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Prepare your manuscript for Housing Studies.

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Article types

Review
Original Article
Book Review
Review Article
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
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 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • 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.

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 original paper for this journal should total no more than 8,500 words including tables, references, captions and endnotes (and allowing 150 words for each figure/graphic/photo); but in exceptional circumstances, for example where the paper contains substantial qualitative material, may be up to 10,000 words.
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  • 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. 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 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 should complement the information 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

  • 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

  • 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: Your cover letter (300 words) should indicate the contribution/development the paper is making to the international housing studies literature/debate.
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  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Letter: If your submitted paper is derived from or relates to, an existing published output, your cover letter must explain how the paper extends beyond that previous output.
  • 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.
  • Letter: In the case of a precursor publication (see Originality Expectations), the cover letter should specify this publication and explain how the submitted paper extends beyond it.

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.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • If any such changes are deemed necessary, the corresponding author must send a request for such a change to the Housing Studies Managing Editors (support@hs-journal.org).
  • Until the paper is accepted for publication, the title page of the drafts should include next to the paper title, author information, a biographical note for each author, as well as the Acknowledgements.
  • 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: A policy review paper should total between 3,000 to 6,000 words.
  • Review / Book Review: A book review should total no more than 1,000 words.
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  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 200 words).
  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • 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.
  • Primarily empirical contributions should also incorporate a theoretical or conceptual dimension.
  • To qualify for publication papers must make a new and distinct contribution to knowledge relevant to the housing studies field.
  • That contribution must be framed within the context of the existing published material on the chosen topic.
  • 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.
  • Review: As with original articles, policy review articles must make an original and evidenced contribution that is of significance to the international and interdisciplinary readership of the journal.
  • Authors should anticipate that referees will on occasion identify additional material or subject matter which may need to be incorporated in any revisions to a manuscript.
  • Submissions should allow for this.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Original Expectations For publication in Housing Studies, a paper must make an original contribution to the international housing studies literature (see also guidance note).
  • The manuscript must satisfy appropriate academic publication criteria - i.e. theoretical framing of empirical research findings, in-depth engagement with, and contribution to, academic and policy debates.
  • Notwithstanding the above provisions, to be acceptable for publication in Housing Studies, any submitted papers’ contribution must extend beyond that of any pre-cursor published output.
  • 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.
  • If you have not submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne.
  • Where revealed duplication involves the author’s own work it may be acceptable to a limited extent and subject to the above principles.
  • 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.
  • If such a request reaches the Managing Editors after the manuscript has been published online, any request that the Managing Editors approve requires publication of a corrigendum.

Preprints and prior publication

  • Preprint servers If you upload an early version of your article to a non-commercial preprint server, you can subsequently submit to a Taylor & Francis or Routledge journal.
  • If you have posted your author original manuscript (AOM) to a preprint server, please cite your preprint in the manuscript you submit to the journal, to ensure there will be a link to the AOM from the final Version of Record (VOR).
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  • 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.
  • We do not consider posting on a preprint server to be duplicate publication and this will not jeopardize consideration for publication.

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

  • Structure Original papers and policy reviews 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

  • Please include endnotes (not footnotes) sparingly.
  • Letter: 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.

Language and text style

  • Please use consistent style of English (British, American, etc.) spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
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  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Letter: 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.
  • Letter: 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.

Authorship and originality

  • The request must specify the reason for the proposed change and must be accompanied by the written confirmation of all authors concerned, be they added, removed, changed or re-arranged in sequence.
  • Review: Authorship Changes During the Review Process Before the submission of the original manuscript authors need to have agreed on the names and sequence of submitting authors.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 8,500 words
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

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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