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Prepare your manuscript for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures.

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Article types

Review
Research Article
Data Note
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 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Should be no more than 3000 words, inclusive of: Abstract.
  • Should contain a structured abstract of 250 words.
  • The abstract structure should be as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
  • 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.
  • If possible, place the numbers in superscript at each point of citation to eliminate confusion between in-text references and parenthetic numbers. … have been shown 3,8–10,17,33,34 to abrogate the requirements of T cells … Placement An in-text reference should immediately follow the word, title or phrase to which it is directly relevant, rather than appearing at the end of long clauses or sentences.
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  • If a required element of a reference cannot be provided, use square brackets to indicate this [place unknown]: Association of Refinery Workers; 1961.
  • Do not attach superscript in-text reference numbers to numbers in the field of a table because they could be interpreted as exponents. superscript alphabetic symbols can represent footnotes to the table, and the in-text references can be cited in the footnotes. Information Classification: General 2.
  • For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
  • 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.
  • Use the same number for subsequent in-text references to the same document.
  • If in-text 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.
  • Edition If a book has been published in more than one edition, an edition statement is a required part of the reference.
  • Date The year of publication is required for all references.
  • However, availability information is a required part of all citations to the Internet.
  • 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.
  • When producing a reference for a document, you must always cite the specific version seen; therefore, do not cite the print version when only the electronic version was seen.
  • New York (NY) or New York (if city is well known and cannot be confused) Boca Raton (FL) London or London (England) or London (GB) or London (UK) (as found on the publication) For consistency within a reference list treat each occurrence of a city the same.
  • Available from: http://www.apsnet.org/ The notes component of a reference has no specified format or punctuation and is not required.
  • The reader cannot identify authors from the in-text reference, and the reference numbers change as the manuscript progresses.
  • Note that examples in the CSE manual follow the citation-name system, so need to be converted if you are using the other CSE styles.
  • Place references in alphabetical order by author, and then number the references in the same sequence.

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

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Data Note: [for journals on Basic or SURR data sharing policy] Further to the data sharing policy for the journal, Data Note submissions must include a DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT and describe data available via a REPOSITORY.

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

  • If date information cannot be found, use the year of copyright, preceded by ‘c’, as ‘c2002’.
  • The permission should be acknowledged in an Acknowledgements or Notes section. Information Classification: General 12.
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  • Using Third-Party Material 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.
  • 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.
  • The author must provide written permission from the cited person (if living) or from the cited organization if it is carried in a document such as an internal memo that is not accessible to scholars.

Author contributions

  • Add or confirm the author-written Author contributions statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.
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  • Authorship change requests may result in the withdrawal of your paper if clear reasons and evidence of author contributions cannot be provided.

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

  • 8th ed. New rev. ed. 3rd Am. ed. Information Classification: General Place of publication Do not list multiple cities.
  • Cite as ‘340 p.’ If the book is more than one volume, cite the total number of volumes instead of the number of pages (e.g. ‘4 vol.’).
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  • Journal title Abbreviate the significant words in a journal title according to ISO 4. Information Classification: General Volume and issue number Both volume and issue numbers are required.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • When it is not possible to see an original document, cite the source of your information on it; do not cite the original assuming that the secondary source is correct.
  • Use the one most likely to be useful to readers.
  • Book series A series title may be included but is not required.
  • The basic rules for citing Internet material do not differ markedly from what is required for print.
  • The nature and source of the cited information should be identified by an appropriate statement.
  • Data Note: Data Notes should only describe the data.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Place the source information within parentheses. … and most of the meningiomas proved to be inoperable (2003 letter from RS Grant to me; unreferenced, see ‘Notes’) while a few were not.
  • Place of publication: publisher; date of publication [date updated; date cited].
  • Place the secondary author after the title of the work, followed by a comma and the role.
  • Place all translated titles in square brackets.
  • If a title contains a Greek letter or some other symbol that cannot be reproduced with the fonts available, substitute the word for the symbol (e.g. Ω becomes omega).
  • Place the month after the year, abbreviated to three letters.
  • Place after the volume and/or issue and precede it with a colon.
  • 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.
  • Place edition information after the title.
  • Place of publication: publisher.
  • Do not simply add a URL to the title.

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

  • Data Note: Data Notes do not include any interpretation or conclusion of the data (see preparing your paper).
  • 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.

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).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Author contributions, Artificial intelligence, Data availability

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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