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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Information Technology & Politics.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Viewpoint
Book Review
Perspective
Research Article
Editorial
Protocol
Lectio
Case Report
Letter
Systematic Review

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 100 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 9000 words, inclusive of: Abstract.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 100 words.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • 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 in APA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 9000 words, inclusive of: References.
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  • Light & Light, 2008. Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis | Journals Page 3 of 15 Information Classification: General Three to five authors Cite all authors’ names the first time the reference occurs in the text (e.g. Kisangau, Lyaruu, Hosea, & Joseph, 2007).
  • For example: Ireys, Chernoff, DeVet, et al. (2001) and Ireys, Chernoff, Stein, et al. (2001) Multiple citations within the same parentheses When two or more works are cited within the same parentheses, arrange them into the same order in which they appear in the reference list: (Brown, 1980; Dawson & Briggs, 1974; Dawson & Jones, 1974; A).
  • Editorial: Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis | Journals Page 4 of 15 Information Classification: General No identified author If a work has no identified author, begin the in-text citation with the first few words of the reference list entry (usually the title, e.g. “Editorial,” 2000).
  • 13:1 (King James Version) Personal communication Personal communications include private letters, memos, personal interviews, telephone conversations, email, and messages from online discussion groups, etc. Where they do not provide recoverable data, personal communications are cited only in the text and not included in the reference list.
  • New York, NY: Springer. Warning | Not controlled when printed Maintained by Head of Copyediting | Taylor & Francis | Journals Page 9 of 15 Information Classification: General Three to seven authors Include all authors’ names in the reference list.
  • 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 general rule is that enough information needs to appear in the in-text citation to enable the reference to be located easily in the list.
  • Editorial: An abbreviation (if required) is introduced when the name of the organization first appears in an in-text citation, e.g.
  • If references must appear within the field of a table, use a separate column or row for them and supply an appropriate heading to identify them.
  • Do not use references within figures, charts, graphs or illustrations.
  • Date of publication The year of publication is required for all references.
  • Use the year of the draft you saw (not “submitted” or “in preparation”) in the in-text citation.
  • 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.
  • Unknown date For in-text citations to publications with no date, use “n.d.” within parentheses: (Author, n.d.) Classical or religious work Works such as the Bible and the Qur’an are cited only in the text.
  • Editorial: American College of Surgeons (ACS, 2001) or (American College of Surgeons [ACS], 2001) For subsequent in-text citations, ACS (2001) or (ACS, 2001) would be used.
  • If such references are needed to support the data or methods, put them in the caption.
  • Place references in alphabetical order by the surname of the first author followed by the initials of the author’s given name.

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.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 9000 words, inclusive of: Tables.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 9000 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
  • 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].
  • Figures should be saved separately from 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

  • 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.
  • In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this.
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  • Authors should familiarise themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent.
  • Review: All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections or sites, must include a written statement in the Methods section, confirming ethical approval has been obtained from the appropriate local ethics committee or Institutional Review Board and that where relevant, informed consent has been obtained.
  • Editorial: Consent All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements and Taylor & Francis Editorial Policies on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants.
  • Authors must include a statement to confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any type of qualitative or quantitative research, has given informed consent to participate in the research.
  • Case Report: a clinical case report detailing their medical history, identifiable images or media content, etc), authors must include a statement to confirm that they have obtained written informed consent to publish the details from the affected individual (or their parents/guardians if the participant in not an adult or unable to give informed consent; or next of kin if the participant is deceased).
  • Case Report: For submissions where patients or participants can be potentially identified (e.g.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Correspondence from private collections should be listed only with permission from the collector.
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  • 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

  • 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).
  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
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  • Six or more authors Cite only the surname of the first author followed by “et al.” and the year of publication, e.g. Smith et al. (2016) or (Smith et al., 2016).
  • 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.
  • For all NIH/Welcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement.
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical trials should be registered prospectively – i.e. before participant recruitment.
  • Editorial: Authors of retrospectively registered trials must be prepared to provide further information to the journal editorial office if requested.
  • Clinical Trial: The clinical trial registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization.
  • All research studies on humans (individuals, samples, or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • 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”.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Include the initials as well as the surname of the communicator and provide as exact a date as possible, for example: T.
  • Full official names should be used in the list (e.g. American Psychological Association, not APA).
  • Include the country name for other countries only where this is necessary to avoid ambiguity, e.g. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Newspaper/Magazine Date of publication Full dates of publication are required, including the month (for magazine articles) and day of the month (for newspaper articles).
  • Use the same format as above for a draft or a work in progress, substituting “Manuscript in preparation” for the final sentence.
  • Research Article: · Research Notes: Research notes provide a relatively brief presentation of findings (including replications or extensions) that may not require the detailed theoretical development or extended analysis found in Research Articles, but nonetheless makes a distinct contribution to the literature on politics and IT.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • 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, ideally at the beginning of the research process (prior to participant recruitment).
  • The process of obtaining consent to publish should include sharing the article with the individual (or whoever is consenting on their behalf), so that they are fully aware of the content of the article before it is published.
  • 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.
  • The month is also required when citing a journal that has no volume or issue number, or a presentation at a conference; the month and day of the month are required when citing a magazine, a newsletter or a newspaper.
  • Archival sources include letters, interviews, unpublished manuscripts, limited- circulation brochures/pamphlets, in-house institutional and corporate documents, clippings and photographs that are in the personal possession of an author, form part of an institutional collection, or are stored in an archive or repository.
  • Letter: Add a lower-case letter (a, b, c, etc.) after the year: Smith, J. (2016a).
  • Limited- circulation publication Sci-Art Publishers. (1935).
  • Place of publication: Publisher. or Retrieved from URL Lewis County Geographic Information Services. (Cartographer). (2002).
  • If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne.
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • Place any family designation of rank after the initials, e.g. Author, A.
  • Do not give the name of the journal or publisher to which a manuscript has been submitted.
  • 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.
  • Do not add a period after the URL.
  • Place: Publisher.
  • Place: Institution.
  • Place: Office Issuing the Patent.

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

  • Preparing Your Paper All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Supplementary material

  • Review: Authors submitting articles based on survey research shall make the survey questions and their order available, in the form of a supplemental file, ready for the purpose of review.

Manuscript structure

  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 9000 words, inclusive of: Footnotes.
  • A typical paper for this journal should be no more than 9000 words, inclusive of: Endnotes.
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  • For example: The most recent report (Smith, 2016) on the use of … If the author’s name forms part of the discussion, the parenthesis can be limited to the year of publication.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • When reporting survey data, the following information must be disclosed in the methods section as applicable: sampling design, modeling, and weighting assumptions.
  • When reporting survey data, the following information must be disclosed in the methods section as applicable: attrition rates and potential implications of attrition.
  • When reporting survey data, the following information must be disclosed in the methods section as applicable: respondent recruitment and question-related panel conditioning factors.
  • Clinical Trial: However, for clinical trials that have not been registered prospectively, Taylor & Francis journals requires retrospective registration to ensure the transparent and complete dissemination of all clinical trial results which ultimately impact human health.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Structure Your paper should be compiled 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).

Language and text style

  • Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
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  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • 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.
  • Use square brackets to include information that does not appear on the document, question marks to indicate uncertainty, and the abbreviation “ca.” to indicate estimated dates.

Study reporting guidelines

  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/“Manuscript - anonymous” file.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 100 words
Paper: 9,000 words
References: APA
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

Source transparency

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