Online Submission System
This journal uses ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iau) for online submission and peer review. ScholarOne is a “comprehensive workflow-management system for scholarly journals, books and conferences”.
Please make clear in your submission which symposia your manuscript is for using the drop down selection.
IAU Proceedings Review Process
The Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union publishes conference proceedings, and as such there is no peer review process. Symposia editors check submissions for correctness.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.
Supplementary Material
This journal offers the option to publish supplementary material online only (i.e., not in the printed journal). This can include multimedia files such as audio or video, appendices, large data tables, etc. Please note that such material will be made available to reviewers, but will not be copy-edited or typeset after acceptance.
If the article from your symposium meeting is accompanied by (and explains research in) a poster you also presented at the same meeting please submit your article as a ‘Poster Paper’ and upload the Poster itself as Supplementary Material.
For further support, please see our supplementary material preparation instructions.
Data Availability
This journal encourages authors to make evidence available when possible. More information on data availability statements can be found here.