Get your Traffic Injury Prevention 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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Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 26 August, 2026
Submitting to Traffic Injury Prevention goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Traffic Injury Prevention 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 Traffic Injury Prevention. 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 Traffic Injury Prevention 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 Traffic Injury Prevention 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 Traffic Injury Prevention 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 | Traffic Injury Prevention requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Original articles require a structured abstract of 450 words, using the headings objective, methods, results and conclusions |
| Main text | Traffic Injury Prevention accepts Original articles only. The main text should be no more than 6,000 words. Required order: title; author name(s) and affiliation(s); complete mailing and email address(es); structured abstract with headings Objectives:, Methods:, Results:, Conclusions:; keywords; word count and number of figures and tables; introduction; methods; results; discussion; acknowledgments including funding and disclosure statements; data availability statement; references. Section numbers should not be used. Papers should generally have no more than 12 concise tables and figures. The manuscript text should be one-column width, one-and-one-half spaced, with 1-inch margins and Times New Roman 10-point font for review; tables and figures go at the end of the text |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | Original articles may contain no more than 6 keywords |
| References | Council of Science Editors (CSE) reference style. List all authors and organize references alphabetically; cite in the text, tables and legends using author name and year (author-date), e.g., Jones et al. (2008) or (Jones et al. 2008). The journal asks authors to use the abbreviated journal names found in PubMed and limits the number of references to 50 in the reference list (less important references may be moved to an Appendix bibliography) |
| Peer review | Single-anonymous peer review by two independent, anonymous experts, after the editor's suitability assessment |
| Submission | rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=GCPI |
Read the Traffic Injury Prevention 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 Traffic Injury Prevention in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Traffic Injury Prevention 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 Traffic Injury Prevention journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Traffic Injury Prevention guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.