The majority of journals from reputable publishers* like Springer, Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, IOS, IOP, SIAM, APS, ACS, AMS, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, PLOS, Sciendo, De Gruyter, etc., typically utilize a flexible template. Therefore, you can:
- For Word template: you should keep the layout as simple as possible. Just use a single-column layout.
- For Latex template: you also can use a free-style template for an article from the Latex class. However, we recommend you find a template provided by publishers in Overleaf. Just type the name of a publisher and take the template from the result.
For the content of the manuscript, usually need the following structure:
- Title of the paper
- List of authors along with their affiliation info
- The abstract
- List of keywords: usually from 4-6 keywords
- Content
- Introduction
- Related works
- Data and Methods
- Experiments and Results
- Discussions and Analysis
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Declarations (Funding, Ethic statements, data availability, etc.)
- References
For more details, we recommend you read the guidelines for authors (the submission guidelines) on each journal homepage for better preparation of your manuscript.
* Also note that, for IEEE publications, they generally mandate the use of a specific template available on the journal’s homepage.