Checklist: What to Include
Checklist: What to Include
1. Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs if available. 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. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
2. Should contain a structured abstract of 300 words.
3. Between 3 and 6 keywords.
4. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single-agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants
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].
5. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research.
6. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). Templates are also available to support authors.
7. Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository before or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifiers for the data set.
8. Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, file set, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
9. Figures. 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 supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PDF, JPEG, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
10. Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
11. Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that the equations are editable.
12. Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).