Sustainable Futures Template 2026
Get your Sustainable Futures 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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Sustainable Futures examples by
Taofeeq D. Moshood
Walter Leal Filho
Jiayin Meng
Nathalia Fonseca Arenas
How to Use the Sustainable Futures Template | A Step-by-Step Guide
Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 26 August, 2026
Submitting to Sustainable Futures goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Sustainable Futures 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 Sustainable Futures Template?
It is a manuscript shell aligned to Sustainable Futures. 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 Sustainable Futures journal page before you draft.
What's actually in a Sustainable Futures 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 Sustainable Futures 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 Sustainable Futures guide for authors before you submit.
What does this Sustainable Futures 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 the journal's submission system.
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 Sustainable Futures.
- Edit the prompt with your topic and article type, and note any requirement from the Sustainable Futures 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 the journal's submission system.
Sustainable Futures Template Structure at a Glance
| Element | Sustainable Futures requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | The guide requires a concise, factual abstract of no more than 250 words, briefly stating the purpose of the research, principal results, and major conclusions. It does not specify structured versus unstructured formatting or article-type-specific abstract headings. Abstracts should stand alone; references and non-standard abbreviations should be avoided (essential references must cite author(s) and year(s), and essential abbreviations must be defined at first mention) |
| Main text | Full length articles: recommended around 8,000 words (range 6,000–10,000). Review articles: recommended 5,000–8,000 words. Short Communication: normally less than 3,000 words. Opinion Papers and Special Issues articles have no word/page limit stated. For structure, manuscripts must be divided into clearly defined, numbered sections (subsections numbered 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.); the abstract is not included in section numbering. The guide does not prescribe a distinct section order by article type. It states that acknowledgements are a separate section directly before the reference list; other required sections include the article-type-appropriate numbered content, and appendices (if used) are labeled A, B, etc |
| 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 1 to 7 keywords for indexing. Keywords must be in English; the guide advises avoiding multi-word keywords containing ‘and’ or ‘of’ and recommends using abbreviations only when firmly established in the field. MeSH is not specified |
| References | Numbered citation style: cite references by number(s) in square brackets in the text (for example, [3,6]); number the reference list in order of appearance. The guide also specifies listing the first six authors followed by ‘et al.’ for more than six authors and abbreviating journal names according to LTWA |
| Peer review | Single anonymized review process (single-anonymous): editors initially assess submissions; suitable submissions are typically reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers, with the editors making the accept/reject decision |
| Submission | submit.elsevier.com/SFTR |
Quick Tips for Using the Sustainable Futures Template
Read the Sustainable Futures 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 Sustainable Futures in under a page.
Best Practices
Skim two or three recent Sustainable Futures 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 Sustainable Futures 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 Sustainable Futures guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.
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