Overview
These guidelines help authors prepare complete, transparent manuscripts before they enter editorial screening or peer review.
Manuscript preparation
Authors should submit original work with a clear research question, appropriate methods, balanced interpretation, and complete references.
- Select the journal whose aims and scope match the manuscript.
- Include title page, abstract, keywords, main text, references, tables, figures, and supplementary files as applicable.
- Use field-specific reporting guidelines for trials, reviews, observational studies, qualitative research, laboratory studies, and data papers.
- Ensure permissions are available for third-party figures, tables, images, or datasets.
Required declarations
Every submission should provide statements that allow editors and readers to understand accountability and research context.
- Author contributions and corresponding author responsibility.
- Funding source and role of funder.
- Conflict of interest or no-conflict statement.
- Ethics approval, informed consent, trial registration, and data availability where relevant.
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This information supports authors, reviewers, editors, conference contributors, and readers by making the Sciencevio publishing route clear before submission and consistent after publication.
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Corrections, reuse, metadata, archiving, complaints, and record updates are handled according to the published policy route.