A Word manuscript, formatted for the journal you are submitting to.
foliom reads your .docx, recovers its structure, renders it into the publisher's own LaTeX class and compiles a PDF. Then it runs the checks an editorial office runs: abstract length, figure resolution, uncited references, the declarations your target requires.
What the pre-flight report tells you
The PDF is the easy half. These are the findings that decide whether a submission is returned before anyone reads it, and every one of them is computed from your own document.
- Abstract length against your target's limit, counted in words, with the number to cut.
- Figure resolution in dpi at the size the figure is printed, not the size it was pasted at.
- Uncited references and unresolved citations, both of which publishers treat as errors.
- Missing declarations: funding, competing interests, data availability, generative AI use.
- Floats without captions, never referred to in the text, or referred to out of order.
- Anonymity leaks in a double-blind submission, including self-citations in the first person.