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Prepare your manuscript for The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine.

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Checked 2026-08-02
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Article types

Review
Clinical Trial
Research Article
Review Article
Letter to the Editor
Data Note
Case Report
Research Letter
Methods Article
Protocol
Registered Report
Lectio
Editorial
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 a structured abstract of 250 words.
  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 300 words.
  • Should be no more than 3500 words for Stage 1 reports and no more than 5000 words for Stage 2, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes.
  • The abstract structure should be as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion.
  • Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section.
  • They do not require an abstract.
  • 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, and references.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Abstract.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Abstract.
  • - Reports should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; should be compiled with headings appropriate to the article; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; and appendices (as appropriate).

Keywords

  • Provide 3-6 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 6 keywords.
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  • Should contain no more than 6 keywords.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Keywords.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: 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.
  • Research Article: - Research Articles should have a maximum of 50 references.
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  • Review Article: - Review Articles should have a maximum of 50 references.
  • - A maximum of 1 figures or tables and 10 references is allowed.
  • Software and Code Availability: Authors must include a software availability statement, which authors should add to the end of the article, before the references list.
  • For manuscripts submitted in LaTeX format a.bib reference file must be included.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • If you reply yes, you will be required to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
  • Software and Code Availability: 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.
  • The DAS should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s), or information on how the data can be requested from the authors.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: References.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: References.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • - Should contain a maximum of 5 figures and 5 tables.
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  • - Should contain a maximum of 3 figures and/or tables.
  • 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.
  • Tables should preferably be submitted in separate files.
  • 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.
  • All Tables should be numbered and labelled.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages).
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Figures.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Figure captions (as a list).
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages).
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Figures.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Figure captions (as a list).

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

  • Add or confirm the author-written Data availability statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Data Note: Further to the data sharing policy for the journal, Data Note submissions must include a data availability statement and describe data available via a repository.
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  • Authors are required to provide a data availability statement, detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed.
  • If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement.
  • Authors are required to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
  • Software and Code Availability: 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.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Data Availability Statement.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Data Availability Statement.

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

  • - Authors must confirm in their manuscript that they have obtained the written permission of those whose ‘case’ is being presented.
  • License: Must be an open license and preferably an OSI-approved license.
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  • 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.
  • 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.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.
  • Review: Embed or attach the author-supplied supplementary material so Articlo can extract and label it for the package.
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  • Review / Systematic Review: Articles that report systematic reviews must adhere to the PRISMA guidelines, and authors should also upload completed PRISMA checklist and flow diagram as supplementary files to the peer review system.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Title page.
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  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Title page.
  • 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

  • Should be between 2500 and 4000 words in length.
  • Should be no more than 3000 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 Article: - Review Articles should examine published research on topics relevant to maternal-fetal medicine.
  • Case Report: - Case Reports should highlight important innovations with wide applicability, or previously unpublished complications of new techniques or medications.
  • - A Report should describe new or innovative techniques reporting observations derived from professional practice.
  • These should include adequate and appropriate validation to be considered.
  • The paper must include adequate and appropriate validation, all experimental controls, and link out to available data.
  • If there are concerns about identifying factors in datasets, these should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief prior to submission.
  • Please note, this is not required for submission but is encouraged.
  • Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • 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.
  • 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/Welcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement.
  • Protocol: Any deviation from the original trial protocol must be explained in the article.
  • 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.
  • 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 note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Acknowledgments.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Declaration of Interest Statement.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Appendices (as appropriate).
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Acknowledgments.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Declaration of Interest Statement.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Software Availability Statement.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Appendices (as appropriate).
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Research Letter: - Research Letters should be written with the following elements in the following order: title, which when commenting on a published work, should contain the title of the article about which the comment is made.
  • 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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  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparatio n to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.

Article type and manuscript length

  • - The maximum length is 3000 words (excluding references), including headings and 350-word abstract.
  • - The maximum length is 3000 words (excluding references), including headings and maximum of 350-word abstract.
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  • - The maximum length is 500 words and a maximum of 4 references is allowed.
  • - The maximum length is 800 words.
  • - The maximum length is 1500 words.
  • Please refer to the maximum word count for different article types in the About the Journal section above.
  • Should contain as abstract appropriate to the article type as detailed in the About the Journal section above.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Main text: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Data Description, Discussion.
  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: Main text: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion.
  • Your software tool should be compiled in the following order: Main text: Introduction, Methods, Results, Use Cases, Discussion.
  • - 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).

Manuscript structure

  • Review Article: The review Article should provide a critical analysis of the available information, should lead to a rational conclusion, and highlight areas of future investigation.
  • The trial registration number and registration date must be included in the Methods section.
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  • Research Article / Data Note: Data Notes do not include any interpretation or conclusions of the data but may be linked to a research article incorporating analysis of the published dataset, as well as the results and conclusions.
  • Case Report: - Case Reports should be written with the following elements: case report; discussion.
  • 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.

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).
  • 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.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Systematic Review: Study protocols of systematic reviews and meta-analysis must adhere to the PRISMA-P guidelines.
  • Observational studies must adhere to STROBE guidelines.
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  • For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee.
  • Systematic Review: Randomized Controlled trials require a CONSORT checklist and flow diagram; systematic reviews require a PRISMA checklist and flow diagram, observational studies require a STROBE checklist.
  • Clinical Trial: Reporting Guidelines of Clinical Studies Articles that report clinical trials including Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) must adhere to the CONSORT reporting guidelines.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 250 words
Paper: 4,000 words
Keywords: 3-6 keywords
Declarations: Data availability, Ethics, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

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