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Prepare your manuscript for Tribology Transactions.

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Article types

Review
Original Article
Editorial
Lectio
Letter

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 250 words.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • Should be structured in the following order: title, significance statement (required; 100–150 words), abstract (150–200 words), introduction, methods, results and discussion, conclusions, references.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.

Keywords

  • Provide 3-5 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain between 3 and 5 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.
  • Should include no more than 4 formatted journal pages, 3000 words including figures, 4 figures, 25 references.
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  • Book or Proceedings references should include the ISBN number.
  • Only primary references should be used as a starting point for a derivation or to describe an experimental method.
  • Secondary references are acceptable if they help the reader understand the background of the work but must not be used as a technical basis for the work.
  • Websites are ephemeral, so the date it was accessed by the author should be included in the reference.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Please include the manuscript id number and title of your manuscript in your message, for reference.

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.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • As a guide for converting manuscript size to paper size, add together: · the column length required for your figures (see Figures section below).
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • Authors Must Ensure That: Use of professional graphic designers is permitted provided the artwork remains original.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PDF, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • In general, authors should avoid: Graphs or plots of experimental data, images with excessive text, complex fabrication process diagrams, figures directly copied from the manuscript, the cover should capture the essence of the research visually rather than explain the entire study.
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Funding statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • 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

  • Cover images must be original works created specifically for the submissions, and the copyright must be transferred to Taylor & Francis.
  • 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.

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.
  • A website is acceptable if it helps the reader learn about a piece of test equipment, an instrument, software, etc. It should not replace an adequate description of these but should be supplemental.

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

  • Text should appear in 12-point Times New Roman or other common 12-point font.
  • If you use 10 or more symbols in the equations in your paper, they must be defined in a Nomenclature list, which will appear at the top of page 2 in the published paper.
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  • The high-resolution (300 dpi) image should be 2400px (horizontal) by 3000px (vertical).
  • Authors should provide a 5–75 word description that explains the scientific concept illustrated by the cover image.
  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • The title must be 25 words or less.
  • 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.
  • The main document should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides, and all pages should be numbered consecutively.
  • Do not use line justification - let the right hand margin float.
  • Pages must be numbered, centered in the footer.
  • Use larger font for the title at the top of the paper.
  • In both cases you should avoid any indication of advertising.
  • A cover image should be visually striking and scientifically meaningful.
  • Authors Must Ensure That: The image does not contain copyrighted material.
  • Authors Must Ensure That: All image components are either original or licensed appropriately.
  • Authors Must Ensure That: The journal can publish the image without restrictions.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • h min minimum oil-film thickness.
  • σ max maximum Hertzian stress.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Material that has not been published and is not available to a reader may not be referenced.
  • If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne.
  • If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
  • 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).
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • 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

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

Article type and manuscript length

  • Should include a word count.
  • Do not use footnotes in the main text.
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  • 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).
  • No Commericalism: Trade names of products and company names may not be used in the main text of papers published in Tribology Transactions.

Language and text style

  • Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
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  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

Manuscript structure

  • Use bolded upper case text for SECTION HEADINGS and bolded title case for Subsection Headings.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Keywords: 3-5 keywords
Declarations: Funding
Format: Times New Roman, 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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