ICMJE Recommendations
The ICMJE is a small working group of general medical journal editors whose participants meet annually and fund their own work on the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. The ICMJE invites comments on this document and suggestions for agenda items. ICMJE developed a series of recommendations to review best practice and ethical standards in the conduct and reporting of research and other material published in medical journals, and to help authors, editors, and others involved in peer review and biomedical publishing create and distribute accurate, clear, reproducible, unbiased medical journal articles. We recommend authors who might submit their work for publication to ICMJE member journals to follow these recommendations.
ICMJE recommendations contains following entries:
- Roles and Responsibilities of Authors, Contributors, Reviewers, Editors, Publishers, and Owners
- Publishing and Editorial Issues Related to Publication in Medical Journals
- Manuscript Preparation and Submission
EQUATOR Network
The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the reliability and value of published health research literature by promoting transparent and accurate reporting and wider use of robust reporting guidelines.The EQUATOR mission is to achieve accurate, complete, and transparent reporting of all health research studies to support research reproducibility and usefulness. This work increases the value of health research and helps to minimise avoidable waste of financial and human investments in health research projects.
The EQUATOR provides a series of guidelines for health researchers to use while writing manuscripts. A reporting guideline provides a minimum list of information needed to ensure a manuscript can be, for example: Understood by a reader, Replicated by a researcher, Used by a doctor to make a clinical decision, and Included in a systematic review.
Authors of research articles frequently forget to report details about their study which are important for readers to know. This can delay publication and stop their work being used, cited or replicated. This is a waste of the human and financial resources invested in the research. Reporting Guidelines and checklists have been developed for a wide variety of research types and study designs which set up the most important things readers need to know about your work. The following chat can help authors, editors and peer reviewers find the most appropriate checklist and reporting guideline.
COPE
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) is committed to educating and supporting editors, publishers and those involved in publication ethics with the aim of moving the culture of publishing towards one where ethical practices become a normal part of the publishing culture. The approach is firmly in the direction of influencing through education, resources and support of our members, alongside the fostering of professional debate in the wider community.
CBM follow the COPE principles in all of the following areas:
Allegations of misconduct
Authorship and contributorship
Complaints and appeals
Conflicts of interest / Competing interests
Data and reproducibility