ARTICLO ENGINE EXAMPLE

Open 01-original.docx beside 02-prepared-plos-one.docx. Articlo's formatManuscriptDocx function generated the prepared file without hand-editing its output. The author checklist and preparation-report.json expose actual checks and remaining author actions.

This fictional demonstration contains invented temperatures, authors, and a reference. It makes no scientific or product-effectiveness claim. It is a partial preparation example, not an accepted submission or a full paid production job. The checkout, delivery, production render queue, citation-manager fields, comments, tracked changes, and complex equations are not demonstrated. Final editorial and reference review remain with the author.

The bundled PLOS ONE Research Article profile was used unchanged (profile last checked 2026-06-18). Production journal profiles may change. Current publisher instructions: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/submission-guidelines

Generated from engine revision 76298b26f6606517798f80e1a1182a1fe9f70218.
Source and checks: src/lib/server/sample-engine-proof.test.ts
Reproduce locally: ARTICLO_WRITE_ENGINE_SAMPLE=/absolute/output/path npx vitest run src/lib/server/sample-engine-proof.test.ts

Verified for this example: supplied prose retained apart from the intended citation change; table values retained; extracted PNG bytes identical; DOCX integrity check passed; double spacing applied; author warnings remain visible. This does not establish preservation for other files.

Actual changes:
- Set 1-inch page margins
- Applied 11-point Arial document defaults
- Normalized manuscript text to 11-point Arial
- Applied double manuscript paragraph spacing
- Enabled manuscript line numbering
- Added manuscript page numbering to the center of the footer
- Applied hanging indent to the references section
- Removed Word comments from the prepared manuscript
- Reordered detected manuscript sections for the selected journal
- Converted citations to Vancouver format
- Formatted 1 supplied reference in Vancouver format
- Marked 1 detected table header row for assistive technology
- Updated manuscript package title metadata
- Removed author-identifying document metadata
- Enabled Word field refresh on open
- Checked manuscript language against the selected journal checklist
- Compared manuscript text with extracted journal rules where available

Author review:
- Competing interests
- Ethics statement
- Competing interests declaration
- Ethics declaration
