Enhancing your article with supplementary material
When publishing a research article, any claims or results should be supported by evidence, and this should be included in the body of manuscript where possible.
Supplementary materials including tables, presentations, video and audio files enhance the primary article by providing additional context, increasing online visibility and facilitating greater discovery.
By providing supplementary materials, you can increase your article’s depth and scope, also increasing its online visibility and impact within and beyond your chosen field of research. Empirical evidence indicates that readers value having access to supplementary materials, specifically additional figures and tables.
Get familiar with instructions for authors
Be prepared, speed up your submission, and make sure nothing is forgotten by understanding a journal’s individual requirements.
Taylor & Francis supports a range of supplementary materials
Infographics
Summarize findings visually, attracting readers to your article and improving research comprehension.Tables and charts
Display the full range of research analysis without overloading your article.Audio and video
Engage your audience with multimedia, delivering key points of your article effectively.
Research Data should not be treated as supplementary material. If you have data that you want to share and link to your article, please follow the guidance related to our data sharing policy.
What should you consider before submitting your supplementary materials?
When you know what types of supplementary material you want to submit alongside your main article, check through the points below.
Supplementary material should be relevant to (or support) your article.
The material/s will not be checked or modified by Taylor & Francis, even though they must be submitted alongside your article. You will not receive proofs for your supplementary material.
Supplementary materials should not be used to share extensive additional analyses. This type of analysis should be included in the body of your article and subject to peer review.
Warranties regarding the originality, validity, and legality of your supplementary material/s online are covered by the article publishing agreement.
Accessibility of your supplementary material is important. Provide image descriptions (alternative text) within any image files. Video and audio files should include captions and be accompanied by a transcript.
Are your supplementary materials for peer review?
When uploading your supplementary materials as part of your submission you may have to choose whether this information is ‘for review’ or ‘not for review’:
Common types of materials that should be ‘for review’ are additional tables and charts. Files that are not typically shared with reviewers include infographics, audio and video files.
The option to upload supplementary materials should not be used to share other kinds of files with the editor, such as cover letters or comments to reviewers.
Additional resources to support your article’s supplementary material
Taylor & Francis Online fully supports ScholeXplorer data linking – making it much easier for you to establish a permanent link between your published article and its associated data.
ScholeXplorer helps researchers find, access, and reuse data. Authors are increasingly opting to submit their supporting data to a repository, and in many cases are required to do so as a condition of their funding.
If you deposit your data in a ScholeXplorer recognized repository, a link to your data will automatically appear on Taylor & Francis Online when your associated article is published. This enables readers to easily navigate between your published article and the associated data set.
If you’re publishing an article with us, and you have data you would like to link to, please follow the steps in the dropdown below.
How do I link my article to its data?
2. Deposit your data following the submission instructions provided by your chosen data repository. Make sure that you associate your article DOI (Digital Object Identifier) with your data during your submission. Doing this allows ScholeXplorer to link your article with the repository record for its data.
3. On publication of your article we will link your article’s DOI with your data, working with ScholeXplorer to create linking from the repository page to the article on Taylor & Francis Online and back again.
Taylor & Francis Online hosts articles’ supplementary material on Figshare, making it easy to find via search engines. And, instantly viewable on Taylor & Francis Online via the Figshare widget, when readers select the supplemental tab on the article abstract.
What do I need to do, to make sure my supplementary material uses the Figshare widget?
Include your files at the same time as you submit your manuscript – your files will be uploaded to Figshare.
There are no size limits for your files.
Every file will be easily citable (with a DOI allocated at the point of publication) and will be stored under a Creative Commons license.
When the supplementary material is discovered by users via a search engine, links to the relevant article are available. This can help increase the article’s usage and impact. Authors can also share this material more easily and track usage through Figshare’s metric functions.
Files types compatible with Figshare
Infographic services
We can create custom infographics to accompany any article published in our journals, to help increase understanding and drive engagement.
Video services
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