Table 1.

Planned Journal worksheet headings in study publications plan.

Heading	Rationale
Paper number	A unique number for each planned paper. All within-team emails include in the subject line the name of the study and the paper number, e.g., NEON #9. The cell is colour coded to make an at-a-glance overview of progress easy: Green = has been submitted, meaning the intellectual work has been completed, so the remaining task for the lead author is revising or re-submitting as necessary Amber = currently being written Red = not started but next to be worked on by the lead author
Provisional title	As close to a finalised title as possible—so not, e.g., ‘Qualitative study’. No hyphens in the title [29]. Use multiple keywords
1st author	The person who will write, or co-ordinate the writing of, the text to produce a complete first draft
Equal 1st author	An under-used option. Most journals allow this status, which is useful when authorship arrangements are complex such as in multi-site studies, and good for improving the CV of early career researchers
Other co-authors	Populate early with complete list in order. Use ‘name tbc’ (to be confirmed) when awaiting approval for involvement
Equal last author	Another under-used option which most journals allow and is useful for multi-site collaboration studies
Target journal	Identify target journal, normally before writing any of the paper
Status	Drop-down categories as shown in Table 2
Notes	Record target date for next milestone (e.g., ‘Full draft to co-authors by 22.1.22′) or submission history comprising submitted (‘S date’), revision requested (‘RR date’) and revision submitted (‘RS date’) details. Record previous rejections (‘No: journal name’) and future targets (‘Next: journal name’). For example: S 10.2.22, RR 11.6.22, RS 14.6.22, RR 1.7.22 No: Lancet Next: BMJ, American Journal of Psychiatry