Author’s area
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals Available from: http://www.ICMJE.org.
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Flowchart
Supplementary Resources for improving article quality
EQUATOR Network
CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials)
STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology)
STARD (STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies)
PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses)
ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments)
Statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101968/pdf/01mjms23052016_ed.pdf
http://www.equator-network.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/SAMPL-Guidelines-6-27-13.pdf