Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Archives of Animal Nutrition.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-01
Article types
Review
Original Article
Letter
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Lectio
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 150 words.
- 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
- To avoid too many different keywords for the same subject, they should be selected from the CAB Thesaurus ( https://www.cabi.org/cabthesaurus/ ).
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.
- The number of references should not exceed 40.
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- All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
- Where applicable, 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.
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.
- Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, 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].
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
- Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Ethics statement
- Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this.
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- 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.
Blinded manuscript
- Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Cover letter
- Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
- Letter: All submissions must include a cover letter (max 300 words) that briefly summarizes the mechanistic contribution of the work and explains why the manuscript fits the scope of Archives of Animal Nutrition.
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- Using Third-Party Material in your Paper 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.
Title page and author information
- All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
- 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
- However, please note that abstracts should be at least 150 words if manuscripts are shorter than 3,000 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.
- Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
- Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
- Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
- All research studies on humans (individuals, samples, or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
- Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
- Please use SI units (non-italicized).
- Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
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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- Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparatio n to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
Article type and manuscript length
- Original Article: For original articles, the number of references should not exceed 40.
- Abstracts (unstructured) are required for all papers submitted, and should not exceed 7% of the length of the main text (excluding references), not longer than 400 words.
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- Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Study reporting guidelines
- Manuscripts reporting research involving live vertebrate animals must be designed and reported in line with the ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines.
- Authors are required to complete and upload the ARRIVE 2.0 checklist at submission.
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- For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
- All studies involving experiments on live animals must meet the Animals in Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) guidelines.
What your package checks
Abstract: 150 words
Paper: 400 words
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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