Author guidelines
Digital Trust & Cyber Resilience Magazine
DTCR Magazine articles are short, readable and written for a broad technical audience: researchers, engineers, practitioners and decision-makers working outside the author’s own specialism. An article should explain an idea, its significance and its open problems, rather than report every detail of a study. Full derivations, proofs and extended experimental results belong in a journal article.
1Article types
| Type | What it offers | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Technical feature | A new idea, system or result explained for non-specialists, with its significance and open challenges | Up to 5 pages |
| Review article | A concise survey of a topic: the state of the art, the main approaches compared, and what remains open | Up to 5 pages |
| Tutorial | A step-by-step introduction to a technique, standard or tool, with a worked example | Up to 5 pages |
| Case study | Practical experience from a deployment, incident or programme, with lessons others can apply | Up to 5 pages |
| Expert perspective | An informed, evidence-based view on an emerging issue, trend or policy question | Up to 3 pages |
2Length and content limits
Manuscripts that exceed these limits are returned to the authors before review.
- No more than 5 pages in the DTCR Magazine template, including figures, tables and references: about 4,500 words of main text. Expert perspectives: no more than 3 pages, about 2,500 words.
- An abstract of no more than 150 words, without citations or equations.
- No more than 6 figures and tables combined. Use figures to explain ideas, such as architectures, workflows and comparisons, rather than to reproduce raw data.
- Limited results: present only the key results that support the article’s message, usually in one or two figures or a single table. Parameter sweeps, ablations and long result tables belong in a journal article.
- Equations kept to a minimum: no more than 3 displayed equations, and only where they are essential. Explain each idea in words first.
- No more than 15 references, preferably recent and peer-reviewed.
- No appendices or supplementary material.
- A biography of no more than 75 words for each author, given on the separate title page.
3Writing for a magazine readership
- Open with the problem and why it matters now, before any technical detail.
- Define every acronym at first use and avoid specialist jargon.
- Follow the template’s numbered sections: Introduction, Background, Approach, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
- Put background that specialists can skip in a sidebar: a boxed text of no more than 300 words.
- Close with the open challenges and what practitioners or researchers should do next.
4Submission requirements
Submissions must be original, written in English, and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit an anonymised manuscript for double-blind review, with author details and biographies on the separate title page. Include funding, conflicts of interest, data availability where relevant, ethical approvals, and substantive AI-use disclosures.
5Article templates
Prepare your article with the DTCR Magazine template in Word or LaTeX. The template uses the magazine’s two-column page, so an article that fits in 5 template pages meets the length limit. It is anonymised for double-blind review; give author names, affiliations, biographies and acknowledgements on the separate title page.
- Article templateTwo-column magazine layout with the length limits, a sidebar, figure, table and reference styles.Download Word (.docx)
- Title pageAuthor details, ORCID iDs, short biographies, acknowledgements and funding.Download Word (.docx)
- LaTeX templateClass file and sample references. Upload the zip to Overleaf as a new project, or compile with pdfLaTeX and BibTeX. Includes the title page.Download LaTeX (.zip)