Reporting guidelines
The editors require that manuscripts adhere to recognized reporting guidelines relevant to the
research design used. These identify matters that should be addressed in your paper. Checklists that
identify essential matters that should be reported, based on the relevant reporting guidelines should
be submitted with the manuscript. These are not quality assessment frameworks and your study need
not meet all the criteria implied in the reporting guideline to be worthy of publication in the journal.
For example, a controlled trial may or may not be blinded but it is important that the paper identifies
whether or not participants, clinicians and outcome assessors were aware of treatment assignments