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Prepare your manuscript for Patterns of Prejudice.

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Article types

Review
Book Review
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Lectio
Letter

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

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

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 Harvard style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • 4 Reference to a webpage: The specific webpage being cited should be treated like an article in that, wherever possible, the author, title and date should be provided.
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  • References should be cited as follows: 1A First reference to a book (monograph): Author’s full name (initials only if that is the author’s choice), Title in Full (Place of publication: Publisher Year), page number/s.
  • Please use this reference style guide when preparing your paper.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • References appear as footnotes on the page of citation, indicated by superscript numbers in the text.
  • If there is no author or title, then the first item in the citation should be a description of the item.
  • If your manuscript is based on research with human participants (individuals, samples, or data), please include a statement within your manuscript, which must provide details of the name of the ethics committee and reference/permit numbers where available.

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 saved separately from the text.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.

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.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.

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

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Book Review: A typical Book Review for this journal should be no more than 1200 words.
  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 100 words).
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  • 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.
  • Titles of books, journals, newspapers, films and plays should be italicized.
  • Foreign words and phrases, when not quotations from other sources or proper names, should also be italicized.
  • Book Review: Authors should refer to a recent copy of the journal for further style details, in particular for setting out book details for a book review.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • Note that the title here should be cited without subtitles.
  • However, the URLs of articles published as online-only pieces on a newspaper website must be cited (see example of Comment Is Free article below).
  • URLs should also be cited if the printed source is rare or inaccessible.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Blogs should be noted as such.
  • If not, then the entire URL (including http://) should be given.
  • Therefore, the following format should be taken merely as a guide.
  • 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.

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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  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparatio n to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.

Language and text style

  • Please note that long quotations—50 words or more—should be displayed as a separate paragraph and without quotation marks.
  • Note that quotation marks should only be used if the title/heading of the document is being transcribed verbatim. ‘Transcript of an interview between Robin Day and Enoch Powell on Twenty-Four Hours (BBC1)’, 11 June 1970: Public Record Office, Kew, Home Office Papers, HO 376/173.
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  • Please use British -ize spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'.
  • Authors who do not have native or equivalent proficiency in English are encouraged to have the article read by someone of this proficiency prior to submission.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing your paper Structure Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including Acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); abstract; keywords; main text; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).

Manuscript structure

  • A typical article manuscript for this journal should be more than 4000 and no more than 7000 words; this limit does not include footnotes.
  • Multiple sources in one footnote should be separated by semi-colons.
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What your package checks

Paper: 7,000 words
References: Harvard
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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