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Prepare your manuscript for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology.

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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Research Article
Review Article
Letter
Commentary
Brief Report
Case Report
Letter to the Editor
Editorial
Protocol
Lectio
Systematic Review

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.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 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

  • Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 6 keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in AMA style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • British Standards Institution. *** If a resource has no author, the reference entry should begin with the title of work: 12.
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  • No space should appear between digits: This phenomenon frequently occurs in nature, experts agree.3,4,28,29–31 Citation with a direct quotation Citations should be positioned outside the quotation mark that closes a passage in the running text that is drawn directly from a resource.
  • The number of the page on which the quote is found should appear after the citation digit in “(p#)” format: One should live by the dictum, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not.”18(p119) Longer quotations (over 40 words) should be set off in a “block.” Citations appear after any punctuation that ends block quotations, with a space separating the citation from the punctuation: … make measurable what is not.18(p119) Author names The names of authors associated with a resource can be included in the running text along with a numerical citation.
  • Wayne and Hartley12 write … The basic formats for citations with different numbers of authors are as follows: One author: Smith12 Two authors: Smith and Jones13 Three or more authors: Smith et al14 The phrase “et al” should not be followed by a period. Issued 2018 Warning - not controlled when printed.
  • City, Stat Abbr: Publisher; 2015:623–654. *** If an online journal employs e-location or a similar identification system in lieu of pagination, the journal’s method should be retained for the reference entry.
  • Any therapeutic discussion should include appropriate citations to support levels of evidence.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Superscripted citations should only follow terminal punctuation (e.g., periods, commas, closed quotation marks, question marks, exclamation points).
  • Reference list Order The references should be numbered consecutively based on the order of their first citation in the text.
  • References should also not be repeated in the list.
  • The word “and” should not precede the final author name for reference entries with six or fewer authors.
  • Authors, though, are not required to retrieve DOIs for references.
  • In press “In press” should be used in lieu of a publication year for any in-press references.
  • 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.
  • Information Classification: General Contents of this guide In-text citations Reference list Book Journal Conference Thesis Unpublished work Internet Newspaper or magazine Report Personal communication Other reference types In-text citations Basic citation format Resources in the reference list should be cited using superscripted digits.
  • Information Classification: General Tables and figures Resources cited in tables or figure legends should follow the standard format and must be included in the reference list.
  • The same resource, in other words, should not be given a different number with each subsequent mention in the text but should be cited on these later instances using the number assigned to it in the reference list at its first citation.
  • If more than six individuals authored a resource, the reference entry documenting the resource should list the first three authors followed by “et al.” Up to Six Authors Format: #.
  • Information Classification: General Place of publication and publisher name for books and reports Any initial “the” and concluding “Inc.”, “Ltd”, “Co.”, “Publishing Co.”, etc. should be omitted from the publisher name in the reference entry.
  • Information Classification: General Electronic mailing list Electronic mailing list/listserve resources should be cited in the text, parenthetically, and should not be included in the reference list: Format (Named Contact, degree [optional], Mailing List Name, Month dd, yyyy).
  • Personal communication Personal Letter, telephone conversation, or e-mail Personal should be cited in the text, parenthetically, and should not be included in the reference list: Format (Named Contact, degree [optional], communication type, Month dd, yyyy).

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].
  • Total of 6 figures/tables maximum.
  • Total of 7 figures/tables maximum.
  • Total of 2 figures/tables maximum.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
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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.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • Commas should separate individual author names.
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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

  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • No space should appear between the digits: Taylor & Francis American Medical Association (AMA) style Issued 2018 Warning - not controlled when printed.
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  • Should be no more than 3500 words.
  • Should be no more than 4000 words.
  • Should be no more than 2000 words.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
  • No space should appear between the digits: This phenomenon frequently occurs in nature, experts agree.3,4 When citing multiple resources that are not consecutively numbered in the same callout, separate them with commas.
  • The titles of journals, moreover, should be abbreviated in accordance with US National Library of Medicine (NLM)/MEDLINE standards. Issued 2018 Warning - not controlled when printed.
  • 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 / Review Article: Review Article Review Article concepts should be approved by editors-in-chief prior to submission of full article.
  • When submitted they should be designated as a special issue article.
  • 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.
  • The digits should not be superscripted but should be followed by periods.
  • The listing for each author should be in inverted-order surname-first format.
  • Titles The titles of book chapters and journal articles should appear in Roman font with sentence style capitalization.
  • Letter to the Editor: These submissions must illuminate novel biological or clinical understanding of cancer or blood diseases must be submitted in the identical format as a letter to the editor.
  • 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.
  • Include the authors’ surnames in full.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Brief Report: Brief Report Brief Report shall be identical in aim and scope to an original research article but describe early or limited clinical or research findings.
  • 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.
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  • 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.

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).

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).
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; 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 single 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.
  • The place of publication should always include a state/province abbreviation or country, even if the city is a familiar one.
  • 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.
  • The titles of books, journals, reports, and papers should appear in italics with headline style capitalization (i.e., capitalize first words of title and subtitle, as well as all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, regardless of length, and conjunctions and prepositions longer than four letters).

Manuscript structure

  • 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.
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  • 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.

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).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
References: AMA
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

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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