Get your Clinical and Experimental 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 3 August, 2026
Submitting to Clinical and Experimental Medicine goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Clinical and Experimental 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 Clinical and Experimental 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 Clinical and Experimental 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 Clinical and Experimental 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 Clinical and Experimental 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 the journal's submission system.
| Element | Clin Exp Med requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Review Articles: Abstract not exceeding 250 words should not be structured. Research Articles: A structured abstract not exceeding 200 words is required. General requirement states 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. For clinical trials, the trial registration number (TRN) and date of registration should be included as the last line of the manuscript abstract |
| Main text | Review Articles: Should not exceed 6,000 words/36,000 characters, with no more than 6 figures and tables combined. Research Articles: Should not exceed 4,000 words/25,000 characters, with no more than 5 figures and tables combined. Correspondences: Must not exceed 700 words with 1 illustration (figure or table) |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | 4 to 6 keywords required for indexing purposes. Review Articles and Research Articles: 3-5 keywords are required |
| References | Numbered citation style. Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Entries in the list should be numbered consecutively (number followed by a period). Author's family name followed by a space and initials closed up without periods. Author names separated with a comma. All authors listed for papers with 1 to 6 authors. For papers with more than 6 authors, only the first 3 authors listed, followed by et al. Review articles: up to 80 references; Research articles: up to 50 references; Correspondences: 5-7 references |
| Peer review | Single-blind peer review process |
| Submission | submission.nature.com/new-submission/10238/3 |
Read the Clinical and Experimental 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 Clinical and Experimental Medicine in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Clin Exp 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 Clinical and Experimental Medicine journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Clinical and Experimental Medicine guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.