Guidelines

All submissions must be made online via our online submissions site. 

The Cambridge Review of International Affairs welcomes submissions of individual research articles which should not exceed 11,000 words, including references and footnotes. Articles must include a 150-word abstract and we also ask for a Cover Letter where authors can introduce themselves. We are committed to improving the gender balance of authors submitting to CRIA. 

All submissions must be original. They cannot have been published previously in the same form nor can their substance be drawn from previously published books or articles (papers stored on online conference archives are accepted). Submissions to the Cambridge Review of International Affairs must not be under consideration in any form by other publisher(s). The Cambridge Review of International Affairs requires the right of first publication, and the Department of Politics and International Studies, at the University of Cambridge, the assignment of copyright. 

Authors are encouraged to consult our detailed style guide for further information about formatting submissions. 

Review process

All articles undergo rigorous editorial and peer review. The editors maintain final discretion over publication of all papers.  

We recruit up to three expert reviewers who provide feedback on submissions before CRIA’s editorial team makes a final decision. We aim for the peer review process to take around three months, but circumstances mean this is not always achievable.  

To submit:

Scholars seeking to submit individual articles should visit online submissions site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.  

Special Issue proposals should abide by a separate set of guidelines - as per the details on the separate page. 

CRIA’s Appeals Procedure: 

If you wish to appeal the final decision made on a manuscript, please submit an appeal letter within two weeks of receiving the editor’s decision to CRIA’s co-editors-in-chief - Mark Barrow mdb74@cam.ac.uk and Taif Alkhudary ta517@cam.ac.uk. 

You should:

• Detail why you disagree with the decision. Please provide specific responses to any of the editor’s and/or reviewers’ comments that contributed to the reject decision.
• Provide any new information or data that you would like the journal to take into consideration.
• Provide evidence if you believe a reviewer has made technical errors in their assessment of your manuscript.
• Include evidence if you believe a reviewer may have a conflict of interest.

After receiving the appeal, editors may involve any managing editors who handled the peer review of the original submission and consult the head of the journal’s editorial board. Editors may confirm their decision to reject the manuscript, invite a revised manuscript, or seek additional peer review of the original manuscript.

Editors will consider one appeal per article and all decisions on appeals are final. The timely review and decision-making process for new submissions will take precedence over appeals.