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Prepare your manuscript for Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research.

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Article types

Review
Original Article
Editorial
Letter
Letter to the Editor
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
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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  • Abstracts: Each manuscript should contain an abstract of about 200 words.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • The first part of the abstract should describe the manuscript’s motivation and contribution succinctly.
  • For the benefit of SBR’s readership, the remainder of the abstract should amplify and illustrate, preferably using concrete examples and interesting special cases.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • The manuscript should contain an abstract (see the abstracts paragraph) and from three to six key words or phrases (that do not appear in the title) in alphabetical order.

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.
  • The manuscript should be prepared using 8 1/2 x 11-inch pages, double-spaced—including key words and references—with margins of at least one inch around all sides.
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  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Therefore, we request that two versions of the manuscript be supplied---a full version and another version with all marks that might identify the authors or their institutions removed; any identifiable sources of support should be removed along with obvious references to one’s own previous work.
  • 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. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
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  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Upon final acceptance for publication, a LaTeX, Word, or other text file of the full text (without figures), along with individual files for all figures, will be required.
  • 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].
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.Please note that only the corresponding author is eligible to request funding from their institution, and it is not possible to change the corresponding author to achieve eligibility after submission.

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.
  • Authors who do not have formal ethics review committees should include a statement that their study follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
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  • Consent All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants.
  • Authors may use this Patient Consent Form, which should be completed, saved, and sent to the journal if requested.
  • 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 at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment).
  • Clinical Trial: Please confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any research, experiment, or clinical trial described in your paper has given written consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the paper; and that you have fully anonymized them.

Blinded manuscript

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.
  • Authors should submit the following files: one PDF file of the anonymous manuscript; and.

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

  • Normal-sized fonts (e.g., 11 pt. or 12 pt.) should be used; the use of very small letters to save space is especially discouraged.
  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • Articles should include demonstrable evidence of the usefulness of this methodology (presumably by means of an application).
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Do not use overbars extending over more than one character, or underbars.
  • Use boldface for each symbol representing a vector or matrix.
  • Questions regarding manuscript content should be addressed to Editor Toshimitsu Hamasaki (thamasaki@gwu.edu).
  • Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX if possible, and should use the “article” style, avoiding the use of any special macros.
  • The conference paper must be properly cited in the journal version.
  • The 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.
  • 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.
  • Pages should be numbered consecutively.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Formatting and Templates LaTeX - Manuscripts submitted in LaTeX should use the "article" style and follow the formatting guidelines detailed in the following.
  • Authors should submit the following files: one PDF file of the manuscript with author details.
  • Use of BiBTeX is encouraged, but authors should submit the.bbl file when supplying source files following final acceptance.
  • The VoR is the article in its final, definitive, and citable form (this may not be immediately paginated, but is the version that will appear in an issue of the journal).
  • 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.

Statistical reporting

  • The journal submission should have new content, be written for a statistical audience, and not violate copyright.
  • Articles should focus on the development of novel statistical methods, novel applications of current methods, or the innovative application of statistical principles that can be used by statistical practitioners in these disciplines.

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

  • 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) and figure(s) and their captions placed within the text.

Language and text style

  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
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  • Do not use footnotes, and avoid abbreviations.

Manuscript structure

  • Clinical Trial: All papers which report in vivo experiments or clinical trials on humans or animals must include a written statement in the Methods section.
  • 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.

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).
  • Clinical Trial: This should explain that all work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees (institutional and national), and that clinical trials have been registered as legislation requires.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Declarations: Ethics, Artificial intelligence
Format: double spacing, 1" margins

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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