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Prepare your manuscript for Population Studies.

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Article types

Review
Lectio
Editorial
Commentary
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Letter
Systematic Review

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 to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
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  • Page numbers in the reference list should be given in full and never elided.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • As far as practical, the title of the Figure should enable the reader to understand it without reference to the text.
  • Ethical approval 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.
  • Review: Please note that the open file(s) should follow the instructions given by Submission Portal and that these files should be loaded as files not for review, by selecting this option from the drop-down menu My Authored Works On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online.
  • 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.
  • For reference citations in the text, a span of page numbers is elided to the fewest figures possible: e.g. pp. 30–1, pp. 42–3, pp. 132–6, pp. 1841–5 But retain as many digits as necessary where they change across the range: e.g. pp. 65–71, pp. 352–62, pp. 1491–560 Do not elide digits in (or ending with) the group 10 to 19: e.g. pp. 10–12, pp. 15–19, pp. 114–18, pp. 310–11.

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.
  • Figures (only those that are clearly essential should be included) to be identified by Arabic numbers (e.g. ‘Figure 1’).
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  • Footnotes to be indicated by 1, 2, etc. Titles should be clearly separated from legends and notes, but all should be typed under the Figures.
  • In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
  • The font for figures should be in Times New Roman.
  • Table title should be above the table and aligned left.
  • Title for a figure should appear below the figure, aligned left.
  • Only tables that are evidently essential should be included.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Figures should be supplied separately from the text.
  • Figures should be in their own, separate file and not embedded in the text.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
  • Blocks and lines in graphs must be clearly distinguishable in black and white • Lower-case characters to be used for title and all text elements of a table or figure, except for the initial letter of the first word of the title or column heading and proper names • Font changes (e.g. italic, bold, etc.) not to be applied to titles except to distinguish particular words from the rest of the title.
  • The information provided should include,where relevant, the country or area to which the table/figure refers, method of analysis used, source of data, and date(s)/duration of data collection.
  • The information provided should include, where relevant, the country or area to which the illustration refers, method of analysis used, source of data, and date/duration of data collection.

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.

Blinded manuscript

  • Remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and other direct identifiers from the blinded manuscript file.
  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

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.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the title page of the manuscript.
  • To comply with the journal’s policy of anonymous review, authors should upload two versions of their manuscript: (i) an open version in which authors and their affiliations are identified in the normal way and that will remain with the editors.
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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 and the online article.
  • (ii) an anonymized version to be sent to reviewers, the title page of which shows no authors’ names, institutional affiliation, contact information, or other details that could identify the authorship of the paper.

Article structure and word limits

  • 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.
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  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Any work by others that has contributed to the research must be explicitly and appropriately acknowledged.
  • There should also be a postal contact address supplied for this author.
  • Foreign title (translation must be provided): Kok, J., and K.
  • Letter: Normally only one letter should be used to denote a variable, with subscripts if necessary.
  • Where the derivation of formulae has been abbreviated, the full derivation should be presented on a separate sheet—not necessarily for publication.
  • 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”.
  • 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.
  • Early in the paper, the author should describe clearly and precisely the issue addressed, and explain why the paper is considered a significant contribution to the literature on its subject.
  • It will be assumed that authors have observed the highest ethical standards in the collection and use of data, and they should be prepared to demonstrate that their research has been formally approved by relevant ethical committees.
  • They should be as short as practical.
  • The axes of graphs should be centred.
  • If a cited work has more than two authors, the name of the first author only should appear in the text, followed by et al. Where two or more sources are cited together, they should appear in date order, earliest first.
  • 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.

Submission forms

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

Manuscript structure

  • after dates should be typed as roman • Paragraphs to be tabbed, except for the first paragraph after a heading • Underline to be avoided.
  • A paper reporting a study should be presented as a report of a study undertaken, rather than as the study itself: present tense for results, exposition, commentary; past tenses for how the data were used to produce the results.
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  • 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.
  • Type only one variable space between words and at the end of sentences • ‘en’ dashes (in Word: CTRL+NUM MINUS) to be used between numbers (e.g., 1950–54), closed up ‘em’ dashes—like this—for interruptions in sentences (in Word: ALT+CTRL+NUM MINUS) • et al.
  • after names, and a and b, etc.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Numbered endnotes should be used rarely, if at all, and only to present information that the reader of the paper needs to know and that cannot be incorporated in the main text.
  • Authors of papers accepted for publication should note that a Word file of the main text will be required for editing, with files for tables and figures supplied in Word or Excel.
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  • Preparing Your Paper Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; funding; and grant awarding bodies; appendixes(as appropriate); references; table(s) with titles and notes (on individual pages); figure titles (as a list).

Author contributions

  • You may be required to provide CRediT roles (contributor details) for yourself and your co-authors.

Language and text style

  • Where the original spelling or logic might seem questionable to the reader, the term ‘sic’ should be added in parentheses to indicate that the anomaly is in the original.
  • For titles of papers or books that are not in English, a translation should be given in square brackets immediately after the actual title.

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

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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