Get your Disability and Rehabilitation 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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Katri Knutti
Judy Purton
Pomme E. A. van Maarschalkerweerd
Barbara E. Gibson
Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 26 August, 2026
Submitting to Disability and Rehabilitation goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Disability and Rehabilitation 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 Disability and Rehabilitation. 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 Disability and Rehabilitation 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 Disability and Rehabilitation 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 Disability and Rehabilitation 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 | Disability and Rehabilitation requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | A structured abstract of no more than 200 words. It should cover, in this order: the purpose of the article; its materials and methods (the design and methodological procedures used); the results; and conclusions (including their relevance to the study of disability and rehabilitation). No article-type-specific alternative abstract headings are stated |
| Main text | There is no word limit for papers submitted to the journal; succinct and well-constructed papers are preferred. The paper should be compiled in this order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text (introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion); acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices as appropriate; tables with captions; figures; figure captions as a list |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | 5-8 keywords |
| References | Format-free submission: references may be in any style or format, provided a consistent scholarly citation format is used. For LaTeX submissions, author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year, volume and issue where appropriate, and page numbers are essential; DOI numbers are recommended but not essential. The journal reference style is applied post-acceptance by Taylor & Francis |
| Peer review | Independent, double-anonymous expert referees. Authors may choose during submission whether the paper is ‘Anonymous’ or ‘Not Anonymous’; authors choosing anonymity should use the ‘double anonymous peer review’ article types, while authors choosing identification use the ‘authors made known to the reviewers’ article types |
| Submission | rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=IDRE |
Read the Disability and Rehabilitation 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 Disability and Rehabilitation in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Disability and Rehabilitation 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 Disability and Rehabilitation journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Disability and Rehabilitation guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.