Taylor & Francis
Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-08-01
Article types
Review
Research Article
Editorial
Review Article
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 200 words.
- Use a unstructured abstract.
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- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
- 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, and references.
Keywords
- Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
- Should contain between 3 and 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Using Third-Party Material 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
- 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
- Should be no more than 8000 words.
- Should be between 1000 and 2000 words.
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- Should be no more than 3000 words.
- Should be no more than 5000 words.
- Should be no more than 6000 words.
- It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
- Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
- Editorial: The editorial should be supported where appropriate by academic literature, experience and/or evidence.
- Potential editorials should be discussed with the journal Editors prior to submission.
- Articles should be embedded in geography practice and/or the literature.
- Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
- 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”.
- 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.
- The conveners of the symposium should submit a written proposal to any of the co-editors which includes: a summary of the topic, list of authors (full contact details), titles, abstracts, and a realistic timeline.
- Review: There are four main elements that we are looking for: – The review should be authoritative, critical and add value to the literature; – The paper should primarily be a review, and it can use case study material from experience at the international, country or local levels.
- Please use SI units (non-italicized).
- Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
- 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.
Article type and manuscript length
- Should be written with the following elements 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
- Resources articles should aim to include a critical discussion / description of these resources and some ideas about how they might be employed within teaching, if appropriate drawing on examples from your own practice.
- Review: The conclusions should relate to the review elements of the paper and not the case study; – In all cases, the discussion must be in the context of the relevant peer-reviewed literature, and as relevant, the grey literature.
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- Review: More general conclusions should be drawn so that the paper is of interest to a wide range of readers; – The review should be interesting, readable, up to date and be written in such a way that it will provide valuable insights and encourage discussion and debate.
- 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.
- ‘Symposium’ papers are welcome on any appropriate geographic learning and teaching issue and would normally consist of an introduction piece and at least 6, preferably 8 or more papers.
Authorship and originality
- It is strongly encouraged to have a diversity of authorship – especially in terms of country of authors (in other words, not all authors should be from the same country or region).
Blinded manuscript
- The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/“Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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: 200 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: 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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