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Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed and retain both original reports. Do not infer a physiological trend before assess...

Case 3 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point be...

Case 35 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise A archive table has a transcription error in a unit label. ...

Case 25 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sam...

Case 19 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Ask whether the changed figure affects the archive’s interpretation. Updating a citat...

Correction note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: retain the wording beginning “Describe the species, model and…” in the record. If...

Clarification for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: the point beginning “Describe the measurement, population or model,…”...

Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.

Case 2 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation The same abbreviation has different meanings in neighbouring fields. How can an archiv...

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

Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and reassess claims that relied on the paper. Do not leave the historical citation look...

Case 28 — A correction log that survives the next archive update · source wording exercise Reader check for “A correction log that survives the next a...