How to Submit
Before submitting your article, please read our Instructions to Authors
Please note that your name or email address should not be included on any of the manuscript files. This is to ensure anonymity of the authors and, thus, reduce risk of bias during the peer-review process.
Authors will be given the opportunity to add any additional authors during the submission process on Editorial Manager
Submission checklist
Before submitting your article, please ensure that you have included the following:
- A cover page, including a brief description of the subject and aims of the article, as well as why the article is important (up to 200 words).
- A word file of your manuscript
- All figures, tables and text boxes
- If you are submitting and original research article, please also complete and submit one of the following reporting checklists (please select the checklist that is appropriate for the nature of your research):
- Animal, cells or tissue lab-based studies: Preclinical checklist
- Randomised controlled trial: CONSORT checklist
- Observational trial or a non-randomised intervention study: STROBE checklist
- Study of data from a database or routinely collected medical records: RECORD checklist or STROBE checklist
- Genetic association study: STREGA checklist
- Systematic review/meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials: PRISMA checklist
- Systematic review/meta-analysis NOT of randomised controlled trials: MOOSE checklist