Guide for Authors

• Your Paper Your Way
• INTRODUCTION
• Contact details for submission
• Submission checklist
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
• Ethics in publishing
• Declaration of interest
• Submission declaration and verification
• Use of inclusive language
• Reporting sex- and gender-based analyses
• Changes to authorship
• Copyright
• Role of the funding source
• Open access
PREPARATION
• Queries
• NEW SUBMISSIONS
• Peer review
• Double anonymized review
• REVISED SUBMISSIONS
• INFORMATION ON PROTOCOLS
• Article structure
• Highlights
• Artwork
• Tables
• References
• Video
• Data visualization
• Supplementary material
• Research data
• Research Elements
AFTER ACCEPTANCE
• Online proof correction
• Offprints
AUTHOR INQUIRIES