All authors are required to submit their articles through the PDA ScholarOne site:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pda
You will need to create a ScholarOne account if you do not have one. (If you are unsure if you have an account, or have forgotten your password, use the password help function). Please contact the journal’s Editors (pdajournal@lsadc.org) if you have any questions about the process.
Main document file types
For the initial submission, authors should upload their (anonymized) manuscripts in PDF or MS Word, selecting the file designation 'Main Document' and embedding all figures and tables within the Main Document file. Authors are strongly encouraged to compose their manuscripts in LaTeX, using the style files provided below. A PDF of the LaTeX file should then be generated and submitted via the submission site. If not using LaTeX, authors should use double-spacing throughout.
Upon acceptance of the manuscript, authors can opt to submit their (de-anonymized) final files in either MS Word or LaTeX.
- If using LaTeX, the LaTeX source files, along with individual figure files and a PDF of the final version, will need to be submitted for typesetting purposes. You can use the style files available on Overleaf or linked below to prepare your manuscript:
PDA LaTeX Files - If using MS Word, the MS Word manuscript file, along with individual figure files, will need to be submitted for typesetting purposes.
You can use the MS Word template below to prepare your manuscript:
PDA MS Word Template
Please also ensure you have read the Preparing your materials section before submitting your article.
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.
Open Practice Badges
During the submission process you will be asked to confirm whether or not you have met the criteria for Open Practice Badges, which are awarded for best practices in open research. For more information see this journal’s research transparency policies.
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.