Gastric Cancer Template
Get your Gastric Cancer 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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How to Use the Gastric Cancer Template | A Step-by-Step Guide
Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 13 August, 2026
Submitting to Gastric Cancer goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Gastric Cancer 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.
What is the Gastric Cancer Template?
It is a manuscript shell aligned to Gastric Cancer. 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 Gastric Cancer journal page before you draft.
What's actually in a Gastric Cancer submission:
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 Gastric Cancer guide for authors lists, and cite figures and tables in order.
What separates a clean submission from one that gets kicked back:
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 Gastric Cancer guide for authors before you submit.
What does this Gastric Cancer Template include?
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.
Steps to Use This Template with SciSpace Agent
- Click Start Writing on this page. The SciSpace Agent prompt screen opens with the template loaded.
- Use the loaded template, or upload a version your group already uses for Gastric Cancer.
- Edit the prompt with your topic and article type, and note any requirement from the Gastric Cancer guide for authors.
- Run the prompt. The agent drafts into the correct structure and reference style.
- Use View Outputs to verify required statements and formatting are present.
- Export and submit through Editorial Manager.
Gastric Cancer Template Structure at a Glance
| Element | Gastric Cancer requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Original articles: Structured abstract with four paragraphs (Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions), maximum 250 words. Case reports: Unstructured abstract, maximum 150 words. All article types: Mini-abstract required (maximum 30 words) summarizing the significant conclusion to appear in the table of contents. Other article types (short communications, technical notes, review articles, letters to the editor): Abstract requirements not explicitly specified in the guidelines beyond the general 250-word limit |
| Main text | Original articles: up to 4,000 words (excluding references), maximum 7 figures/tables. Case reports: up to 1,500 words (excluding references), maximum 7 figures/tables for most, or maximum 5 items for certain case types. Short communications: up to 1,500 words (excluding references), maximum 4 figures/tables. Technical notes: up to 1,500 words (excluding references), maximum 7 figures/tables. Review articles: up to 5,000 words (excluding references), maximum 7 figures/tables. Letters to the Editor: up to 500 words (excluding references), no figure/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 | 3 to 5 keywords required. Must use terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus |
| References | Vancouver style. References numbered consecutively in the order first mentioned in text. Identified by Arabic numerals in square brackets. Based on formats used by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Index Medicus. List first six authors followed by 'et al.' Citations should be restricted to papers written in English or with an English abstract when possible |
| Peer review | Single-blind (single-anonymized). Based on Springer's standard policy, most Springer journals use single-anonymized peer review where author identities are known to peer reviewers, but peer reviewer identities are not revealed to the authors. The Gastric Cancer guidelines do not explicitly state the peer review model, but as a Springer journal it follows the default single-blind process |
| Submission | www.editorialmanager.com/gcan |
Quick Tips for Using the Gastric Cancer Template
Read the Gastric Cancer 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 Gastric Cancer in under a page.
Best Practices
Skim two or three recent Gastric Cancer 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 Gastric Cancer journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Before You Submit: Final Check
Do one focused pass against the Gastric Cancer guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through Editorial Manager.
