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Case 22 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Clarification for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: the point...

Limit of the answer in “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: “Expand it on first use and name the…” is an excerpt from the discuss...

State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...

Case 36 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · source wording exercise Two figures use different units and one axis is logarithmic. Ho...

Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...

Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: use “Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale…” as a row...

Case 12 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Correction note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: retain the wordin...

Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...

Summary draft for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: the answer addresses “Locate the primary study and confirm that i...

Case 23 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured Summary draft for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”:...

Case 2 — A correction log for an archive article Method note for “A correction log for an archive article”: use “Identify the original error and the c...

Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep the correction visible to readers who may have saved...