Get your Metabolic Brain Disease 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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Dominika Sitarska
Mustafa M. Shokr
Gerwyn Morris
Ngala Elvis Mbiydzenyuy
Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 26 August, 2026
Submitting to Metabolic Brain Disease goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Metabolic Brain Disease 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 Metabolic Brain Disease. 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 Metabolic Brain Disease 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 Metabolic Brain Disease 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 Metabolic Brain Disease 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 | Metabolic Brain Disease requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The guide does not specify a structured versus unstructured format or article-type-specific abstract headings. The abstract should not contain undefined abbreviations or unspecified references |
| Main text | Research Papers: no page limitation; typical length 6,000 words, 60 references, and a total of 8 figures and tables. Short Communications: usually 1,500 words, with no more than 2 tables or figures. Review Articles: no page limitation; typical length 6,000 words. Editorials: approximately 1,000 words with 10 references. No article-type-specific main-text section order is stated; manuscripts should use no more than three levels of displayed headings |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | Provide 4 to 6 keywords for indexing purposes |
| References | Author–year citation style: cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. The reference list is alphabetized by the last name of the first author (with ordering rules by number of authors and chronology). Include DOIs as full DOI links when available; standard journal-title abbreviations should be used |
| Peer review | Peer reviewed; blind model not specified in the official author guidelines |
| Submission | submission.springernature.com/new-submission/11011/3 |
Read the Metabolic Brain Disease 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 Metabolic Brain Disease in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Metabolic Brain Disease 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 Metabolic Brain Disease journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Metabolic Brain Disease guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.