WEBEXTRA Box: Illustrative examples from journals’ instructions for authors
Journal |
Text in journal’s ‘Instructions for Authors’ (2003) |
Gastroenterology |
Randomized controlled trials should be presented according to the CONSORT guidelines (JAMA 2001;285:1987-1991 or http://www.consort-statement.org). At manuscript submission, authors must provide the CONSORT checklist with a diagram that illustrates the progress of patients through the trial, including recruitment, enrollment, randomization, withdrawal and completion, and a detailed description of the randomization procedure. The CONSORT checklist can be found on www.gastrojournal.org under the Instructions to Authors. Manuscripts that fail to comply with CONSORT guidelines will not be reviewed for publication. |
Ann Neurol |
Clinical trial reports must be written in accordance with the CONSORT reporting guidelines |
Diabetes Care |
Authors of reports of randomized controlled trials are required to use the instructions and checklist in the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement, these instructions and checklist are designed to ensure that information pertinent to the trial is included in the study report. |
Arch Dermatol |
The checklist (Table 1) should be completed and submitted with the manuscript. In addition, include a flow diagram illustrating the progress of patients throughout the trial (Figure 1). |
BMJ |
Please report these in accordance with the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement. This ensures that you provide enough information for editors, peer reviewers, and readers to see how the trial was performed and to judge whether the findings are likely to be reliable. |
Gut |
Randomised controlled trials should be presented in a manner and format consistent with the Revised CONSORT statement |
Resuscitation |
For randomised control trials authors are strongly encouraged to follow the recommendations made in the CONSORT statement. |
Anesthesiology |
Authors of clinical trials (regardless of size) are encouraged to consult the guidelines published by the CONSORT group. |
Br J Surgery |
Investigators embarking on randomized controlled studies may wish to consider the CONSORT statement |
WEBEXTRA Appendix: Journals within the sample that referred to CONSORT in their instructions to authors in 2003
The strength of direction regarding use of the statement was: required (3), must (5) should (18), strongly encouraged (1), encouraged (2), recommended (2), please (2), may wish to consider (1), see (1). One journal referred to CONSORT with no directive comment.
Academic Emergency Medicine
AIDS
Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Anesthesiology
Annals of Emergency Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Neurology
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Archives of Dermatology
Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of Internal Medicine
Archives of Ophthalmology
BMJ
British Journal of Dermatology
British Journal of Surgery
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Diabetes Care
Gastroenterology
Gut
Human Reproduction
Intensive Care Medicine
JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Journal of Hepatology
Journal of Nutrition
Journal of Pathology
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Lancet
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Ophthalmology
Resuscitation
Rheumatology
Spine