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Submissions
Check fit, prepare your manuscript and review the journal's requirements before starting the submission process.
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Before you submit
Prepare once. Submit with confidence.
Use this page as a short route into the journal's authoritative guidance and submission process.
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Check journal fit
Confirm that the manuscript matches the journal's aims and scope before formatting or uploading files.
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Prepare your manuscript
Use the Author Activities Guide for manuscript structure, references, files, integrity requirements and the final preparation checklist.
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Check declarations
Have authorship, funding, competing interests, ethics and data information ready where they apply.
Review integrity requirements
Submission ready
Open the final preparation checklist
The complete manuscript-preparation guidance is kept in one place so requirements are not duplicated across pages.