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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Systematic Review
Original Article
Review Article
Case Report
Perspective
Letter
Protocol
Editorial
Research Article
Methods Article
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 300 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • Should contain a structured abstract of maximum 300 words (Objectives; Methods; Results; Discussion/Conclusion).
  • Should contain a structured abstract of maximum 200 words.
  • The abstract structure should be as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
  • Protocols of randomized controlled trials should follow the SPIRIT guidelines and must include the name of the registry and the trial registration number in the last line of the abstract.
  • 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.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.Taylor & Francis Editing Services provides a graphical abstract creation service for a fee.

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.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
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  • 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.
  • No more than 4 tables and 4 figures.
  • No more than 3 tables and 3 figures.
  • No more than a total of 4 tables/figures.

Funding statement

  • Protocol: Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • 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].
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  • Protocol: Submitted study protocols must have obtained formal ethical approval and undergone independent peer-review from a major funding body.

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

  • Systematic Review: Systematic reviews/meta-analyses must be registered through PROSPERO or another public registry such as OSF (Open Science Framework) prior to initiating the review.
  • Systematic Review: In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all Systematic Reviews & meta-analyses must have been registered through PROSPERO, an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews in health and social care, or another public registry such as OSF (Open Science Framework).

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Blinded manuscript

  • Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • 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

  • You may be required to provide CRediT roles (contributor details) for yourself and your co-authors.

Supplementary files

  • Lectio: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Letter: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
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  • Review: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Protocol: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Editorial: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Case Report: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Perspective: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Clinical Trial: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Review Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Methods Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Original Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Research Article: Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Embed or attach the author-supplied supplementary material so Articlo can extract and label it for the package.
  • Please provide a completed SPIRIT checklist as a supplementary file when submitting your protocol (If any item of the checklist does not suit the respective study, the authors should not only indicate “Not Applicable“ or N/A but briefly explain why the item is not applicable for their study).

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • Trial registration numbers should be provided on the title page that contains the authors names and affiliations.
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  • Systematic Review: Systematic Reviews & meta-analyses registration numbers should be included upon initial submission on the un-blinded title page, with full details in the methods section.
  • 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 at between 2500 and 4000 words in length.
  • 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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  • PROSPECTIVE scoping reviews registration will be REQUIRED for all scoping reviews submitted to the Journal as of December 31, 2027 to be considered for publication.
  • Should be no more than 4000 words.
  • Systematic Review: The journal prefers systematic reviews and meta-analyses but will accept scoping reviews when appropriate (registration is preferred for the scoping reviews and will be required as of December 31st, 2027) and consider narrative reviews.
  • Should be no more than 3000 words.
  • Case Report: Case reports should be unique/unusual cases, include validated clinical outcomes measures, record of pain medications intake and should include minimum 6-month follow-up data (can be done over the phone).
  • Should be no more than 2000 words.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
  • 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 should include adequate and appropriate validation to be considered.
  • Any datasets associated with the paper must publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible.
  • If there are concerns about identifying factors in datasets, these should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief prior to submission.
  • Please note, this is not required for submission but is encouraged.
  • Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
  • For all NIH/Wellcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement.
  • Clinical Trial: registration before participant recruitment, is required when all 4 following conditions are met: (1) the trial includes human participants.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Clinical Trial: Clinical Trials Registry In order to be published in the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy, all clinical trials including prospective case series, single-arm and comparison clinical trials must have been prospectively registered in a public repository 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.
  • Clinical Trial: (2) participants are prospectively assigned to an intervention.
  • Clinical Trial: (3) the study is designed to evaluate the effect of the intervention on the participants; and (4) the effect being evaluated is a health-related biomedical or behavioral outcome.
  • Clinical Trial: Prospective clinical trials registration, i.e.
  • 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.

Statistical reporting

  • Include or confirm the statistical reporting required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • These describe and evaluate previously published material in order to suggest new approaches or ideas and should not be a simple repetition of readily available information.
  • 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).
  • Review: All authors of research articles and reviews are required to complete and submit a brief author checklist submitted as appendix to their manuscript along with a checklist from the appropriate reporting guideline together with your paper as a guide to the editors and reviewers of your paper.

Manuscript structure

  • Authors should include the registration link or justification for non-registration in the Methods section.
  • Review / Systematic Review: Systematic reviews should be registered at inception (i.e. at the protocol stage) to help avoid unplanned duplication and to enable comparison of reported review methods with what was planned in the protocol.
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  • 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.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Background, Case Description, Outcomes, Discussion and Conclusion.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Background, Diagnosis, and Discussion.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Review: Completed PRISMA checklist for scoping reviews should be submitted as an Appendix (Supplement) upon manuscript submission.
  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
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  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
  • Clinical Trial: Authors submitting randomized clinical trials should follow the CONSORT statement and submit as an Appendix the CONSORT checklist and the TIDieR checklist with page numbers indicating where the information is located in the manuscript.

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; author contributions statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 300 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

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