Submissions

Authors are required to certify that their submissions (articles, varia, and book reviews) are entirely their own work, and that the material contained within them is new and has not, either wholly or substantially in part, been previously published elsewhere.

Representing work that you did not produce as your own, including work generated or materially modified by Artificial Intelligence or Large Language Models, constitutes plagiarism and is therefore not permitted by this journal.

It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to quote material from other copyright sources and/or reproduce any images or illustrations.

Articles are defined as long-form pieces of research which make an original and scholarly contribution to their field.

Reviews are ordinarily of published books but they can also be reviews of other media such as digital resources, physical or digital games, and films or series. A review is not intended as just a simple summary of the work being reviewed, but is instead also a scholarly assessment of the work and author. Please read the Reviews Style Guide for further guidelines on what constitutes a scholarly review.

Varia encompass a wide range of offerings which can include, but are not limited to: creative writing, poetry, short notes that do not warrant long-form treatment, multimedia works, longer form review essays, first translations of previously published non-English articles into English, and translations of source texts in pre-modern languages. However, as with articles, they must be original and scholarly.

Each volume has a theme, and articles and varia and which meet this theme are to be submitted by the CFP deadline each year. Non-themed articles and varia are welcome all year round and will be included in the next volume after the submission has passed peer-review. Both themed and non-themed articles and varia are eligible for the annual Essay Prize.

All submissions pass through an internal preliminary review process prior to peer-review, and both articles and varia undergo double-blind peer-review.

The primary language of the journal is English, however, reviews of non-English works and translations into English are welcomed following consultation with the editors.

The Ceræ style sheet is based on a modified version of the MHRA Style Guide (Fourth Edition). A full version of this style guide is available online at: http://www.mhra.org.uk/style.

All submissions must be formatted according to the Ceræ Style Sheet.

Articles and varia submissions should be provided as a single document (.doc or .docx, not as a .pdf). This document should be anonymised and contain no mention of the author’s name or other identifying details. You must also include an abstract of 200–300 words which outlines the topics covered in the paper as well as a bibliography. Please note that an abstract is not the same as the introduction.

The author(s) of each submission should additionally provide a short academic biographical statement, full name, affiliation, and acknowledge any funding support they received by citing the relevant grant that facilitated their research. The corresponding author(s) will also need to provide a reliable email address. Multimedia content accompanying the article is encouraged where appropriate.

Assigned book reviews should be formatted according to the Ceræ Style Sheet prior to submission. The journal ordinarily does not accept unsolicited book reviews; however, suggestions for titles which may potentially be reviewed are always welcomed. Please consult the list of books available for review or contact the Book Reviews Editors for all further queries.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:

• I warrant that this article is entirely my own, original work, and that it contains no plagiarised material.
• I warrant that it is not before another journal for consideration, and that it has not been published (in whole or in significant part), elsewhere.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the relevant Cerae Style Sheet.
• I warrant that I have obtained, or will obtain, all necessary permissions from relevant copyright holders to reproduce or quote any material from other copyright sources contained in this work, including illustrations and audio-visual material. These permissions must cover the electronic distribution of the work, and the relevant documentation must be provided to Cerae. In the case of publication, I hereby indemnify Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies against any claims for breach of this warranty.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. However, we ask that any such pre-publication versions clearly state that publication is forthcoming in Ceræ (noting the planned volume number), contain a direct link to our website, and that after publication, the pre-publication version is replaced with a link to the final published version.