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Prepare your manuscript for Religion, State and Society.

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Article types

Review
Original Article
Review Article
Book Review
Letter
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
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.

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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  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.

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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  • 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

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • 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].
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  • Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows: For single agency grants.

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

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

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.

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

  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 100 words).
  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • 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.
  • Do not use a numbered system for subheadings.
  • Please use the Oxford comma, but keep these to a minimum.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Review: Please note that we do not send papers under 5,000 or over 10,000 words out for review.
  • 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 preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled 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).

Language and text style

  • Quoted material over 40 words in length should be indented left and should not have quotation marks.
  • British English spelling is required (s instead of z where applicable, e.g. secularisation, baptised, analyse).
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  • Always use single quotations marks, except for quotations within quotations, when you should use double quotation marks.
  • If the quotation forms a complete sentence, the final full point must be inside the quotation mark.
  • If it does not, the final full point must be outside the quotation mark.
  • Quotations from works in English should be reproduced faithfully, even when they do not conform to RSS house style.
  • French words which have entered the English language should neither be italicised, nor have accents: emigre, elite, regime.
  • Please include all accents and diacritical signs as they appear in the original language (names of people, places and publications, and in quoted text).
  • Proper names in non-Roman alphabets should be transliterated, not anglicised, unless English usage is established.
  • Provide an English translation in brackets at first mention.
  • Quotations from works in English should be reproduced faithfully, even when they contradict the above practices.
  • Abbreviations consisting of initial letters of words do not have a full point between letters: USA, CIS, BBC.

Author contributions

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

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 10,000 words
Declarations: Funding, 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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