Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for International Reviews in Physical Chemistry.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-01
Article types
Review
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
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 250 words.
Keywords
- Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
- Each manuscript should have 3 to 6 keywords.
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 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. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2).
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- In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
- Please provide the highest quality figure format possible.
- Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
- You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption.
- Figures must be saved separate to 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.
- A typical manuscript will not exceed 20,000 – 40,000 words including tables.
- Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
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.
Cover letter
- If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission.
Title page and author information
- All authors of a manuscript should include their full names and affiliations on the cover page of the manuscript.
- One author should be identified as the corresponding author.
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- All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
Article structure and word limits
- Abstracts of 250 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
- The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
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- Review: Authors who wish to propose a topic for review should write to the Editor giving a brief (1-page) summary of the scope of the proposed review to Professor Jeremy M.
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
- Use these instructions if you are preparing a manuscript to submit to International Reviews in Physical Chemistry.
- 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.
- Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
- Authors must submit manuscripts electronically.
- Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word-processing program.
- 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.
- Review / Editorial: Contributions to International Reviews in Physical Chemistry must review published original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.
- Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research.
- Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
- Authors must adhere to SI units.
- 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
- Include or confirm the preprints and prior publication required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
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.
Language and text style
- Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
- Long quotations of words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
Article type and manuscript length
- Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
- Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
Manuscript structure
- Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
- 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.
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).
What your package checks
Abstract: 250 words
Paper: 40,000 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Acknowledgements, 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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