Many journals make a submission checklist available along with their Authors Guidelines, or Instructions for Authors.
Elsevier has published a generic checklist for use when a journal does not provide one:
"Ensure that the following items are present:
- One author has been designated as the corresponding author in the manuscript and full contact details provided:
- Email address.
- Affiliation address/es (this should be where the research has been conducted).
- Full current affiliation postal address for corresponding author if different to primary affiliation.
- All necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:
- Keywords on the title page.
- All figures, with captions.
- All tables (including title, description, footnotes), with legends.
- Further considerations:
- Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar checked'.
- References are in the correct format for this journal.
- All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
- Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)."
