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Automatically format your manuscript for any journal

Livewrite provides automatic journal formatting that goes far beyond cosmetic styling or template matching. The entire document is aligned to the exact requirements of your target journal and article type, including structure, content placement, limits, and compliance details that commonly lead to desk rejection or revision delays.

Unlike manual formatting or basic templates, Livewrite reads each journal's author guidelines and applies formatting rules automatically, correcting issues directly inside your manuscript using transparent tracked changes. Each formatted manuscript is reviewed and verified by a human to ensure accuracy and fidelity to journal instructions, with typical turnaround in one to two business days.

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10,000+

Journals supported across medicine and life sciences

1,000+

Reformats with no editorial rejections

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Human verification of all reformats

Reformatting should not control your timeline

Journal instructions vary widely and change frequently. Reformatting after rejection or revision can take hours or days, pulling researchers away from analysis, writing, and submission strategy. Small errors in structure, limits, or required statements often result in avoidable delays or desk rejection.

Livewrite removes this bottleneck by handling reformatting as a single, verified step, so formatting does not control your submission timeline.

Your manuscript is ready for upload. You also get a journal-specific checklist to make sure nothing is missed.

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What researchers are saying

Hundreds of researchers in universities and hospitals are using Livewrite everyday. Here's what they have to say.

How it works

To reformat using Livewrite follows a clear step-by-step approach. Here it is.

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Upload and select

Upload your manuscript and choose a target journal and article type.

Automated reformatting

Livewrite applies journal-specific formatting rules and attempts corrections directly in your document using tracked changes.

Human verification

A reviewer verifies accuracy, completeness, and edge cases before delivery.

Submission-ready output

Download a clean, journal-aligned manuscript and any required supplementary files.

Why researchers choose automatic formatting

Manual journal formatting is one of the most time-consuming parts of academic publishing. Here is why thousands of researchers have switched to automatic formatting.

Millions of hours lost to manual formatting

Manuscript formatting and reformatting after rejection is estimated to waste 23.8 million researcher hours per year worldwide. Every hour spent adjusting margins, reordering sections, and fixing references is an hour not spent on research. Automatic journal formatting eliminates this burden in minutes.

Desk rejections from formatting errors

Journals frequently desk-reject manuscripts for avoidable formatting issues: missing required statements, incorrect reference styles, or exceeding word limits. These rejections add weeks to the publication timeline. Livewrite catches these issues before submission.

The reformatting cycle after rejection

When a manuscript is rejected, researchers must reformat the entire document for the next target journal, often with completely different requirements. With Livewrite, reformatting for a new journal takes minutes instead of hours, so you can resubmit without delay.

Format your manuscript for 10,000+ journals

Livewrite supports automatic formatting for journals across medicine, life sciences, and beyond. Select your target journal and article type, and Livewrite applies the correct formatting rules automatically.

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What Livewrite reformats and checks

Typesetting

Font, spacing, margins, line numbering, page numbering

Manuscript structure

Required headings, section order, and subheadings

Title pages

Author names, affiliations, corresponding author details, disclosures

Abstracts

Structured versus unstructured formats, required headings, word limits

Keywords and abbreviations

Required formats and placement

Required in-text statements

Ethics approvals, consent, funding, conflicts of interest

Journal limits

Word counts, figure and table limits, supplementary material rules

Tables and figures

Placement, numbering, captions, and separation into files if required

References

Citation style, formatting, ordering, and internal consistency

Submission documents

Additional files such as reporting guideline checklists when required

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Livewrite helps researchers strengthen their science and prepare submissions efficiently, directly inside Microsoft Word.

Livewrite AI Writing Assistant

Write, update, and review your manuscripts all directly in Microsoft Word.

Smart Citation

Find and reference any citation right from our Word plugin.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our reformatting tool handles the essential structural changes—like headings and layout—so your manuscript remains entirely your own. For language refinement, our Writing Assistant delivers expert-level copy editing and proofreading, powered by the most advanced AI models available. We're committed to transparency: every change is tracked using standard track changes, so you stay in full control of your work.

Accurate (very). We review 100% of manuscripts manually to ensure near perfect accuracy. We base our reformats precisely on the target journal requirements. Some journal instructions are not always accurate, but if there is a discrepancy, just let us know and we can update it in our system.

No. At this point, we will flag that you are over the word limit and leave it to you to work your magic.

At this stage we only accept Microsoft Word (docx) files. We recommend that you upload your title page (with acknowledgments), abstract, main document, figures, tables, and supplemental files as one document for our software to best reformat your manuscript.

No. The author (you) retains all rights to the intellectual property and content of the uploaded manuscript. We simply make it ready for publication in your target journal.

No. At this time, we only accept English language manuscripts.

Automatic journal formatting is the process of using software to align a manuscript to a specific journal's submission requirements, including structure, headings, reference style, word limits, and required statements. Instead of manually reading author guidelines and adjusting your document by hand, Livewrite applies these rules automatically and presents all changes as tracked changes for your review.

With Livewrite, the automated formatting step takes minutes. After that, a human reviewer verifies accuracy and completeness before delivery, with typical turnaround in one to two business days. By comparison, manual formatting typically takes half a day to a full day of focused work per journal.

Yes. Reformatting for a new target journal is one of the most common uses of Livewrite. Simply upload your manuscript, select the new journal and article type, and Livewrite will reformat it to the new journal's requirements. This turns what is normally hours of rework into a quick, reliable process.

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Move forward without uncertainty

Livewrite removes the manual burden of manuscript reformatting while preserving transparency and author control. All changes are visible, reversible, and verified before submission.

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