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Prepare your manuscript for Third Text.

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Article types

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Systematic Review
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Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 150 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • A non-structured abstract of no more than 150 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 in Vancouver style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
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  • Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.oed.com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/searchType=dictionary&q=media, accessed 27 February 2011 References need to be set out in numbered notes (as above), do not submit a separate bibliography.
  • 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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  • Please provide full captions with your images, including any courtesy lines, using the format: artist's name, title of work, date, media, dimensions, collection (or place of exhibition), photo credit, ie: Lani Maestro, Cradle, 1996, cheesecloth, sisal strings, palm mats, 1618 x 964 cm, collection of the artist, photo: Ronald Dobson.
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • 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, GIF, 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.

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

  • The PDF should be uploaded as the “Manuscript - with author details”/”Manuscript - anonymous” file.

Cover letter

  • You must supply written permission to reproduce images from the copyright holder – this can take the form of an email.
  • Using third-party material in your paper You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
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  • 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.

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

  • Review: Reviews should be between 2000 and 3000 words.
  • Text should be left-aligned, double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman.
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  • Please use a 0.5 cm indent for paragraphs, no line space between paragraphs.
  • This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 50 words).
  • Images should be submitted as separate jpegs and the resolution should be 400 dpi when the width is set to 150 mm.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • If a quote is incomplete then the closing inverted comma should lie within the full-stop, ie: 'as he had said in the first place'.
  • 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”.
  • You can submit up to ten images with your article; we will make a selection of up to six from these, and you should indicate if any are of particular importance.
  • Please submit your article via email to Editor in Chief, Richard Dyer, rdyer@thirdtext.org.
  • 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.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted as Word documents with a minimum of formatting – for instance, no headers, footers or bullet points, and page numbers should not be visible.
  • If it is a complete sentence then the closing inverted comma should lie outside the full-stop, ie: 'He repeated what he had said in the first place.' If there is italicized emphasis within a quote, please indicate 'emphasis in the original' or 'emphasis added' (do not use the ambiguous 'author's emphasis').
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • In most cases we cannot publish without it, even if you have found the image to be available online.
  • If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you may also need to upload or send your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
  • There is a limited colour page budget for the print edition of the Journal which is deployed at the discretion of the Editor.
  • 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

  • Taylor & Francis Reference Style non-standard Third Text (CTTE) Own Style reference guide T Footnotes Footnotes should be numbered within the main text using superscript Arabic numerals.
  • Structure Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including Acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).

Manuscript structure

  • Articles should be between 5000 and 7000 words, excluding footnotes; this can be extended to a ceiling of 8,000 words in exceptional cases.
  • Footnotes should appear without a full stop after the numeral.
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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.
  • Please use the footnote facility in Word.

Language and text style

  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks with 1.5 line spacing, a line space above and below, and 0.5 cm indentation either side.
  • House style – further points Film titles should be formatted: Gold (L’Or, 1995); and, if director not previously mentioned: No Man’s Land (Danis Tanovic, 2001) Italics are used for titles of artworks, whole publications and films, and ‘single quotes’ for exhibition titles, chapters or essays within a publication.
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  • Please use British -ise spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use single quotation marks, except where 'a quotation is "within" a quotation'.

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

Abstract: 150 words
Paper: 7,000 words
References: Vancouver
Declarations: 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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