Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-01
Article types
Review
Review Article
Research Article
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Editorial
Letter
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 250 words.
- Use a unstructured abstract.
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- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 250 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
- Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
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.
- A typical paper for this journal should be between 4500 and 5000 words, inclusive of: References.
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- For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
- 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.
- A typical paper for this journal should be between 4500 and 5000 words, inclusive of: Tables.
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- A typical paper for this journal should be between 4500 and 5000 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
- Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
- 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: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
Funding statement
- Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows: For single agency grants.
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- Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.Please note that only the corresponding author is eligible to request funding from their institution, and it is not possible to change the corresponding author to achieve eligibility after submission.
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
- Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
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.
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- 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
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
- Authors with any questions about current submissions should contact TBGR-peerreview@journals.tandf.co.uk.
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- Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
- Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
- Please use SI units (non-italicized).
- Editorial: If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in Editorial Manager.
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.
Article type and manuscript length
- 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).
Manuscript structure
- A typical paper for this journal should be between 4500 and 5000 words, inclusive of: Footnotes.
- A typical paper for this journal should be between 4500 and 5000 words, inclusive of: Endnotes.
What your package checks
Abstract: 250 words
Paper: 5,000 words
Declarations: Funding
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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