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Article types

Review
Methods Article
Protocol
Brief Report
Letter
Book Review
Editorial
Lectio
Clinical Trial
Systematic Review

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.
  • Each manuscript document should contain the following elements: title, abstract (unstructured, 200 words), 5-6 keywords, introduction, methods (with ethics statement included), results, discussion, references, table(s) and figure(s) with caption(s), (tables and figures each on separate pages), and appendices (as appropriate).
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  • 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.
  • These should be presented in the manuscript file in the following order: Title, Author names and affiliations, Abstract, Keyword, Manuscript (including ethics statement in the methods section), Data Availability, Funding Statement, Disclosure, Author Bio, Acknowledgement, References.

Keywords

  • Provide 5-6 keywords chosen by the author.

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).
  • Methods Article: Submissions must include the following elements in Word format (Times New Roman, 12-point, double-line spaced, margins of at least 2.5cm / 1 inch): Methods Articles, should include a contributions statement at the end of the article, before the references, that outlines which author(s) were involved in the conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of the data; the drafting of the paper, 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.
  • 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.

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

  • 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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  • Funding sources must be declared for each author.
  • The manuscript with author details should contain the following additional information: 1 author names & affiliations, 2 Data Availability Statement, 3 Funding Statement, 4 Disclosure Statement, 5 author bios, and 6 Acknowledgements (if applicable).
  • Disclosure Policy: During the submission process, authors MUST declare any funding received and provide a disclosure statement about any financial or non-financial competing interests relevant to the submitted manuscript.
  • Funding sources: Authors must declare any funding received directly or indirectly for the submitted manuscript, including conducting the research and preparing its publication.
  • If no funding sources are declared, the following statement will appear on your manuscript should it be accepted for publication: "No funding sources were declared by the authors in relation to this manuscript".

Competing interests

  • Add or confirm the author-written Competing interests statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Competing interests: All authors must disclose any financial or non-financial competing interests relevant to the submitted manuscript.
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  • For example, "The authors declare that no competing interests exist that readers should know about in relation to this manuscript".

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.
  • Articles need to meet the Open Science Badges criteria in order to earn a badge.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Ethics approval for human studies: All studies eliciting data from human participants must have ethical approval from an appropriate formal institution board.
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  • All manuscripts involving data from human participants must include relevant statements in the method section about whether formal ethics approval was received.
  • This should be anonymized in submitted manuscripts (e.g., Formal ethics approval for this study was granted by [deidentified] Human Research Ethics Committee).
  • In addition, an ethics statement or sentence should be present in the main Methods section, listing the name of any approving institution; that institutional information should be redacted in the blinded manuscript.
  • It is acknowledged that some institutions vary in what types of research are required to have formal ethics approval and others may not have a formal human research ethics/institutional research board available from which to obtain approval to conduct research.
  • Furthermore, manuscripts should provide some details about any relevant ethical protocols that were followed to ensure ethical principles were upheld (e.g., all participants provided written informed consent and were debriefed following their involvement; or, clients consented to their deidentified data being used for research purposes when they created an account/at intake, etc.).

Blinded manuscript

  • Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/“Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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  • Review: Submissions must include the following elements in Word format (Times New Roman, 12-point, double-line spaced, margins of at least 2.5cm / 1 inch): Authors should upload two versions of the manuscript, one with author details (for publication if accepted) and one containing no author-identifying details (for anonymous peer review).

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.

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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  • 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

  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 200 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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  • protocols.io Please note, this is not required for submission but is encouraged.
  • All manuscripts must meet the criteria of making novel, important, and substantive contributions to the field and be written, to an acceptable standard of scholarship.
  • Papers should be situated within the academic literature and international context.
  • Letter: If a letter comments upon a paper already published in the journal, this should be cited at the beginning of the letter.
  • 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.
  • Use lower case when using general terms (e.g., committee, council, state/provincial agencies).
  • You must always include a disclosure statement, even if you have nothing to report.
  • 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”.
  • Authors wishing to apply for one or more badges should submit their application form with their revised submission.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • 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.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Details of the badges offered by the journal.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: Links to additional information.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: An open practices disclosure form.
  • If you submit a paper to a participating journal, you will then receive an email upon submission with: The journal editor’s email address.
  • Protocol: Submitting authors must indicate within the manuscript text if the research protocol has: (a) been submitted to and approved by any institution's/department’s research board or committee, and/or.
  • 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.
  • Such as: The standards on Data, Materials, and Analytical Code Transparency speak to the items generated over the course of the study and how you should preserve or share them.
  • Do not italicize e.g., and i.e., but do italicize sic.
  • 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.
  • COS currently offers three badges in its program: The Open Materials badge is earned by making publicly available the components of the research methodology needed to reproduce the reported procedure and analysis.

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.

Authorship and originality

  • Under the ‘Checklist’ section and the paragraph on ‘Author details’, add the following code directly before the sentence “All authors of a manuscript should include…”.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Manuscript structure

  • 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.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Keywords: 5-6 keywords
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Data availability, Funding, Competing interests, Ethics, 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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