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Case 1 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Describe the species, model and outcome actually studied. Differences in biology and study cond...

Case 22 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-refere...

Case 21 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and d...

Limit of the answer in “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: “Statistical significance alone does not establish…” is an excerpt fro...

Ask whether the changed figure affects the archive’s interpretation. Updating a citation alone may leave an unsupported conclusion in the opening summ...

Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: “Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a…” is an exc...

Case 42 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured · source wording exercise A chart caption names a mechanism but omits the observ...

Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...

Case 33 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: “Pub...