Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) uses ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jfm) for online submission and peer review. ScholarOne is a “comprehensive workflow-management system for scholarly journals, books and conferences”. Further information on ScholarOne can be found here, and queries can be directed to the Editorial Office (jfmeditorial@cambridge.org).
Authors should click on the ‘Author Centre’, from which point a new manuscript can be submitted, with step-by-step instructions provided. Authors must at this stage specify whether the submission is for JFM Papers, or JFM Rapids (see Preparing your materials for more information). In addition, authors must specify an editor to whom the paper will be submitted from the drop-down list provided, see here for a full list of our Associate Editors. Note that all editors exclusively deal with either JFM Papers or JFM Rapids and only those handling the article type selected will be given on the drop-down list.
For the initial submission please upload a PDF or MS Word file and select file designation “Main Document”, all figures and tables should be embedded within the Main Document file and should not exceed 6MB. Movie files should be uploaded separately using the file designation “Movie”. The file designation “Other Supplementary Material” should be reserved for material to be published online alongside the article, this material will be made available to reviewers. You can transfer files directly from the arXiv archive by entering your e-print number in on the ‘File Upload’ page during submission; please include your E-print Number when requested. More information on file types and supplementary materials can be found in the Preparing your materials page.
You are also required to submit a Graphical Abstract which should be uploaded and given the file designation “Graphical Abstract”.
Please do not upload any Production Files at this stage (LaTeX source files, separate figure files, etc.) more details on what happens after acceptance can be found on the Publication process after acceptance page.
JFM Keywords must be chosen by the author during the online submission process from the ‘Attributes’ page (see JFM Keywords for a full list). Authors can choose up to 3 keywords.
Authors need to declare in their covering letter to the Editor and during the online submission process whether their manuscript had previously been considered for publication in JFM. Questions and declarations to that effect must be answered truthfully. Editors, referees, readers and publishers have the right to assume that submitted (and published) manuscripts do not contain scientific dishonesty or fraud comprising, for example, fictitious or manipulated data, plagiarised material (either from previous work of the authors or that of other persons), reference omissions, false priority statements, ‘hidden’ multiple publication of the same data or incorrect authorship. Authors must not breach any copyright. JFM uses the iThenticate software to detect instances of plagiarism in manuscripts submitted to it.
Technical support for the online submission system is available by clicking on the ‘Help’ link at the top-right corner of each page of the submission site. Any other questions relating to the submission process should be directed to the JFM Editorial Office (jfmeditorial@cambridge.org).
Disclosure statements
Detailed information on the options for the below disclosure statements are on the Preparing your Materials page. All statements should be added at the end of the manuscript before the Reference section.
- Acknowledgements
- Funding statement
- Competing Interests (compulsory)
- Data availability statement
- Author ORCID
- Author contributions
- Ethical guidelines
The Competing Interests declaration is compulsory and during submission you will be asked to confirm it is included in the manuscript.
You will also be asked to confirm funding details during submission and we ask that you add a Funding statement to your manuscript. If the research discussed in your manuscript has been funded by the NIH or other participating US-based funders, or by any of the participating European funding institutions, you are required to deposit the accepted paper in PubMed Central / Europe PubMed Central. Cambridge University Press can support you with this by removing some of the manual steps and automatically transferring the accepted manuscript to the PubMed Central / Europe PubMed Central system. You will be asked about this during submission.
The overarching policy of JFM is that research articles should contain sufficient information to allow others to understand, replicate and verify findings, and compare them with alternative studies; for more information see our Research transparency policy. We therefore strongly encourage authors to include a Data availability statement in their manuscript. More guidance on data availability statements can be found here and guidance on how to make resources accessible here.
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.
Review process
JFM uses a single-anonymous model of peer review. The author does not know the identity of the reviewers, but the reviewers know the identity of the author.
If a revision is requested, you should upload revised files following the same procedure as for submitting a new paper.
For more information see the Review process page.
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.