflicts of interest declaration’) in their manuscript when they submit, which should be published in their article. These include any situation that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on an author’s presentation of their work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the Competing interest declarations should list all contributing authors, e.g., “Competing interests. Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H in the past.”
If one or more coauthors do not have anything to disclose, please include that information in this section.
Supplemental online material: If the author has material that may be useful to the reader, but not essential to understanding the article, this can be supplied as supplementary material. Supplementary materials are peer reviewed but they will not be copyedited or typeset, so they should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. The supplementary material should be supplied as a separate file, and should be referenced in the article.
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.