Once an article has been accepted, the process of copyediting, proofing, typesetting and publishing the article will begin. On acceptance, the editorial team of IJMES will be in contact with the corresponding author to provide specific instructions about how to prepare the accepted manuscript for copyediting and typesetting. Your point of contact with Cambridge University Press will be the content manager, or production editor, of the journal. For more information about how production works at Cambridge University Press, please visit this page. Here, you will find basic information about how an article goes from accepted manuscript to fully published. There may be small differences between journals with this process. If you have a specific question about IJMES, please contact the editorial office.

This is an open access journal in which all research articles are published Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. For the purposes of Gold Open Access funding, this includes articles, review essays, roundtables, and conversations. All or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access.

Authors of non-research articles (e.g., book reviews) may choose to make their articles open access either via an institutional open access agreement or by paying an article processing charge (APC) of GBP (£) 2610 / USD ($) 3655. However Cambridge provides multiple other routes to funding Open Access, including equity initiatives and APC waivers and discounts, in order to ensure that every author can publish in this journal. Please see this journal's open access options for full details.

FirstView

IJMES uses the FirstView system to publish articles online ahead of issue assignment. For more details please see our FAQs.

Articles published online under the FirstView model are considered published, and have a DOI which can be used for citation. No further revisions can be made after FirstView publication of an article. Articles will later be assigned to an appropriate issue by the journal's Editor(s). Articles may appear in a different order in issues to the order they were published under FirstView.

Corrections

Changes cannot be made to articles once published, either online in FirstView or as part of an issue. Any changes must be made via the standard process of issuing a correction notice. Please contact the Editorial Office and Content Manager for the journal if any error has been identified. The final decision on whether a correction notice should be published will be taken by the Publisher in consultation with the Editorial Team. For more information please refer to our FAQs.

Access to article

Once your article has been published, authors will receive a code which will provide perpetual access in both HTML and PDF formats.