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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Research Article
Review Article
Commentary
Data Note
Editorial
Letter
Systematic Review
Protocol
Lectio
Case Report

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 6 keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
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  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • This should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • If you reply yes, you will be required to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • The Materials and Methods section should provide all the experimental procedures, statistical methods, details of tools and references that allow replication of the study.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
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  • Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • In addition, please note that: Provision of raw data does not mean that just figures and tables from the manuscript should be uploaded; it is the raw data that is required.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
  • In addition, please note that: If funding or institutional authorities do not permit data to be made available, this will need to be confirmed independently, and in writing, with the relevant authority.

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Authors are required to provide a data availability statement (DAS), detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed.
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  • If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement.
  • Authors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
  • All Life requires that authors publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible (see Data Sharing Policy ).
  • Articles need to meet the Open Science Badges criteria in order to earn a badge.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Regarding animal experimentation, the number of animals used, the authorization number provided by institutional ethic committee should be specified.
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  • Likewise, for clinical study, the authorization number provided by institutional ethic committee should be mentioned.
  • In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this.
  • Authors should familiarise themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent.
  • Review: All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections or sites, must include a written statement in the Methods section, confirming ethical approval has been obtained from the appropriate local ethics committee or Institutional Review Board and that where relevant, informed consent has been obtained.
  • Editorial: Consent All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements and Taylor & Francis Editorial Policies on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants.
  • Authors must include a statement to confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any type of qualitative or quantitative research, has given informed consent to participate in the research.
  • Case Report: a clinical case report detailing their medical history, identifiable images or media content, etc), authors must include a statement to confirm that they have obtained written informed consent to publish the details from the affected individual (or their parents/guardians if the participant in not an adult or unable to give informed consent; or next of kin if the participant is deceased).
  • Case Report: For submissions where patients or participants can be potentially identified (e.g.

Cover letter

  • Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
  • Letter: The cover letter should explain the rationale and the significance of the paper within the scope of the journal.
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  • Letter: A brief statement explaining how the manuscript meets the criteria of importance and significance should be included in the author’s cover letter.
  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • The title page should contain a complete list of authors and their affiliations.
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Should be no more than 1500 words.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
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  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • Please note that discounts must be applied at the Charges stage of the submission process when the APC quote is confirmed and may not be considered after submission.
  • In silico research papers must include adequate and appropriate experimental validation to be considered for publication.
  • These key policy highlights should be presented as a bulleted list of concise but complete sentences.
  • Research Article: Research articles should report on original primary research.
  • Abstracts should provide a clear, measured, and concise summary of the work.
  • Reviews should summarise recent insights in specific research areas within the scope of the journal.
  • Authors should refer to all data files and datasets that have been deposited in adequate repositories.
  • Nonetheless, the findings should be novel and judged to be of high importance.
  • Authors must also clearly acknowledge any work upon which they are building, both published and unpublished.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • Data must be deposited in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission.
  • For all NIH/Welcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement.
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical trials should be registered prospectively – i.e. before participant recruitment.
  • Editorial: Authors of retrospectively registered trials must be prepared to provide further information to the journal editorial office if requested.
  • Clinical Trial: The clinical trial registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization.
  • All research studies on humans (individuals, samples, or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Details of the badges offered by the journal.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Links to additional information.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: An open practices disclosure form.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: The journal editor’s email address.
  • The authors should also state the approval of the manuscript by all the authors and that neither the manuscript nor any parts of its content are currently under consideration or published in another journal.
  • They should provide a relevant up to date, systematic and substantial coverage of mature subjects, evaluations of progress in specified areas, and/or critical assessments of emerging technologies.
  • These articles must be one of two topics.
  • Data Note: Data notes should only describe the data.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical Trials Registry In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository, ideally at the beginning of the research process (prior to participant recruitment).
  • The process of obtaining consent to publish should include sharing the article with the individual (or whoever is consenting on their behalf), so that they are fully aware of the content of the article before it is published.
  • Please note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.
  • Such as: The standards on Data, Materials, and Analytical Code Transparency speak to the items generated over the course of the study and how you should preserve or share them.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Check whether your article needs to be submitted with 3-5 Key Policy Highlights (of approximately 100 words), which set out main findings of the paper that are of specific relevance to policy makers.
  • If the data cannot be made open, we recommend it is still preserved in a FAIR-compliant repository with appropriate access and controls in place.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.
  • COS currently offers three badges in its program: The Open Materials badge is earned by making publicly available the components of the research methodology needed to reproduce the reported procedure and analysis.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Statistical reporting

  • Include or confirm the statistical reporting required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Research Article: There is no maximum length for a research article, but we suggest to not exceed 5000 words excluding the materials and methods and references.
  • However, a short report must have three or fewer figures and should not usually exceed 1,500 words in the main text, excluding the materials and methods and references.
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  • The main text of the report should be arranged as an article.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; key policy highlights (if appropriate); keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; author contributions statement; data availability statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
  • The article should include the title page with the authors and their affiliations, abstract and a main text with the following structure: Introduction reporting a state of the art and stating the objective of the study; Results; Discussion; Materials and Methods; Acknowledgements; References; Figures with the corresponding legend below each one; and Tables.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; key policy highlights (if appropriate); keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, data description; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; author contributions statement; data availability statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Authorship and originality

  • Preparing Your Paper All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
  • The Acknowledgements section is dedicated the underline the work of people who contributed to the article but do not meet our authorship criteria.

Manuscript structure

  • Full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.
  • Review: The section must include a brief and consistent review of the literature.
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  • The Results section should present and describe the results with clarity and objectivity.
  • This section should not contain some interpretations.
  • Discussion should be concise and should not be another introduction section, which state the background.
  • Data Note: Data notes do not include any interpretation or conclusion of the data (see preparing your paper).
  • Introduction: This should explain the rationale, the objective and the importance for creating the dataset(s).
  • The full methods description must be sufficiently detailed to allow others to reproduce the data.
  • Data description: This section should be purely descriptive and not offer an interpretation of the data.
  • Authors are required to make the data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper freely available.
  • If the paper describes a new programme or a novel approach, then exceptions can be made, but any papers without experimental validation should be discussed with the Section Editor prior to submission.
  • The Introduction section should provide the useful state of the art that enable readers to understand the rationale, the importance, the purpose and significance of the study.
  • The section should explain how the results meet the objective of the study, underline the lessons provided by the results, rise the conclusions that can be drawn and provide potential future directions for research.
  • Materials and Methods: This section should provide the full and detailed procedure description, as a separate text document which should be uploaded together with the data to the data repository.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.
  • Clinical Trial: However, for clinical trials that have not been registered prospectively, Taylor & Francis journals requires retrospective registration to ensure the transparent and complete dissemination of all clinical trial results which ultimately impact human health.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Research that involves animals experimentation must have the ARRIVE form included alongside your manuscript and any other materials that you submit.
  • Systematic Review: Meta-analyses and systematic reviews must have the PRISMA form included alongside your manuscript and any other materials that you submit.
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  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Language and text style

  • The title should be succinct (we suggest up to 120 characters) without abbreviations and unfamiliar acronyms if possible.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 5,000 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Data availability, Ethics, Author contributions, Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

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