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Information for Authors

New for 2010 – Please note that the journal now encourages authors to complete their copyright licence to publish form online

The Cambridge Quarterly was established on, and remains committed to, the principle that literature is an art, and that the purpose of art is to give pleasure and enlightenment. The journal devotes itself principally to literary criticism and its fundamental aim to take a critical look at accepted views. The Cambridge Quarterly also regularly publishes articles on music, cinema, painting and sculpture, and endows a prize for, and publishes, the best Cambridge University Finals dissertation each year.

Submissions

Contributions are warmly welcomed and should be sent, preferably electronically, to Ann Newton, Administrative Editor at apn1000@cantab.net.

Alternatively, hard copy may be sent to the Editorial Office:

Ann Newton, Administrative Editor, The Cambridge Quarterly, Clare College Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK

Submission of books for review should be sent to the following addess. Unsolicited book reviews are not normally accepted.

R. Lyne, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF, UK

Presentation

Submissions should be double-spaced throughout (i.e. including references and quotations) and with ample margins. References, quotation marks (N.B. single, not double, for standard quotations), etc. should conform to the recent style of the journal. There should not be separate bibliographies but full references given as footnotes. Footnotes should not exceed an average maximum of 25 per cent of the printed page. They too should be double-spaced and listed at the end of the text.

Author Self-Archiving/Public Access policy from May 2005

Articles submitted for publication must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Permission to reproduce copyright material must have been obtained by the author and acknowledgements should be included where appropriate. Proofs

Proofs will be sent via email direct from the Production Editor as PDF attachments to authors for correction and should be returned within three days of receipt to the address provided. No changes to content are permitted at this stage and alterations are restricted to correction of typographical errors.

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

Licence to publish

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright licence to publish form.

Please note that by submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.

Offprints

If you wish to purchase offprints these can be ordered if you complete and send back the offprint order form attached to the proof email. In addition, contributors of articles and reviews will receive a gratis copy of the issue in which their submission appears.

Please note: Orders from the UK will be subject to the current UK VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.

Permission

The author is responsible for obtaining all permissions required to reprint any material from other copyrighted permissions. Both print and online permission are required. Guidelines on obtaining permissions and a form to be used are available from the editorial office; please also see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/permissions_guidelines.html for more information.
Permissions are required to reuse figures, photos, illustrations, and significant portions of text from other copyrighted works. A “significant portion of text” can be defined using a combination of both quantity and quality. Current guidelines suggest that a single prose extract of less than four hundred words; a series of prose extracts of less than 300 words each, with the series totaling less than 800 words; and 40 continuous or separate lines from a poem, provided that this does not constitute more than 25 percent of the poem, would not require permission to reprint.

However, if the material quoted could be considered the heart of the original work, permission may be required. Quotations should be kept as short as possible to avoid quoting a large percentage of the work.
When quoting from other works, please consider
-how much of the work is being quoted.
-if the quotation is the heart of the original work.
Please see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/permissions_guidelines.htmlfor more guidance.