Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Engineering Optimization.
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
Data Note
Editorial
Letter
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.
- Use a unstructured abstract.
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- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 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, 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 typical paper for this journal not exceed 7000 words, inclusive of tables, references, figure captions.
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: 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
- 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, 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.
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
- Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
- Letter: Cover Letter Authors must use the official journal cover letter template.
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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.
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.
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 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
- The statement should be a summary of no more than 100 words.
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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- 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.
- Letter: Manuscripts that exceed this will require a letter of explanation to justify the additional length.
- Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
- You will also need to upload your LaTeX source files, which should be uploaded as a single zip file alongside your submission and marked as “LaTeX Source Files”.
- Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
- Please use SI units (non-italicized).
- 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.
- If you do not want your manuscript to be included, please let us know by emailing datasharing@tandf.co.uk including your Manuscript ID.
- 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.
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
- 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; disclosure statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Blinded manuscript
- The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.
What your package checks
Abstract: 150 words
Paper: 7,000 words
Declarations: Data availability, 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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