60 entries
SUBMISSION KIT
Continuous line numbers, the right line spacing, and an editable source file are three small rules that decide whether your manuscript reaches a reviewer or bounces back first.
DESK REJECT FILES
The English rejection note reads like a judgment on your science. It is not. What the editor is actually flagging, where that bar is written, and what to fix on the first page before you resubmit.
DESK REJECT FILES
If you used a generative AI tool to draft text or figures, most journals want that stated in the manuscript. Here is what to declare and where it belongs.
RULE OF THE WEEK
A reference manager applies one style file to the whole document. When that file was built for a different journal, every entry comes out tidy and every entry can still be wrong. Three common mismatches, and the check.
RULE OF THE WEEK
A passing data availability statement names a repository and an accession number. Why journals query 'data available on request,' what to write when privacy blocks sharing, and how the statement sits beside funding.
SUBMISSION KIT
Keywords feed indexing and reviewer matching, and the journal fixes the count. Here is how to pick terms that earn their slot and how to test them.
REVIEWER RESPONSE
Three file names, two actual documents, and one common way to lose a revision. What each version is for and how to keep the marked copy in sync with your response.
DESK REJECT FILES
Declarations are a pass-or-fail screen run before an editor reads your method. A missing ethics, funding, or contribution statement can end the submission there.
SUBMISSION KIT
Editors scan an ethics statement for three facts: who approved the study, under what number, and how people consented. Copy-ready wording for every study design.
JOURNAL SELECTION
That rejection email with a transfer link is a publisher's cascade system at work. Here is what carries over, what it costs, and when to say yes.
DESK REJECT FILES
Missing line numbers or a stray footnote rarely kill a paper outright, but they can send it back before an editor reads a word. What the first scan checks.
RULE OF THE WEEK
Line numbers give reviewer comments an address. What PLOS ONE and Frontiers actually require for spacing and numbering, why the two rules conflict, and the Word and LaTeX settings that take two minutes.