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Article types

Review

Clinical Trial

Research Article

Data Note

Book Review

Editorial

Protocol

Lectio

Case Report

Letter

Systematic Review

Perspective

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 250 words.
Use a unstructured abstract.

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Should contain an unstructured abstract of 250 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.
References should not appear in the Abstract.
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.
The abstract should allow a reader to determine relevance of the paper to the reader and also should be able to stand alone (it will appear in abstracting services and may be all some readers ever see).

Keywords

Provide 5-8 keywords chosen by the author.
Should contain between 5 and 8 keywords.

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Should contain between 3 and 6 keywords.

Reference style

Articlo formats your supplied references in Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
Should be no more than 25 double-spaced pages, inclusive of: References.

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Should be no more than 5 pages, inclusive of: References.
Submitted manuscripts, including references, must be double-spaced, Times New Romanfont, 12-pt type with 1-inch margins formatted for 8.5 × 11 inch (letter size) paper.
Use 2-letter postal abbreviations only in tables, figures, references, addresses, and in parenthetical information.
Use a comma between citations but no punctuation between author and 18 Information Classification: General year.
Wordiness: Avoid unnecessary introductory phrases such as “in order to” and “a total of.” Below is a sample of common wordy expressions and their preferred alternatives: Wordy phrases Alternative phrases a total of (delete) a limited number of few (or use a number when possible) a majority of most all macrophytes, irrespective of species all macrophytes at the present time now or currently (not presently, which means soon) by means of by for the duration of the study during despite the fact that although due to the fact that because (not since, which refers to time) during the course of during or while if conditions are such that if or when in order to to 9 Information Classification: General in close proximity to near in the absence of without in view of the fact that because it is reasonable to assume that (delete) it is worth pointing out that note that it would thus appear that apparently might be the mechanism responsible for might have caused necessitates the inclusion of needs or requires occur in areas of the Atlantic are in the Atlantic prior to; previous to before sample sites were separated by more than 20 m sample sites were >20 m apart separated by a maximum distance of 10 m and a minimum distance of 3 m 3–10 m apart serves the function of being is showed a tendency toward had or were small in size, green in color small, green summer months summer take into consideration consider the analysis presented in this paper our analysis the purpose of this study was to test we tested was of the opinion that thought we demonstrated that there was a direct we demonstrated a direct were responsible for caused which is; that were; there is (usually delete and recast sentence) within the realm of possibility possible Table/Figure citations: Information from table titles and figure legends should not be repeated in the text.
Book citations Page range for book chapters or parts is required at end of reference (e.g., p. 32–48); total page number at end of full volume book citations is optional (e.g., 305 p.).
Use either vol(issue) information, or DOI; using both creates redundancy Cite as (Knowlton and Jones, forthcoming 2007 Jun) In prep, submitted, or other unpublished work or communication These sources do not appear in the reference list.
Review / Book Review: The author(s) and affiliation(s) appear at the end, followed by any references. 26 Information Classification: General Book Reviews Book reviews should be reviews of a recently published book on lake and/or reservoir management.
Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
The subject and intent of the paper must be introduced within the context of current knowledge as evidenced by the citation of relevant literature.
Do not restart numbering on each page, but provide continuous, consecutive line numbers to allow easy reference during reviews.
References to tables and figures should point out important aspects of each and not repeat the obvious or restate the table title or figure caption.
References Incorrect citations and references require more editing time than any other manuscript problem.
Each text citation must have a corresponding reference, and each reference must be cited in the text.
The name spellings and year of publication of the citation and corresponding reference must match.
Unpublished citation information should be used sparingly.
Because Internet information is modified regularly, Internet references require an access date.
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.
Do not embed tables and figures, put text in columns, lock references into a block that cannot be individually edited, or use specialized formatting of any kind in the submitted document.
If programs that install hidden formatting are used in original manuscript development or reference lists, the manuscript should be copied to a new file at the end, without the formatting.
This could raise complications if one paper is not accepted, so consider additional citations to support statements that do not completely rely on the companion paper. (Casey GD, this issue) Reference list formats General style References immediately follow Acknowledgments.
Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; text (without headings); authors and affiliations; references; disclosure statement.
Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; text (without headings); author(s) and affiliation(s); references.
Author names and affiliations follow the discussion, followed by acknowledgments data availability statement, references, and tables and figures (if appropriate, no more than 2 each).
Citations in text General guidelines Do not number citations.

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.
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].
Tables and figures should be designed to fit either a 1- or 2- column space in the journal.
Figures should be 8 Information Classification: General completely labeled, taking into account necessary size reduction and resultant issues of legibility.
For statistical significance P ranges below 0.001 should be denoted as less than 0.001, additional decimal places are not needed (see table): P Value P range > 0.05 1-0.051 <=0.05 0.050 – 0.011 <= 0.01 0.001 – 0.0011 <= 0.001 Less than or equal to 0.001 Ordinal numbers: Use digits for ordinal numbers 10 and above, but spell out single-digit ordinals unless used in a series.
Tables should be formatted to fill half the width or the whole width of a 8.5 inch wide portrait layout (vertical) page, with margins at the edges and between the 2 columns of text present on the page, or to fill the width of an 11 inch landscape layout (horizontal) page, again with margins.
The body of materials is to be referred to as the “Supplement” when referenced in the paper, as in “More details can be found in the Supplement.” All tables and figures in the Supplement should be labelled with an S preceding the number (e.g., Table S1 or Figure S1).
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.
Pages must be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page, including tables, figures and the list of figure legends.
List of Figures: This should include the captions to be used with each figure numbered in sequence as described in the next section.
A short descriptive title should appear above each table with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below.
Color illustrations will also be considered for print publication; however, the author will be required to bear the full cost involved in color art reproduction.
Only one image may be supplied per figure number; authors should produce color graphics that will convert well to grayscale for the printed version of LRM.
Do not use tables and figures as sentence subjects or objects in the text.
Use the same style throughout the manuscript, including all figures and tables.
Redundancy with figures should be minimized, and a well-constructed figure is preferable to a table to explain the same data.
Figures may be reduced by the production staff to fit available space, so lines and fonts should be thick enough to be legible when figures are reduced.
However, only one version of any figure can be submitted, so color figures must translate well to grayscale to be useable.
A figure caption is provided separately; no figure title should be needed on the actual figure, but do label axes.
Legends should be concise and clear, and are essential to understanding most figures.
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.
Provide a list of all legends separate from the actual graphics; include an explanation of all symbols and abbreviations in the graphic and provide sufficient information for the graphic to stand alone.
The publisher will alert the authors if any color figures will not reproduce well in black and white, but authors should check figure quality for themselves before submission.
Careful thought should go into the layout of columns and rows to provide maximum information at maximum efficiency while being mindful of legibility when the table is reduced to fit the designated space.
Use footnotes for column or line headings where further explanation is needed than can be given in a concise heading Figures Figures can tell most of the story in any manuscript if well designed and will be what many readers remember most; useful figures require substantial effort.
Any nonstandard files, such as video files or formats that are not recognized by ScholarOne and not able to be converted to PDF format, should be loaded using the "nonstandard files" option during the uploading process.
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.
When using color, avoid light colors that do not translate well into grayscale. 24 Information Classification: General Supplemental information General information Online publishing allows inclusion of information that may not fit into a printed paper with page limits or may be deemed redundant (tables of data included in a figure) or otherwise inappropriate for the print version (extensive photographic evidence, metadata, other potentially useful information not essential to the paper).
Tables and figures: Do not embed tables and figures (illustrations) in the text.
Recognize that the production staff may need to adjust tables to fit available space, so limited formatting is preferred, and submission of original files is requested with the final draft manuscript.
If the author(s) feel it is necessary to break the Supplement in to parts, refer to them as Supplement A, Supplement B and so on, but retain the table and figure numbering system (i.e., do not restart numbers in separate Supplement parts).

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

Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
These data repository should conform to the Taylor & Francis data sharing policies.

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.

Cover letter

Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.

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The Publisher (Taylor & Francis) will also require the author to enter into any requisite publishing agreements and copyright documentation under the author’s legal name.
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.
Authors are provided a PDF version of the published paper and given a limited number of free downloads that can be distributed among colleagues. 5 Information Classification: General Copyright: Published papers normally become the property of NALMS.
When you upload a manuscript in the ScholarOne system, you will have the opportunity to upload or create a cover letter.

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 title, authors’ names, affiliations, and complete addresses (including 5-digit zip codes for submissions from the USA) on the first page.
Papers that are not formatted in accordance with the LRM style guide, are not written in excellent English, do not include management implications, or otherwise do not meet the 5 evaluation criteria described above will be returned to the corresponding author for further editing before the paper is moved to the peer review process.

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All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
Please include an e-mail address for the corresponding author as an asterisked footnote.
Other name qualifiers: do not use unless essential; omit taxonomic author names unless critical to the identification of the species.
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 8 (double-spaced) pages.
Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).

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Authors should also supply an abbreviated version of the title suitable for the running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces.
Include an abbreviated title for the manuscript, no longer than 50 characters, to be used as the right running head in the journal.
Must not exceed 250 words (one paragraph) and must succinctly state the findings of the study.
Pictures must have high resolution (typically 300 dpi or more).
Art not supplied at a minimum of 300 dpi will not be considered for print.
Use metric units, except 11 Information Classification: General for measurements without a commonly-used metric equivalent.
Do not use an en dash with negative numbers. [See Equations and measurements, p. 12, for minus sign information].
Use numerals to express mathematical relationships, such as ratios and multiplication factors (2:1; 10× magnification; 3-fold).
Use commas as space-holders in numbers >9999 (4290; 12,876; 438,907).
Use the 24 h (military) system: 00:01 h (1 min past midnight) through 12:00 h (noon) through 24:00 h (midnight).
Plural dates: Do not use an apostrophe for plural dates (1970s).
For 2 authors, separate names with “and.” For >2 authors use “et al.” in regular font; no period after et. (LaBounty and Burns 2005, Holdren et al. 2006).
Cite in text as (USEPA 2000). [APHA] American Public Health Association.
Authors should create any supplement as a separate file entitled “Supplement.” This material is not included in the suggested 25-page limit on written materials.
In general, a note should be no more than 5 pages and use only 1–2 graphics.
The text formatting conventions that apply to papers apply to comments, but the overall format is simplified and the length should not exceed 3 pages.
Should be no more than 3 pages.
Should be between 1 and 3 pages.
It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
If brand must be used, omit symbol, but capitalize the word. clear plastic or Plexiglas petroleum jelly or Vaseline 10 Information Classification: General Unit style: Present units of measure as mass/L (mg/L, μg/L, ng/L).
Do not use “naked” decimals (0.05, not.05).
Cite as “equation 1” in text.
Cite in text by author(s)’ last name and initials, 21 Information Classification: General professional association and/or title, date, and type of communication, such as pers. comm., unpubl., or pers. correspondence.
Cite in text as (APHA 1992).
Lines should be thick enough to be easily visible at expected print size; 2 pt lines are usually adequate, but higher thickness may be beneficial if it does not interfere with other aspects of the graphic.
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.
Review / Book Review: BOOK REVIEW Book Reviews should be reviews of a recently published book on lake and/or reservoir management.
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.
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.
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.
Articles must provide or confirm an advance, innovation, or synthesis of information in lake and/or watershed management.
The applicability of findings to related fields should be elucidated.
The study should not have been published previously, and closely related papers should be considered explicitly in the narrative.
Differences from closely related work should be clearly stated.
Case histories should extend our knowledge of how to improve management of lakes and reservoir resources to be acceptable.
Authors of accepted papers are also required to fill out a reviewer profile to allow future matching of author expertise with necessary reviews of other papers.
Include reasonable speculation and new hypotheses to be tested when appropriate.
Include them as separate pages at the end of the manuscript or separate files.
Graphics should be the highest quality possible so that when reduced to journal size significant information is clear.
Area rainfall, lake depths, watershed land cover, and other attributes should be in past tense.
Impact: This word should be used only for rapid and substantial responses to a severe event such as a hurricane, flood, or a dam breach.
Semicolon: Items in a series that require additional punctuation or explanation are separated by semicolons.
Enumerated items should be preceded by numbers in parentheses.
Managers are required to conduct a cost–benefit analysis.
Use lower case when they refer to a simple direction (central Manitoba, western California, northern Atlantic).
Scientific names: Should follow first use of common or vernacular name, if one is widely used for the organism, in parentheses.
If use of Latin is necessary, do not italicize phrases (e.g., in situ).
Phrases using i.e. and e.g. should only be used within parentheses and are not italicized.
Must include name, employer or title, and date, followed by type of communication, such as unpubl., pers. comm., or other description.
Minimum pool requirements for the enhancement and maintenance of salmonid fisheries in small Wyoming reservoirs. [master’s thesis]. [Laramie (WY)]: University of Wyoming.
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.
Information presented must be relevant to lake and reservoir management or contribute knowledge on subjects of interest and educational value to some segment of the lake management community.
Changes should be limited to error correction; other additions or changes to text, which should have been completed as part of the review process, are discouraged at this point unless a mistake is clearly identified.
Some feel that publicly sponsored research should be freely available, but it should be recognized that the review and production process carry significant costs not part of any public research sponsorship.
All units must be included.
Words are often separate, hyphenated, or compound depending on use as a noun, verb, or adjective: 13 Information Classification: General The shutdown caused water supply problems. [noun] The city shut down the dam. [verb] The shut-down dam needed repairs. [adjective] The following should be expressed as compound nouns in LRM papers: breakwater drawdown downwind/upwind freshwater groundwater hardwater/softwater riprap wastewater database dataset stormwater waterbody Do not hyphenate a modifier containing a measurement (3 L bottle, 6 d study), per International System of Units (SI). [Refer also to Cardinal numbers, p. 12].
Do not use abutting parentheses.
Do not use etc. to indicate an extended list of items, ca. to indicate approximately (unless approximating a date), sensu to mean in the style of, or cf. to indicate a comparison.
Data Note: DATA NOTE Data Notes are short (no more than 8 pages) descriptions of research or monitoring data from lakes or reservoirs that are stored in a data repository.
Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
The AE invites reviewers and seeks to obtain at least 3 reviews for an initially submitted manuscript.
Common and scientific names Common names: Do not capitalize common names of species except for proper names (rainbow 17 Information Classification: General trout, Canada goose).
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.
Corresponding authors need to establish a free account, which only requires a name and email, although other information is helpful.
Do not begin a sentence with an acronym, symbol or measurement.
Do not hyphenate modifiers ending in –ly (freely available nutrients).
Do not abbreviate if it is the first word of a sentence.
It also provides a mechanism whereby discoveries made as part of management efforts that were not geared toward research publications can be made accessible without provision of some details that may not be available or cannot be divulged due to security issues (water supplies) or proprietary exclusions (new products not yet protected by patents or fully registered).
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.
Literature syntheses and papers developing a conceptual foundation of lake and watershed ecology will be considered for publication, but there needs to be clear emphasis on management implications.
Abbreviate genus names with the first letter when repeated within a few paragraphs, provided the meaning is clear and cannot be confused with another genus in the manuscript with the same first letter.
Do not italicize or underline titles.

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

Decimal Places: The number decimals places used should be equal to or less than the number of decimal places a measurement’s method detection limit (mdl) (e.g. NH mdl of 0.02 mg/L: use two decimal places at most (e.g. a measurement (or statistical result) of 0.21 can be designated as 0.21 mg/L or 0.2 mg/L)).
Data must be analyzed with appropriate statistics as warranted.

Preprints and prior publication

Previously published methods should be cited without explanation; new or modified methods should be identified as such and explained in 7 Information Classification: General detail.
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.
Generative AI tools may be used responsibly in accordance with Taylor & Francis AI policies and must acknowledge their use within their paper.
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, study site, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; disclosure statement; references; list of figures; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures with captions; appendices (as appropriate).
Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page (without author names); abstract; keywords; main text introduction (unlabeled); methods; results and discussion (usually combined); author names and affiliations; acknowledgments; disclosure statement; references; figures and tables (with captions).

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Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction; materials and methods; data description; discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; author contributions statement and ethics; data availability statement; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure labels (as a list); figures; appendices (as appropriate).

Manuscript structure

Similar in structure to comments, they should be short (1-3) pages, provide a summary of the book and discussion by the reviewer.
These Notes should describe the data without interpretation or conclusion.

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Research methods and design must be technically sound and provide data that are appropriate to address the chosen topic in a balanced context without ambiguity.
Results and discussion should clearly and concisely convey key messages.
Acknowledgement must be indicated either in the Materials and Methods Section or the Acknowledgment Section.
Methods should be included as needed for the reader to understand what was done, with greater detail only if the method is the primary topic of the paper.
Use appropriate subheadings for long, detailed methods.
Management implications derived from your results should be included.
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.
Conclusions should be properly supported.
Separate Results and Discussion are preferred when possible, however, and authors should be careful not to include discussion of other research in their Results section when the sections are separate.
Examples Materials suitable for inclusion in a supplement include but are not limited to: • Methodological details useful for repeating the work but not essential to the conclusions drawn from the data.
Do not repeat any part of the results in this section.
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.
Modeling efforts that do not result in clear management decisions or have not been validated by follow up actions with appropriate monitoring are less likely to be accepted.
Do not number sections.

Language and text style

Numbers with unit abbreviations must remain numerals. [Refer also to Hyphen, p. X]. 15 Information Classification: General No: We tested 82 50 mL samples.
Use 2-letter postal abbreviations in parentheses for state or province publisher addresses, followed by publisher name.

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Some common examples: biochemical oxygen demand BOD chlorophyll Chl chlorophyll a (no hyphen) Chl-a (hyphen) dissolved oxygen DO dissolved organic carbon DOC dissolved inorganic nitrogen DIN total phosphorus TP dissolved reactive phosphorus DRP soluble reactive phosphorus SRP orthophosphorus PO4 dissolved inorganic phosphorus DIP Secchi disk transparency SDT standard deviation SD total nitrogen TN total Kjeldahl nitrogen TKN total organic carbon TOC total suspended solids TSS 12 Information Classification: General Statistical abbreviations: probability P sample size n simple correlation coefficient r multiple correlation coefficient R All these statistical abbreviations and other statistical tests (e.g., t, F, U) should be italicized.
Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
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.
Use single and double prime symbols (found in Insert Symbol menu), not quotation marks or apostrophes, for minutes and seconds.
Use italic font, with first letter of genus uppercase.
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.
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 journal abbreviations denoted in ISSN International Centre accepted lists, with no periods following abbreviations.

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).

Authorship and originality

Only one member of a team of authors must be a NALMS member, but we would prefer that all authors be members of NALMS.

Supplementary material

Such material should be identified as supplemental material in the uploading process to ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Format Supplemental materials should be formatted according to the above style guidelines, just as with the main paper.

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Abstract: 250 words

Keywords: 5-8 keywords

References: Harvard

Cover letter: requested

Declarations: Ethics, Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence, Data availability

Format: Times New Roman, double spacing, 1" margins

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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