Format your manuscript to the Museum Management and Curatorship requirements — abstract, references, and required declarations — and submit without a formatting rejection.
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Njabulo Chipangura
Myrsini Samaroudi
Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 26 August, 2026
Submitting to Museum Management and Curatorship goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Museum Management and Curatorship 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 Museum Management and Curatorship. 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 Museum Management and Curatorship 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 Museum Management and Curatorship 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 Museum Management and Curatorship 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 | Museum Management and Curatorship requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Unstructured abstract of 150 words. The guide does not specify different abstract headings by article type |
| Main text | A typical paper should be no more than 8000 words, inclusive of tables, references, figure or table captions, footnotes, and endnotes. 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 (on individual pages); 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 | No more than 6 keywords |
| References | T&F standard Chicago author-date reference style |
| Peer review | Double-anonymous peer review by two independent, anonymous experts, after editorial suitability assessment |
| Submission | rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=RMMC |
Read the Museum Management and Curatorship 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 Museum Management and Curatorship in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Museum Management and Curatorship 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 Museum Management and Curatorship journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Museum Management and Curatorship guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.