Terms & Conditions

1. About the Service

FormatMyManuscript provides tools designed to help researchers and authors format manuscripts according to selected journal or publication requirements.

The service may assist with formatting elements such as:

• Manuscript title and author information
• Institutional affiliations
• Abstracts
• Keywords
• Headings
• Tables
• References
• Document structure
• Other formatting requirements supported by the selected journal template

The exact features available may change over time.

2. Formatting Only — No Editorial or Scientific Review

FormatMyManuscript is a formatting service.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not provide:

• Scientific review
• Peer review
• Research validation
• Fact checking
• Plagiarism checking
• Academic authorship verification
• Statistical review
• Language editing
• Scientific editing
• Medical or legal advice
• Publication or journal acceptance guarantees

You are responsible for reviewing your manuscript before submission.

3. No Guarantee of Journal Acceptance

Using FormatMyManuscript does not guarantee that your manuscript will be:

• Accepted by a journal
• Sent for peer review
• Approved by an editor
• Published
• Considered compliant with every journal requirement
• Free from formatting issues after submission

Journal guidelines may change, may contain requirements that cannot be automatically detected, or may be interpreted differently by individual journals.

You remain responsible for checking the final document against the current requirements of your chosen journal before submission.

4. User Responsibility

You are responsible for:

• Providing accurate information
• Selecting the appropriate journal or formatting requirements
• Reviewing the generated document
• Confirming that all authors and affiliations are correct
• Confirming references and citations
• Confirming tables, figures, and supplementary materials
• Ensuring that the manuscript complies with applicable journal requirements
• Obtaining all necessary permissions for material included in your manuscript
• Ensuring that you have the right to submit the manuscript and its contents

You should carefully review the final output before submitting it to a journal, publisher, institution, or other organization.

5. Your Manuscript and Intellectual Property

You retain ownership of the manuscript and other content you submit to FormatMyManuscript.

You do not transfer ownership of your manuscript to us merely by using the service.

You represent that you have the necessary rights and permissions to submit the content you provide through the website.

We do not claim ownership of your research, manuscript, intellectual property, or original work.

6. Privacy and Manuscript Content

Our handling of information is described in our Privacy Policy.

FormatMyManuscript is designed around the principle that your manuscript remains yours.

We do not sell your manuscript content.

We do not use your manuscript content to train artificial intelligence or machine-learning models.

Our formatting system is designed to use programmed formatting rules rather than an AI system that reads or interprets your manuscript.

Please review our Privacy Policy for additional information regarding information processing and security.

7. No Guarantee of Permanent Availability

We aim to keep FormatMyManuscript available and reliable, but we do not guarantee that the website or any particular feature will always be:

• Available
• Uninterrupted
• Error-free
• Compatible with every device or browser
• Available indefinitely

We may modify, suspend, discontinue, or restrict access to any part of the website or service when reasonably necessary.

8. Generated Documents

The service may generate downloadable documents, including Microsoft Word (.docx) files or other supported formats.

You are responsible for reviewing any generated document before using or submitting it.

Formatting results may vary depending on:

• The information you provide
• The selected journal
• The structure of your manuscript
• The source content
• The technical characteristics of your browser or device
• Changes to journal formatting requirements

9. Prohibited Use

You agree not to use FormatMyManuscript to:

• Violate any applicable law or regulation
• Infringe another person's intellectual-property rights
• Upload content you do not have permission to use
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website or its systems
• Interfere with the operation or security of the service
• Introduce malicious software, code, or harmful content
• Circumvent security or access controls
• Abuse automated systems or submit excessive requests intended to disrupt the service
• Use the service for fraudulent or unlawful purposes

We reserve the right to restrict or terminate access where we reasonably believe these Terms have been violated.

10. Third-Party Services and Links

The website may contain links to third-party websites or may rely on third-party services.

Third-party websites and services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

We are not responsible for the content, security, availability, or practices of third-party websites or services that we do not control.

11. Intellectual Property of FormatMyManuscript

The FormatMyManuscript website, including its branding, logo, software, interface, design, original text, graphics, formatting logic, and other proprietary materials, may be protected by intellectual-property laws.

Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, reverse engineer, sell, or commercially exploit our proprietary materials or software.

Your manuscript and other content that you own remains yours.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, FormatMyManuscript is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

We do not guarantee that:

• The service will meet every individual requirement
• Every journal guideline will be interpreted correctly
• The generated document will be accepted by a journal
• The website will always be available
• The service will be completely free from errors
• The output will be suitable for every publishing platform

You use the service at your own discretion and are responsible for reviewing the final output.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, FormatMyManuscript and its owners, operators, employees, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or similar damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the service.

This may include, without limitation:

• Loss of data
• Loss of research time
• Loss of business opportunities
• Publication delays
• Journal rejection
• Loss of profits
• Loss of reputation
• Errors in submitted manuscripts

Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude or limit liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless FormatMyManuscript and its owners, operators, employees, contractors, and service providers from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from:

• Your misuse of the service
• Your violation of these Terms
• Your violation of applicable law
• Your infringement of another person's rights
• Content that you submit through the service

15. Payments and Refunds

If FormatMyManuscript offers paid services, applicable prices, payment terms, and refund conditions will be presented to you before you complete a purchase.

You are responsible for providing accurate billing information and completing authorized payments.

Any specific refund policy applicable to a particular product or service will form part of these Terms.

16. Changes to the Service

We may add, modify, or remove features from FormatMyManuscript from time to time.

We may also update formatting rules when journal requirements change.

We do not guarantee that a particular feature, journal template, or formatting option will remain available indefinitely.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time.

When we make changes, we will update the “Effective Date” at the beginning of this page.

Your continued use of FormatMyManuscript after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

18. Governing Law

These Terms will be governed by the applicable laws of India, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

Any disputes will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts having appropriate jurisdiction over the matter and the parties.

19. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

20. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms presented for specific services, constitute the agreement between you and FormatMyManuscript regarding your use of the service.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions regarding these Terms, please contact us through the contact information provided on formatmymanuscript.com.

• Website: https://formatmymanuscript.com/
• Contact: info@formatmymanuscript.com