If you have any questions about suitable file formats, please email us. LaTeX users can also submit via Overleaf, using an F1000Research journal article template or a software tool article template. If publishing with F1000Research, manuscripts can be submitted as Word (DOC or DOCX) or rich text format (RTF) files, or as ZIP files if authored in LaTeX (the project ZIP file must include the PDF). If no template is provided, please contact us for advice. Some journals will provide a link to their specific template in the ‘Instructions for Authors’ section of the journal’s homepage on Taylor & Francis online. Please check the ‘Instructions for authors’ on your chosen journal’s homepage on Taylor & Francis Online, which will indicate if LaTeX is an accepted format. Some of our journals accept manuscripts that use a LaTeX template. Apply these styles to your paper as appropriate.Download and save the template file to your computer.Read the instructions for the relevant version of the template in the list below.Check to see which version of Word is installed on your computer.
Each version of the template has its own instructions file, which explains how to save and use it. You can find links to these on your chosen journal’s homepage on Taylor & Francis Online under ‘Instructions for authors’.
To make this easier, Word templates are available for many of our journals, ready for you to download and apply to your research paper format. When writing your paper, you will probably need to format your journal article ready for submission.
How to format an article? Save time with a template Find out below how to format a research paper for submission. This defines how an article will look when it is published online or in print. Although many of our journals have the basic elements of style in common, each journal can have its own guidelines for formatting. It is crucial when writing a research paper to consider your formatting.