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Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
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...
Case 14 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Summary draft for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary s...
Case 3 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Summary draft for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: the answer...
Case 28 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Method note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty ...
Case 16 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and d...
Case 29 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertai...
Case 8 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Clarification for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: the point beginning “Describ...
Case 42 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise Method note for “A correction log that survives the next ar...
Case 9 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? The corrected summary can be useful without a clinical promise: model, methods...
Case 29 — A correction log for an archive article · source wording exercise Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beg...
Case 19 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: “Record the ...
Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-reference for alternate meanings rather than assuming that every histor...
Case 19 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Correction note for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and outpu...