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Prepare your manuscript for International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

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Checked 2026-08-01
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Article types

Review
Research Article
Review Article
Book Review
Perspective
Lectio
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Letter

Readiness requirements

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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.
  • Software and Code Availability: Authors must include a software availability statement, which authors should add to the end of the article, before the references list.
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  • Code and software should be cited in the body of your article, be added to your reference list as you would any other bibliographic citation.
  • Once your manuscript has been provisionally accepted, you should provide a permanent link with DOI and update the data and codes availability statement.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Authors are required to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan.

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].
  • Table(s) with caption(s) and figures with captions should be inserted into the main document to facilitate double anonymous peer reviews.
  • Figures and tables should be inserted into the text.
  • 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

  • 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 cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
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  • Software and Code Availability: Authors must make an anonymous version of the source code available on a Version Control System (VCS) such as GitHub and provide details of the repository and the license under which the software can be used.

Ethics statement

  • For example, XXX data cannot be made publicly available due to XXXX (provide the reasons, such as protect research participant privacy and consent or other reasons).

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: To meet our double anonymous review, you must include a PRIVATE SHARING LINK (generated when you set up the data and codes at figshare or dryad sites) in your Data and Codes Availability Statement (see below).

Cover letter

  • A CCBY, CC0 or equivalent license should be applied to any datasets to allow reuse by any third party for any lawful purpose.
  • License: Must be an open license and preferably an OSI-approved license.
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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.

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

  • Key policy highlights (3 to 5 in total) should have approximately 100 words, which set out the main findings of the paper that are of specific relevance to policy makers.
  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 200 words).
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  • 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.
  • These key policy highlights should be presented as a bulleted list of concise but complete sentences.
  • For the Article Title, it should be: Sentence case; no capital after colon.
  • Please provide information on and share data and codes used in the research.
  • If some data cannot be shared, please provide simulated or mocked data to show how the codes work.
  • This is required for all IJGIS submissions and cannot be satisfied by statements such as “available upon reasonable request”.
  • 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”.
  • Data should meet with FAIR standards established by the subject area.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • 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.
  • The article should provide examples of suitable input data sets and include an example of the output that can be expected from the tool and how this output should be interpreted.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You should use the following template: The data and codes that support the findings of this study are available with the identifier(s) at the private link (give the PRIVATE SHARING LINK, such as https://figshare.com/s/61d0851a0d08b8cb2b74).
  • Check whether article needs to be submitted with 3-5 key policy highlights (of approximately 100 words), which set out main findings of the paper that are of specific relevance to policy makers.
  • If a revision submitted after this time, you will need to update the private sharing link.
  • If you cannot share some data, please indicate and explain here specifically what data cannot be shared.
  • 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.

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.
  • Authors must clearly acknowledge any use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools by providing a statement in a Generative AI Use Disclosure Statement section right after the Acknowledgments section to clearly state 1 the full name of the tool used (with version number), 2 how it was used, and 3 the reason for use.
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  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
  • Note that Generative AI tools must not be listed as an author.
  • 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; key policy highlights (if appropriate); keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate).

Language and text style

  • Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
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  • 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.

Manuscript structure

  • Authors are required to make the data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper freely available.
  • 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.
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  • Please add a section entitled "Data and Codes Availability Statement" after your Conclusion section.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Declarations: Data availability, 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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