A manuscript submission API for journals and editors
Livewrite helps journals screen submitted manuscripts against their own formatting and content requirements before the paper reaches editorial review. Send a manuscript, journal, and article type through the API, then receive structured results that identify completed checks, manuscript issues, and specific fixes.
The goal is not to replace editorial judgment or your manuscript tracking system. It is to give editors and editorial offices a reliable pre-check layer for repetitive formatting and content requirements that slow down triage, frustrate authors, and create avoidable back-and-forth.
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Formatting and content checks before editorial triage
Structured
Machine-readable results for internal workflows
Journal-specific
Rules matched to journal and article type
Reduce avoidable editorial friction
Journal offices already have systems for review assignments, decisions, revisions, and production handoff. Manuscript formatting and content compliance are different: they are repetitive, journal-specific, and often checked manually.
Catch manuscript issues before triage
Identify missing data availability statements, ethics approvals, conflict-of-interest declarations, abstract structure issues, word count problems, file preparation issues, and other formatting or content problems that can block a clean submission.
Keep authors moving without manual checklists
Return a concise list of specific formatting and content fixes to authors or editorial staff instead of asking someone to manually audit the manuscript against journal requirements.
Add automation around your existing workflow
Use the API as a pre-submission check, an intake screen after upload, or an editorial-office quality control step without replacing the systems your team already uses.
How the API fits
Livewrite wraps the same journal-specific manuscript checking logic behind an integration-friendly workflow for editorial teams.
Discuss an integrationSubmit manuscript context
Send the manuscript file, target journal, article type, and optional metadata from your submission system.
Evaluate manuscript checks
Livewrite compares the manuscript against journal-wide and article-type-specific formatting and content requirements.
Return structured results
Receive check-level status, reasoning, suggested fixes, and evidence from the manuscript or journal requirements.
Route inside your workflow
Use the output to flag submissions, prompt authors, support staff review, or enrich internal editorial dashboards.
What the API can check
Each result is scoped to the journal and article type, so editorial teams can focus on the formatting and content requirements that actually apply to the submitted manuscript.
Required manuscript statements
Ethics approval, consent, funding, conflict of interest, data availability, and related declarations.
Journal and article-type limits
Abstract length, manuscript word counts, keywords, reference limits, figure limits, and table limits.
Document structure
Required headings, abstract format, title page fields, author details, and section order.
Article-type alignment
Checks tailored to original research, reviews, brief reports, case reports, editorials, and other journal-specific article types.
Formatting consistency
Reference style, citation formatting, table and figure labels, numbering, spacing, and manuscript presentation rules.
Actionable reviewer notes
Plain-language reasons and concrete suggestions that editorial staff or authors can act on immediately.
Built for editorial operations
The API is meant to support journal teams that need consistent intake checks without asking editors to become formatting auditors.
Integration-first output
Use structured status categories to trigger internal routing, author prompts, staff review queues, or reporting inside your manuscript tracking environment.
Journal guideline intelligence
Livewrite tracks journal-specific and article-type-specific formatting and content requirements separately, which helps avoid generic checks that miss the details authors and editors actually need.
Editorial control remains with you
The API provides evidence and suggested actions. Your editors, staff, and existing policies still control decisions, exceptions, and author communication.
More Features
Livewrite supports manuscript preparation from author-facing tools through journal-specific formatting and content checks.
Talk to us about an enterprise API integration
Tell us about your journal portfolio, submission volume, and the manuscript checks you want to automate. We will follow up about technical fit, workflow design, and pricing.
Bring manuscript checks into your editorial workflow
Use Livewrite to screen manuscripts against journal-specific formatting and content requirements before preventable issues slow down editorial triage.