Get your Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine paper right the first time: a ready-made structure with the right abstract and citations, so editors see your science, not formatting slips.
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Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 30 July, 2026
Submitting to Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine guide for authors before peer review, so formatting, structure, and required statements should be right on the first draft rather than repaired during upload. This template sets that structure up for you.
It is a manuscript shell aligned to Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine. It covers front matter, the abstract the journal expects, a body organized to the journal's article types, and a reference list in the journal's required style. Confirm current scope and article types on the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine journal page before you draft.
Prepare the title, authors, affiliations, and ORCID iDs. Write the abstract to the journal's rule and word limit, organize the body to the article type, and apply the required reference style from the first citation. Complete every declaration (ethics, competing interests, funding, data availability) the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine guide for authors lists, and cite figures and tables in order.
The common failure modes are formatting or reference style that does not match the guide for authors, missing required statements, and an incomplete portal checklist. Clear all three against the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine guide for authors before you submit.
The shell mirrors what editorial staff check first: article-type fit, the abstract rules, required declarations, and the journal's reference style. For more detail see the author resources. When your draft is ready, upload it through Editorial Manager.
| Element | Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | 250 words; structured for original articles and systematic reviews/meta-analyses (4 headings: Background/Context, Methods, Results, Conclusions); unstructured for technical notes; either structured or unstructured for short communications, special articles, and narrative reviews depending on topic |
| Main text | Editorials: 1500 words; Original articles: 3000 words; Reviews/Guidelines/Meta-analyses: 5000 words; Special articles: 5000 words; Letters to the Editor: 1000 words; Technical notes: 2000 words; Short communications: 1500 words |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | Maximum of 6 (2-3 for Editorials and Letters to the Editor) |
| References | Vancouver-based style (numbered in square brackets in order of appearance in text) |
| Peer review | Single-blind (single anonymized review process) |
| Submission | www.editorialmanager.com/accpm |
Read the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine guide for authors once before drafting and once before upload. Draft the abstract after results are stable. Set the reference style before adding citations. Keep a cover letter that states your contribution and fit to Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med papers to calibrate depth and figure style. Make the novelty clear in the first two pages. Deposit data and code when the policy on the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through Editorial Manager.