Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission
The manuscript must be your original work, you must have the rights to the work, and you must have obtained and be able to supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, including figures, illustrations, tables, lengthy quotations, or other material previously published elsewhere. Your paper must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Article types
Original Articles
These may be up to 8000 words in length and should be accompanied by an abstract of up to 300 words. If you are submitting an article in Cornish, you should submit an extended abstract of 800 words in English. Articles in Cornish must be in standard written form.
Research Notes, Debate & Controversy Essays
These shorter papers, of up to 3000 words, may describe a specific research project, or aim to stimulate response and discussion.
Book Reviews
The journal will accept review articles. Single book reviews should be a maximum of 1000 words, but comparative reviews (of two or more books, or a symposium panel of one book) may be longer. Please contact the editors for advice on the latter.
Pre-Submission for Early Career Researchers
The Editorial Team would like to encourage early career researchers to submit draft papers or synopsis for editorial view prior to sending for full review. In this way early career researchers can be assisted in bringing papers to publication that might otherwise have proven difficult. Please contact the editors for advice.
Formatting your manuscript
Your manuscript should be submitted in Word. Please ensure your heading levels are clear, and the sections clearly defined. You should add line numbers to assist reviewers.
Referencing
All articles should use standard Harvard referencing (examples as below). All notes should be endnotes.
Davies, C (2019) Homesick – Why I live in a Shed. London: Quercus
Rogerson, D (2023) ‘The Fight for Cornish Devolution’ in Tregidga, G (Ed) Cornish Democracy. Penryn: University of Exeter, Institute of Cornish Studies, pp 40-55.
Tregeagle, J (1985) ‘The Ecology of Dozmary Pool’ Journal of Moorland Studies (17) 1 pp 62-80.
Title
Your manuscript’s title should be concise, descriptive, unambiguous, accurate, and reflect the precise contents of the manuscript. This helps its visibility.
Abstract
Please include an abstract of 300 words (800 words, in English, if your article is in Cornish) between the title and main body of your manuscript that concisely states the purpose of the research, major findings, and conclusions.
Cornish Language Articles
These must be in Standard Written Form
Keywords
Please include a minimum of 4 keywords, listed after the abstract. Keywords should be as specific as possible to the research topic.
Artwork, figures, and other graphics
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online. These contribute to your word count.
Please ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
Title page
To ensure fair and anonymous peer review, your manuscript must be fully anonymised. Please ensure any identifying information is removed from the main manuscript document and included on the Title Page instead. Do not include any author names in the manuscript file name and remove names from headers and footers. This version of the manuscript will be sent to the peer reviewers. The Title Page will not be sent to peer reviewers.
The Title Page should include:
Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading. This should state the name of the Ethics Committee (and number if applicable) who gave approval for the research. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this.
Submission Please complete the submission form and send to M.Williams8@exeter.ac.uk