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Titles and legends: Each figure or table should have a concise title of no more than 15 words.

Abstracts should be up to 300 words long and provide a succinct summary of the article. Although the abstract should explain why the article might be interesting, the importance of the work should not be over-emphasized. Citations should not be used in the abstract. Abbreviations, if needed, should be spelled out. Abstracts are structured into Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

eight relevant keywords

A Research Article should be no more than 20,000 words.

For most Research Articles, the following standard format will be the most appropriate:

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Conclusions/Discussion

References and footnotes can be listed in any standard style if it is consistent within a given article. 

There is no limit to the number of figures and tables you can have. Figure legends and tables should be added at the end of the manuscript. 

17. Authors’ Role in the Peer Review Process

F1000Research has a post-publication peer-review model, where the peer-review process takes place after the article has been published. As the peer-review process is author-led, we ask our authors to provide at least 5 reviewer suggestions which are suitable according to our Reviewer Criteria before the article can be published (please see our Finding Article Reviewers page for an explanation of our Reviewer Criteria and tips for finding reviewers).

Once the article is published, authors are expected to continue providing reviewer suggestions until the article receives two peer review reports – our editorial team will contact the authors when more reviewers are required and as soon as a peer-review report is published.

After two reports have been published, we strongly encourage our authors to revise their article according to the reviewers’ comments – this is particularly important if the article hasn’t passed the peer-review process after the first two reports are published, as reviewers can only re-review an article to provide an updated report (possibly with an updated Approval Status) after a revised article version has been published.

Once the revised article version is published, we will notify the original reviewers to ask them to re-review the article as soon as possible. Authors are also welcome to continue providing reviewer suggestions while waiting for any re-reviews from the original reviewers.