A manuscript template

…for teaching purposes

Cover letter1

Søren O’Neill1,2*, Casper Glissmann Nim1,2,3, Natalie Hong Siu Chang1

1 Medical Spinal Research Unit, Spine Centre of Southern Denmark, University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Middelfart, Denmark

2 Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

3 Center for Muscle and Joint Health, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

* Corresponding author

E-mail: soeren.oneill@rsyd.dk (SON)

Abstract

…to be completed..

Introduction

…No finished yet…

Method

…Complete at a later stage…

Results

We included one hundred and eighty seven (n=187) subjects in the study.

We also include a plot of data in this manuscript – please see Fig 1.

Some journals want you to put all figures at the end of the script, in which case you just write something like this:

<< FIGURE Fig 1 ABOUT HERE >>

No manuscript can hope to be published without at least one table, so please see Table 1

intervention count mean sd
x 58 -3.878762 21.77233
y 76 9.208796 24.74223
z 53 29.467633 23.93277
Table 1 Some summary data

Figures

Fig 1 This is a simple boxplot.

Discussion

..add some smart and insightful comments, with lots of citations, one at the time[1] or several in one go[2–4].

Conclusions

Often you will be required to submit your paper as a Word document … there is no good reason why publishers could not actually accept HTML or a quarto script instead, but not everyone is as tech savvy as us.

Often it is not possible, or at least difficult, to render a word document exactly the way the journal stipulated in the Instruction for Authors.

You end up having to balance the time and effort invested in getting your quarto document to comply with the journals exact requirements, versus the time and effort necessary to manually amend the word document after rendering and before submitting.

If you do have to make manual changes to the word document after rendering from quarto, you should

  1. consider whether it is possible to amend you quarto script instead of the word doc and
  2. if not, make a note of what manual changes you apply to the word doc

… because, when you come back (e.g. after peer review), you will have to re-render the word document and therefor also re-apply the manual changes.

References

1.
Kidholm K, Ekeland AG, Jensen LK, Rasmussen J, Pedersen CD, Bowes A, et al. A model for assessment of telemedicine applications: mast. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2012;28: 44–51. doi:10.1017/S0266462311000638
2.
Evans R, Bronfort G, Bittell S, Anderson AV. A pilot study for a randomized clinical trial assessing chiropractic care, medical care, and self-care education for acute and subacute neck pain patients. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2003;26: 403–411. doi:10.1016/S0161-4754(03)00093-9
3.
Garratt AM, Klaber Moffett J, Farrin AJ. Responsiveness of Generic and Specific Measures of Health Outcome in Low Back Pain: Spine. 2001;26: 71–77. doi:10.1097/00007632-200101010-00014
4.
Kasch H, Kongsted A, Qerama E, Bach FW, Bendix T, Jensen TS. A new stratified risk assessment tool for whiplash injuries developed from a prospective observational study. BMJ Open. 2013;3. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002050

Footnotes

  1. This is a footnote … some journals want the coverletter as a separate document. By the way, you can also do multiline footnotes – go online and search for “quarto footnote longnote”↩︎