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Prepare your manuscript for Current Medical Research and Opinion.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Research Article
Commentary
Editorial
Research Letter
Letter to the Editor
Perspective
Data Note
Protocol
Lectio
Case Report
Systematic Review
Review Article
Original Article
Book Review

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • Abstract: no abstract required.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.
  • Abstract: a structured abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • A structured abstract should cover (in the following order): objective, methods, results and conclusion.
  • Abstract: a non-structured abstract of no more than 250 words.
  • Review / Book Review: Place, e.g., [abstract], [book review] or [letter] after the article title: Author K.

Keywords

  • Keywords: should be drawn from the Index Medicus Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) lists or phrases for indexing.

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.
  • Use an unspaced en dash between page numbers. Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis | Journals Page 3 of 11 Information Classification: General In the text and in the reference list NLM uses p. rather than pp. With a quotation Author maintains that “This is author’s quoted text” [1,p.3].
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  • Personal communication References to personal communications are cited only in the text. … and most of these proved to be fatal (2003 letter from RS Grant to me; unreferenced, see “Notes”) … Tables and figures Table and figure captions References cited only in tables or figure captions should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure.
  • For example: …and many nurses involved with such cases (Mar 22, 2007 posting by RS Grant to the ANPACC Listserv; unreferenced, see “Notes”) report… Blog Messages posted to discussion lists like a blog are considered a form of personal communication and should not be included in a reference list.
  • Please include a transparency section at the end of the main body of the text and before the reference list.
  • Protocol: The protocol registration reference must be stated in the Methods section.
  • 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).
  • Authors do not need to include DOIs for published journal articles when preparing manuscripts.
  • Do not include a full point at the end of DOI or URL addresses.
  • Place the source information in parentheses, using a term or terms to indicate that the citation is not represented in the reference list.
  • Include the nature and source of the cited information, using terms to indicate that no corresponding citation is in the reference list.
  • The DAS should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s), or information on how the data can be requested from the authors.
  • 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.
  • If the reference also includes a place of publication, this should follow the rules as given above for book references, with any state or country included placed in brackets.
  • Please aim for no more than 10 references.
  • Conference Conference details Please note that in the following reference types the conference name should be followed by the date in [yyyy mm dd–dd] format, followed by the place in which the conference is held.
  • Place references to such communications within the running text only.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • Figures: Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Tables: Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • 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.
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • 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].
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  • Acknowledgements: non-author assistance should be included here (e.g., medical writer(s), statistician.) together with the source for funding of any such assistance.
  • This section should have four sub-sections as follows: Declaration of funding: In order to support transparency and avoid concerns being raised about undeclared funding support, please declare all sources of financial support that helped to cover the expenses associated with the preparation of your article.

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.
  • Data Note: Further to the data sharing policy for the journal, Data Note submissions must include a data availability statement and describe data available via a repository.
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  • Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed.
  • If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement.
  • Depending on the journal’s data sharing policy, authors may be required to provide a data availability statement, even where there is no data associated with the article.
  • In this instance, the data availability statement should read: “No data are associated with this article.”.
  • Authors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.

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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  • Authors should familiarise themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent.
  • Patient authors should be aware that they must provide an email address during submission to allow communications relating to the progress of their paper.
  • Ethics and Consent: All research must be conducted within an appropriate ethical framework.
  • Protocol: Details of approval by the authors’ institution or an ethics committee must be provided in the Methods section of the Study Protocol.
  • 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).
  • Patient authors should carefully consider whether to use an existing personal email address or to create an alternate email address that can be used for their authored works.
  • Case Report: For submissions where patients or participants can be potentially identified (e.g.

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

  • 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.
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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.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.
  • Author contributions: should briefly highlight which author(s) were involved in the conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of the data; the drafting of the paper or revising it critically for intellectual content; and the final approval of the version to be published; and that all authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Supplementary files

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

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the title 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

  • Letters should be received within 1 year of the publication of the original research in order to maintain novel correspondence.
  • Use an unspaced en dash to join inclusive first and last numbers, e.g. [2,3,4,5,7,10] would be abbreviated to [2–5,7,10].
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  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • London: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; 1998. p. 75–81. Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis | Journals Page 9 of 11 Information Classification: General Presentation Presentations and posters should also include the stream in which they were presented if available.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Study Protocols should be submitted for publication prior to the research activity beginning.
  • Review: If further re-review is required, this will reset the timeline to start from the submission date of the revisions, with re-review prioritised as per the chosen track.
  • 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.
  • Declaration of financial/other relationships: should mention all relationships (financial, employment, other significant/relevant relationships) for each author.
  • Any other 'thank yous' should also be placed here (e.g., other investigators, other study centres, data management.).
  • For all NIH/Wellcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the disclosure 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.
  • No TM or ® symbols should be used anywhere in the manuscript, and proprietary names should not appear in the title.
  • 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.
  • Please note that Taylor & Francis does not require the inclusion of all optional elements, so you should match the samples below.
  • Use the dates for the individual journal article being cited.
  • Use an unspaced en dash between page numbers.
  • Do not include as forthcoming any articles that have been submitted for publication but have not yet been accepted for publication.
  • Forthcoming book Do not include as forthcoming any books that have been submitted for publication but have not yet been accepted for publication.
  • The nature and source of the cited information should be identified by an appropriate statement.
  • Include the report series and number if available.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • Papers should be submitted in Word.
  • 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.
  • Protocol: The protocol must be prospectively registered (prior to the collection of data) with an international registry which facilitates versioning, and using a structured registration format specifically designed for systematic reviews.
  • Clinical Trial / Protocol: Clinical trials: If the study protocol relates to a clinical trial then the Trial Registration details must be provided: name of registry, registry number, registration date and URL of the trial in the registry database.
  • 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.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us at http://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/contact/.
  • Include the country name for other countries only to avoid ambiguity: Cambridge (MA) Cambridge (UK) If more than one place of publication is found, use the first listed place of publication.
  • The conference place should include the town or city followed by the US state code or country after a comma rather than in brackets. [authors or editors] [Conference title]; [year] [abbreviated month] [day(s)]; [town or city], [state or country].
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Place: Publisher; Year. p. 000–000.
  • Place family designations of rank after the initials, without punctuation, e.g. Author AA Jr.
  • Do not abbreviate journal titles consisting of a single word.
  • Add the phrase “Accompanied by:” followed by a description of the medium.
  • Place: Publisher; Year. (Series editor(s) optional).
  • Place: Institution; Year. (Report series; Report number).
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • 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.
  • Do not elide page number ranges.
  • Place: Publisher; Year.
  • Place: Publisher.
  • Place: Publisher; Year [cited Date].
  • Place within the running text only.
  • Place the source information in parentheses.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines 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

  • Review: Word limit: A typical review for this journal should be no more than 11,500 words; this limit includes title; author names and affiliation; tables; references; figure captions; footnotes; endnotes; everything you want to see in print.
  • Commentary: Word limit: A typical commentary paper for this journal should be no more than 2500 words; this limit includes title; author names and affiliation; tables; references; figure captions; footnotes; endnotes; everything you want to see in print.
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  • Editorial: Word limit: A typical editorial for this journal should be no more than 2500 words; this limit includes title; author names and affiliation; tables; references; figure captions; footnotes; endnotes; everything you want to see in print.
  • Research Letter: Word limit: A typical research letter paper for this journal should be no more than 3500; this limit includes title; author names and affiliation; tables; references; figure captions; footnotes; endnotes; everything you want to see in print.
  • Perspective: World limit: A typical patient perspective should be no more than 1000 words; this limit includes title; author names and affiliation; tables; references; figure captions.
  • Word limit: A typical original research paper for this journal should be no more than 10,800 words; this limit includes title; author names and affiliation; tables; references; figure captions; footnotes; endnotes; everything you want to see in print.
  • Main text: should follow the standard original research structure of Introduction; Methods; Results; Conclusion and Discussion.
  • Main text: Does not require a structure however sub-headings that support the flow and readability of the paper are recommended.
  • Main text: Does not require a structure however sub-headings that support the flow and readability of the paper can be included.
  • Original Article: Main text: Does not require a structure however the original article being addressed should be the first cited and referenced article of the letter.
  • Main text: Does not require a specific structure.
  • Data Availability: In general, this article type should not include new research and data.
  • At first mention of a trade name in the Abstract and first section of the main text, an asterisk should be used with a corresponding footnote giving details for the proprietary name.

Manuscript structure

  • Data Note: Data Notes do not include any interpretation or conclusion of the data (see preparing your paper) and should only describe the data.
  • Review / Systematic Review: Systematic review articles: should include details of the authors' literature search methodology in the body of the paper, including selection of studies in Introduction, databases searched, search terms, inclusive dates, selection criteria.
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  • Review: Review articles should include details of the authors' literature search methodology in the body of the paper, including selection of studies in Introduction, databases searched, search terms, inclusive dates, selection criteria.
  • 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.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • 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.
  • Article types CMRO accepts the following types of articles: Study Protocols: Peer reviewed article types that describe in detail high level/large scale study design, including (but not limited to) experimental design of applied research, or protocols defining research questions and empirical methods.

Language and text style

  • Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
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  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Capitalize only the first word of the title, proper nouns, proper adjectives, acronyms, and initialisms unless the conventions of a particular language require other capitalization.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • See http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/ Journal title abbreviations should not include full points, except at the end of the title; see examples below.
  • Place the original language title or romanized title before the translation.

Study reporting guidelines

  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
  • Systematic Review: Systematic reviews must follow the PRISMA guidelines format.
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  • Study Protocols should follow the relevant reporting guideline for the study.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Paper: 10,800 words
Declarations: Data availability, Funding, Ethics, Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

Source transparency

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