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Prepare your manuscript for Platelets.

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Checked 2026-08-02
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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Research Article
Review Article
Systematic Review
Brief Report
Case Report
Lectio
Letter
Editorial
Protocol
Book Review
Commentary
Registered Report

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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  • Articles should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Brief Report: Brief Reports: Authors should follow the formatting instructions above; the abstract should be up to 200 words and the text up to 2000 words.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 250 words.
  • Should be no more than 3500 for Stage 1 reports and no more than 5000 words for Stage 2, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • Research Article: Research Articles: Manuscripts should be divided into sections with the headings: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, Declaration of Interest statement, References, Tables and Figures.
  • The structure should follow the format: Title, Abstract, Method (including validation), Discussion, Conclusions, References and Figures/Tables; and the title page must include "Technical Report".
  • No abstract is required.
  • 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, references.

Keywords

  • Provide 2-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • They should contain between 2 and 6 keywords.
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  • Should contain no more than 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.
  • Manuscripts should be 3000 words or less, up to 4 figures and/or tables and with no more than 40 references.
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  • Authors must include a software availability statement, which authors should add to the end of the article, before the references list.
  • Code and software should be cited in the body of your article, be added to your reference list as you would any other bibliographic citation.
  • For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • Please provide an Author Contributions Statement at the end of your article, before the references.
  • 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 statement to confirm this must be included within the manuscript, which must provide details of the name of the ethics committee and reference/permit numbers where available.
  • 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.
  • All articles are invited and should be up to 1000 words with up to 2 illustrations.
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  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • 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

  • 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.
  • Where a study has been granted exemption, the name of the ethics committee which granted this should also be included.
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  • In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this.
  • Authors should familiarise themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent.
  • Prior to starting the study, approval must have been obtained for all protocols from the local institutional review board (IRB) or other appropriate ethics committee to confirm the study meets national and international guidelines for research on humans.
  • For non-interventional studies, where ethical approval is not required (e.g. because of local laws) or where a study has been granted an exemption, this should be stated within the manuscript with a full explanation.
  • 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

  • License: Must be an open license and preferably an OSI-approved license.
  • Authors must notify and obtain permission from anyone named in the acknowledgements section.
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  • Using Third-Party Material in your Paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • You should confirm that you have the necessary permissions on submission of the manuscript.
  • Authors must make the source code available on a Version Control System (VCS) such as GitHub and provide details of the repository and the license under which the software can be used.
  • 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, but it should be clear that this has been reproduced.
  • 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

  • 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.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their institutional email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • The rapid communications will be handled within 10 working days and should be formatted as per the guidelines of a normal manuscript.
  • Letter: Letters should be up to 1,200 words.
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  • 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.
  • Review / Review Article: Suggestions for review articles should be emailed to the Review Editor or the Editors in Chief.
  • Please note that discounts must be applied at the Charges stage of the submission process when the APC quote is confirmed and may not be considered after submission.
  • Please contact g.m.halford@bham.ac.uk to find out how to obtain this discount before you submit your article.
  • All research studies on humans (individuals, samples or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki.
  • Authors must be prepared to provide further information to the Editor upon request.
  • Manuscripts on the relationship of biomarkers to disease must meet minimum criteria as exemplified for mean platelet volume.
  • Clinical Trial: All clinical trials must be prospectively registered in a recognised public registry of clinical trials, such as ClinicalTrials.gov, before enrolment has commenced.
  • The manuscript should include the name of the registry and the registration number.
  • Any unusual hazards relating to the chemicals, procedures or non-standard equipment should be clearly identified.
  • The accuracy of primary measurements should be stated.
  • A Declaration of Interest should be included in the manuscript.
  • 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: 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.
  • 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.
  • The article should provide examples of suitable input data sets and include an example of the output that can be expected from the tool and how this output should be interpreted.
  • 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.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Research Article / Systematic Review / Brief Report: PLS is required for the following articles: reviews, systematic reviews, opinion/comment articles, rapid communications, research articles, brief reports and technical reports.
  • 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.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Review: Reviews are up to 4.000 words with an abstract, and the number of references should not exceed 100.
  • Commentary: The commentary should be no more than 1200 words in length and contain one figure which summarizes the paper.
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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, results, discussion; acknowledgments; data availability statement; 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

  • Discount codes must be presented at quotation and cannot be applied retrospectively.

Authorship and originality

  • Preparing Your Paper All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, and 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).
  • This Statement should include an outline of which author(s) were involved in the conception and design of the work; the analysis and interpretation of the data; the drafting of the paper; revising it critically for intellectual content; and the final approval of the version to be published; and that all authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.

Manuscript structure

  • Each section should begin on a new sheet and be identified with the shoulder heading.
  • Other subsection headings within the main headings may be used but should be limited.
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  • The method should be described clearly with sufficient detail to allow repetition by a skilled operator.
  • The conclusions should interpret the key results and highlight the novelty and significance of the work.
  • The results should be organised into an orderly and logical sequence and only the most relevant results should be described in the text; to highlight the most important points.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Clinical Trial: All manuscripts relating to clinical trials should be reported according to CONSORT guidelines.
  • 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).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 1,000 words
Keywords: 2-6 keywords
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Ethics, Author contributions, Acknowledgements, 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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