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Prepare your manuscript for International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Systematic Review
Editorial
Lectio
Protocol
Letter

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Use a structured abstract.
  • Review: For review essays, your structured abstract should follow this format: Purpose: state the primary objective of the review.
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  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • For papers reporting original research, a structured abstract with the following headings should be included: Purpose: State the primary objective and any hypothesis tested.

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 in APA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Manuscripts should be in English, in 12-point type, double-spaced throughout including the reference section, with 2.5 cm margins.
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  • Please include no more than 40 references for articles and no more than 50 references for reviews.
  • All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references.
  • References: should follow American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines.
  • In the reference list, references should be listed alphabetically then chronologically under each author.
  • References should be as follows: References to an entire book.
  • 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.
  • Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text.
  • Please include DOI numbers when known.
  • 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.
  • Letter: Mathematics.Special care should be taken with mathematical scripts, especially subscripts and superscripts and differentiation between the letter 'ell' and the figure one, and the letter 'oh 'and the figure zero.
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  • To ensure quality reproduction, figures should be supplied as high-resolution (minimum 300 d.p.i.) files, saved in.tif or.eps format.
  • 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 should be referred to in text as follows: Figure 1, Table I, i.e. upper case. 'As seen in Table [or Figure] I [or 1].' (not Tab., fig. or Fig).
  • Figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white graphs or diagrams, drawn professionally or with a computer graphics package.
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin), the personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.
  • Brief biographical details of significant national figures should be outlined in the text unless it is quite clear that the person concerned would be known internationally.
  • 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

  • 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

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Informed consent and patient details: Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper.
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  • Review: Authors who do not have formal ethics review committees should include a statement that their study follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • Consent All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants.
  • Authors may use this Patient Consent Form, which should be completed, saved, and sent to the journal if requested.
  • Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained where an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in a publication.
  • 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 at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment).
  • Clinical Trial: Please confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person's parent or legal guardian) in any research, experiment, or clinical trial described in your paper has given written consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the paper; and that you have fully anonymised them.

Blinded manuscript

  • Review: This page should be uploaded as a separate document to enable blind peer review.
  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Cover letter

  • Using third-party material in your paper If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, 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

  • 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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  • The title page of the submission should include the article title, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the complete mailing address of the author to whom all correspondence should be sent, the running head and up to five key words.
  • Review: Authors wishing to remain anonymous during the review process should ensure that no clues remain as to the identity of the author(s) following removal of the title page.
  • 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

  • A typical paper for this journal should not exceed 30 pages.
  • Thus, decades should be referred to as follows: 'The 1980s [not the 1980's] saw.'.
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  • Sound files should be submitted as.WAV or.MP3 files.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
  • Contributors reporting ages of subjects should specify carefully the age groupings: a group of children of ages e.g. 4.0 to 4.99 years may be designated 4 +; a group aged 3.50 to 4.49 years 4 ± and a group all precisely 4.0 years, 4.0.
  • The solidus is not generally used for units: ms - 1 not m/s, but note electrons/s, counts/channel, etc. Displayed equations referred to in the text should be numbered serially (1, 2, etc.) on the right hand side of the page.
  • 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.
  • The checklists identify essential matters that should be considered and reported upon in your paper.
  • Our guidelines should be read in conjunction with this broader guidance.
  • All studies must be conducted to a high ethical standard and must adhere to local regulations and standards for gaining scrutiny and approval.
  • Your arguments should be substantiated with well-reasoned supporting evidence.
  • Punctuation should follow the British style, e.g. "quotes precede punctuation".
  • Possessives associated with acronyms (e.g. APU), should be written as follows: 'The APU's findings that.', but, NB, the plural is APUs.
  • The preferred local (national) usage for ethnic and other minorities should be used in all papers.
  • n (not N), % (not per cent) should be used in typescripts.
  • Numbers in text should take the following forms: 300, 3000, 30 000.
  • Movie files should be submitted as AVI, QuickTime or Mpeg file.
  • These should be uncompressed and in a universal format for PC or Mac.
  • Whenever possible, therefore this limit should be adhered to.
  • Special symbols should be highlighted in the text and explained in the margin.
  • Full formulae or equations should be displayed, that is, written on a separate line.
  • For all NIH/Wellcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement.
  • The registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization.
  • Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Written consents must be retained by the author and copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained must be provided to Taylor & Francis on submission.
  • Dashes: M-dash should be clearly indicated in manuscripts by way of either a clear dash (-) or a triple hyphen (---), N-dash should be indicated by a clear dash (-) or a double hyphen (--).
  • Apostrophes should be used sparingly.
  • Animation should be mentioned in the text.
  • Fonts must also be embedded.
  • Symbols should not be underlined to indicate fonts except for tensors, vectors and matrices, which are indicated with a wavy line in the manuscript (not with a straight arrow or arrow above) and rendered in heavy type in print: upright sans serif r (tensor), sloping serif r (vector) upright serif r (matrix).
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Spell out numbers under 10 unless used with a unit of measure, e.g. nine pupils but 9 mm (do not introduce periods with measure).
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Animations are limited to 30 seconds.
  • Review: In the event that phonetic fonts do not convert properly, this will expedite the review process.
  • 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.

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.

Study reporting guidelines

  • For simple fractions in the text, the solidus / should be used instead of a horizontal line, care being taken to insert parentheses where necessary to avoid ambiguity, for example, I/(n-1).
  • 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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  • They are not quality assessment frameworks and your study need not meet all the criteria implied in the reporting guideline to be worthy of publication in the journal.You are required to submit a checklist from the appropriate reporting guideline with your paper as a guide to the editor and reviewers of your paper.
  • Clinical Trial: This should explain that all work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees (institutional and national), and that clinical trials have been registered as legislation requires.
  • Qualitative researchers should consult the guideline Standards for reporting qualitative research: a synthesis of recommendations https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/srqr.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Language and text style

  • Please use the terms 'speech-language pathology' and 'speech-language pathologist' to ensure consistency throughout the journal.
  • Typographical requirements must be clearly indicated at their first occurrence, e.g. Greek, Roman, script, sans serif, bold, italic.
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  • Use of conservative British, not US, spelling, i.e. colour not color; behaviour (behavioural) not behavior; [he] practises not practices; centre not center; organisation not organization; analyse not analyze, etc.
  • Punctuation of common abbreviations should follow the following conventions: e.g., i.e., cf.

Manuscript structure

  • Clinical Trial: All papers which report in vivo experiments or clinical trials on humans or animals must include a written statement in the Methods section.
  • 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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  • When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark authors must use the symbol ® or ™ or alternatively a footnote can be inserted using the following wording: This article includes a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark.

Statistical reporting

  • The usual statistical conventions should be used: a value written 10.0 ± 0.25 indicates the estimate for a statistic (e.g. a mean) followed by its standard error.
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What your package checks

References: APA
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence
Format: double spacing

Source transparency

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