Instructions for authors can be found at the following journal information pages:

Cambridge Materials: Circularity | Cambridge Materials: Energy | Cambridge Materials: Health | Cambridge Materials: Water 

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Accepted article types | Open Access | Funding and APC | Preprint policy | Preparing your materials (please find additional preparation details on this page) | Submitting your materials | Peer Review |

Cambridge Materials journals accept the following types of articles

* For the purposes of Gold Open Access funding, these journals consider these article types to be research articles. 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. For authors not covered by an agreement, and without APC funding, please see this journal's open access options for instructions on how to request an APC waiver. 

** No APCs are required for these article types.

Preparing your materials 

All manuscripts should have the following parts:

Please see Preparation information details page or navigate using direct links below.

• Title page
• Impact Statement
• Abstract
• Keywords (up to 5)
• Main text (main text requirements will vary by article types, see table for details)
• Acknowledgements
• Author Contribution statement
• Inclusivity statement (if appropriate)
• Financial Support
• Conflict of Interest statement
• Ethics statements (if appropriate)
• Data Availability statement
• References
• Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages)
• Figure caption(s) (as a list)

More details can be found here including:

Policy on prior publications | Author affiliations | Peer reviewing responses | Use of AI tools | English language editing services | Seeking permissions for copyrighted material

Submitting your materials 

Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, and that it is not currently being considered by another journal. Authors must also confirm that each author has seen and approved the contents of the submitted manuscript.

How do I submit a Research Article?

Individual titles have their own submission sites. The submission system used is ScholarOne. Note that these systems will not open to unsolicited articles until the launch of the journal (authors of commissioned articles will be able to submit before this time point).

Cambridge Materials: Circularity | Cambridge Materials: Energy | Cambridge Materials: Health | Cambridge Materials: Water

Open access options

Cambridge Materials journals are fully open access journals, which means all articles are published as Gold Open Access under a Creative Commons licence. This enables anyone to access and redistribute the content and, depending upon the licence, re-use the content in new or derivative works with attribution. The terms of re-use for Gold Open Access content are stated in the copyright line of the article.

The Creative Commons licences offered for Gold Open Access articles are CC BY and CC BY-NC.

Links to individual journal open access options:  

Cambridge Materials: Circularity | Cambridge Materials: Energy | Cambridge Materials: Health  | Cambridge Materials: Water

Open Access Funding

Cambridge Materials journals provide multiple funding routes to cover the costs of publishing Gold Open Access: 

• For corresponding authors at institutions that have an open access publishing agreement with Cambridge, in the majority of cases these cover the full costs of Gold OA. Eligibility is automatically established during the publication process. Prospective authors can use our eligibility checker to see if their institution has an active agreement.
• The Cambridge Open Equity Initiative (COEI) funds Gold OA for corresponding authors from over 100 low- and middle-income countries. Eligibility is automatically established during the publication process.
• Corresponding authors from low- and middle-income countries who are not covered by an institutional open access agreement or the Cambridge Open Equity Initiative may be eligible for support under the Research4Life scheme. 
• If authors have third-party funding available for the payment of article processing charges (APCs), for example as part of a research grant, they are asked to use this funding to pay an APC.
• Any corresponding author of a research article who is not covered by one of the above funding routes can request a discount or full waiver of their APC. Authors will be invited to make their request after editorial acceptance of their article, when completing their Author Information Form.

Please note that the decision whether to accept a paper for publication will rest solely with the Editor, and without reference to the funding situation of the authors. The Editor, editorial board members, and reviewers have no involvement with funding support for Gold OA and cannot grant APC discounts or waivers, which shall be assessed and provided by Cambridge. 

For cases where an APC is required please refer to the individual journals' fees and pricing information:

Cambridge Materials: Circularity | Cambridge Materials: Energy | Cambridge Materials: Health  | Cambridge Materials: Water

Peer Review 

Cambridge Materials journals use an open peer review model. Please check the full details of individual journals' peer review information for more details.

Cambridge Materials: Circularity | Cambridge Materials: Energy | Cambridge Materials: Health | Cambridge Materials: Water

Peer Reviewing Responses

Author responses to peer reviewer comments should be added in the response to reviewers free text box upon article resubmission, not as an attached file or in an email to the editorial office. All author responses to peer reviewer comments will be published alongside their articles.

Preprint policy

A preprint is an early version of an article prior to the version accepted for publication in a journal. This journal allows preprints to be posted anywhere at any time, including before submission to the journal. For more information, see the Cambridge University Press preprint policy.